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Level: 16
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack
Day: 1
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
Buy-in
$800
Prize Pool
$3,136,700
Total Entries
4,481
Level
44
Blinds
2,000,000 / 4,000,000
Ante
4,000,000
Entries
4,481
Players Left
268
Players Left 1 / 4,481
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Level 15
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Ivan Kalinski moved all in from under the gun for 95,000. Karen Karnafel snap-called in the big blind covering Kalinski's stack. The players revealed their holdings.
Ivan Kalinski: 9♠9♦
Karen Karnafel: K♥K♣
Kalinski seemed deflated as he saw he was dominated heading to the flop. On a runout of J♠10♥4♠4♦A♣ Kalinski hit the rail as Karnafel stacked her tower of chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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185,900 | |
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Busted |
Level 15
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Chi Nguyen faced a difficult decision against Konstantinos Tsikopoulos, who casually slid chips into the pot while playing online poker on a tablet.
Tsikopoulos three-bet Nguyen preflop to 25,000, then fired 20,000 on the flop 4♥9♣4♦, another 25,000 on the 9♦ turn. He upped it on the river 6♠ with an all-in shove.
Nguyen studied for several minutes — through several of Tsikopoulos' online plays — before reluctantly folding.
Two hands later, Nguyen was all in against Noah Workman for his last 59,500 chips.
Chi Nguyen: A♣8♣
Noah Workman: 8♦8♥
Nguyen took the lead early, pairing his ace, and held on through a board of 3♣A♥6♥4♥K♠ to double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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230,000
230,000
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230,000 |
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139,000
139,000
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139,000 |
Level 15
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Brad Owen is in the $800 deepstack and has built up a 175,000 chip stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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175,000
175,000
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175,000 |
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Level: 15
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Level 14
: Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
To Define is to limit
"Why do they call it no limit? They limit how much you can bet, your stack, and how little you can bet, the big blind. It should be two-limit hold'em." — David Moses.
Germ Collector
"There are more germs on a doorknob than a toilet seat."
"What about poker chips?"
"Doesn't matter, I'll take all those germs."
Dealer is the Big Blind
"Come on dealer, even Ray Charles could see that straight, dead or alive."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
120,000
120,000
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120,000 |
|
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Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
We picked up the action on the flop with over 100,000 chips in the middle. Yunlamkevin Choi in the small blind was heads-up with Lisa Tan in the big blind. The flop read A♠K♥5♣ and Choi check-called the 30,000 chip bet from Tan.
After the 4♠ turn card, Choi checked, Tan went all-in for 90,500 chips, and was beaten into the middle by Choi.
Lisa Tan: J♠6♠
Yunlamkevin Choi: A♥A♣
Needing to fade a spade, Choi instead improved to quads on the A♦ river, Tan was eliminated shortly after registration closed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
330,000 | |
|
Busted |
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Level 13
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
As the turn card hit, gasps erupted from the table on a board of 9♥7♥8♥8♦ as Rajesh Vohra was all in for 44,500 against John Armbrust.
Rajesh Vohra: 8♣8♠
John Armbrust: J♥J♠
The river A♥ gave Armbrust a flush but Vohra's four-of-a-kind was the nuts and Arbrust was eliminated shortly after.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
96,000
96,000
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96,000 |
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Busted | |
Level 13
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Event 31: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 8-handed registration is now closed.
This tournament's prize pool is over $3,000,000, and gathered 4,484 entries.
