Event #35: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-10-2025 18:41 UTC-8

Melogno Sends O'Connell Out

Josh Noy

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Pablo Melogno opened to 4,000 in early position before Drew O'Connell moved all in for 30,000 on his immediate left. Action folded back around to Melogno, who made the call.

Drew O'Connell: K♦Q♥ All in
Pablo Melogno: 8♠8♦

Melogno found a set on the 2♦K♥8♥ flop, while the 7♥ turn brought O'Connell some additional outs. The J♠ river was clean for Melogno, sending O'Connell to the rail shortly after dinner.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pablo Melogno	112,000 112,000	112,000
Michael Lavin	62,000 37,000	37,000

Scott Bohlman	31,000 31,000	31,000

Drew O'Connell	Busted

Tags: Drew O'Connell Pablo Melogno

06-10-2025 18:39 UTC-8

Fresh Stacks; All Those That Max Late Reg

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kanishka Reddy	25,000 25,000	25,000
Baldomero Cleves	25,000 25,000	25,000
Baoqiang Ho	25,000 25,000	25,000
Philip Li	25,000 25,000	25,000
Michael Lavin	25,000 25,000	25,000

Aaron Kupin	25,000 25,000	25,000
Michael Jozoff	25,000 25,000	25,000
Jason Blodgett	25,000 25,000	25,000
Naoya Kihara	25,000 25,000	25,000

Honcheong Lee	25,000 25,000	25,000
Cameron Storto	25,000 25,000	25,000
Florian Ribouchon	25,000 25,000	25,000
Casey Sandretto	25,000 25,000	25,000
Mitchell Hynam	25,000 25,000	25,000
Alan Sternberg	25,000 25,000	25,000

Dimitre Dimitrov	25,000 25,000	25,000
Wayne Harmon	25,000 25,000	25,000
William Foxen	25,000 25,000	25,000

Matthew Schulte	25,000 25,000	25,000
Ethan Yau	25,000 25,000	25,000

Casey Hatmaker	25,000 25,000	25,000
Martin Sedlak	25,000 25,000	25,000
Daewoong Song	25,000 25,000	25,000
Kyle Edward Julius	25,000 25,000	25,000
Dale Roesel	25,000 25,000	25,000

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06-10-2025 18:33 UTC-8

Eliminations Before the End of Registration

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Dejuante Alexander	Busted

Cherish Andrews	Busted
Michael Jukich	Busted

Somasekhar Sanampuri	Busted
Krasimir Yankov	Busted
Biao Ding	Busted
Chinwei Lim	Busted

Andreas Kniep	Busted
Tzur Levy	Busted
Greg Robert Ostrander	Busted
Sameer Chaturvedi	Busted
Nikola Gunchev	Busted
Jack Sinclair	Busted

Yuya Kita	Busted
Gualter Fortuna	Busted
Dawn Mougel	Busted
Connor Gibson	Busted
Jacob Mendelsohn	Busted
Brandon Mitchell	Busted
Scott Hammett	Busted
Albert Riccobono	Busted

Mohammad Siddiqui	Busted
Colin Dentan	Busted
Nicholas Verderamo	Busted
Dusti Smith	Busted

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Level: 10

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 2,000

06-10-2025 17:32 UTC-8

Dinner Break

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Josh Noy

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Players have been sent on a 60-minute dinner break.

Action will resume shortly after 7:30 p.m. local time. Late registration will close at the start of Level 10.

06-10-2025 17:31 UTC-8

At the Hand of Posiedon the River Changed Fate

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Jorge Dominguez raised in late position and was faced by a jam from Poseidon Ho for approximately 35,000. Dominguez made the call.

Poseidon Ho: K♥J♥ All in
Jorge Dominguez: 8♠8♣

Dominguez seemed poised to dodge the over cards as it ran out 10♦6♦A♠4♦ and when the Q♥ fell, Ho was out of his seat and pushed his stack in the direction of Dominguez to his direct right.

Lucky for him, cards on their backs speak for themselves, as did his tablemates when they let him know that he had rivered the straight.

Dumbfounded and pleased, Ho presented his stack to be doubled.

Player	Chips	Progress
Poseidon Ho	76,500
Jorge Dominguez	13,000

Tags: Jorge Dominguez Poseidon Ho

06-10-2025 17:29 UTC-8

Some Chip Updates Before Dinner

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Aram Zobian	146,500 146,500	146,500

Jonah Labranche	80,900 80,900	80,900

Benjamin Williams	77,400 77,400	77,400
Frederic Normand	75,600 75,600	75,600
Andy Tsai	60,900 60,900	60,900
Davis Aalvik	32,000 8,000	8,000
Ran Koller	25,300 25,300	25,300

06-10-2025 17:29 UTC-8

Marquez Doubles up Before Dinner

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

The chip leader at the table, Hongru Zhang, raised from early position to 4,000, and Anthony Marquez moved all in from the big blind. Zhang indicated he wanted to fold, but the amount was too small not to call.

Anthony Marquez: 7♠7♣ All in
Hongru Zhang: 9♠4♠

The board came out as K♦Q♦A♦6♦, and Zhang hoped for a chop, but the river 3♣ gave Marquez the win with his pair of sevens.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hongru Zhang	300,900 147,000	147,000

Anthony Marquez	32,300 32,300	32,300

Tags: Anthony Marquez Hongru Zhang

06-10-2025 17:23 UTC-8

Picone Takes from Kapnopoulos

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Josh Noy

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Igor Picone opened to 3,200 in the cutoff, with Julien Sitbon making the call on the button. Ioannis Kapnopoulos also came along in the big blind and all three players checked through the 6♥10♠7♣ flop.

Kapnopoulos led out for 4,500 on the 10♦ turn, and Picone answered with a raise to 17,500.

Sitbon quickly folded, while Kapnopoulos did not take long to slide his cards into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Igor Picone	128,000
Ioannis Kapnopoulos	71,000
Julien Sitbon	57,000

Tags: Igor Picone Ioannis Kapnopoulos Julien Sitbon

06-10-2025 17:21 UTC-8

Some More Chip Updates

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Marchington	70,200
Michael Acevedo	70,000 70,000	70,000

Fernando Brito	65,900 65,900	65,900
Ana Marquez	64,000 600	600
Kristen Foxen	44,000 24,000	24,000

Andreas Kniep	40,000 40,000	40,000
Ryan Riess	39,000 1,000	1,000

Faraz Jaka	37,000 37,000	37,000

Jack Sinclair	26,000 17,000	17,000

Hang Xu	25,000 25,000	25,000
Benjamin Palmer	23,000 16,000	16,000