Event #30: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship Day 2 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-09-2025 17:20 UTC-8

Wong Doubles Through Owen

Dan O'Hair

Level 15 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante

Adam Owen raised to 22,000 from the hijack and Danny Wong shoved for 123,000 on the button. Action folded back to Owen, who called to put Wong at risk.

Owen stood pat and Wong stood pat after tanking for a bit.

Owen revealed a ten-nine and Wong fist-pumped and showed 10x8x6x5x2x for a ten-eight to score the double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Danny Wong	270,000 70,000	70,000

Adam Owen	128,000 342,000	342,000

Tags: Danny Wong Adam Owen

06-09-2025 17:28 UTC-8

Yu Stands Pat to Bust Ausmus

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David Salituro

Level 15 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante

Jeremy Ausmus moved all in for 122,000 under the gun and both Philip Sternheimer on the button and big blind Ben Yu called.

Yu stood pat, while Ausmus and Sternheimer both drew one. Yu turned over 9x8x7x3x2x and Ausmus' and Sternheimer's cards quickly hit the muck as Ausmus was sent to the rail.

Maxx Coleman was also recently eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ben Yu	550,000 220,000	220,000

Philip Sternheimer	230,000 88,000	88,000

Jeremy Ausmus	Busted

Maxx Coleman	Busted

Tags: Ben Yu Jeremy Ausmus Maxx Coleman Philip Sternheimer

06-09-2025 17:30 UTC-8

Alexander Heads to Dinner With a Wheel

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David Salituro

Level 15 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante

Taylor Wilson raised to 20,000 in the cutoff and George Alexander three-bet to 75,000 on the button. Wilson then moved all in for 100,000 and Alexander called.

Wilson stood pat while Alexander drew one. "Yes! You're drawing dead, buddy," Wilson said as he shot out of his seat and turned over Jx10x9x6x3x.

"Oh no. How can you call that?" Alexander replied, showing 5x4x3x2x.

"Let's do it together," Wilson told him as he grabbed Alexander's last card. "It's a three-carder. I'm drawing dead. Oh, it could be a six," Wilson added.

"It's not an eight so I'm 50-50," he said, looking at the card from another angle. "You have a wheel," he concluded, tossing a 7x into the middle of the table and making his exit right before the dinner break.

Player	Chips	Progress
George Alexander	550,000 300,000	300,000

Taylor Wilson	Busted

Tags: George Alexander Taylor Wilson

06-09-2025 17:30 UTC-8

Dinner Break

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Dan O'Hair

Level 15 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante

The remaining 37 players have been sent on a 60-minute dinner break.

Play will resume at approximately 7:30 p.m. local time.

06-09-2025 17:53 UTC-8

PokerNews Daily Deepstack Challenge Returns

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Lyle Bateman

Level 15 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante

At the 2025 World Series of Poker, this year's schedule includes 100 bracelet events. One notable event returning this summer at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas is bracelet Event #78: PokerNews Deepstack Championship (PNDC).

This also means last year's popular PokerNews Daily Deepstack Challenge is coming back, bigger and better than before!

From May 27 to June 30, players grinding the $200, $250, and $400 Daily Deepstacks tournaments at the WSOP will rack up leaderboard points. Every week, the top 10 players will be awarded a complimentary entry into the PNDC on July 1. That’s 50 seats up for grabs—10 more than last year, thanks to the additional week of action. Best of all? You can win multiple seats, meaning the more you play and perform, the better your shot at a deep WSOP run.

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06-09-2025 18:06 UTC-8

Updated Counts on Break

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Dan O'Hair

Level 15 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante

Here are the latest chip counts per the WSOP+ app.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alex Foxen	1,130,000 30,000	30,000

Greg Mueller	732,000 232,000	232,000

Nick Schulman	681,000 151,000	151,000

Dario Alioto	677,000 477,000	477,000

Brian Rast	667,000 64,000	64,000

Ali Eslami	660,000 230,000	230,000

George Alexander	620,000 70,000	70,000

Matthew Schreiber	610,000 80,000	80,000

Ben Yu	523,000 27,000	27,000

Darren Elias	508,000 12,000	12,000

James Chen	496,000 220,000	220,000

Elior Sion	470,000 90,000	90,000

Daniel Negreanu	437,000 47,000	47,000

Oscar Johansson	435,000 126,000	126,000
Ben Diebold	397,000 77,000	77,000

Bariscan Betil	391,000 309,000	309,000
Phil Hellmuth	387,000 63,000	63,000

Philip Sternheimer	318,000 88,000	88,000

Frank Kassela	295,000 5,000	5,000

Danny Wong	291,000 21,000	21,000

David Funkhouser	275,000 5,000	5,000

Robert Wells	270,000 50,000	50,000

James Obst	264,000 12,000	12,000

Stuart Rutter	253,000 13,000	13,000
Felipe Ramos	244,000 34,000	34,000

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06-09-2025 18:22 UTC-8

Here's How to Best Sweat Your 25K & ODB Fantasy Team in the PokerNews Live Updates!

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Chad Holloway

Level 15 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 12,000 ante

All summer long, PokerNews will be offering updates from both the 25K Fantasy and ODB Fantasy leagues, which you can read in our dedicated hub here.

But did you know that you're also able to follow all the players from both leagues in our live updates? Every player drafted in the 25K Fantasy, as well as all the ODB Bonus players, have been tagged with special badges that allow you to visit out chip count page and filter by said badges. So, if all you want to see are players from those leagues and how they're doing, it's as simple as clicking the badges and then filtering.

What's more, each tournament has a "$25K Fantasy" tab at the top of the updates. Click that and all you'll see are hands played by players in the 25K Fantasy league.

PokerNews understands that when it comes to fantasy, some readers only care about their team, so we've made it simple to follow all your rostered players with a few simple clicks.

Check out this video to see the filtering options in action:

Level: 16

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 15,000

06-09-2025 18:30 UTC-8

Back in Action

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Dan O'Hair

Level 16 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 15,000 ante

Players have returned from dinner break and cards are in the air.

06-09-2025 18:34 UTC-8

Hand for Hand

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Dan O'Hair

Level 16 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 15,000 ante

With 36 players remaining and 35 getting paid, the tournament director has just announced hand-for-hand play will commence until the money bubble has burst.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Kelsall	Busted