Welcome to Day 2 of Event #5: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP).
Play begins at noon local time at Paris and Horseshoe, Las Vegas. There are 123 players remaining from 757 entries, each vying for the $620,696 first-place prize.
Action should be tense from the start with the money bubble still to come, as only the top 114 finishers will be earning a payday.
New Zealander Matthew Beck, hoping to win his first WSOP bracelet, is the chip leader heading into the second day of play with 1,320,000 chips.
Michael Duek, who made the final in the WSOP Main Event and a $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha in 2022, is not far behind with 1,026,000 chips.
Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew Beck | New Zealand | 1,320,000 | 165 |
| 2 | Michael Duek | United States | 1,026,000 | 128 |
| 3 | Konstantinos Bouloutsos | Greece | 900,000 | 113 |
| 4 | Andreas Zampas | Greece | 822,000 | 103 |
| 5 | Jason Lademan | United States | 816,000 | 102 |
| 6 | Wagner Wysotchanski | Brazil | 808,000 | 101 |
| 7 | Ap Garza | United States | 770,000 | 96 |
| 8 | Kevin Hyde | United States | 720,000 | 90 |
| 9 | Christopher Demaci | United States | 689,000 | 86 |
| 10 | Michael Wang | United States | 686,000 | 86 |
There are a host of familiar names and previous WSOP bracelet winners — 87 such wins in total — scattered throughout the field.
Among them are 2013 Main Event winner Ryan Riess, and six-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman. Notables such as Shaun Deeb and Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, as well as legends Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu, are still alive in the star-studded field.
Day 2, playing in Horseshoe Silver, will feature 60-minute levels (as opposed to 40 minutes on Day 1), and the competition will run ten levels, leading into Saturday’s finish.
Stay tuned to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2025 World Series of Poker, for live updates from this and all bracelet events at the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas.
