Event #45: $500 SALUTE to Warriors Day 2 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-16-2025 15:54 UTC-8

All Over for Umerova

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Laura Fryer

Level 25 : Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Safiya Umerova jammed from an early position for 500,000 and Charlemagne Benjamin was the only caller.

Safiya Umerova: J♠J♥ All in
Charlemagne Benjamin: A♦Q♥

Umerova was looking good until the 3♠7♣Q♠ flop, as Benjamin improved to a pair of queens.

The 5♣ turn and 4♣ river didn't change anything, and Umerova was eliminated with around 125 players remaining.

Player	Chips	Progress
Charlemagne Benjamin	1,830,000 1,180,000	1,180,000
Safiya Umerova	Busted

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06-16-2025 15:50 UTC-8

Sparks Cracks Aces

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Nick Becker

Level 25 : Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Joaquin Lestani moved all in from early position for 715,000 to put himself at risk and Jonathon Sparks reshoved in the cutoff to isolate.

Joaquin Lestani: A♦A♣ All in
Jonathon Sparks: Q♥Q♠

Sparks drilled a queen on the 5♠Q♣4♣ flop to pull ahead in the hand and improved to quads when the board ran out 2♠, Q♦.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonathon Sparks	2,565,000 2,148,000	2,148,000
Joaquin Lestani	Busted

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06-16-2025 15:44 UTC-8

Mead Takes Out Tayi

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Laura Fryer

Level 25 : Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Chester Mead opened from an early position for 550,000 and Venkata Tayi called for his remaining 300,000.

Venkata Tayi: A♦K♠ All in
Chester Mead: A♠J♠

Tayi was ahead until the 3♣5♦J♥ flop as Mead picked up top pair.

The 4♦ turn and 10♥ river didn't save Tayi, and he was eliminated from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chester Mead	850,000 300,000	300,000
Venkata Tayi	Busted

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06-16-2025 15:44 UTC-8

A Cooler on a Hot Day in Vegas

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 25 : Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

The hand was underway with Siarhei Chudapal betting 900,000 on a completed board of 6♦4♦J♠10♦6♠ with a pot of around 2,000,000. Action was on his heads-up opponent, Joseph Hernon who was deep in thought considering his options.

He finally decided to go all-in for 1,295,000. Chudapal snap-called.

Chudapal showed 4♣4♥ for fours full of sixes. Hernon, then, turned over his 10♥10♠ for tens full of sixes, outdrawing Chudapal for a better full house on the turn.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joseph Hernon	4,500,000 2,000,000	2,000,000
Siarhei Chudapal	1,410,000 10,000	10,000

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06-16-2025 15:40 UTC-8

Fountoukidis Scores Huge Double Up

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Nick Becker

Level 25 : Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Action picked up on the turn with a sizable pot brewing between Kimon Fountoukidis in the small blind and Chester Mead in middle position.

With about 1,500,000 in the middle, Fountoukidis moved all in for 1,105,000, prompting Mead to go into the tank.

Mead eventually made the call with Q♥Q♦ and saw the bad news when Fountoukidis tabled K♠K♦.

The river landed the J♠ and the pot was pushed Fountoukidis' way.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kimon Fountoukidis	3,710,000 2,785,000	2,785,000
Chester Mead	550,000 1,350,000	1,350,000

Tags: Chester Mead Kimon Fountoukidis

06-16-2025 15:34 UTC-8

Recent Eliminations

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Stewart Morrison

Level 25 : Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Gabriel Fuller	Busted
Giovanni Maccagni	Busted
David Starcher	Busted
Yoni Elbaz	Busted
James James	Busted
Michael Roe	Busted
Jay Carter	Busted
Riley Stahley	Busted
Tommy Robins	Busted
Marc Magazu	Busted
William Hawk	Busted
Ugo Taurines	Busted
Caleb Levesque	Busted
Victor Vladov	Busted
Malachy Hagan	Busted
Calvin Chen	Busted
Gary Murphy	Busted
David Yu	Busted
Brian Lim	Busted
Lucille Hargett	Busted
Armeen Haghighatjou	Busted
Malissia Zapata	Busted
Vineet Pahuja	Busted
Youngjung Kong	Busted
Pierre Horaud	Busted

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06-16-2025 15:30 UTC-8

Easy Come Easy Go

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Erick Torres

Level 25 : Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Masbah Ben Baba from the cutoff and Keith Romer from the small blind clashed in an all-in pot preflop, and cards were on their backs.

Keith Romer: J♦J♠ All in
Masbah Ben Baba: 6♠6♣

Romer's jacks defeated Ben Baba's sixes when the board ran out 7♦2♣K♠8♣9♣.

Romer was hardly done stacking his chips when he found himself involved in an all-in pot this time against Hesham Ayoub. Ayoub jammed for 540,000 from middle position, and Romer called from the button.

Hesham Ayoub: Q♥J♥ All in
Keith Romer: A♣K♣

Romer hit an ace on the 6♦10♦A♠ flop, and looked primed for a knockout when the 8♦ turn flipped over. However, the K♦ river gave Ayoub the straight to defeat Romer.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hesham Ayoub	1,205,000 906,000	906,000
Keith Romer	875,000 115,000	115,000
Masbah Ben Baba	120,000 380,000	380,000

Tags: Hesham Ayoub Keith Romer Masbah Ben Baba

Level: 25

Blinds: 30,000/60,000

Ante: 60,000

06-16-2025 15:26 UTC-8

Yi Scores a Double with Tens

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 24 : Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante

Joseph Couden opened for 1,500,000 from the cutoff putting Ran Yi effectively all-in with a call. All remaining players folded leaving the two to head to showdown.

Ran Yi: 10♥10♠ All in
Joey Couden: 5♣5♥

The flop came Q♣A♦2♣ maintaining Yi's lead with tens. The runout K♣4♦ didn't help Couden at all, securing Yi with a much-needed double up.