Event #42: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-13-2025 22:01 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Brett Radu	Busted
John Monnette	Busted

John Marlowe	Busted
Anil Jivani	Busted
Yuriy Boyko	Busted
Richard Rashid	Busted
Grzegorz Derkowski	Busted
Jereld Sam	Busted
Michael Conoran	Busted

Rajai Wazwaz	Busted

Alan Engel	Busted

Maxx Holland	Busted
Michael Wasserman	Busted
Brian Stroh	Busted
Bjorn Gravlien	Busted
Tim Grau	Busted
James Tilton	Busted
Maksim Pisarenko	Busted

Patrick Moulder	Busted

Lawrence Chang	Busted
Xiaozhe Liu	Busted
Stephen Ma	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Joshua Mcswiney	Busted
Ryan Conrad	Busted
Qingyu Lu	Busted
Joe Castaneda	Busted
William Meeks	Busted
Daniel Tordjman	Busted
Oliver Bosch	Busted
Eduardo Rodriguez	Busted
Sylvain Naets	Busted
Goran Filipovic	Busted
Ayed Shweihat	Busted
Henri Koivisto	Busted
Antoine Sankari	Busted
Frederick Nichols	Busted
Sean Winter	Busted
Zachary Schwartz	Busted
Nathaniel Silver	Busted
Omar Mehmood	Busted
Mathyeu Provost	Busted
Tong Li	Busted

Neil Ho	Busted
Dylan Lindsey	Busted

Top Ten Chip Counts at Last Break

Myles Phago

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Here are the latest chip counts, according to the WSOP+ app.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike Leah	642,000 12,000	12,000

Rick Aasen	573,000 573,000	573,000
Robert Cowen	572,500 572,500	572,500

Qiang Xu	520,000 240,000	240,000

John Riordan	478,000 18,000	18,000

Zhen Chen	450,000 450,000	450,000
Gene Grieshaber	434,000 434,000	434,000
Julian Velador	402,500 15,500	15,500
Joshua Palmer	400,000 182,000	182,000

Carlos Leiva	375,000 127,000	127,000

06-13-2025 20:35 UTC-8

Chips on the Move

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Jerome Solomon

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Table 138 has been as active as any since the dinner break, with chips piling up and moving around the table.

At one point there were players at 500,000 (John Riordan), 400,000 (Julian Velador) and 300,000 (Frankie Muzzio) chips, before smaller stacks started nibbling on them.

Riordan fed Ernest Essad some 60,000 chips in a hand he folded on the river, looking at a huge bet from Essad on a board of 7♣J♦6♥9♣A♠. Riordan remained the chip leader at the table, thanks to a large take off of Muzzio a few hands earlier.

With more than 300 players remaining, three of the top 10 in chips are on this table.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Riordan	460,000 250,000	250,000

Julian Velador	418,000 295,000	295,000
Ernest Essad	247,000 247,000	247,000
Frankie Muzzio	76,600 139,400	139,400

Tags: Ernest Essad Frankie Muzzio Julian Velador

06-13-2025 20:29 UTC-8

Latest Casualties

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Myles Phago

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
George Abi-Zeid	Busted
Joe Serock	Busted

Iman Dan	Busted
Jose Velador	Busted

Andrew Watson	Busted
Peter Lieber	Busted
Noah Bronstein	Busted

Carol Fuchs	Busted

John Nguyen	Busted
Yung Hwang	Busted
David Cook	Busted
Aaron Knight	Busted
Kevin Ihu	Busted
Andrew Ostapchenko	Busted

Ivan Starostin	Busted
Andrew Nemeth	Busted
Felipe Ramos	Busted

Eli Siboni	Busted
Grant Wang	Busted
Izotov Pavel	Busted
Christopher Perkins	Busted

06-13-2025 20:22 UTC-8

Leah Can't Lose

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John Avelino

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

With a flop already dealt of 10♠2♣J♣ Yake Wu checked and Mike Leah bet 7,000 and was called by Wu in middle position. Leah winked at Wu when he threw in the call, with both players laughing on a seemingly friendly table.

A turn card of Q♥ peeled off on the turn, Wu checked and Leah bet 20,000 which Wu called.

The river showed up as a 6♣ and Wu checked a third time, which Leah responded by betting 45,000. After about a minute Wu folded and Leah flashed the K♣ to his opponent. Leah eclipsing the 600,000 chip mark is the current chip leader after nine hours of play.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike Leah	630,000 309,500	309,500

Yake Wu	134,000

Tags: Yake Wu Mike Leah

06-13-2025 20:08 UTC-8

Recent Eliminations

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Myles Phago

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Manh Nguyen	Busted
Fabian Schaefer	Busted
Sachin Ramrakhani	Busted
David Oppenheim	Busted

Joao Simao	Busted

Terence Kluczkowski	Busted
Aaron Pahlawani	Busted
Mathias Bayer	Busted
Scott Dulaney	Busted

Francis Lake	Busted

06-13-2025 19:33 UTC-8

Leah Has Been Hot

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Jerome Solomon

Level 11 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Mike Leah took the chip lead into the dinner break due to some stellar play early in the event, but one huge hand gave him a particular boost.

Leah got into a three-way pot with two players all in, and he took it down, knocking Ernst Stoller and Leandro Dirlewanger out of the tournament.

Ernst Stoller: K♠Q♠Q♦10♦ All in
Leandro Dirlewanger: K♥K♣J♥6♠ All in
Mike Leah: A♦K♦J♠5♠

While his foes had big pairs, Leah didn't need a pair when he hit trip fives on the flop and boated up on the river through a runout of 5♦9♥5♣3♠A♥.

Leah, who has a WSOP bracelet, and more than $3 million in earnings,

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike Leah	320,500

Ernst Stoller	Busted
Leandro Dirlewanger	Busted

Tags: Ernst Stoller Leandro Dirlewanger Mike Leah

06-13-2025 19:19 UTC-8

Evens Shows No Fear

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John Avelino

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

On a somewhat star-studded table, Jeff Madsen opened the betting for 4,500 preflop from the button, Gus Hansen called behind in the small blind and Derrick Evens called from middle position.

A flop of A♠5♦7♥ had Hansen check, and Evens checked. Madsen bet 6,500 and Hansen called. Evens check-raised pot and was all in for 40,000. Both Madsen and Hansen released their hands and Evens took it down.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeff Madsen	155,000 155,000	155,000

Derrick Evens	83,000
Gus Hansen	35,000 35,000	35,000

Tags: Jeff Madsen Gus Hansen Derrick Evens

06-13-2025 19:18 UTC-8

Some Notable Players Chip Counts

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Myles Phago

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike Leah	320,500

Bradley Anderson	225,000 10,000	10,000

Jeff Madsen	155,000

Andy Seth	146,000 14,000	14,000
Bradley Owen	96,000

Jose Velador	65,000 32,000	32,000

Gus Hansen	35,000

Chris Moorman	32,000