Event #52: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-17-2025 13:44 UTC-8

More Early Birds Join the Fray

Claudio Elizalde

Level 2 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Scott Stewart	25,000 25,000	25,000
Kenny Hallaert	25,000 25,000	25,000

Martin Carnero	25,000 25,000	25,000
Jeremy Becker	25,000 25,000	25,000
Paul Snead	25,000 25,000	25,000
Nicholas Seward	25,000 25,000	25,000

Ryan Jones (NC)	25,000 25,000	25,000

06-17-2025 15:21 UTC-8

Some Recent Additions to the Field

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Laura Fryer

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Renan Bruschi	25,000 25,000	25,000

Lei Yu	25,000 25,000	25,000

Lexy Gavin-Mather	25,000 25,000	25,000

Didier Guerin	25,000 25,000	25,000

Jason Somerville	25,000 25,000	25,000

Brian Hastings	25,000 25,000	25,000

Jaspal Brar	25,000 25,000	25,000

Kenneth O'donnell	25,000 25,000	25,000

Jonathan Tamayo	25,000 25,000	25,000

06-17-2025 17:05 UTC-8

Eliminations in the Field; Late Registration Still Open

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 6 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Arron Pointon	Busted
Alexander Carr	Busted
Monika Zukowicz	Busted
Johan Schultz	Busted
Shawn Daniels	Busted

Aliaksandr Shylko	Busted
Wesley Huff	Busted
Brad Kibel	Busted
Spencer Champlin	Busted
Anthony Denove	Busted

David Wintersberger	Busted
Adam Sherman	Busted
George Kavorkian	Busted
Gabriel Schroeder	Busted

Pedro Madeira	Busted
Nikolai Mamut	Busted
Jason Young	Busted

Jared Koppel	Busted
Daniel Jones	Busted
Brandon Zuidema	Busted
Leandro Bianchini	Busted
Tomislav Glamuzina	Busted
Dingxiang Ong	Busted
Stephen Ma	Busted
David Ballestero	Busted

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06-17-2025 18:21 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Punnat Punsri	Busted

Derek Dufour	Busted
Tyler Warken	Busted
Scott Margereson	Busted
Guang Chen	Busted
Steven Williamson	Busted
Gordon Wong	Busted
John Quarnstrom	Busted
Li Chengbei	Busted
Varun Gaur	Busted
Atanas Pavlov	Busted
Benjamin Valder	Busted
Chih Fan	Busted
Matthew Sundberg	Busted
James Jeffrey	Busted
Christophe Pollet	Busted
Karim Abdelhamid	Busted
Mathias Bayer	Busted
Skye Hashimoto	Busted
Joshua Clarke	Busted
Travis Federick	Busted
Jared Jaffee	Busted

Richard Ali	Busted
Steven Burkholder	Busted
Robert Ashelm	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Kyna England	Busted
Jack Strange	Busted
Daniel Buzgon	Busted
Joshua Mcswiney	Busted
George Heide	Busted
Jason Burch	Busted
Cuong Tran	Busted

Xu Yuan	Busted
Lou Penella	Busted
Alexander Massman	Busted
Diego Santos	Busted
Jean Autran	Busted
Samuel Mullur	Busted
Maryia Lozhkina	Busted
Nicholas Nowak	Busted
Miki Kobayashi	Busted
Bin Weng	Busted
Qing Liu	Busted
Brandon Rieken	Busted
Mehdy El Fki	Busted
Jalil Mekouane	Busted
Jonathan Little	Busted

Kristopher Jones	Busted
Bruno Politano	Busted
Daniel Labrunda	Busted

Some Late Entries into the Field

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Laura Fryer

Level 9 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Leo Lombardozzi	25,000 25,000	25,000
Craig Mason	25,000 25,000	25,000
Remy Murcia	25,000 25,000	25,000
Jai Vallurupalli	25,000 25,000	25,000
Mario Fata	25,000 25,000	25,000
Russell Boyker	25,000 25,000	25,000
Grant Wang	25,000 25,000	25,000
Christopher Csik	25,000 25,000	25,000
John Littleton	25,000 25,000	25,000
Jeremy Felicetti	25,000 25,000	25,000
Yosef Negussie	25,000 25,000	25,000
Itay Kimhi	25,000 25,000	25,000
Eric Froehlich	25,000 25,000	25,000

Carlos Guerrero	25,000 25,000	25,000
Lok Chan	25,000 25,000	25,000

Arin Youssefian	25,000 25,000	25,000
Connor Belcher	25,000 25,000	25,000
William Kopp	25,000 25,000	25,000

Ethan Furstoss	25,000 25,000	25,000
Davide Suriano	25,000 25,000	25,000

Danny Wong	25,000 25,000	25,000

Andrew Oh	25,000 25,000	25,000
Dennis Krusch	25,000 25,000	25,000
Jeffrey Anderl	25,000 25,000	25,000
Baoqiang Ho	25,000 25,000	25,000

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06-17-2025 19:55 UTC-8

Some Last Minute Notable Entries into the Field

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Laura Fryer

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Konstantin Held	25,000 25,000	25,000

Shannon Shorr	25,000 25,000	25,000

Giuseppe Pantaleo	25,000 25,000	25,000

Samuel Stranak	25,000 25,000	25,000

Chris Moorman	25,000 25,000	25,000

John Monnette	25,000 25,000	25,000

Max Neugebauer	25,000 25,000	25,000

Asher Conniff	25,000 25,000	25,000

Pedro Rodriguez	25,000 25,000	25,000

Mark Darner	25,000 25,000	25,000

Joe Cada	25,000 25,000	25,000

Maxim Lykov	25,000 25,000	25,000

Adam Hendrix	25,000 25,000	25,000
David Baker	25,000 25,000	25,000

Adam Owen	25,000 25,000	25,000
Yueqi Zhu	25,000 25,000	25,000

Jerry Wong	25,000 25,000	25,000

Arthur Morris	25,000 25,000	25,000
Uri Reichenstein	25,000 25,000	25,000
Michael Moncek	25,000 25,000	25,000

06-17-2025 20:37 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Dmitriy Uskach	Busted
Luis De Faria	Busted
Jason James	Busted

Dean Blatt	Busted
Noel Rodriguez	Busted

Todd Lewis	Busted
Alexander Kartveli	Busted
Michael Marder	Busted
Amir Mirrasouli	Busted
Matthew Cote	Busted
Massimo Dirienzo	Busted
Kevin Naegelen	Busted
Scott Herz	Busted
Khoi Nguyen	Busted
Troy Acton	Busted
Stavros Petychakis	Busted
Sinead Davenport	Busted
Gerardo Iniguez	Busted
Paul Johnson	Busted
Fan Zhang	Busted
Maxim Lykov	Busted

Alban Juen	Busted
Peter Ventrella	Busted
Michael Lo	Busted
Fernando Garay	Busted

Foxen Sneaky With the 4-5

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 11 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Kristen Foxen opened to 4,000 and Anthony Merlo called on the button.

Heads up they saw the A♥J♦4♠ and both players checked.

The turn peeled the 7♠ and both players checked again.

They chose the passive choice again when the 6♠ rolled off.

Foxen tabled the 4♦5♦ and Merlo said, "You win!"

"Do I?" she said as she raked the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kristen Foxen	65,000 65,000	65,000

Anthony Merlo	64,000 64,000	64,000

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06-17-2025 21:17 UTC-8

Goldberg Gets Glaser

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Laura Fryer

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Fred Goldberg was all in and at risk from the big blind, with 12,000 in the middle. Benny Glaser covered him from middle position.

Fred Goldberg: A♥2♣ All in
Benny Glaser: A♠K♣

Glaser was ahead on the 6♣Q♦6♦ flop, but Goldberg hit a 2♠ on the turn.

A pair of deuces was enough to take the pot and double up Goldberg as the J♠ river didn't change anything.

The pair shared some talk after the hand, with Glaser asking Goldberg, "You only looked at one?".
Goldberg responded "It was the ace of hearts my friend, you want me to look at everything?....I had 12,000."

Glaser was left short after the hand and was seen leaving the tournament area soon after.

Although Glaser was out of this bracelet event, he already shipped two events this summer, the $1,500 Mixed Games: Dealers Choice 6-Handed (Bracelet Event #8) and the $ 1,500 Mixed Omaha 8 or Better 7-Handed (Bracelet Event #15) for a combined win of $408,439.