Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot
Day 2 Started
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot
Day: 2
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,927,530
Entries
1,452
Level
37
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
800,000
Entries
162
Players Left
13
Players Left 1 / 1,452
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| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 647 | 1 | Rumen Nanev | United States | 83,500 |
| 647 | 2 | Brendan Taylor (NV) | United States | 37,200 |
| 647 | 3 | Drake Kemper | United States | 314,000 |
| 647 | 4 | Adam Wilkinson | United Kingdom | 194,000 |
| 647 | 5 | Jeffrey Vaughn | United States | 164,000 |
| 647 | 6 | Brennan Benglis | United States | 193,000 |
| 647 | 7 | Nathanial Hutton | Australia | 248,000 |
| 647 | 8 | Makoto Yoshimichi | Japan | 292,000 |
| 648 | 1 | Georgios Tsoupras | Greece | 233,000 |
| 648 | 2 | Michael Krasienko | United States | 182,000 |
| 648 | 3 | Jordan Griff | United States | 440,000 |
| 648 | 4 | Miao Chenxiang | China | 136,000 |
| 648 | 5 | Arvan Sahakian | United States | 438,000 |
| 648 | 6 | George Parublev | United States | 185,000 |
| 648 | 7 | Sebastian Crane | United Kingdom | 517,000 |
| 648 | 8 | Isaac Kempton | United States | 128,000 |
| 649 | 1 | Han Liu | United States | 78,000 |
| 649 | 2 | Andrew Donabedian | Ireland | 162,000 |
| 649 | 3 | Jeffrey Herman | United States | 340,000 |
| 649 | 4 | Sergiy Alariki | United States | 480,000 |
| 649 | 5 | Son Nguyen | United States | 146,000 |
| 649 | 6 | William Peters | United States | 103,000 |
| 649 | 7 | Zachariah Cheatum | United States | 385,000 |
| 649 | 8 | Remy Murcia | France | 482,000 |
| 650 | 1 | Jonathan Dimmig | United States | 406,000 |
| 650 | 2 | Yadin Shemmer | United States | 114,000 |
| 650 | 3 | Bryan Swarberg | United States | 40,000 |
| 650 | 4 | Zachary Schwartz | United States | 169,000 |
| 650 | 5 | Yang Wang | United States | 195,000 |
| 650 | 6 | Alex Tchong | Austria | 259,000 |
| 650 | 8 | William Klevitz | United States | 47,000 |
| 651 | 1 | David Goldman | United States | 45,500 |
| 651 | 2 | Stephen Graner | United States | 352,000 |
| 651 | 3 | David Williams | United States | 143,000 |
| 651 | 4 | Ronald Hall | United States | 146,000 |
| 651 | 5 | Antoine Sankari | Canada | 217,000 |
| 651 | 6 | Joshua Thatcher | United States | 249,000 |
| 651 | 7 | Jinyan Hou | United States | 225,000 |
| 651 | 8 | Steven Touitou | United States | 147,000 |
| 652 | 1 | Maximilian Marroquin | United States | 553,000 |
| 652 | 2 | Aaron Ellis | United States | 137,000 |
| 652 | 3 | Paul Phillips | United States | 328,000 |
| 652 | 4 | Anatoly Zlotnikov | Russia | 157,000 |
| 652 | 5 | Nasser Lahouti | United States | 184,000 |
| 652 | 6 | Hen Rosilio | Portugal | 219,000 |
| 652 | 7 | Jaswinder Lally | Canada | 445,000 |
| 652 | 8 | Richard Green | United States | 526,000 |
| 653 | 1 | Guofeng Wang | China | 303,000 |
| 653 | 2 | Jonathan Lewis | United States | 71,000 |
| 653 | 3 | Brett Elder | Canada | 110,000 |
| 653 | 4 | David Eller | United States | 345,000 |
| 653 | 5 | Abdel Hamid | United States | 42,000 |
| 653 | 6 | Sungbin Ma | United States | 43,000 |
| 653 | 7 | Niberson Dorleus | United States | 165,000 |
| 653 | 8 | Chaoxing Li | China | 230,000 |
| 654 | 1 | Matthias Kribben | Germany | 241,000 |
| 654 | 2 | Giovanni Zanette | South Africa | 384,000 |
| 654 | 3 | Travis Pearson | United States | 108,000 |
| 654 | 4 | Rishi Makkar | Canada | 43,000 |
| 654 | 5 | Andrew Batey | Australia | 56,000 |
| 654 | 6 | Jacob Baumgartner | United States | 249,000 |
| 654 | 7 | Alessandro De Michele | Italy | 109,000 |
| 654 | 8 | David Yue | United States | 147,000 |
| 655 | 1 | Jason Bullock | United States | 194,000 |
| 655 | 2 | Tyler Levin | United States | 64,000 |
| 655 | 4 | Robert Klein | United States | 623,000 |
| 655 | 5 | Brian Alioa | United States | 209,000 |
| 655 | 6 | Michael Checo | Dominican Republic | 110,000 |
| 655 | 7 | Artem Maksimov | United States | 293,000 |
| 655 | 8 | Michael Swimelar | United States | 189,000 |
| 656 | 1 | Christian Harder | United States | 156,000 |
| 656 | 2 | Michael Mizrachi | United States | 128,000 |
| 656 | 3 | Alex Bergfors | United States | 266,000 |
| 656 | 4 | Katherine Kolberg | United States | 150,000 |
| 656 | 5 | Samuel Stranak | Slovakia | 783,000 |
| 656 | 6 | Shariq Khan | India | 177,000 |
| 656 | 7 | Jonathan Guez | France | 442,000 |
| 656 | 8 | Robert Leeman | United States | 159,000 |
| 657 | 1 | Quan Tran | United States | 221,000 |
| 657 | 2 | Kane Kalas | United States | 73,000 |
| 657 | 3 | Panagiotis Vafakis | Greece | 35,000 |
| 657 | 4 | Avetik Charchyan | Armenia | 569,000 |
| 657 | 5 | Daniel Dipasquale | United States | 26,000 |
| 657 | 7 | Kevin Ordet | United States | 180,000 |
| 657 | 8 | Leo Lombardozzi | Ireland | 106,000 |
| 658 | 1 | Byraun Moretz | United States | 342,000 |
| 658 | 2 | Robert Nehorayan | United States | 727,000 |
| 658 | 3 | Scott Stinson | United States | 132,000 |
| 658 | 4 | Stefan Stoll | United States | 140,000 |
| 658 | 5 | Kevin Ho | United States | 77,000 |
| 658 | 6 | Anson Tsang | Hong Kong | 185,000 |
| 658 | 7 | Cole Biafore | United States | 46,000 |
| 658 | 8 | Jered Bettencourt | United States | 111,000 |
| 659 | 1 | Joseph McCarthy | United States | 200,000 |
| 659 | 2 | John Clark | United States | 99,000 |
| 659 | 3 | David Cabrera Polop | Spain | 224,000 |
| 659 | 4 | Christopher Dunkel | United States | 470,000 |
| 659 | 5 | Ismael Bojang | Germany | 170,000 |
| 659 | 6 | Sridhar Kandukuri | United States | 202,000 |
| 659 | 7 | Matthew Tamura | United States | 521,000 |
| 659 | 8 | Pascal Leyo | France | 151,000 |
| 660 | 1 | Jayson Galindo | United States | 57,000 |
| 660 | 2 | Christopher Putz | Germany | 204,000 |
| 660 | 3 | Izotov Pavel | Turkey | 62,500 |
| 660 | 4 | Tobias Hausen | Germany | 456,000 |
| 660 | 5 | Dario Alioto | Italy | 156,000 |
| 660 | 6 | Yang Lu | China | 207,000 |
| 660 | 7 | Matthew Rybnick | United States | 70,000 |
| 660 | 8 | Andre Rieder | United States | 255,000 |
| 661 | 1 | Bilal Abunada | United States | 352,000 |
| 661 | 2 | Todd Dreyer | United States | 53,500 |
| 661 | 3 | Fabian Rolli | Switzerland | 164,000 |
| 661 | 4 | Bernardo Tavares | Brazil | 192,000 |
| 661 | 5 | Danny Wong | United States | 445,000 |
| 661 | 6 | Jacco Hester | Netherlands | 130,000 |
| 661 | 7 | Miguel Proulx | Canada | 336,000 |
| 662 | 1 | Ryan Haas | United States | 98,000 |
| 662 | 2 | Michael Garner | United States | 268,000 |
| 662 | 3 | Wonjun Jeong | South Korea | 701,000 |
| 662 | 4 | Jason Kay | United States | 36,000 |
| 662 | 5 | Alejandro Jaureguireynoso | United States | 76,000 |
| 662 | 6 | Tri Le | United States | 80,000 |
| 662 | 7 | Aleksey Levin | United States | 161,000 |
| 662 | 8 | Ivan Hallal | Mexico | 193,000 |
| 663 | 1 | Jianfei Bai | United States | 42,000 |
| 663 | 2 | Manuel Martinez | United States | 263,000 |
| 663 | 3 | Tyler Gerard | United States | 94,000 |
| 663 | 4 | Drew Sumner | United States | 194,000 |
| 663 | 5 | Young Ko | United States | 142,000 |
| 663 | 6 | Xixiang Luo | China | 51,000 |
| 663 | 7 | Nicholas Petitti | United States | 134,000 |
| 663 | 8 | Rick Ngo | United States | 140,000 |
| 645 | 1 | Renji Mao | China | 131,000 |
| 645 | 2 | Wayne Palitz | United States | 288,000 |
| 645 | 3 | Bjorn Verbakel | Netherlands | 242,000 |
| 645 | 4 | Andrew Dinger | United States | 187,000 |
| 645 | 5 | Igor Zektser | United States | 109,000 |
| 645 | 6 | Eduardo Saavedra | Spain | 104,000 |
| 645 | 8 | Jonathan Winfield | United States | 412,000 |
| 646 | 1 | Yuan Lei | China | 444,000 |
| 646 | 2 | Andrew Davis | United States | 69,000 |
| 646 | 3 | Larry Etherington | United States | 3,000 |
| 646 | 4 | David "ODB" Baker | United States | 200,000 |
| 646 | 5 | Oleksandr Trokhymenko | Ukraine | 718,000 |
| 646 | 6 | Timothy Byrd | United States | 471,000 |
| 646 | 7 | Raul Martinez Gallego | Spain | 182,000 |
| 646 | 8 | Kharlin Sued | United States | 226,000 |
| 641 | 2 | Alexis Fleur | France | 55,000 |
| 641 | 3 | Nitesh Rawtani | United States | 208,000 |
| 641 | 4 | Scott Weinstein | United States | 180,000 |
| 641 | 5 | Ryan Otto | United Kingdom | 398,000 |
| 641 | 6 | Brian Smith | United States | 286,000 |
| 641 | 7 | Nicholas Naughton | United States | 135,000 |
| 641 | 8 | Jay Lu | United States | 52,000 |
| 633 | 1 | Alexander Massman | United States | 140,000 |
| 633 | 2 | Antonio Olguin | United States | 358,000 |
| 633 | 3 | Ian Matakis | United States | 276,000 |
| 633 | 4 | Jose Ignacio Barbero | Argentina | 287,000 |
| 633 | 5 | Hayden Le | United States | 101,000 |
| 633 | 6 | Brian Ng | United States | 68,000 |
| 633 | 7 | Adrian Buckley | United States | 125,000 |
| 633 | 8 | Daniel Thomson | United States | 200,000 |
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.
Level: 16
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 6,000
Level 16
: 0/0, 6,000 ante
J♦A♦6♥7♥8♦
A♣7♣2♠2♣5♥
Action picked up after the players had already put all their chips into the middle preflop. Renji Mao got it in from the small blind with A♠K♣J♣10♠ and was put at risk by Wayne Palitz, who called with 9♠7♠7♦3♥.
Despite Mao pairing his ace on both boards, Palitz flopped a set of sevens on the bottom board, before turning one on the top board, sending Mao home with a min-cash. The table let Palitz know that they were appreciative, saying, "thanks for getting rid of the crusher."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
456,000
168,000
|
168,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
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Level 16
: 0/0, 6,000 ante
8♠A♥K♦7♠8♥
Q♣6♣K♣3♠5♠
There were roughly 120,000 chips in the pot when Izotov Pavel got his last ~100,000 in against Tobias Hausen.
Izotov Pavel: K♥K♠3♦2♥ 
Tobias Hausen: A♣A♠8♣9♥
Pavel had flopped a set of kings on both boards, but could not beat Hausen's set of aces on top and nut flush on the bottom.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
780,000
324,000
|
324,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 16
: Blinds 0/0, 6,000 ante
A♣7♣6♥K♦10♣
Q♥J♦6♠2♦9♦
Action checked to Maximilian Marroquin in the hijack, and he bet 30,000. Paul Phillips called on the button, and Richard Green called in middle position.
On the turns, Green took over the betting lead, putting 105,000 in the pot. Only Marroquin called.
When both rivers landed, Green announced, "Pot," which put him all in. Marroquin folded, and Green won the pot
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
925,000
399,000
|
399,000 |
|
|
310,000
243,000
|
243,000 |
|
298,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Level 16
: Blinds 0/0, 6,000 ante
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After introducing the topics, Chad, Mike, and Jeff take a deep dive into WSOP statistics to determine just how many billions the World Series of Poker has awarded to players over the last five decades.
They also take a closer look at some of the most ultra-wealthy poker players and face off in a special WSOP Billionaire trivia challenge to see who knows the most about poker’s richest.
In the second half of the episode, Chad sits down with two prominent voices in the high-stakes scene to further peel back the curtain on poker’s elite.
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Level 16
: Blinds 0/0, 6,000 ante
Level 16
: Blinds 0/0, 6,000 ante
9♥K♠10♠2♣Q♣
7♦4♣10♣6♠8♠
Panagiotis Vafakis had got it all in and was at risk with A♠K♦Q♠9♦. Quan Tran had made the call on the flop with Q♥J♦8♣9♣ having flopped the nut straight on the top board, and a nine-high flush draw on the bottom, as well as an open-ender.
Vafakis was looking for a spade or a jack on the top board, and had to dodge a large amount of outs on the bottom. Unfortunately for him, Tran instantly turned the nuts on the bottom board, and held on the top, sending Vafakis packing.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
595,000
374,000
|
374,000 |
|
Busted |
