Event #23: $1,500 Badugi Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-05-2025 20:58 UTC-8

Half of The Field Has Departed

Liam Gannon

Level 11 : Limits 2,000/4,000, 0 ante

Blinds: 1,000-2,000
Limits: 2,000-4,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Heather Alcorn	Busted
Nick Marchington	Busted
Frank Kassela	Busted

Jaswinder Lally	Busted

William Mattison	Busted
David Shmuel	Busted

Kane Kalas	Busted
Darrell Larabee	Busted
Todd Brunson	Busted

Daniel Strelitz	Busted

Phil Hellmuth	Busted

AJ Kelsall	Busted

Ari Engel	Busted

Huck Seed	Busted

Brad Owen	Busted

Chad Eveslage	Busted

Jason Daly	Busted

Daniel Coen	Busted
Mark Roland	Busted
Andrew Park	Busted
Bariscan Betil	Busted
David Williams	Busted

Michael Savakinas	Busted

Jake Schwartz	Busted
Scott Seiver	Busted

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06-05-2025 20:49 UTC-8

Biggest Ever Badugi Tournament Prize Pool Confirmed; $138,114 to Winner

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Liam Gannon

Level 11 : Limits 2,000/4,000, 0 ante

Blinds: 1,000-2,000
Limits: 2,000-4,000

A total of 534 entrants came out to make Event #23: $1,500 Badugi of the 2025 WSOP the biggest ever Badugi tournament ever run. $708,885 was collected to be divided up between the final 81 players.

The payouts are below.

Place	Prize
1	$138,114
2	$92,058
3	$61,061
4	$41,462
5	$28,838
6	$20,558
7	$15,030
8-9	$11,276
10-11	$8,688
12-17	$6,879
18-23	$5,602
24-29	$4,695
30-35	$4,054
36-41	$3,610
42-47	$3,317
48-53	$3,149
54-81	$3,000

06-05-2025 20:38 UTC-8

"Crazy Mike" and Lin Play A Weird One

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Liam Gannon

Level 11 : Limits 2,000/4,000, 0 ante

Blinds: 1,000-2,000
Limits: 2,000-4,000

Pierre Lewandowski raised in the hijack which saw Mike "Crazy Mike" Thorpe call in the cutoff with Ren Lin calling in the big blind.

Lin drew four, to the amusement of his whole table as Lewandowski and Thorpe both drew one.

"You look to me like a No-Limit player," Thorpe opined "you don't strike me as somebody who plays games starting in B."

"Crazy Mike, let's see how crazy you are," Lin said as he peeled his cards and excitedly hopped out of his chair. Action checked around to Thorpe who bet and everyone called.

On the second draw every player drew one and action checked around a second time to Thorpe who bet and Lin raised. Lewandowski pitched his hand while Thorpe stuck around.

"I pat," said Lin.

"Ok, I'm pat as well," replied Thorpe who watched Lin put out a bet. "I think I win."

Lin turned over 9♠8♦6♣3♠ for nine-eight as Thorpe put in the call, but it was second best as Thorpe turned over 7♦5♠4♥A♣ for seven-five.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike Thorpe	77,000 9,000	9,000
Ren Lin	31,000

Tags: Mike Thorpe Pierre Lewandowski Ren Lin

Level: 11

Blinds: 1,000-2,000
Limits: 2,000-4,000

06-05-2025 20:12 UTC-8

Thorpe Shows a Bluff

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Liam Gannon

Level 10 : Limits 1,500/3,000, 0 ante

Blinds: 1,000-1,500
Limits: 1,500-3,000

Owais Ahmed raised in the hijack and Mike "Crazy" Thorpe called on the button.

Ahmed drew two while Thorpe drew one. The action saw Ahmed check-call a bet from Thorpe.

On the second draw, both players repeated their prior draws. Ahmed checked over to Thorpe who bet and Ahmed raised, earning a quick call from Thorpe.

The third draw saw Ahmed draw one and Thorpe stood pat which saw Ahmed check-fold to a bet from Thorpe.

Thorpe turned over 10♥3♥ and tossed his other two cards into the muck as he raked in the pot while exchanging some barbs with Ahmed.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike Thorpe	68,000
Owais Ahmed	21,500 3,500	3,500

Tags: Owais Ahmed Mike Thorpe

06-05-2025 19:59 UTC-8

Wells Doubles Through Whitehouse

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Liam Gannon

Level 10 : Limits 1,500/3,000, 0 ante

Blinds: 1,000-1,500
Limits: 1,500-3,000

Robert Wells raised in the small blind and in the big blind Brad Whitehouse called.

Wells and Whitehouse both drew two and Whitehouse called Wells' bet.

On the second draw, Whitehouse drew two while Wells drew one. Wells bet a second time and Whitehouse raised him all in which Wells called.

The third draw saw Wells stand Pat while Whitehouse drew two.

Robert Wells: 10♥7♣5♠A♦ All in
Brad Whitehouse: 2♥A♠XxXx

It was over as Whitehouse peeled the 4♠ first, making his 9♣ inconsequential as Wells took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brad Whitehouse	32,500 32,500	32,500
Robert Wells	21,500 21,500	21,500

Tags: Bradlee Whitehouse Robert Wells

06-05-2025 19:47 UTC-8

Biggest Stacks On Break

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Liam Gannon

Level 10 : Limits 1,500/3,000, 0 ante

Blinds: 1,000-1,500
Limits: 1,500-3,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeffery Stepaniuk	132,500
Stephen Speck	117,100 31,100	31,100
Jason Bullock	117,000 49,000	49,000
Andrew Yeh	112,000

Elijah Ruffin	111,500
Yuri Dzivielevski	110,000

George Wolff	108,000 48,000	48,000

Nicolas Milgrom	101,000

Graham Mathews	99,000
David Lin	98,500
Matthew Schreiber	98,000 2,000	2,000

Matthew Valeo	97,500 59,500	59,500

Valentin Lita	97,000
Johnson Phanyaseng	96,000 24,500	24,500
Mark Romans	94,000
Ryan Demeter	92,000
Jason Gola	90,500 9,100	9,100

Zhun Wang	86,600 20,100	20,100
Denis Strebkov	85,000

David Funkhouser	80,000

Level: 10

Blinds: 1,000-1,500
Limits: 1,500-3,000

06-05-2025 19:30 UTC-8

Break

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Liam Gannon

Level 9 : Limits 1,200/2,400, 0 ante

Blinds: 600-1,200
Limits: 1,200-2,400

The players have gone on a 15-minute break.

06-05-2025 19:25 UTC-8

Turner Makes a Seven

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Liam Gannon

Level 9 : Limits 1,200/2,400, 0 ante

Blinds: 600-1,200
Limits: 1,200-2,400

Jon Turner raised in the small blind and in the big blind, Peter Rouviere called.

Turner drew one while Rouviere drew three and Rouviere called Turner's bet.

On the second drawing round, both players drew one and the action checked through.

The third draw saw both players draw one and Rouviere called the bet that Turner put out.

"Seven," said Turner as he tabled 7♥5♣4♠3♦ for a seven-five and Rouviere tossed his hand into the muck. Turner raked in the pot, fresh off of his 8th place finish in the $10k Dealers Choice.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jon Turner	87,000 49,000	49,000

Peter Rouviere	51,000 10,000	10,000

Tags: Jon Turner Peter Rouviere