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

06-22-2025 14:54 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Jai Vallurupalli	Busted
Hajime Watanabe	Busted
Levent Aksoy	Busted
Blas Torres	Busted
Nelson Dong	Busted
Markjoshua Wagner	Busted
David Garcia	Busted

Andrew Chud	Busted
Felipe Manzure	Busted
Xingwei Chen	Busted
Robert Douras	Busted
Cameron Collins	Busted
Gary Thompson	Busted
Jason Kim	Busted
Dennis Frankenberger	Busted
Roman Ginzburg	Busted
William Jennings	Busted
Jonathan Guez	Busted
Sebastian Gaehl	Busted
Travis Endersby	Busted
Lukas Zaskodny	Busted

Oleg Shnaider	Busted
Peter Segal	Busted
Daniel Trianaruiz	Busted
Pablo Mariz	Busted

Li's Queens Hold

Gabrielle Barredo

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Luigi Martins Soncin opened for 10,000 in late position and got a caller in Fei Li in hijack. Cutoff player Cole Jackson asked how much Soncin had behind, then went all-in. Soncin folded, but Li made the call.

Cole Jackson: A♣K♠ All in
Fei Li: Q♣Q♦

Li's queens held on the flop 10♦7♥4♣. Jackson needed one of his over cards to hit the board, but that didn't happen on the runout 7♠10♠, eliminating him from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fei Li	215,000 110,000	110,000
Luigi Martins Soncin	150,000 114,000	114,000
Cole Jackson	Busted

Tags: Cole Jackson Fei Li Luigi Martins Soncin

06-22-2025 14:40 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Qui Nguyen	Busted

Nicolas Tytgat	Busted
John Farley	Busted
Nadine Savage	Busted
Hoanggiao Tran	Busted
Anthony Russo	Busted
Jaison De Souza	Busted
Alan Merdita	Busted
Joao Simao	Busted

Michael Bruno	Busted
Dimitrios Gkatzas	Busted
Kyle Miholich	Busted

Abhinav Iyer	Busted

Jeffrey Frantz	Busted
Jaime Haletky	Busted
Andre Dejesus	Busted
Matthew Zola	Busted
Patrick Truong	Busted
Alexander Farahi	Busted
Mark Deacon	Busted
Maria Lampropulos	Busted
James Walker	Busted
David White	Busted
Rainer Kempe	Busted

Mark Aylward-Nally	Busted

Many Eliminations Pre and Post Bubble

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Petre Ionescu	Busted
Joseph Marchal	Busted
Jason Mayfield	Busted
Michael Bateman	Busted
Bassil Boulus	Busted
Michael Amato	Busted
Edwin Lomans	Busted
Daniel Sepiol	Busted

Jacky Wong	Busted
Jose Andrade	Busted
Stephen Evans	Busted
Chun Keat Liu	Busted
Yuchen Chen	Busted
Nicholas Peterson	Busted
Joshua Hobbs	Busted
Harleigh Thorpe	Busted
Patrick Beuter	Busted
Julien Duveau	Busted
Gang Zhao	Busted
Emmanouil Chalkiotis	Busted
Lona Ozrek	Busted
Alexis Lopez	Busted
Basel Chaura	Busted
Adam Maislen	Busted
Fabien Guerreiro	Busted

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06-22-2025 14:25 UTC-8

Lampropulos Busts; Owen More than Doubles Up

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

The board A♥A♦2♣3♣10♦ was already dealt, with Maria Lampropulos being all in and holding JxJx against Adam Owen who was also at risk with A♠K♠. The third player involved, Collin Ball, had Q♣Q♦ and was covering both.

Owen had the best hand with trips aces and took down the pot while Lampropulos made her way to the payout desk.

Player	Chips	Progress
Collin Ball	590,000 496,000	496,000

Adam Owen	145,000 22,500	22,500
Maria Lampropulos	Busted

Tags: Adam Owen Collin Ball Maria Lampropulos

06-22-2025 14:15 UTC-8

Fidanza Runs into Double Pocket Aces

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Laura Fryer

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Players were already all in three-ways preflop. Steven Nichols was at risk from the small blind as was covered by both Bahar Musa from under the gun and Steven Nichols, the largest stack in play on the button.

Fabio Fidanza: 8♣9♣ All in
Bahar Musa: A♦A♠
Steven Nichols: A♥A♣

Fidanza found a pair of nines on the 4♦9♦4♣ flop, but it wasn't good enough to crack both Aces, and he bricked on the 2♥, 3♣ runout. Fidanza made it through the bubble and took home a minimum cash.

Nichols chopped the pot with Musa and said "Nice hand sir".

Player	Chips	Progress
Steven Nichols	275,000 132,500	132,500
Bahar Musa	111,000 80,500	80,500
Fabio Fidanza	Busted

Tags: Bahar Musa Fabio Fidanza Steven Nichols

06-22-2025 14:14 UTC-8

James Dominates Harwood

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Jay Harwood open-shoved in middle position and got called by small blind player Robert James taking them to showdown.

Jay Harwood: A♥10♦ All in
Robert James: A♠K♣

James had Harwood dominated and with no one hitting the board of 7♣4♦J♠3♦Q♦, James took the pot down sending Harwood to the payout counter.

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert James	220,000 31,500	31,500
Jay Harwood	Busted

Tags: Jay Harwood Robert James

06-22-2025 14:05 UTC-8

Bubbles Bursting Everywhere; Moses Gets Three-Outed

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 14 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

With what turned out to be ten bust outs during hand-for-hand, there was a flurry of eliminations in the white section of Horseshoe.

Hand 1:

David Moses got his last 151,000 in the middle preflop against Charles Shaverdians.

David Moses: A♦K♣ All in
Charles Shaverdians: A♣Q♠

The queen came right away as the board ran out 2♣Q♣9♥3♦10♦ and Moses was left rolling his eyes.

Hand 2:

Heads up on a flop of 8♦2♣J♠, Bruceadam Mansonhing was all in and at risk against Vera Dong.

Bruceadam Mansonhing: Q♣Q♦ All in
Vera Dong: J♣J♥

The board completed with the A♥ and 8♥, awarding Dong the pot with her flopped top set.

Hand 3:

Hattori Lopez was all in and at risk preflop against the commanding stack of Alexander Kartveli.

Hattori Lopez: A♥K♥ All in
Alexander Kartveli: 7♥7♣

The board ran out 4♦10♠2♦5♦5♥ and Kartveli's sevens were good enough to eliminate Lopez.

Hand 4

Quite the cooler unfolded preflop as Michael Marder got his chips in against Tetsuma Ishizu.

Michael Marder: K♠K♣ All in
Tetsuma Ishizu: A♣A♦

The flop rolled 2♠8♠6♦ and Marder picked up a sweat with the 9♠ on the turn but the river paired with the 2♦ and Ishizu's aces held over Marder's kings.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexander Kartveli	665,000 115,000	115,000
Tetsuma Ishizu	420,000 34,500	34,500
Charles Shaverdians	391,000 244,500	244,500
Vera Dong	165,000 58,000	58,000
David Moses	Busted

Bruceadam Mansonhing	Busted
Hattori Lopez	Busted
Michael Marder	Busted

Tags: Alexander Kartveli Bruceadam Mansonhing Charles Shaverdians David Moses Hattori Lopez Michael Marder Tetsuma Ishizu Vera Dong

06-22-2025 13:57 UTC-8

Rodgers and Motoyama Also Bust to Split the Money

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 14 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Aaron Motoyama was all in and at risk for a remaining stack around 100,000, with the best possible hand as he was holding A♣A♠. He was facing Stephen Buell who had A♦J♦.

Motoyama had good hopes for a double up but found a board 6♣6♠4♦J♥J♣, giving runner-runner trips to Buell in a dramatic fashion.

A few tables next to them, the board was showed K♦Q♥7♣10♦ in a heads-up pot when Neeraj Nayak bet and called a shove from Garith Rodgers who had the lower stack .

Garith Rodgers: A♣K♠ All in
Neeraj Nayak: A♦J♦

Nayak had hit a straight and the 8♥ river didn't change anything, sending Rodgers to the payout desk to split the first payouts.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stephen Buell	380,000 221,500	221,500
Neeraj Nayak	330,000 115,000	115,000

Garith Rodgers	Busted
Aaron Motoyama	Busted

Tags: Aaron Motoyama Garith Rodgers Neeraj Nayak Stephen Buell

06-22-2025 13:54 UTC-8

Jackson and Yang: Two of Ten Eliminated on the Bubble

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 14 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

During bubble time ten people were eliminated and two of them were Delano Jackson and Thao Yang.

Delano Jackson open- shoved all-in in the small blind for around 55,000 and got called by big blind Kharlin Sued taking them to showdown.

Delano Jackson: 6♠6♦ All in
Kharlin Sued: 9♠9♦

Sued was ahead with his nines and and stayed ahead on the board 3♠K♥J♦8♥2♦ making Jackson one of the eliminations on the bubble.

Two tables down, Thao Yang responded with an all-in shove for around 39,000 in middle position after David Amos under the gun opened to 9,000. Amos made the call putting Yang's tournament life during bubble time in jeopardy.

Thao Yang: K♦Q♣ All in
David Amos: A♥10♥

The flop came 8♥10♠8♣ instantly giving Amos a pair and potentially sending Yang to hit the rails. With the runout 4♦7♠, Yang's fate was sealed to join Jackson as one of the ten eliminations.

The ten eliminated players would be chopping seven payouts.