Event #40: $5,000 Seniors High Roller Day 3 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-14-2025 11:40 UTC-8

Ward Sends Charalambous Home

Jacob Wilson

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

Ernest Ward and Peter Charalambous got their stacks all in preflop, and the two went off to a runout.

Peter Charalambous: A♠5♦ All in
Ernest Ward: J♦J♥

Charalambous sighed on the 6♣K♠8♣ flop, and seemingly accepted his fate. The 9♣4♥ runout sent him home, as he shared handshakes with the table before heading to the payout desk.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ernest Ward	2,300,000 510,000	510,000
Peter Charalambous	Busted

Tags: Ernest Ward Peter Charalambous

06-14-2025 11:42 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Roelke	Busted

James Leonard	Busted

Steve Jelinek	Busted

Jeffrey Schwimmer	Busted
Daniel Lowery	Busted
Russell Head	Busted

Blinds Chop it

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Jacob Wilson

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

Scott Eskanazi limped in from the small blind, and Josef Gulas checked his option from the big.

Action checked all the way to the river, with the board reading A♣A♥5♠8♦A♠, and it was at this point a player finally made a bet, with Eskanazi throwing 50,000 into the middle. Gulas quickly raised to 200,000, and Eskanazi snap called. Both players showed exactly the same hand: 8x4x and the pot was shared between them

Player	Chips	Progress
Josef Gulas	3,875,000 2,535,000	2,535,000
Scott Eskenazi	710,000 5,000	5,000

Tags: Josef Gulas Scott Eskanazi

Level: 22

Blinds: 15,000/30,000

Ante: 30,000

06-14-2025 12:01 UTC-8

Chen Doubles With Set

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Jacob Wilson

Level 22 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Chuanshu Chen open shoved for 400,000, and Ramana Epparla woke up with a hand in the big blind, calling him off.

Chanshu Chen: 6♣6♦ All in
Ramana Epparla: 9♠9♣

Chen saw a miracle six in the window, as the board ran out 6♥K♦3♠J♦A♣ keeping him alive and doubling him up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ramana Epparla	2,740,000 115,000	115,000

Chuanshu Chen	835,000 35,000	35,000

Tags: Ramana Epparla Chuanshu Chen

06-14-2025 12:06 UTC-8

Dresch Finds the Call to Bust Lazar

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Laura Fryer

Level 22 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Players were already on the river with the 6♣Q♥2♦7♥10♣ board and the pot stood at around 900,000. Scott Lazar was in the big blind and had moved all in for his remaining 320,000 and action was on Jeremy Dresch in the hijack.

Dresch apologised to the table as he went into the tank for around 2 minutes.

Eventually, Dresch moved a stack of chips into the middle and made the call.

Scott Lazar: J♦K♦ All in
Jeremy Dresch: A♠Q♠

Lazar was sitting with king high and Dresch made the correct call, having him beat with a pair of queens.

Lazar stood from the table and remarked "Nice call, nice hand buddy." he went on to say "If I was in your spot I have to call that too." as he was eliminated from the tournament.

Another player at the table said "By the way, he felt strong to me.", implying he felt it was a difficult call to make.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeremy Dresch	1,150,000 280,000	280,000
Scott Lazar	Busted

Tags: Jeremy Dresch Scott Lazar

06-14-2025 12:09 UTC-8

More Recent Eliminations

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Laura Fryer

Level 22 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Chad Lipton	Busted
Daniel Defreitas	Busted
Julio Belluscio	Busted

Danny Li	Busted
Ira Friedman	Busted

06-14-2025 12:15 UTC-8

Castillo Busts Brutally

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Jacob Wilson

Level 22 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

When action folded round to him on the button, John Esposito raised to 80,000. Big blind Guillermo Castillo shoved for 425,000, and Esposito asked for a count before taking some time to count out his chips. In the end ,he landed on a call.

Guillermo Castillo: A♥K♥ All in
John Esposito: A♣10♣

Castillo saw the good news that he was very far ahead, but that was flipped completely on the 10♠4♦10♥ flop. The 9♠ turn had Castillo drawing dead, making the 2♦ river inconsequential.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Esposito	1,250,000 335,000	335,000

Guillermo Castillo	Busted

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06-14-2025 12:22 UTC-8

Stamm Jams on Liu

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Laura Fryer

Level 22 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Action folded around to Jun Liu who raised to 305,000 from the small blind. David Stamm was in the blig blind and moved all in for around 1,300,000.

The rest of the players gradually stood up from the table as Liu took around 3 minutes to make a decision. He was trying to instigate a conversation with Stamm, but he sat steady.

Liu eventually folded and he passed around a quarter of his stack to Stamm.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Stamm	1,640,000 420,000	420,000
Jun Liu	775,000 35,000	35,000

Tags: David Stamm Jun Liu

06-14-2025 12:29 UTC-8

Glantz Gets Rivered

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Jacob Wilson

Level 22 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Ramana Epparla raised to 65,000 in the hijack, and Peter Kiem flatted on the cutoff. Matt Glantz then put in a three-bet to 210,000 from the small blind. Big stack Epparla called, and Kiem got out of the way.

On a flop of 7♠Q♣6♥ Glantz opted for a continuation-bet of 175,000. Epparla then cut out a big stack of 25,000 chips, indicating a raise to 450,000,and Glantz reacted by snap-shoving. Epparla made the call, and was way behind.

Matt Glantz: K♥K♦ All in
Ramana Epparla: Q♥10♥

The turn 2♥ brought in an extra sweat for Glantz. No heart came on the river, but Epparla still sucked out by hitting the 10♣ as he scooped a massive pot and knocked out his opponent