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

06-22-2025 14:02 UTC-7

Davila Raises the River; Zektser Pays It Off

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Claudio Elizalde

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

Heads up to a flop of Q♦J♦8♣ saw Igor Zektser check and Jacobo Davila followed suit.

The J♣ came on the turn and both players checked again.

Zekster bet 4,000 when the 2♦ completed and he soon faced a raise to 15,000 from Davila.

It appeared Zekster was counting combinations of hands his opponents could have and eventually he flicked in the call.

Davila tabled A♦3♦ for the nut flush and Zekster mucked his hand, nodding as if that hand was indeed on his mental list.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mikhail Sniatovskii	227,000 72,500	72,500
Matt Glantz	222,000 59,000	59,000

Jacobo Davila	160,000 19,000	19,000
John Giacobbe	158,000 113,000	113,000
Igor Zektser	150,000 81,500	81,500

Jason Johnson	119,000 29,000	29,000
David Whitehouse	106,000 46,000	46,000
Shiina Okamoto	64,000 97,000	97,000

Tags: Igor Zektser Jacobo Davila

06-22-2025 12:57 UTC-7

Place	Prize
1	$1,255,180
2	$1,012,320
3	$702,360
4	$534,590
5	$409,870
6	$316,190
7	$245,430
8	$191,690
9	$150,660
10-11	$119,160
12-13	$94,840
14-17	$75,970
18-26	$61,240
27-35	$49,690
36-44	$40,580
45-53	$33,360
54-62	$27,610
63-71	$22,990
72-80	$19,280
81-89	$16,280
90-98	$13,830
99-161	$11,840
162-224	$10,200
225-287	$8,850
288-350	$7,730
351-413	$6,800
414-476	$6,030
477-539	$5,380
540-602	$4,830
603-665	$4,370
666-764	$3,990
765-962	$3,390
963-1199	$3,160
1200-1800	$3,010

Obara Eliminates Unsal

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Joseph Berg

Level 13 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Jun Obara raised to 6,500 from the button, and Onur Unsal three-bet to 15,500 from the small blind. Obara responded by pushing a stack of red chips forward, putting Unsal all in and at risk for roughly 60,000 effective. Unsal made the call and was behind.

Onur Unsal: A♣10♥ All in
Jun Obara: A♥Q♥

The dealer ran out a board of 4♠3♥K♣7♥4♣ eliminating Unsal from Event #53.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jun Obara	321,000 183,000	183,000
Onur Unsal	Busted

Tags: Jun Obara Onur Unsal

06-22-2025 12:30 UTC-7

Hennigan Joins the Exit

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 13 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

According to the table, Yilong Wang raised to 6,000 with AxKx and John Hennigan made a three-bet to 15,500, holding K♦Q♦. It folded back to Wang who four-bet to 48,000 and Hennigan shoved for around 190,000, which Wang called.

The board didn't help Hennigan as Wang flopped a pair of aces, and Henningan made his way to the exit.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yilong Wang	560,000 244,500	244,500

John Hennigan	Busted

Tags: John Hennigan Yilong Wang

06-22-2025 10:15 UTC-7

Former Champions Daniel Lazrus and Franco Spitale Pursue Second Seven-Figure Score

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Joseph Berg

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.

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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Tags: Aleksejs Ponakovs Asher Conniff Daniel Lazrus Franco Spitale Frank Funaro Jamie Gold Jason Maeroff Jessica Vierling Joao Simao Matija Dobric