Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

05-28-2025 14:01 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Dave Stann	25,000 25,000	25,000
Calen McNeil	25,000 25,000	25,000

Allen Kessler	25,000 25,000	25,000
Ali Eslami	25,000 25,000	25,000

Marielizette Acoba	25,000 25,000	25,000
Huck Seed	25,000 25,000	25,000

David Bach	25,000 25,000	25,000

Kyle Cartwright	25,000 25,000	25,000

Ken Aldridge	25,000 25,000	25,000
Yuval Bronshtein	25,000 25,000	25,000

Damjan Radanov	25,000 25,000	25,000
Alex Livingston	25,000 25,000	25,000

Jon Turner	25,000 25,000	25,000
Carol Fuchs	25,000 25,000	25,000

Tony Cousineau	25,000 25,000	25,000
Jason Stockfish	25,000 25,000	25,000
Frankie O'Dell	25,000 25,000	25,000

Eric Buchman	25,000 25,000	25,000

Ray Fishman	25,000 25,000	25,000
Barry Greenstein	25,000 25,000	25,000

Brandon Shack-Harris	25,000 25,000	25,000

Nick Kost	25,000 25,000	25,000

Robert Mizrachi	25,000 25,000	25,000

Denis Strebkov	25,000 25,000	25,000

Daniel Buzgon	25,000 25,000	25,000

Shuffle Up and Deal!

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Liam Gannon

Level 1 : Limits 300/600, 0 ante

Blinds: 200-300
Limits: 300-600

The players have taken their seats and cards are now in the air.

The clock reads 491 players in their seats at the beginning of the tournament.

Level: 1

Blinds: 200-300
Limits: 300-600

05-28-2025 12:11 UTC-7

WSOP+ App Launches to Streamline 2025 WSOP Experience

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Kaelaine Minton

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has officially launched its new WSOP+ app for the 2025 series in Las Vegas, promising to dramatically improve the player experience by reducing wait times and streamlining event access.

Available now for iOS and Android, the WSOP+ app allows players to pre-register for live events, skip lengthy registration lines, and receive real-time updates about seat availability through a virtual queue and push notifications. The app also becomes a central hub for all WSOP essentials, including event schedules, structure sheets, chip counts, rules, daily results, prize payouts, and more.

"WSOP+ will further elevate the WSOP experience for all of our players," said Ty Stewart, CEO of the World Series of Poker. "Not only can our community now save time and effort by registering in advance for their favorite tournaments, but the app will also showcase WSOP content and all of the important event information that participants are eager to have at their fingertips!"

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05-28-2025 03:40 UTC-7

First Non-Hold'em Event of the 2025 WSOP is Here: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Starts at 2 p.m.

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Matthew Pitt

Welcome back to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2025 World Series of Poker and home of live updates from all bracelet events.

This three-day event gets underway at 2 p.m. local time with late registration open for nine levels (until about 8:45 p.m.). There will be 15-minute breaks every three levels, with no dinner break scheduled on Day 1.

The starting stack is 25,000 chips, with the plan for Day 1 to play 15 40-minute levels. For the surviving players, Day 2 resumes at 1 p.m. Thursday.

Last year's event saw a field of 928 entries generate a prize pool of $1,238,880. The winner was James Chen, who defeated Lewis Brant heads up to win $209,350 and his first WSOP bracelet.

“It was fun, cards were hitting. I made a lot of hands and it was great,” Chen told PokerNews shortly after his victory.

Year	Entries	Winner	Country	Payout
2024	928	James Chen	United States	$209,350
2023	1,143	Jim Collopy	United States	$262,542
2022	1,086	Amnon Filippi	United States	$252,718
2021	607	Connor Drinan	United States	$163,252
2019	853	Derek McMaster	United States	$228,228

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Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better

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