David Williams bet 30,000 on the flop and Nathanial Hutton called. Both players checked the turn. Williams bet 130,000 on the river and Hutton called. Williams announced "Boat and a wheel" and exposed the Q♦6♦3♦2♥. Williams made a full house on the top board and straight on the bottom board. Hutton mucked his hand flashing the A♥K♥. Williams now surpassing the 1.500,000 mark.
On an action flop the players checked to Katherine Kolberg who moved all in for 114,000. Kolberg was called by Shariq Khan in the big blind. The players flipped their cards over with one player at risk.
Both players had almost the same hand with Khan having Kolberg out-pipped.
K♠K♣ K♦J♠
With all the kings in the deck on the board, both players held aces full of threes on the bottom board and Khan held an ace-ten to hold a higher kicker of the three-of-a-kind on the top board as he took three quarters of the pot.
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.
Nacho Barbero
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.
