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

Players Left 1 / 11,996

Final Table

Collin Ball

3,245,000

Artem Tuliupa

3,135,000

David Rees

2,830,000

Carl Carodenuto

2,500,000

Lucca Nascimento

2,310,000

Chris Moorman

2,295,000

Yang Zhang

2,260,000

Clayton Kalisek

2,240,000

Alexander Savchenko

2,215,000

Vinicius Lima

2,145,000

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06-22-2025 16:57 UTC-8

Mutalapov Moves Near Leaders

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Jerome Solomon

Level 17 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Aleksejs Ponakovs's all-in from the cutoff was called by Maksim Mutalapov on the button.

Aleksejs Ponakovs: J♠J♥ All in
Maksim Mutalapov: K♠K♥

The bigger pair held with a runout of 2♠7♥10♣6♥A♣, giving Mutalapov a huge jump up the leaderboard, as he took out a two-time bracelet winner with an almost identical amount of chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Maksim Mutalapov	895,000 480,000	480,000
Aleksejs Ponakovs	Busted

Tags: Aleksejs Ponakovs Maksim Mutalapov

06-22-2025 16:55 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Florian Pesce	1,430,000 300,000	300,000
Trung Pham	1,300,000 1,014,000	1,014,000
Masataka Setoguchi	1,100,000 858,500	858,500
Minseok Kim	1,060,000 763,000	763,000
Connor Daynard	1,000,000 866,500	866,500
Carl Carodenuto	1,000,000 50,000	50,000
Tal Herzog	1,000,000 100,000	100,000
Dejuante Alexander	980,000 726,000	726,000

Jacques Ortega	940,000
Arie Kliper	926,000 686,000	686,000

Reiser Shows Strength

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 17 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Anthony Ibrahim opened to 16,000 under the gun and got a three-bet from Stefan Reiser in middle position to 48,000. The flop came 2♣7♣J♦.

Ibrahim checked triggering Reiser to fire another 25,000 which was enough to make his opponent fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anthony Ibrahim	430,000 325,500	325,500
Maksim Mutalapov	415,000 251,500	251,500
Chi Hang Tang	370,000 105,000	105,000
Dragos Trofimov	350,000 267,000	267,000
Aleksejs Ponakovs	340,000 7,500	7,500

Stefan Reiser	330,000 176,000	176,000
Julien Loire	200,000 110,500	110,500
Benjamin Primus	160,000 48,000	48,000
Benjamin Steinwachs	20,000 70,000	70,000

Tags: Anthony Ibrahim Stefan Reiser

06-22-2025 16:49 UTC-8

Cadignan Doubles through Pesce

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Laura Fryer

Level 17 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Florian Pesce opened to 16,000 on the button and Gilles Cadignan three-bet to 53,000 from the small blind. Pesce four-bet jammed his monster stack of 1,400,000, more than covering Cadignan's 203,000. Cadignan paused before making the call, and the players went to showdown.

Gilles Cadignan: A♠4♠ All in
Florian Pesce: 9♣9♥

Cadignan needed to improve, and he slammed the table in joy after seeing the monotone 8♠5♠7♠ flop, which gave him a flush.

He held on the 6♠ turn and 10♥ river, doubling his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Florian Pesce	1,130,000 1,040,000	1,040,000
Gilles Cadignan	422,000 292,500	292,500

Tags: Florian Pesce Gilles Cadignan Monster Stack

06-22-2025 16:42 UTC-8

Ki Finds the Exit

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 17 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

All the chips went in the middle preflop between Junhyoung Ki, who was at risk with A♦3♥, and facing A♣7♦ in Jose Albert's hands.

Albert improved into a pair of sevens with the board K♣7♣5♦J♥3♣ and eliminated Ki from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jose Albert	345,000 155,000	155,000
Junhyoung Ki	Busted

Tags: Junhyoung Ki Jose Albert

06-22-2025 16:40 UTC-8

Some Updated Counts; Glantz Moving Up

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 17 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Glantz	665,000 443,000	443,000

Matt Affleck	526,000 305,500	305,500
Camille Brown	491,000 211,000	211,000
Olga Iermolcheva	415,000 277,000	277,000
Stephen Song	317,000 132,000	132,000

Igor Zektser	310,000 160,000	160,000

Kitty Kuo	270,000 98,000	98,000
Vivian Saliba	260,000 50,000	50,000

Chad Holloway	185,000 113,000	113,000

Dan Shak	185,000 9,500	9,500

Tags: Matt Glantz

06-22-2025 16:39 UTC-8

Vinokurov Folds to Pineault

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 17 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Stepan Vinokurov limped and Karl T Pineault decided to raise to 28,000 on the button. After some thinking, Vinokurov eventually called.

The 5♠3♥K♣ flop was dealt and both players checked to see a 6♦ on the turn. After a minute, Vinokurov checked again but folded after Pineault bet 40,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stepan Vinokurov	325,000 305,000	305,000
Karl Pineault	256,000 149,500	149,500

Tags: Karl T Pineault Stepan Vinokurov

06-22-2025 16:35 UTC-8

Valdez Takes From Kehoe

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Joseph Berg

Level 17 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Fausto Valdez raised to 12,000 from early position, and Stephen Kehoe three-bet to 27,000 next to act. The rest of the table folded, and Valdez made the call.

Action checked through on the 5♥9♠6♣ flop.

The turn was the K♣. Valdez checked, Kehoe bet 33,000, and Valdez called.

Both players checked the 4♠ river. Valdez tabled K♦Q♦, which was good for the win.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joseph Ozimok	490,000 273,000	273,000
Vikas Sondhi	410,000 215,500	215,500
Stephen Kehoe	360,000 160,500	160,500
Erik Svoboda	280,000 117,000	117,000
William Parker	220,000 86,500	86,500
Fausto Valdez	205,000 3,000	3,000

Thiru Sadagopan	175,000 103,000	103,000

Tags: Fausto Valdez Stephen Kehoe

Level: 17

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 8,000

06-22-2025 16:27 UTC-8

Ruban With Less the Blind

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Action was picked up with two players with their chips and hand in on a completed board.

Sergio Sanchez: J♥J♣ All in
Ivan Ruban:9♦9♣

Sanchez was ahead from the start but was further strengthened when the board ran 5♣2♣7♦J♦A♥ giving him a set on the turn. Sanchez scooped the pot for a double up leaving Ruban with less than a big blind as the levels changed.