Dylan Smith opened on the button and in the small blind, Ryan Hughes raised. Smith raised again when action folded back to him and Hughes raised him all in which Smith called.
Dylan Smith: A♠Q♥9♣3♦
Ryan Hughes: A♦10♣8♣2♣
The board ran out 9♥6♦7♥5♥Q♣ and the ten-high straight and nut low was good for Hughes to take down the pot, which eliminated Smith from the tournament.
At another table, Anthony Ribeiro was eliminated from the tournament.
Gus Hansen raised in the hijack and Ingo Klasen raised on the button which saw Hansen call.
The flop rolled out 4♥6♥6♠ and Hansen bet while Klasen raised. Hansen raised in response to which Klasen raised once more. Following this, Hansen capped it and Klasen called.
On the turn 9♠, Hansen bet enough to put Klasen all in and he called.
Ingo Klasen: A♦K♦6♦2♠
Gus Hansen: A♥10♣6♣3♥
Hansen filled up on the river 10♦ to eliminate Klasen from the tournament and he hopped back over one million chips.
Former chip millionaire Jon Kyte was down to one and a half big bets, and he raised under the gun. Alexander Orlov then made it three bets in the hijack, and Ryan Hughes called in the cutoff.
Kyte called all-in, and the 2♣7♦Q♠ flop was dealt. Orlov checked, Hughes bet, and Orlov called. The pair then checked through the 3♣ turn before Orlov check-called another bet on the 5♠ river.
For the side pot, Hughes showed 10♠4♠3♥2♥ for two pair, and Orlov took the low with A♥K♥K♦2♠. Kyte trumped them both for the main pot, however, as his AxQx4x3x made a wheel and scooped the pot.
Jason Daly raised in the cutoff, and called when Brian Rast three-bet on the button. Daly then check-raised Rast's bet on the 10♦6♥6♣ flop and continued firing on the 5♣ turn.
Rast called to the 6♦ river, where Daly quickly put in a third barrel. Rast took about a minute before he settled on a fold and forfeited the pot.
The beginning of the day saw a total of 229 contenders enter the day with hopes to take home the gold in Event #47: $2,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo / Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo here at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas. Only the final 87 of those initial hopefuls would take some share of the $1,279,375 prize pool. As the dust settled and ten levels were completed, just 27 hopefuls secured their chance at a bracelet at the 2025 World Series of Poker.
Only one player ended up with more than two million and that was German player Tobias Hausen. Ending the day with 2,005,000, Hausen is a relative newcomer to the WSOP as compared to the rest of the field with cashes dating back to 2020. From five tables on down, he was the chip lead and never relinquished his grasp of the tournament lead. This year he has already secured four other cashes during the series, with three coming in mixed game variants. With his massive stack here today, he has already guaranteed himself his highest ever finish in a live WSOP tournament event as he hunts for his first bracelet.
Beginning the day with just over one big bet, Shirley Rosario’s (1,745,000) day saw many ups and downs, but she ended up bagging the second-biggest stack in the room. With over 20 years of experience in mixed game tournaments, Rosario has become a staple of tournaments on the west side of the country, with her best-ever finish in a WSOP event being a fourth place finish from the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo in 2014 for $146,552. Securing her third cash of the series so far (with her most recent cash also being in an event where she started the day with one big bet), Rosario looks to deepen her WSOP legacy with a run at her first WSOP bracelet.
Benny Glaser looks for his third bracelet of the summer
There are only seven players in the long history of the WSOP who have won three bracelets in a single series. It was most recently done by Scott Seiver last year, and now Benny Glaser (1,115,000) sits with a chance to become the eighth. The English-born professional poker player’s accolades are known far and wide as he sits as in the top ten looking for a new piece of jewelry to go with his collection. Only thirteen players have ever won seven or more bracelets and a win here would add him to the list.
One of the players who has accomplished that feat is none other than 17-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth (660,000). Starting the day with a shorter stack, but quickly ascending through the counts, Hellmuth’s speeches and antics were on full display today while he continued to acquire pots. The “Poker Brat” continues to show his determination and drive for bracelets in this event and looks to break his own record.
17-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth looks for his next WSOP victory
Bracelet winners Jason Daly (1,660,000), Ryan Hughes (940,000), Brian Rast (760,000), Gary Benson (730,000), Shaun Deeb (725,000), Gus Hansen (635,000), and Jim Collopy (280,000) all found ways to bag at the end of the day, in the hunt for another piece of WSOP gold.
Play will resume at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, June 17, with Level 23 beginning with antes and a bring in at 10,000, 20,000/40,000 blinds, and limits at 40,000/80,000. Levels will last an hour each and play will continue until a winner is crowned.
End of Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Bets
1
Tobias Hausen
Germany
2,005,000
25
2
Shirley Rosario
United States
1,745,000
21
3
Jason Daly
United States
1,660,000
20
4
Christopher Claassen
United States
1,420,000
17
5
William Flachsbart
United States
1,240,000
15
6
Benny Glaser
United Kingdom
1,115,000
13
7
Ryan Hughes
United States
940,000
11
8
Robert Price
United Kingdom
930,000
11
9
Brian Rast
United States
760,000
9
10
Gary Benson
Australia
730,000
9
Day 2 Action
Nearly half the day went by before the bubble was reached. Many of the game's greats came in with ambitions of becoming the next O.E. champion at the WSOP, only to have their dreams shattered prior to receiving a cent. Start of day chip leader Jay Kerbel couldn’t find his way to the money and joined the likes of Ari Engel, Ben Ludlow, Daniel Strelitz, Gina Hecht, Maxx Coleman, and John Racener as those unable to secure a payout.
A lot of bracelet winners began to rise up the leaderboard prior to the money bubble. James Obst, Jim Collopy, Benny Glaser, and Shaun Deeb all began a massive accumulation of chips in the early levels of the day.
Nearing the end of the fifth level of the day, it was a double-elimination that brought the field into the money as Kevin Choi scooped and eliminated both Jose Paz-Gutierrez and Dale Phillips in a Stud Hi-Lo pot holding aces and eights, some good news for the 87 remaining players in the field.
After that, the eliminations were fast and furious. Christopher Vitch (87th-$5,008) managed to inch into the money with just a couple of chips, but then was the first out the door. Following him was tournament mainstays like midwestern legend DJ Buckley (80th-$5,008), 1996 WSOP main Event Champion Huck Seed (78th-$5,008), and yesterday’s $1,500 Razz winner Allan Le (77th-$5,008).
Espen Sandvik became one of the last casualties of the night
When the players returned from dinner, a host of new casualties fell as legends of the game like James Obst (52nd-$5,259), Felipe Ramos (46th-$5,854), Carol Fuchs (38th-$6,669), Dylan Smith (32nd-$6,669), and Espen Sandvik (28th-$7,771). Each one will likely be firing multiple other tournaments during the 2025 WSOP.
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