Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
Day 2 Completed
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
2025 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$800
Prize Pool
$3,136,700
Entries
4,481
Level
44
Blinds
2,000,000 / 4,000,000
Ante
4,000,000
Entries
258
Players Left
1
Level 44
: Blinds 2,000,000/4,000,000, 4,000,000 ante
Day 2 of Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack at the World Series of Poker hosted within the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas has recently concluded, and we have a winner! Jonathan Stoeber has topped the field of 4,481 entries and claimed his first WSOP bracelet and a healthy $352,610 cash prize out of the $3,136,700 prize pool.
Stoeber jumped from the bottom of the chip counts to the top swiftly by winning crucial pots during the final table. He then began asserting dominance over his competitors; especially during heads-up play versus Daniel Cosner, needing less than one level to seal the deal. The total play time for the final table was only three hours, and Stoeber proclaimed, "I don’t think I had a tough decision all final table.”
Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jonathan Stoeber | United States | $352,610 |
| 2 | Daniel Cosner | United States | $234,908 |
| 3 | Matthew Morin | Canada | $172,724 |
| 4 | Shawn Buchanan | Canada | $128,100 |
| 5 | Geoffrey Coatar | United States | $95,834 |
| 6 | Nicholas Seward | United States | $72,327 |
| 7 | Ryan Hohner | United States | $55,071 |
| 8 | Peter Fox | United States | $42,308 |
| 9 | Mikhail Sniatovskii | United States | $32,796 |
Day 2 Action
The newly crowned WSOP bracelet winner had a lot of work to do even though he bagged a very healthy 1,000,000 chips heading into the day.
“With 250 people starting the day, I had no expectations coming into Day 2. I knew it would be a roller coaster the whole way.” Stoeber managed to stay out of trouble and float during the middling stages of Day 2. While people who had roughly triple his chips were knocking out the competition, Stoeber knew that this event would eventually reach the “push poker” phase.
Walking into the final table, Stoeber was very short, but it was irrelevant when his friends were at his back, and the cards on his side.
“I came in with four and a half bigs. I just kinda sun runned it, to be honest. Queens into 98o, Kings into Queens." It may have been the king on the river to save Stoeber's tournament life, but once some momentum was gained, he was impossible to stop.
Stoeber jumped from 6,800,000 to over 110,000,000 over four major hands including the one mentioned above, the elimination of Peter Fox in eighth helping him chip up, and then eliminating Geoffrey Coatar in fifth to put himself in a dominant position to close the event out as the chip leader.
Winner's Reaction
With close to 20 people rooting him on from the rail, Stoeber wasn’t needed in the shouting department. A surreal sense of relief came over him once the event concluded. After coming very close to a bracelet multiple times in WSOP online events, and having a plethora of strong finishes in live events throughout his young career, the New Jersey resident felt bliss as he more than doubled his career earnings.
When asked about his strategy to close out the event, Stoeber explained, “I was just trying to put people in spots. If it’s six big blinds, but a 50k pay jump, you put people in the blender.” He accomplished his goal and found himself pushing the agenda once his fate was set by a river card that may just have changed this young man’s life. To use Stoeber’s own words, unfortunately for the other guys, today he had the cards.
When asked about how winning this event will change his summer, Stoeber announced, “I’m coming back.”
With a flight currently scheduled for the morning, he explained that he has no current plans, but it appears that he intends to hunt number two after touching back down in his hometown of Ewing, New Jersey for some clothes and a well-deserved celebration.
"There is still a lot more money to win," a member of the winning rail announced
That concludes our coverage of Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack, but stay tuned to PokerNews as we continue to cover every bracelet winner until the end of the WSOP live from the tournament floor here at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
Level 44
: Blinds 2,000,000/4,000,000, 4,000,000 ante
Jonathan Stoeber shoved from the button and Daniel Cosner called off his stack of around 50,000,000 from the big blind.
Daniel Cosner: A♣4♣ 
Jonathan Stoeber: 6♠6♣
Stoeber was a big favorite to win the hand and grab the bracelet, but there were still five cards to come where anything could happen.
The flop of 2♦9♥Q♠ was clean for Stoeber, and the 8♦ turn left Cosner with just one chance at three outs. Stoeber's rail erupted when the 8♣ paired the board on the river, as he scooped the pot, meaning Cosner had to settle for second.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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179,240,000
59,240,000
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59,240,000 |
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Busted | |
Level: 44
Blinds: 2,000,000/4,000,000
Ante: 4,000,000
Level 43
: Blinds 1,500,000/3,000,000, 3,000,000 ante
Matthew Morin was left with just five chips worth 500,000 each. He had to figure his tournament life would be short. It was longer than expected, thanks to an odd three-splay split and a double-up.
The split came on the unusual occurrence of all three players — Morin, Jonathan Stoeber and Daniel Cosner — all playing the board of J♣6♣6♥K♦K♥, since none had a carder higher than a jack.
On the next hand, Morin doubled up against Stoeber when he hit two pair with A♦K♦ against Stoeber's J♠10♣ on a runout of K♠3♦A♥J♦3♠.
The third time in a row he went all in was not the charm.
Matthew Morin: 5♦6♦
Daniel Cosner: A♥3♠
The runout of K♠2♥9♣10♥4♠ ended Morin's tournament run, as Cosner took the hand with ace-high.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
120,000,000
10,000,000
|
10,000,000 |
|
|
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52,000,000
16,000,000
|
16,000,000 |
|
Busted | |
Level 43
: Blinds 1,500,000/3,000,000, 3,000,000 ante
Daniel Cosner shoved for 16,500,000 from the small blind and Matthew Morin called out of the big blind.
Daniel Cosner: J♣8♥
Matthew Morin: A♦6♥
Morin had a chance to bring the tournament down to heads up, but had to dodge a few more outs after Cosner picked up a gutshot on the 4♣7♣9♥ flop. A 9♠ on the turn paired the board and left Cosner one card from the rail, but he spiked a straight when the 10♥ hit the river, leaving Morin very short-stacked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
36,000,000
7,000,000
|
7,000,000 |
|
|
2,500,000
12,500,000
|
12,500,000 |
Level 43
: Blinds 1,500,000/3,000,000, 3,000,000 ante
Daniel Cosner, the short stack in three-handed play, went all in and got a call from Matthew Morin, who was second in chips.
Daniel Cosner: Q♦6♠
Matthew Morin: A♥10♠
The runout hit Cosner all kinds of ways, as the Q♣5♣6♦6♣Q♠ delivered him a full house and a double-up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
29,000,000
4,000,000
|
4,000,000 |
|
|
15,000,000
10,000,000
|
10,000,000 |
Level 43
: Blinds 1,500,000/3,000,000, 3,000,000 ante
Jonathan Stoeber is starting to run away with this and has the perfect setup to continuously apply ICM pressure to the two shorter stacks. However, Daniel Cosner isn't going down without a fight.
In the latest hand, Cosner shoved for 15,000,000 on the button and Stoeber called in the big blind.
Daniel Cosner: 8♠6♠
Jonathan Stoeber: K♦J♠
Cosner flopped the world on 5♠Q♥7♠ and hit a pair on the 6♦ turn. Nothing changed on the 9♦ river, and Cosner doubled up to around 33,000,000.
Stoeber went right back to it though, and won the next two hands to claw back those chips he just lost.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
130,000,000
12,700,000
|
12,700,000 |
|
|
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|
|
25,000,000
16,500,000
|
16,500,000 |
|
|
25,000,000
22,000,000
|
22,000,000 |
Level 43
: Blinds 1,500,000/3,000,000, 3,000,000 ante
Shawn Buchanan moved all in from the button and got a quick all-in call from Matthew Morin.
Shawn Buchanan: A♥7♠
Matthew Morin: K♣Q♦
Morin paired his queen with the card in the window and the runout of 2♥7♥Q♥J♠4♦ didn't change Buchanan's fate.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
47,000,000
6,000,000
|
6,000,000 |
|
Busted | |
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Level: 43
Blinds: 1,500,000/3,000,000
Ante: 3,000,000
