Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker Day 2 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-22-2025 23:00 UTC-8

Those That Didn't Bag; Last Eliminations of the Night

Claudio Elizalde

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Sergi Reixach	Busted
Caio Sobral	Busted
Yi Wei Peng	Busted
Baptiste Carteau	Busted
Jonathan Nebbout	Busted
Mario Lopez (IT)	Busted
Benjamin Martinez	Busted
Christian Echeverry	Busted
Andrew Ward	Busted
Michael Vanier	Busted
Marcio Zacconi	Busted
James Buckley	Busted
Nicholas Chow	Busted

06-22-2025 22:54 UTC-8

Ward Sent to the Rail

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Laura Fryer

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Chad Lousberg opened to 40,000 from the cutoff and Andrew Ward three-bet to 160,000. Jinho Hong moved all in and covered both players. Lousberg folded and Ward called.

Andrew Ward: A♠K♦ All in
Jinho Hong: Q♦Q♥

Ward missed on the 10♠7♥4♥5♦3♥ runout, and he was eliminated in one of the last hands of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jinho Hong	750,000 599,000	599,000

Andrew Ward	Busted

Tags: Andrew Ward Chad Lousberg Jinho Hong

06-22-2025 22:23 UTC-8

End of the Road for Gardes

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Laura Fryer

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Laurence Stein opened to 40,000 from middle position and David Froyalde called from the cutoff. Josselin Gardes three-bet to 150,000 and Stien four-bet jammed. Froyadale folded and Gardes called, putting his remaining 150,000 stack at risk.

Laurence Stein: 10♠10♥ All in
Josselin Gardes: A♦Q♦

The 5♠A♥J♣ flop saw Gardes move into the lead. Stien didn't recover on the 4♣ turn or 8♥ river, and he was eliminated from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Laurence Stein	825,000 758,000	758,000
David Froyalde	500,000 115,000	115,000
Josselin Gardes	Busted

06-22-2025 22:19 UTC-8

Another Round of Eliminations

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Cory Rock	Busted
Kyosuke Nagami	Busted
Shunsuke Ishikawa	Busted
Khoi Nguyen Le Nguyen	Busted
Josselin Gardes	Busted
Brock Wilson	Busted
Pablo Roman	Busted
Damarjai Davenport	Busted
Stanley Lee	Busted
Vijayarengan Visvalingam	Busted
George Medina	Busted
Ryan Kutasi	Busted
Djordje Stojic	Busted
Leandro Rubinsztain	Busted
Jason Hoffman	Busted
Yu Li	Busted
Warren Obrien	Busted
Iason Filippidis	Busted
Gavin Sardini	Busted
John Giacobbe	Busted
Alonzo Lau	Busted
Kenneth Quattrocchi	Busted
Michael Walsh	Busted
John Tech	Busted
Oleksii Mezhenkov	Busted

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06-22-2025 21:59 UTC-8

Aces No Good for Pichierri

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Laura Fryer

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

David Froyalde opened the button to 30,000 and Jessica Cai defended the big blind.

The players saw a 9♥6♥9♠ flop and Cai checked. Froyalde bet 25,000 which was enough to get Cai to fold, having only 150,000 chips behind.

A few hands later on the same table Alessandro Pichierri opened to 30,000 from an early position and Antonio Vargas, who was sat to Pichierri's direct left, raised to 70,000. Pichierri was all in and Vergas made the call.

Alessandro Pichierri: A♣A♦ All in
Antonio Vargas: A♥10♣

Pichierri was hoping to hold, but the 10♦4♥10♥ flop gave Vargas the lead. Pichierri couldn't find a way back on the 5♣ turn and 8♥ river and was eliminated from the tournament despite spinning his stack back from 35,000 in the previous level. ,

Player	Chips	Progress
Antonio Vargas	910,000 290,000	290,000
David Froyalde	615,000 408,500	408,500
Jessica Cai	150,000 50,000	50,000
Alessandro Pichierri	Busted

06-22-2025 21:48 UTC-8

Kalisek Finds a King to Take Out Zhang

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Laura Fryer

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

Sihao Zhang was already all in on the button for his remaining 150,000. Clayton Kalisek was the only other player in the hand and covered him from a late position.

Sihao Zhang: Q♦Q♥ All in
Clayton Kalisek: A♥K♦

Zhang was ahead until the K♣2♠J♥ flop, which saw Kalisek pair up. The 6♥ turn and 2♥ river sealed Zhangs fate, and he was eliminated just before the last level of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Clayton Kalisek	1,525,000 475,000	475,000
Sihao Zhang	Busted

Tags: Clayton Kalisek Sihao Zhang

06-22-2025 21:46 UTC-8

More Eliminations

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
John Gorsuch	Busted

Adam Levy	Busted

Dennis Saneski	Busted

Ayaz Mahmood	Busted

Richard Pipe	Busted
Thijs Hilberts	Busted
Ryutaro Sugita	Busted
Brandon Cannady	Busted
Marcus Knox	Busted
Jonathan Schwartz	Busted
Ryan Hollaender	Busted
Danserban Borlan	Busted
Martin Sgrilletti	Busted
Kosuke Miyoshi	Busted
Michael Duncan	Busted
Giovanni Zanette	Busted
Bryan Sumner	Busted
Ludovic Geilich	Busted

Jeremy Wien	Busted

Hartt Stearns	Busted
Ran Kadur	Busted
Carlos Martinez	Busted
Konstantinos Patsourakis	Busted

06-22-2025 21:20 UTC-8

Eliminations After Break

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ty Ho	Busted
Richard Mullen	Busted
Ross Krause	Busted
Liao Yinghsiang	Busted
Ian Steinman	Busted

Andrew Wilson	Busted
Elvyn Bello	Busted
Jeremy Wing	Busted
Daniel Bland	Busted
James Sparacio	Busted
Gareth Devereux	Busted
Jonathan Phelps	Busted
Andrew Tran	Busted
Marino Mura	Busted
Raman Afanasenka	Busted
Daniel Buzgon	Busted
Meir Kakoun	Busted
Waichiro Oka	Busted
Shant Marashlian	Busted
Asi Moshe	Busted

Yingge Yan	Busted
Terence Reid	Busted
Clifford Deardorff	Busted
Ionnis Oikonomidis	Busted
Jordyn Miller	Busted

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06-22-2025 21:11 UTC-8

Tang Gets Harder

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

With a chance to eliminate, Nathan Tang called Christian William Steven Harder's all-in shove for 130,000 from the big blind. Both players tabled their hands.

Christian William Steven Harder: 8♥8♦ All in
Nathan Tang: 9♠9♥

It was looking grim for Harder when there were no additional outs for him to improve his hand on the flop of 3♦7♦3♥. Nothing changed on the runout J♣6♦. Harder left the table as Tang scooped the pot.