As one of the shortest stacks remaining in the event it didn't take Scott Bohlman long to get all of his chips into the pot, going all in under the gun with his final 13,000 chips. Louis Bailey made the call.
Scott Bohlman: 5♦6♦
Louis Bailey: A♠10♦
The runout didn't give Bohlman, who won his second bracelet earlier in the series, any help. The board fell K♠10♣9♠2♦2♥, making Bailey's two pair (tens and twos) the best hand.
It's time for Day 2 of Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), hosted at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
Four Day 1 starting flights produced a staggering 11,996 competitors. Of those, 2,618 endured and are now set to battle for at least a million-dollar prize. The $1,500 buy-in generated a whopping $15,924,690 prize pool, and the remaining players will be in pursuit of a WSOP gold bracelet and a first-place prize of $1,255,180.
Former Champions Daniel Lazrus 264,000 and Franco Spitale 183,500 return to Day 2 with healthy stacks and unfinished business. Both have already etched their names in Millionaire Maker history, and now, they’re eyeing an encore. There's a third WSOP Champion still in the mix who knows how to navigate large fields and is no stranger to million-dollar scores, 2006 Main Event Champion Jamie Gold enters Day 2 with (276,500) and will be looking to add another gold bracelet to his collection.
All players will be chasing Ilija Savevski, who enters Day 2 with 979,000 chips and the overall lead. Robert Fluereci is second with 900,000 chips.
Franco Spitale
Day 2 Top 10 Chip Leaders
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
1
Ilija Savevski
North Macedonia
979,000
2
Robert Fluereci
Romania
900,000
3
Sascha Manns
Germany
776,000
4
Asher Conniff
United States
489,000
5
Matija Dobric
Croatia
481,500
6
Jason Maeroff
United States
470,000
7
Tetsuma Ishizu
Japan
454,500
8
Glenn Lanier
United States
442,000
9
Gal Naim
Israel
433,000
10
Damarjai Davenport
United States
427,000
Among the top 100 chip stacks are some of today’s elite players, including Asher Conniff (489,000), Barry Hutter (357,000), Aleksejs Ponakovs (332,500), Frank Funaro (331,000), Joao Simao (322,000), Asi Moshe (310,500), Uri Reichenstein (284,000), Jessica Vierling (281,500), and Stephen Song (279,000).
Day 2 is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. at Level 12 (blinds 1,000/2,500, ante 2,500) and will play 10 levels with a 60-minute dinner break after Level 17 (around 5:30 p.m.).
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