Stranak, Nehorayan Among Those Looking For Another Bracelet
Welcome back to the PokerNews coverage of Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot at the 2025 World Series of Poker, held at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
This event is the first of its kind at the WSOP, so it was interesting to see how many players would turn out. Play started with 1,452 players, and things whittled down to 162 by the end of the day.
Among the big name players that joined the field and were eliminated: Huck Seed, Mike Matusow , Phil Hellmuth, Jeffrey Lisandro, Chance Kornuth, Jesse Lonis, Erik Seidel and Brad Owen.
That's not to say there are no notable names left in the field. We will still see bracelet winners like Danny Wong, Nacho Barbero, Ian Matakis, David "ODB" Baker and Michael Mizrachi.
The chip leaderboard also features two players at the top who have previously tasted WSOP gold. Here is that leaderboard as we head into Day 2:
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Name | Country | Chip Counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samuel Stranak | Slovakia | 783,000 |
| 2 | Robert Nehorayan | United States | 727,000 |
| 3 | Oleksandr Trokhymenko | Ukraine | 718,000 |
| 4 | Wonjun Jeong | South Korea | 701,000 |
| 5 | Robert Klein | United States | 623,000 |
| 6 | Avetik Charchyan | United States | 569,000 |
| 7 | Maximilian Marroquin | United States | 553,000 |
| 8 | Richard Green | United States | 526,000 |
| 9 | Matthew Tamura | United States | 521,000 |
| 10 | Sebastian Crane | United Kingdom | 517,000 |
This event is unique in the sense that this format has not been played often in tournaments, even if it's gotten popular in cash games over the last few years. Most of these players likely won't have experience in short stack situations in this game, and will probably need to figure things out on the fly. This makes for a fun dynamic to watch play out across the day.
The plan for today is to play down to five players. The first level will see a 5,000 chip ante from each player, and the levels will increase from 40 minutes to 60.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for all of your updates on this tournament, as well as every other bracelet event at the 2025 WSOP.