Event #36: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-10-2025 17:37 UTC-8

Updated Chip Counts

Brett Slezak

Level 5 : 300/600, 600 ante

Limits: 600-2,100

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeffrey Vaughn	211,000 36,300	36,300
Corel Theuma	172,300 22,300	22,300
Yueqi Zhu	157,000 107,500	107,500

Ilia Krupin	156,900 96,900	96,900
Ryan Bambrick	151,800 13,200	13,200

Michael Korody	144,900 9,900	9,900
Bryce Yockey	143,000 73,000	73,000

Anthony Zinno	139,200 79,200	79,200

Richard Green	132,500 72,500	72,500
Ray Henson	130,400 70,400	70,400

Matthew Wantman	127,000 2,000	2,000

Narcis Nedelcu	126,300 77,800	77,800

James Chen (US)	123,200 65,200	65,200

Eric Wasserson	123,000 86,000	86,000

Nicholas Davidson	115,000
Benjamin Miner	112,600 46,600	46,600
John Zable	108,000 50,000	50,000
Jason Tomei	105,700 40,800	40,800
Allen Kessler	100,300 28,200	28,200
Allan Le	99,700 39,700	39,700

Sean Troha	97,200 7,800	7,800

Benny Glaser	95,100 35,100	35,100

Ken Aldridge	94,300 24,200	24,200
Ryan Laplante	90,000 2,000	2,000

Mike Matusow	90,000 16,900	16,900

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Level: 5

Limits: 600-2,100

06-10-2025 17:15 UTC-8

Break

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Brett Slezak

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Limits: 500-1,800

The players are going on their second 15-minute break of the day. The clock shows 183 entries with 165 remaining.

Play resumes in Level 5 with blinds at 300/600/600.

06-10-2025 17:13 UTC-8

Laplante Forces Out Iasnogorodskii

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Brett Slezak

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Limits: 500-1,800

Action was picked up on the J♥4♥3♠ flop in a hand between Aleksandr Iasnogorodskii from under the gun and Ryan Laplante in the hijack with 17,000 in the middle already. Iasnogorodskii led for 5,000 and Laplante called.

On the 2♦ turn, Iasnogorodskii fired again for 15,000 and Laplante stuck around.

Iasnogorodskii slowed down with a check on the 3♦ river as Laplante did not take long before he jammed for his final 31,000. Iasnogorodskii, with the slightly covering stack, let it go rather quickly

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Laplante	88,000 3,000	3,000

Aleksandr Iasnogorodskii	39,000 2,600	2,600

Tags: Aleksandr Iasnogorodskii Ryan Laplante

06-10-2025 17:06 UTC-8

Bambrick's Bullets Bust Loube

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Tim Baker

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Limits: 500-1,800

Steven Loube raised to 1,500 from early position before Ryan Bambrick three-bet to 5,300 from the next seat. When it got back to Loube, he called.

Loube checked to Bambrick on the 2♦9♣7♣ flop and Bambrick bet 11,900. Loube check-jammed for around 40,000, and Bambrick instantly called.

Steven Loube: K♣K♦6♦2♣ All in
Ryan Bambrick: A♠A♣Q♣Q♦

Bambrick had aces and a flush draw, but Loube had some outs he could hit to chop the pot or scoop. However, the rest of the board came 9♦7♠, keeping Bambrick's bullets ahead, and ending Loube's tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Bambrick	165,000 100,000	100,000

Steven Loube	Busted

Tags: Ryan Bambrick Steven Loube

06-10-2025 16:59 UTC-8

Lonis Takes it on the River

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Tim Baker

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Limits: 500-1,800

Bruno Furth raised to 1,800 from early position with Jesse Lonis calling from middle position and David Funkhouser defending out of the big blind.

After Funkhouser checked the 8♠7♠A♦ flop, Furth bet 4,000, which only Lonis called.

Furth continued with a bet of 11,000 on the 7♦ turn. Lonis called again.

The 6♥ appeared on the river and Furth opted to check. Lonis bet the size of the pot, prompting a fold from Furth.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bruno Furth	81,000 900	900

Jesse Lonis	80,000

David Funkhouser	22,000 25,600	25,600

Tags: Bruno Furth David Funkhouser Jesse Lonis

06-10-2025 16:58 UTC-8

"How Do I Not Scoop This?" as Rapaski Gets Half

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Brett Slezak

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Limits: 500-1,800

Daniel Blum potted to 1,800 from the hijack and Corel Theuma called in the cutoff.

"Oooo baby," announced an excited Ryan Rapaski as he shoveled his final 3,900 into the middle from the button, and both opponents called.

The K♠J♠7♦5♣2♦ board was checked down.

Ryan Rapaski: A♠J♥5♠2♥ All in
Daniel Blum: A♥K♥Q♠Q♥
Corel Theuma: K♦4♦3♥3♣

Rapaski won the high with two pair and Theuma took the low with his four-three.

"How do I not scoop this?" lamented Rapaski, "I had two pair, nut flush draw, and the nut low draw, then the dealer finds a red deuce."

Player	Chips	Progress
Corel Theuma	150,000 14,500	14,500
Daniel Blum	80,000 20,000	20,000
Ryan Rapaski	6,500 53,500	53,500

Tags: Corel Theuma Daniel Blum Ryan Rapaski

06-10-2025 16:45 UTC-8

Massive Cooler Near Money Bubble of WSOP's Biggest Buy-In So Far

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Connor Richards

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Limits: 500-1,800

One of the biggest coolers we'll see at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) took place in the biggest buy-in event so far this summer.

Aces versus kings is always a brutal set-up, but a set-over-set involving those two premium holdings is as painful as it gets. But that's exactly what happened near the money bubble on Day 2 of Event #32: $50,000 High Roller.

PokerNews' Calum Grant captured the hand between Ben Tollerene and Joey Weissman, which took place at the end of Level 13 with blinds of 15,000/30,000/30,000 and 34 players remaining with 26 spots paid.

Read About the Crazy Hand

Tags: Ben Tollerene Joey Weissman

06-10-2025 16:39 UTC-8

Some Late Arrivals

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Tim Baker

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Limits: 500-1,800

Player	Chips	Progress
Sean Remz	60,000
Allan Le	60,000

Jiyang Gan	60,000
Charles Phillips	60,000
Andrew Seabright	60,000
Lucas Zwingmann-Gocht	60,000
Justin Saliba	60,000

Andrew Brown	60,000

Tomer Daniel	60,000
Richard Green	60,000
Ray Henson	60,000

Phillip Hui	60,000

Tomasz Gluszko	60,000
Marco Johnson	60,000

Daniel Blum	60,000
Scott Clements	60,000

Ben Tang	60,000
Jason Daly	60,000

Billy Tarango	60,000

06-10-2025 16:33 UTC-8

Defending Champ Enters and Wins a Big One

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Brett Slezak

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Limits: 500-1,800

Xixiang Luo opened to 1,000 from early position and was called by Maksim Pisarenko in the hijack, Paul Zappulla on the button, and defending champion Sean Troha in the small blind.

On the 7♣3♦2♣ flop, it checked to Pisarenko who bet 1,800. Zappulla folded and Troha called before Luo check-potted to 12,200. Pisarenko quickly folded but Troha called.

The 9♣ turn checked through to the 6♥ river which saw Troha lead for 25,000. Luo would go deep into the tank for over two minutes before he tossed in the call. He got the bad news as Troha tabled A♠10♣9♥4♣ for the nut low and a flush which was good for the scoop.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sean Troha	105,000

Xixiang Luo	20,000 39,000	39,000

Tags: Maksim Pisarenko Paul Zappulla Sean Troha Xixiang Luo