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

06-22-2025 14:27 UTC-8

Many Eliminations Pre and Post Bubble

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 14:32 UTC-8

Notable Stacks Around the Room

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Joseph Berg

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Matija Dobric	580,000 98,500	98,500
Jason Maeroff	510,000 40,000	40,000

Gal Naim	450,000 17,000	17,000
Daniel Lazrus	380,000 116,000	116,000

Glenn Lanier	275,000 167,000	167,000
Tetsuma Ishizu	150,000 270,000	270,000
Jamie Gold	63,000 232,000	232,000

06-22-2025 14:37 UTC-8

A Time to Double

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Laura Fryer

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

Jonah Labranche was all-in and at risk from the small blind and up against Ryan Laplante, who sat under the gun.

Jonah Labranche: A♥A♠ All in
Ryan Laplante: 10♠10♣

Both had pocket pairs, but Laplante didn't improve on the 8♣7♦J♠2♣2♠ runout, and Labranche secured the double with aces.

A few tables across, Bruno Mota had just doubled up in the big blind against James Jeffrey on the button after Mota was all-in for his remaining 50,000 with pocket threes.

Bruno Mota: 3♦3♥ All in
James Jeffrey: K♦Q♣

The 10♦10♠2♥ flop gave Mota two pair and not much of a sweat. The 10♣ turn gave Mota a boat, and the 5♠ river secured him the double.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Laplante	124,000 91,500	91,500

Bruno Mota	123,000 123,000	123,000
Jonah Labranche	100,000 23,000	23,000

James Jeffrey	22,000 121,000	121,000

Tags: Bruno Mota James Jeffrey Jonah Labranche Ryan Laplante

06-22-2025 14:39 UTC-8

Pou Leaves Thompson with Crumbs

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Gaelle Jaudon

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

Carlos Pou was all in and at risk preflop for his last 52,000 and was holding A♦K♥. He was facing 9♥9♦ in Gary Thompson's hands who had slightly more chips for a typical flip situation.

The board brought the winning hand to Pou with K♠Q♠6♦3♣8♣ and Thompson was left with a very short stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Carlos Pou	110,000 27,000	27,000
Gary Thompson	16,000 150,500	150,500

Tags: Carlos Pou Gary Thompson

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

Fitzgerald Triples Up with Jacks

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Gabrielle Barredo

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

Play was underway with a main pot of around 60,000 and a side pot of around 30,000. Kurt Fitzgerald, all-in on the main pot was waiting with Jeremy Wien and Marius Gierse for the dealer to fan out the flop.

The flop came Q♥9♣A♠. Wien bet 45,000 which was enough push Gierse out of the side. Wien scooped the side pot and headed to showdown against Fitzgerald.

Kurt Fitzgerald: J♠J♦ All in
Jeremy Wien: 10♦9♦

Wien had bottom pair but couldn't beat Fitzgerald's jacks. The runout 7♥3♥ didn't improve Wien's hand. The dealer awarded the main pot to Fitzgerald, resulting in a triple up for him.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeremy Wien	187,000 33,000	33,000

Marius Gierse	100,000 16,000	16,000
Kurt Fitzgerald	60,000 16,000	16,000

Tags: Jeremy Wien Kurt Fitzgerald Marius Gierse

06-22-2025 14:42 UTC-8

Small Double Up for Franco

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Gaelle Jaudon

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

Sonny Franco moved his last 18,000 chips in the middle with Q♠5♠ and got called by Jonathan Therme seated in the big blind with 3♥4♥.

Franco found a board Q♥J♥8♣5♦9♠ to earn the pot and the needed double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonathan Therme	80,000 14,500	14,500

Sonny Franco	70,000 230,600	230,600

Tags: Jonathan Therme Sonny Franco

06-22-2025 14:52 UTC-8

Mokhtar Wins Classic Flip

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Joseph Berg

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

Action was picked up with Rayane Mokhtar all in and at risk preflop for roughly 80,000 from the small blind and was up against David Uvaydov in the cutoff.

Rayane Mokhtar: Q♣Q♦ All in
David Uvaydov: A♥K♠

The dealer ran out a board of 2♠J♣9♦2♥10♠, securing a much-needed double up for Mokhtar.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Uvaydov	205,000 44,500	44,500
Rayane Mokhtar	199,000 132,500	132,500

Tags: David Uvaydov Rayane Mokhtar

06-22-2025 14:53 UTC-8

Li's Queens Hold

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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 14:54 UTC-8

More Bust Outs

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Claudio Elizalde

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

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