2025 World Series of Poker

Event #38: $100,000 High Roller
Day: 1
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Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kj
Prize
$2,649,158
Event Info
Buy-in
$100,000
Prize Pool
$9,939,500
Total Entries
103
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
500,000 / 1,000,000
Ante
1,000,000
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
77
Players Left
37
Players Left 1 / 103

Cooler Has Ponakovs On the Ropes; Mateos Delivers the Knockout

Level 5 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Vinny Lingham and Aleksejs Ponakovs were locked in battle, with a full board showing Q9J3x4x and over 300,000 in the middle.

Ponakovs had moved the rest of his stack into the middle, save for one 1,000 chip and action was on Lingham. He didn't take long to call, turning over 108 for the flopped straight.

Ponakovs turned over QQ to show that he had flopped top set in what was a nasty cooler.

The very next hand Ponakovs was all in for his remaining 1,000 versus Adrian Mateos.

Aleksejs Ponakovs: 97 All in
Adrian Mateos: KQ

The board ran out queen-high, sending Ponakovs to the rail.

Tags: Adrian MateosAleksejs PonakovsVinny Lingham