Event #26: $25,000 High Roller Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-07-2025 19:40 UTC-8

McKeehen Stacking Up Chips

Myles Phago

Level 8 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Joe McKeehen raised from late position to 16,000 only to face a three-bet from Alex Foxen in the cutoff to 46,000. Shaneil Stokes flat called from the big blind as did McKeehen.

The flop came 2♣10♣3♥, McKeehen checked, and Foxen continued for 27,000. Both players called. The turn brought the 3♣, and all players checked to see the 4♠ come on the river.

Stokes checked, and now McKeehen bet out for 78,000. Both Foxen and Stokes folded, and McKeehen was pushed the healthy pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe McKeehen	460,000 213,000	213,000

Alex Foxen	430,000 210,000	210,000

Shaneil Stokes	410,000 5,000	5,000

Tags: Alex Foxen Joe McKeehen Shaneil Stokes

06-07-2025 19:41 UTC-8

Petrangelo Doubles

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Robert Jones

Level 8 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Akash Seth raised to 18,000 from under the gun and Nick Petrangelo raised all in for 93,000. Seth made the call.

Nick Petrangelo: Q♠Q♣ All in
Akash Seth: 10♦10♥

A safe board came for Petrangelo of A♥7♦3♠3♥4♠ and he was able to double-up through Seth.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicholas Petrangelo	200,000 200,000	200,000
Akash Seth	200,000 170,000	170,000

Tags: Akash Seth Nick Petrangelo

06-07-2025 19:48 UTC-8

Miegel's Cowboys Hold Up

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Tim Baker

Level 8 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Stanley Tang got his last 100,000 or so chips into the middle preflop with Jakob Miegel making the call to try and bust him.

Stanley Tang: A♦6♣ All in
Jakob Miegel: K♥K♣

Tang had run into the Cowboys of Miegel, but he did have an ace that he could hit to survive. The dealer put out a board of 4♠3♠10♣9♠2♥ which didn't help Miegel, and he was out of the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jakob Miegel	620,000 370,000	370,000
Stanley Tang	Busted

Tags: Jakob Miegel Stanley Tang

06-07-2025 19:55 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Aram Zobian	Busted

Fabian Gumz	Busted
Quan Zhou	Busted
Akash Seth	Busted
Dario Sammartino	Busted
Andrew Lichtenberger	Busted

Muhammad Abdel Rahim	Busted
Sam Laskowitz	Busted
Brek Schutten	Busted

Bin Duan	Busted
Joao Vieira	Busted

Jensen Spikes River

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Robert Jones

Level 8 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Gregory Jensen raised from early position to 17,000 and was reraise by Yaji Ren from the button to 50,000. Jensen raised once again for his 330,000 chip stack, Ren made the call, and they were off to see five with Jensen at risk.

Gregory Jensen: K♣J♠ All in
Yaji Ren: J♥J♣

The first four of Q♣3♣6♦3♠ were safe for Ren, but the K♦ on the river was a nightmare, and Jensen scooped up a 680,000 chip pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gregory Jensen	680,000 550,000	550,000

Yaji Ren	65,000 114,000	114,000

Tags: Gregory Jensen Yaji Ren

06-07-2025 20:04 UTC-8

Final Two Hands

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Tim Baker

Level 8 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

The floor has announced that there will be two more hands before play ends for the night, and the surviving players will come back tomorrow for Day 2.

06-07-2025 20:05 UTC-8

Samual Chooses Not to Bluff

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Tim Baker

Level 8 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Jonathan Jaffe raised to 17,000 from the cutoff and Darius Samual defended out of the big blind.

Both players checked the 7♣6♣3♦ flop to see the 6♥ appear on the turn. Samual led out for 14,000, which Jaffe called.

Two more checks followed on the Q♦ river and Jaffe took down the pot with A♥10♠ ace-high.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonathan Jaffe	225,000 131,000	131,000
Darius Samual	200,000 50,000	50,000

Tags: Darius Samual Jonathan Jaffe

06-07-2025 20:06 UTC-8

Brooks Doubles Through Maimone

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Myles Phago

Level 8 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

All the money was in the middle preflop between John Brooks and Nick Maimone, and it was Brooks who was at risk.

John Brooks: J♠J♣ All in
Nick Maimone: A♠K♦

The flop came 7♥J♦8♣ and gave Brooks a set, and when the 5♣ fell on the turn, Maimone was drawing dead. The Q♠ was an irrelevant river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Maimone	635,000 65,000	65,000

John Brooks	502,000 337,000	337,000

Tags: John Brooks Nick Maimone

06-07-2025 20:06 UTC-8

Play Concludes

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Tim Baker

Level 8 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Play has concluded for Day 1 of the tournament. Stay tuned for full chip counts and a recap of the Day's action.

06-07-2025 20:33 UTC-8

End of Day 1 Chip Counts (full)

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Tim Baker

Level 8 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Fahredin Mustafov	1,360,000 739,000	739,000

Cherish Andrews	1,140,000 789,000	789,000
David Peters	1,137,000 287,000	287,000

Joey Weissman	1,107,000 482,000	482,000

Mitchell Hynam	1,001,000 516,000	516,000
Alex Foxen	958,000 528,000	528,000

Sergey Lebedev	945,000 825,000	825,000
Punnat Punsri	850,000 130,000	130,000

Ognyan Dimov	807,000 807,000	807,000

Vitalijs Zavorotnijs	792,000 514,000	514,000
Christian Roberts	749,000 325,000	325,000

Joao Simao	749,000 146,000	146,000

Andrew Ostapchenko	742,000

Seth Davies	739,000 491,000	491,000

Wai Kiat Lee	726,000 576,000	576,000
Albert Daher	722,000 92,000	92,000
Gregory Jensen	716,000 36,000	36,000

Nick Maimone	713,000 78,000	78,000

Dylan Smith	712,000 512,000	512,000
Jakob Miegel	659,000 39,000	39,000
Josh McCully	648,000 498,000	498,000
Aliaksei Boika	643,000 170,000	170,000
Frank Funaro	640,000

Alex Kulev	636,000

Shaneil Stokes	623,000 213,000	213,000