Event #49: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-16-2025 15:40 UTC-8

Top Ten Chip Counts According to the WSOP+ App

Roxanne Johnson

Level 9 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Strelitz	405,000 405,000	405,000

Daniel Barriocanal	291,000 291,000	291,000
Toby Boas	278,000 278,000	278,000
Tristan Wade	249,500 249,500	249,500

Eric Blair	242,000 242,000	242,000
Fabian Niederreiter	225,000 225,000	225,000
Paulius Vaitiekunas	220,000 220,000	220,000

Ehsan Amiri	218,500 218,500	218,500
Ozair Hasan	210,000 54,000	54,000
Ren Lin	206,500 100,400	100,400

06-16-2025 15:37 UTC-8

Some Chip Updates

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 9 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ran Koller	145,000 105,000	105,000

Xiaohu Liu	141,000 93,000	93,000
Oleg Vasylchenko	121,500 74,500	74,500
Noel Rodriguez	109,000

Upeshka Desilva	65,000 32,000	32,000

Baurzhan Akimov	60,500
Benjamin Underwood	52,000
Chris Hunichen	51,600

Nicholas Verderamo	38,900
Spencer Champlin	36,100
Brian Green	36,000

Shai Zurr	27,000 9,200	9,200

Maria Konnikova	22,500 17,500	17,500

Level: 9

Blinds: 1,000/1,500

Ante: 1,500

06-16-2025 15:15 UTC-8

Break Time

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Barry Russell

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Players are on a 20-minute break.

06-16-2025 15:14 UTC-8

Blind Versus Blind

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Action was picked up on a board of 7♣J♦3♦Q♣8♥, and Joshua Adkins was in the small blind and moved in for his last 400 chips, and Tsz Shing called from the big blind. The pot was about 28,000.

Joshua Adkins: K♣Q♠ All in
Tsz Shing: A♦10♦

Shing joked, "That is too bad", as Adkins raked in the pot with his pair of queens.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tsz Shing	67,000
Joshua Adkins	32,000

Tags: Joshua Adkins Tsz Shing

06-16-2025 15:13 UTC-8

Ace From Space

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Jacob Wilson

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

John McDonald, under the gun, and hijack Naor Slobodskoy got all of their chips into the middle preflop, and Slobodsky was drawing slim.

Naor Slobodskoy: A♦J♥ All in
John McDonald: J♣J♠

Slobodskoy badly needed an ace, and found one in the window as the dealer put out the 2♠3♥A♣ flop. McDonald knew he only had one out, and had his cards in his hands ready to muck as the board completed with 8♣8♠

Player	Chips	Progress
John Mcdonald NV	40,200 40,200	40,200
Naor Slobodskoy	29,600 5,400	5,400

Tags: John Mcdonald Naor Slobodskoy

06-16-2025 15:13 UTC-8

Katz Ousts Shrader

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John Avelino

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Cary Katz started off the action with a bet of 2,600 from under the gun and Michael Shrader raised to 6,500 from the button. Katz made the call.

An action flop developed in the form of 3♠9♠10♠ which Katz checked. Shrader moved all in for 11,200 which Katz snap-called.

Michael Shrader: A♦J♠ All in
Cary Katz: 7♠8♠

Katz flopped an open-ended straight flush draw with the higher part in his opponent's hand, leaving Shrader looking for any spade that wasn't the 6♠. The turn brought a 3♦ which was no help to Shrader.

An early exit came for Schrader as the 9♣ completed the board and was in good spirits leaving the tournament area.

Player	Chips	Progress
Cary Katz	65,400 65,400	65,400

Michael Shrader	Busted

Tags: Cary Katz Michael Shrader

06-16-2025 15:08 UTC-8

Set for Brinkenhoff

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Barry Russell

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

There were roughly 8,000 chips in the middle on a flop of Q♦7♠4♦, Tomoya Kakihara bet 3,200 from the button, Michael Brinkenhoff called in the small blind.

Action went check-check when the J♥ hit the turn, and Brinkenhoff decided to lead for 10,000 on the 3♥ river. Kakihara called but got shown 4♠4♣, and Brinkenhoff scooped the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hannes Jeschka	152,000
Aleksejs Ponakovs	113,000

Michael Brinkenhoff	56,600

Honcheong Lee	49,000
Tomoya Kakihara	39,000
Malcolm Franchi	9,000

Tags: Michael Brinkenhoff Tomoya Kakihara

06-16-2025 15:07 UTC-8

Chip Updates

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Brown	106,000
Augusto Hagen	51,000
Adekunle Olonoh	45,400
Felix Weis	44,600
John Ypma	27,000
Guy Pariente	27,000
Shundan Xiao	18,800

06-16-2025 15:03 UTC-8

Lin's Two Pair Good

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Jacob Wilson

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Action was picked up on the river, as the board read out J♥10♣3♦5♠Q♦. Despite there being only 11,800 chips in the pot, both Glenn Fishbein and Ren Lin found themselves all in for huge amounts, with similar stack sizes.

Fishbein had K♥10♥ tabled, but Lin's turned two pair with J♠5♥ was the winning hand. As stacks were counted out, it was revealed that Lin just about had Fishbein's 45,000 covered, and he eliminated his opponent.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ren Lin	106,100 48,100	48,100

Glenn Fishbein	Busted

Tags: Glenn Fishbein Ren Lin