Action was folded around to Mitchell Lehman on the button, who raised to 900,000, only for Adeeb Harb in the small blind to move all in for 8,500,000. Dennis Carlson in the big blind announced call, but then Lehman announced all-in over the top. In the meantime, Harb exposed his cards, thinking that the action had been closed. Carlson called Lehman's all-in, so this made no difference to the action.
Adeeb Harb: A♥J♠
Mitchell Lehman: K♥K♦
Dennis Carlson: 9♠9♣
The 9♦ was the door card on the 9♦2♠A♦ flop, and Carlson pumped his fist. Lehman saw no king on the 7♥ turn and 4♠ river, meaning Carlson scooped the massive pot and eliminated Harb and Lehman in 14th and 13th places, respectively.
Douglas Pappan raised to 1,200,000 from the small blind, and Brett Lim called in the big blind.
Action checked through on a 9♥2♣7♠ flop.
The turn brought the 3♦, and Pappan bet 1,500,000. Lim called.
The river was the 4♥. Pappan bet 3,000,000, only to be met with an all-in from Lim for roughly 9,000,000 effective, putting Pappan at risk. He quickly made the call and tabled K♣9♦, but was shown the bad news as Lim turned over 2♥2♦ for a set of twos and the winning hand.
Jose Boloqui opened to 900,000 from under the gun. William Gibbons in the big blind three-bet all in for approximately 5,750,000, and Boloqui quickly called.
William Gibbons: 10♣10♥
Jose Boloqui: A♠Q♠
Gibbons flopped a set on 9♥10♦J♥, but this flop also opened a straight draw for Boloqui. The 5♣ came on the turn, followed by the K♠ river, which completed Boloqui's straight and ended Gibbon's tournament in 10th place for $52,918.
Immediately after Gibbons was eliminated, Peter Fellows in middle position shoved for roughly 5,000,000. Jason Reels in the hijack quickly raised all in with a bigger stack and all the other players folded.
Peter Fellows: K♥Q♠
Jason Reels: A♠A♦
Fellows ran into aces and didn't find any help on 9♦4♠8♠9♣10♠.
Ron Fetsch opened to 1,200,000 from the cutoff, then Elan Lepovic in the small blind three-bet all in for 5,025,000. Fetsch counted his stack and eventually pushed some of his chips forward to call.
Ron Fetsch: A♠J♣
Elan Lepovic: A♥K♠
Lepovic kept the lead all the way through a board of 2♦2♠Q♥7♦10♥ and won the pot. Fetsch thought he had the larger stack, but he was slightly covered and was eliminated.
Day 4 of Event #48: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship at the 2025 World Series of Poker has ended here at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas.
The day began with 19 players returning out of a field of 7,575 entries and playing down to seven players. After a short day's play, Dennis Carlson (49,250,000) and Brett Lim (44,825,000) are way out in front of the chasing pack and hold more than double the chips of Jose Boloqui (18,425,000), who currently sits in third place on the leaderboard.
Jason Reels (18,400,000), Elan Lepovic (10,925,000), and Lawrence Rabie (7,900,000) are also still in contention for the $653,839 first-place prize and the WSOP bracelet. They are followed by Manish Madan, who will return with just four big blinds (1,850,000).
Final Seven Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Dennis Carlson
United States
49,250,000
99
2
Brett Lim
United States
44,825,000
90
3
Jose Boloqui
United States
18,425,000
37
4
Jason Reels
United States
18,400,000
37
5
Elan Lepovic
United States
10,925,000
22
6
Lawrence Rabie
Canada
7,900,000
16
7
Manish Madan
United States
1,850,000
4
Day 4 Action
The action started off quickly with several returning players starting the day in the ten-or-fewer-big-blinds danger zone. Alan Gould fell first in 19th place when his ace-ten fell to Mitchell Lehman’s eight-seven when Lehman spiked an eight on the river to send Gould to the rail.
Boloqui started the day off strong, building his stack from 15,450,000 to over 20,000,000 with some aggressive moves and by eliminating Raminder Singh in 17th place in a massive cooler of a hand when Singh’s kings ran into Boloqui’s aces.
The chip lead then chopped and changed for a while, with various players holding it at some point during the day, but in another massive cooler, Carlson jumped ahead of the pack when his pocket queens flopped a set against Lehman’s pocket nines, which had also flopped a set. This hand propelled Carlson’s stack to just under 30,000,000, which was way ahead at the time.
After his pocket nines nightmare against Carlson, Lehman obtained some handy double-ups, but was eventually busted in 13th place when Carlson flopped a set of nines to crack Lehman’s pocket kings and eliminated both Lehman and Adeeb Harb (14th - $33,579) in the same hand. This massive pot sent Carlson way out into the lead with just under 50,000,000.
Manish Madan
A special mention must go to Madan, who, after leaving himself with under three big blinds when he folded preflop after Jason Reels accidentally exposed his pocket kings, stayed strong and managed to triple up, then double up and build his stack back up to over 4,000,000. He hung on to make the redraw at ten players, and advance to the final day.
After Douglas Pappan's elimination in 12th place, Ron Fetsch got himself into the mix and up to over 15,000,000 with an aggressive move against Peter Fellows, and he pushed on to nearly 20,000,000 when he took out Patrick Blackwell in 11th place.
Those magical pocket nines came into play again, and Fetsch flopped a set to crack Blackwell’s pocket tens and send him to the rail, and the remaining ten players to the unofficial final table.
Ron Fetsch
The unofficial final table didn’t take too long to become official when Boloqui took out William Gibbons when his ace-queen rivered a straight to crack Gibbons’ set of tens and send him packing in 10th place. In the very next hand, Reels came back on the scene, picking up pocket aces to eliminate Peter Fellows in ninth place.
Fetsch was unfortunate to lose a big chunk of his stack to Reels, who rivered a straight to beat Fetsch’s pocket nines, and Fetsch was eventually eliminated in eighth place just before play stopped for the day when his ace-jack failed to improve against Lepovic’s ace-king.
Remaining Payouts
Place
Player
Country
Prize
1
-
-
$653,839
2
-
-
$435,572
3
-
-
$326,508
4
-
-
$246,464
5
-
-
$187,351
6
-
-
$143,425
7
-
-
$110,581
8
Ron Fetsch
United States
$85,872
9
Peter Fellows
United States
$67,166
The tournament will resume for Day 5 at 2:00 p.m. local time on June 21 and will play down to a winner. A live stream for the final table will start at 3:00 p.m. Play will continue with 45 minutes remaining in Level 35, featuring blinds of 250,000/500,000 with a 500,000 big blind ante. Players will get a 15-minute break after every two levels, and there will be a dinner break to be decided.
As always, stay tuned to PokerNews to get all the latest updates as they happen here at the 2025 World Series of Poker.
