Steven Snyder Bags a Massive Stack Heading into Day 2
It's time for Day 2 of Event #48: $1,000 Senior's No-Limit Hold’em Championship at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), hosted at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
Two Day 1 starting flights produced a field of 7,575 senior competitors, each ponying up $1,000 to compete in the biggest Seniors event of the year, generating a whopping $6,666,000 prize pool, all in search of the elusive WSOP gold bracelet and a first-place prize of $653,839.
Steven Snyder leads the field heading into Day 2 with 925,000 chips. He’s fresh off a WSOP Circuit Ring victory this past December. Snyder has over $2 million in reported tournament earnings but is still in search of the elusive gold bracelet. Viacheslav Fentisov sits in seocnd with 715,000 chips. 25k Fantasy pick Mike Leah rounds out the top three with (657,000).
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steven Snyder | United States | 925,000 | 370 |
| 2 | Viacheslav Fentisov | Russian Federation | 715,000 | 286 |
| 3 | Mike Leah | Canada | 657,000 | 263 |
| 4 | Timothy Peters | United States | 575,000 | 230 |
| 5 | Kevin Smith | United States | 524,000 | 210 |
| 6 | Alan Gould | United States | 437,500 | 175 |
| 7 | Andrew Dakoski | United States | 395,000 | 158 |
| 8 | Yoon Kim | United States | 390,000 | 156 |
| 9 | Charles Deatherage | United States | 359,500 | 144 |
| 10 | Keith Tubin | United States | 348,000 | 139 |
Among the top 100 chip stacks are some of the best poker players over the age of 50: Raminder Singh (342,500), Massoud Eskandari (297,000), Xixiang Luo (285,000), Barbara Enright (244,500), Larry Wright (242,500), Patrick Lyons (232,500), and Adeeb Harb (227,000), each looking to amass more chips as they push toward Day 3 and beyond.
Day 2 is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. at Level 12 (blinds 1,000/2,500, ante 2,500) and will play 10 levels with a 60-minute dinner break after Level 17 (around 5:30 p.m.).
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