Event #38: $100,000 High Roller Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-11-2025 22:57 UTC-8

Lonis Gets Stacked Late On

Calum Grant

Level 10 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Jesse Lonis raised to 40,000 from under the gun and was called by Thomas Boivin from the cutoff. Manuel Fritz defended his big blind.

On the 4♠4♥10♥ flop, Lonis continued for 80,000. Boivin called and Fritz folded.

On the 2♠ turn, Lonis sized up to 275,000. Boivin then moved all in as the big stack. Lonis started the hand with around 950,000 and after some thinking time, he called for his tournament life.

Jesse Lonis: J♠J♥ All in
Thomas Boivin: 6♣4♣

Lonis had two outs, but the Q♣ river marked his exit instead.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Boivin	3,800,000 1,550,000	1,550,000

Jesse Lonis	Busted

Tags: Jesse Lonis Manuel Fritz Thomas Boivin

06-11-2025 22:55 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Jesse Lonis	Busted

Alan Keating	Busted

Barbero Wins Race

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Robert Jones

Level 10 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Orpen Kisacikoglu raised from the button and Nacho Barbero went all-in from the big blind for 505,000, covering Kisacikoglu by roughly 100,000, who made the call.

Orpen Kisacikoglu: A♦10♣ All in
Nacho Barbero: 4♥4♠

Barbero was able to hold on the runout of K♥7♠3♦Q♥Q♠ and sent Kisacikoglu to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nacho Barbero	980,000 619,000	619,000

Orpen Kisacikoglu	Busted

Tags: Nacho Barbero Orpen Kisacikoglu

06-11-2025 22:44 UTC-8

Ding Busts

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Barry Russell

Level 10 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Biao Ding raised in the cutoff to 40,000, Brandon Steven called on the button and Landon Tice three-bet to 180,000 from the big blind. Ding decided to four-bet shove, Steven folded and Tice called.

Biao Ding: A♣K♠ All in
Landon Tice: 9♥9♣

Ding caught a great flop with 7♠K♣8♣, but the 10♦ on the turn gave Tice additional outs. The 6♠ on the river completed the comeback, sending Ding to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Landon Tice	2,200,000 505,000	505,000
Biao Ding	Busted

Tags: Biao Ding Brandon Steven Landon Tice

06-11-2025 22:36 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Biao Ding	Busted
Sean Winter	Busted
Alex Foxen	Busted

Thomas Muehloecker	Busted
John Hennigan	Busted

Santhosh Suvarna	Busted

Kincaid Spikes Eight

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Robert Jones

Level 10 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Manuel Fritz raised from under the gun to 40,000, was called by John Kincaid in the cutoff, and Thomas Boivin on the button. Sean Winter, from the small blind, raised to 500,000. He was only called by Kincaid.

John Kincaid: 8♥8♣ All in
Sean Winter: A♦10♣

The runout came K♠3♣2♠10♦8♦ and Kincaid found the double with a miracle eight ball in the corner pocket. Sean Winter busted shortly after taking this tough beat on the chin.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Boivin	2,250,000 500,000	500,000

Manuel Fritz	1,300,000 220,000	220,000
John Kincaid	1,100,000 100,000	100,000
Sean Winter	Busted

Tags: John Kincaid Manuel Fritz Sean Winter Thomas Boivin

06-11-2025 21:23 UTC-8

Expensive Massage for Moncek; Perry & Wisbrod Gone, More Reentries

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Calum Grant

Level 9 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

According to the WSOP+ app, after a preflop betting war, Chance Kornuth moved all in for 535,000 and was snap-called my Michael ‘Texas Mike’ Moncek to put him at risk.

Chance Kornuth: K♥Q♣ All in
Michael Moncek : A♠J♠

The flop was extremely juicy as it came Q♠7♠4♦ to give Kornuth top pair, but it also gave Moncek the nut flush draw.

The turn K♦ took away Moncek’s ace-outs, but he could now hit a ten for a gutshot. Unfortunately for him, the river bricked with the 7♦, and Kornuth scored the double.

“Didn’t think ace-jack would cost you that much, did ya?” Alan Keating smiled as he delivered the light needle, and Moncek laughed with the rest of the table.

Left with just 65,000, Moncek got it all in preflop the next hand and was called by Kornuth.

Moncek tabled A♦7♦ and was in good shape against the A♠3♦ of Kornuth, but the runout came K♠10♠10♦4♦3♥ to give Kornuth the three on the river to send him out.

“How much did that massage cost?” He asked the masseuse saw he stood up, “Besides $100k.”

Player	Chips	Progress
Chance Kornuth	1,275,000 665,000	665,000

Ramiro Salinas	600,000 600,000	600,000
Stephen Chidwick	600,000 100,000	100,000

Christoph Vogelsang	600,000 600,000	600,000
Sean Perry	Busted
Barak Wisbrod	Busted

Michael Moncek	Busted

Tags: Alan Keating Chance Kornuth Michael Moncek

06-11-2025 20:03 UTC-8

Heath KOs Salinas

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Robert Jones

Level 8 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Ramiro Salinas raised from under the gun to 20,000, Matthew Belcher called as next to act, and when the action reached Ben Heath in the small blind he went all-in for roughly 700,000. Salinas called for around 320,000 and Belcher folded.

Ramiro Salinas: 3♦3♠ All in
Ben Heath: 9♦9♥

Salinas could not improve on the 10♣8♥8♦7♣4♠ board and was sent to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ben Heath	950,000 235,000	235,000

Ramiro Salinas	Busted

Tags: Ben Heath Matthew Belcher Ramiro Salinas

06-11-2025 19:40 UTC-8

Puetz Downs Kulev; Suvarna Cracks Aces to Bust Jensen

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Calum Grant

Level 8 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Landon Tice opened to 22,000 from the hijack before Christopher Puetz three-bet to 66,000 from the cutoff. Alex Kulev four-bet jammed for 195,000 from the button. Tice folded while Puetz called.

Alex Kulev: AxQx All in
Christopher Puetz: K♦9♦

Puetz paired up on the 9x7x3x3xXx runout to bust the Bulgarian. Kulev then reentered.

As that hand finsihed, on another table, Gregory Jensen was all in and at risk to Santhosh Suvarna. The chips got in on the J♦5♦4♥ flop, with Jensen holding A♠A♥. Suvarna had a flush draw with his K♦8♦.

The 6♣ turn was safe for Jensen but Suvarna made the flush on the 3♦ river to bounce back up above the starting stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Christopher Puetz	1,000,000 328,000	328,000
Santhosh Suvarna	675,000 75,000	75,000

Alex Kulev	600,000 584,500	584,500

Gregory Jensen	Busted

Tags: Alex Kulev Christopher Puetz Gregory Jensen Landon Tice Santhosh Suvarna

06-11-2025 19:35 UTC-8

Belcher Sends Ponakovs Home

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Robert Jones

Level 8 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Aleksejs Ponakovs raised to 20,000 from the button and was re-raised by Matthew Belcher in the small blind to 70,000. Ponakovs then went all-in and was beaten into the middle by Belcher.

Aleksejs Ponakovs: A♦7♦ All in
Matthew Belcher: 8♠8♣

The board ran out K♥J♠3♦Q♦7♥ and Ponakovs was eliminated while Belcher surpasses the 2,000,000 chip mark.