Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-08-2025 14:56 UTC-8

Luo Check-Raises Verbakel

Kai Cocklin

Level 29 : Blinds 0/0, 120,000 ante

10♣8♦10♦
6♥10♥Q♠

Bjorn Verbakel fired out 375,000 on the button once the flops were put out and Xixiang Luo check-raised to 1,050,000. When it got back to Verbakel, he took some time before he eventually passed.

In the following two hands, both Danny Wong and Verbakel bet the flop and got no customers, allowing them to add to their stacks.

Player	Chips	Progress
Samuel Stranak	7,000,000 600,000	600,000

Xixiang Luo	6,800,000 1,000,000	1,000,000

Brian Smith	6,600,000 1,600,000	1,600,000
Robert Klein	5,700,000 1,300,000	1,300,000
Danny Wong	5,000,000 800,000	800,000

Bjorn Verbakel	3,000,000 900,000	900,000

Ian Matakis	2,500,000 100,000	100,000

Tags: Bjorn Verbakel Danny Wong Xixiang Luo

06-08-2025 15:11 UTC-8

Luo Blasting Away

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Barry Russell

Level 29 : Blinds 0/0, 120,000 ante

3♣4♣3♦5♠
A♥5♥3♠K♦

There were 840,000 chips in the middle and action was on Xixiang Luo who was in early position and he bet 375,000, Robert Klein in the hijack called and Brian Smith called on the button.

Luo did not slow down when the turns were dealt as he bet 1,700,000 chips into Klein and Smith, Klein quickly folded, but Smith went into the tank and after a short while he decided to fold but not before showing an A♦ and a 3♥.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xixiang Luo	7,200,000 400,000	400,000

Brian Smith	5,600,000 1,000,000	1,000,000
Robert Klein	5,500,000 200,000	200,000

Tags: Brian Smith Robert Klein Xixiang Luo

06-08-2025 15:22 UTC-8

Biggest Pot of the Tournament Ends in a Chop

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Kai Cocklin

Level 29 : Blinds 0/0, 120,000 ante

3♦5♠Q♥10♦5♣
K♣K♠7♠4♠8♦

It got to Brian Smith and he fired out 550,000 on the flop. Xixiang Luo then check-raised on the button to 2,490,000, and Smith just called.

When the turn hit, Smith moved all in for around 3,000,000, and Luo quickly called.

Brian Smith: A♦K♦10♥2♦ All in
Xixiang Luo: K♥7♣3♥2♠

It was the biggest pot of the tournament so far and both had a chance to scoop it. When the rivers hit, it was honors even as Smith claimed the top with a pair of tens, and Luo took the bottom with a full house.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xixiang Luo	8,700,000 1,500,000	1,500,000

Brian Smith	6,100,000 500,000	500,000

Tags: Brian Smith Xixiang Luo

06-08-2025 15:27 UTC-8

Break Time

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Kai Cocklin

Level 29 : Blinds 0/0, 120,000 ante

Players are heading on a 15-minute break.

06-08-2025 15:31 UTC-8

Updated Chip Counts

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Kai Cocklin

Level 29 : Blinds 0/0, 120,000 ante

After taking down the last few pots uncontested, Xixiang Luo pulled away from the field and is the first player to hold an eight-figure stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xixiang Luo	10,900,000 2,200,000	2,200,000

Samuel Stranak	6,700,000 300,000	300,000

Brian Smith	5,775,000 325,000	325,000
Robert Klein	5,500,000
Danny Wong	4,100,000 900,000	900,000

Bjorn Verbakel	2,300,000 700,000	700,000

Ian Matakis	1,210,000 1,290,000	1,290,000

Tags: Xixiang Luo

06-08-2025 15:38 UTC-8

Gus Hansen Involved in One of the Rarest Poker Hands You'll See at the 2025 WSOP

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Chuck Sklar

Level 29 : Blinds 0/0, 120,000 ante

PokerNews' Brad Whitehouse captured a hand on Saturday that might end up being the rarest we'll see all summer at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP). At the very least, the rarest chop pot.

Gus Hansen and Dzmitry Urbanovich battled for a hefty pot on Day 2 in Event #23: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship with 35 out of 127 players remaining. The pot ended in a chop, but it left future Poker Hall of Famer Nick Schulman in awe.

"I've never seen that before," Schulman, who has seen nearly everything at the poker table, was overheard saying as he glanced at the tabled cards. "Wow, that's an amazing one."

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Level: 30

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 150,000

06-08-2025 15:48 UTC-8

Matakis Chops With Klein

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Kai Cocklin

Level 30 : Blinds 0/0, 150,000 ante

K♥10♦4♦Q♦7♦
6♠4♠5♦8♥6♥

The flop checked around and when it got to Ian Matakis on the turn, he shoved for 1,050,000, exactly the size of the pot. Only Robert Klein called.

Ian Matakis: A♦10♥9♥3♦ All in
Robert Klein: A♥9♦7♣5♥

Matakis had a flush on the top and Klein had a straight on the bottom. The rivers changed nothing, and the two chopped the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Klein	6,000,000 500,000	500,000
Ian Matakis	1,700,000 490,000	490,000

Tags: Ian Matakis Robert Klein

06-08-2025 16:01 UTC-8

Ian Matakis Eliminated in 7th Place ($40,410)

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Barry Russell

Level 30 : Blinds 0/0, 150,000 ante

A♠A♥Q♥7♣K♦
K♣10♦K♠10♠A♣

There were 1,050,000 in the middle and action checked on the flop. Action checked to Ian Matakis on the turn and he bet 1,050,000 from the hijack. Danny Wong called on the button not realising Matakis had roughly 400,000 behind as he went to turn over his hand and a player stopped him.

Matakis decided to check when the river cards were dealt and Wong after a few seconds put Matakis all in, Matakis called. Matakis tabled K♥7♥5♣2♥ but Wang tabled A♦Q♣J♦9♥ making him a full house on the top board and a straight on the bottom board.

Player	Chips	Progress
Danny Wong	6,200,000 2,100,000	2,100,000

Ian Matakis	Busted

Tags: Danny Wong Ian Matakis

06-08-2025 16:07 UTC-8

Smith's Stack Goes Up and Down

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Kai Cocklin

Level 30 : Blinds 0/0, 150,000 ante

Brian Smith was involved in two pots in a short space of time, winning one and losing one.

Q♥4♠2♠4♦
8♣9♠5♥2♣

In the first hand, Smith led out for 450,000 on the flop and Samuel Stranak called after initially checking. On the turn. Stranak checked and Smith fired 1,400,000. Stranak quickly folded.

2♥9♦A♦J♣
3♣5♣6♦7♣