Level: 34
Blinds: 200,000/400,000
Ante: 400,000
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #29: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 3
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$3,321,925
Entries
1,493
Level
36
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
600,000
Entries
17
Players Left
1
Players Left 1 / 1,493
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Level 34
: Blinds 200,000/400,000, 400,000 ante
David Mcgowan raised to 800,000 on the button and received an all in shove from Dylan Linde in the big blind for around 4,500,000. Mcgowan made the call bring them to showdown.
Dylan Linde: A♠6♥ 
David Mcgowan: K♥Q♦
Mcgowan spiked a pair on the flop of 8♦10♠K♠. With no ace in sight on the runout 6♣10♥, Linde's deep run ended.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
27,000,000
7,300,000
|
7,300,000 |
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Busted | |
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Level 34
: Blinds 200,000/400,000, 400,000 ante
David Mcgowan had just three-bet a small blind raise and got the fold.
The very next deal, he limped in the small blind, and Christopher Puetz raised to 1,200,000 from the big blind. McGowan put his sunglasses on, took a minute to think, took his sunglasses off, took another minute, then moved all in. Puetz folded, and Mcgowan's chip lead continued to grow.
The very next hand, Mcgowan opened the button to 800,000, and Puetz, now in the small blind, raised to 6,800,000, leaving roughly 2,000,000 behind. Mcgowan moved all in, and Puetz called.
Christopher Puetz: K♠Q♦
David Mcgowan: K♣Q♣
No blood to be spilt on this occasion as the board ran out K♦8♣8♦3♥4♠.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
32,000,000
5,000,000
|
5,000,000 |
|
11,500,000
1,300,000
|
1,300,000 |
|
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8,800,000
3,200,000
|
3,200,000 |
Level 34
: Blinds 200,000/400,000, 400,000 ante
Christopher Puetz limped from the small blind and Mark Darner made it 1,500,000 in the big blind. Puetz called to see what the board will bring.
Puetz checked the K♣4♥J♣ flop. Darner kept the pressure up with a 1,300,000 bet. Puetz still hung on to see another card.
After action was passed to him on the turn 9♦, Darner finally shook Puetz off the hand with an all-in shove. Darner scooped the pot for a chip up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
10,400,000
1,100,000
|
1,100,000 |
|
|
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|
|
7,900,000
900,000
|
900,000 |
Level 34
: Blinds 200,000/400,000, 400,000 ante
Mark Darner opened to 800,000 on the button and got a three-bet from David Mcgowan to 3,200,000.
Both players saw the 3♣3♥K♦ flop. Mcgowan continued with 2,000,000. Unfazed, Darner called.
On the turn 9♥, Mcgowan wanted to keep the pressure with a 2,500,000 but Darner pushed back by jamming all-in. Unable to call, Mcgowan mucked and conceded the pot to Darner.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
23,000,000
9,000,000
|
9,000,000 |
|
|
22,000,000
11,600,000
|
11,600,000 |
|
|
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Level 34
: Blinds 200,000/400,000, 400,000 ante
Christopher Puetz's stack was going in reverse, and when David Mcgowan moved all in from the small blind, covering Puetz, he made the call.
Christopher Puetz: K♦Q♠
David Mcgowan: Q♦9♠
The situation was promising for Puetz, but when the dealer fanned out the 9♣6♠9♦ flop, it took a downturn.
The 10♦ turn offered hope, but the A♦ river sealed his fate.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
30,000,000
7,000,000
|
7,000,000 |
|
|
22,000,000 | |
|
|
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|
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Busted | |
Level 34
: Blinds 200,000/400,000, 400,000 ante
The starting field of 1,493 has been whittled down to just two players.
The World Series of Poker gold bracelet is the centrepiece of the table, and it is David Mcgowan and Mark Darner going head-to-head for it.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
30,000,000 | |
|
|
22,000,000 | |
|
|
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Level: 35
Blinds: 250,000/500,000
Ante: 500,000
Level 35
: Blinds 250,000/500,000, 500,000 ante
Mark Garner had started to make some headway into David Mcgowan's stack, but after Mcgowan called a three-bet of 3,500,000 on the button, he then called a continuation-bet of 3,300,000 on a 9♠4♥4♠ flop.
When the 3♠ hit the turn, Garner checked and Mcgowan fired out for 1,200,000.
Garner folded, and the stacks are back to where we started, heads-up play.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
29,500,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
|
|
22,500,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
|
|
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Level 35
: Blinds 250,000/500,000, 500,000 ante
The Simpsons is widely regarded as one of the most successful and beloved television shows of all time. But actress and high-stakes poker player Jennifer Tilly, who was married to Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon, tried to stop her ex-husband from making the iconic show.
Tilly, the star of the Chucky franchise and a recent guest on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, revealed her skepticism about Simon pursuing the cartoon in a new episode of the PokerNews Life Outside Poker podcast.
"I remember us trying to keep Sam from doing it because he had been offered his own deal, multi-million-dollar deal, at Hollywood Pictures, which was at the time very trendy," Tilly told PokerNews. "And I said, 'Sam, don't you want to be your own person and do your own shows?'"
