Star Studded Affair Returns In $50,000 High Roller
After two days of play, the initial field of 171 entrants was reduced down to just 10 players. The game’s brightest stars and highest rollers came out to play Event #32: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em in an attempt to take down one of the biggest prizes of the summer. A whopping $1,968,927 awaits the winner, on top of the WSOP bracelet, on top of the title of High Roller for the 2025 World Series of Poker.
Leading the pack is WSOP bracelet winner and high stakes poker regular Jason Koon, who bagged a massive chip lead of 14,575,000, more than twice the next closest stack. Koon has dominated the poker circuit over the past 16 years, earning a whopping $64,113,454 to sit in fourth place on the all-time tournament money list. Four years ago, he crossed his name off the list of the best players without a bracelet and today now looks to deepen his WSOP legacy with a run at his second bracelet.
Chip Counts of the Final Ten Players
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jason Koon | United States | 14,575,000 | 121 |
| 2 | Andrew Lichtenberger | United States | 6,735,000 | 56 |
| 3 | Aliaksei Boika | Belarus | 6,285,000 | 52 |
| 4 | Brock Wilson | United States | 6,240,000 | 52 |
| 5 | Viktor Blom | Sweden | 5,005,000 | 42 |
| 6 | Ben Tollerene | United States | 4,805,000 | 40 |
| 7 | Sergey Lebedev | United Kingdom | 3,295,000 | 27 |
| 8 | Dominykas Mikolaitis | Lithuania | 1,950,000 | 16 |
| 9 | Reagan Silber | United States | 1,275,000 | 11 |
| 10 | Chongxian Yang | China | 1,150,000 | 10 |
Rounding out the podium are WSOP bracelet winner Andrew Lichtenberger (6,735,000), and Aliaksei Boika (6,285,000). Lichtenberger sits nearly nine years removed from his bracelet win with several other final tables over his 18-year career, now sitting as the only other player besides Koon with a bracelet. Boika had a recent brush with a bracelet after finishing runner-up to Artur Martirosian in Event #7: $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em just ten days ago. Brock Wilson (6,240,000) sits just behind the two of them and looks to claim a bracelet of his own after many close calls.
High stakes online legends Viktor Blom (5,005,000) and Ben Tollerene (4,805,000) make up the next chunk of the list. Blom has had many close calls with a WSOP bracelet as recent as this year when he finished fourth in the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Event. Tollerene’s career-best score came last year when he finished runner-up at the 2024 WSOP in the $250,000 Super High Roller. The two of them look to better their most recent final table finishes here today.
Sergey Lebedev (3,295,000) looks to make his fifth WSOP final table appearance as he hunts for a piece of jewelry. Dominykas Mikolaitis (1,950,000) is looking to final table his first live WSOP event as he hunts for a piece of his own. Reagan Silber (1,275,000) and Chongxian Yang (1,150,000) sit as the shortest stacks remaining in the tournament, with Silber securing his first WSOP cash in three years and Yang looking for his second final table of the 2025 WSOP.
Remaining Payouts
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $1,968,927 |
| 2 | $1,312,610 |
| 3 | $914,634 |
| 4 | $650,074 |
| 5 | $471,473 |
| 6 | $349,068 |
| 7 | $263,944 |
| 8 | $203,919 |
| 9 | $161,048 |
| 10 | $130,082 |
Play will resume at 12 p.m. local time. Blinds will begin at Level 19 with the blinds at 80,000/160,000 with a 160,000 big blind ante. Levels will last an hour each, with a 15-minute break occurring at the conclusion of every two levels.
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