46,500
Table 262Seat 2
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #54: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$2,076,210
Entries
1,564
Level
32
Blinds
120,000 / 250,000
Ante
250,000
Entries
1,564
Players Left
114
Players Left 1 / 1,564
Filter
(1)
Level: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Level 4
: 200/400, 400 ante
Current top 20 stacks according to the WSOP+ app.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
130,000 | |
|
109,400 | |
|
99,500 | |
|
95,500 | |
|
||
|
|
90,000 | |
|
90,000 | |
|
||
|
87,300 | |
|
85,000 | |
|
81,500 | |
|
80,000 | |
|
79,000 | |
|
77,000 | |
|
|
76,000 | |
|
75,000 | |
|
75,000 | |
|
74,000 | |
|
71,000 | |
|
70,000 | |
|
69,700 | |
|
69,000 | |
Level 4
: Blinds 200/400, 400 ante
Michael Newman, originally from New York and now a longtime South Florida grinder, has come close to WSOP success on more than one occasion. In 2017, he finished 10th in the $10,000 Tag Team Championship alongside teammate and his former coach, Paul Snead, narrowly missing out on the final table after losing aces to kings in a brutal one-outer. He followed that up with another deep run in the 2021 $1,000 Tag Team event, where he and partner Robert Ormont ended up placing fourth.
Now in his mid-50s, Newman has 36 first-place finishes according to TheHendonMob and boasts over $2,400,000 in live tournament earnings. He remains a familiar face in the WSOP fields and is still in the hunt for that elusive bracelet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
130,000 |
Level 4
: Blinds 200/400, 400 ante
Action was picked up on a board reading Q♦7♦A♥8♥ with 45,000 in the middle. Ryan Conrad ripped his stack of 15,000 into the middle, and Arthur Morris snapped him off, saying, "I'm on a flush."
Ryan Conrad: A♦Q♠9♦6♦ 
Arthur Morris: K♠J♥10♠6♥
Conrad was in the lead with top two, the nut diamond draw, and an open-ender. Morris, however, had plenty of outs, with any non-board pairing card above an eight giving him the nut straight. He also had hearts working for him. The K♣ river did indeed improve him to the nuts, and he sent Conrad home.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
84,000
84,000
|
84,000 |
|
40,200
40,200
|
40,200 |
|
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
32,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
|
27,300
27,300
|
27,300 |
|
21,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
Busted |
61,200
14,700
Table 262Seat 2
Level 4
: Blinds 200/400, 400 ante
Erik Ladenburg was short-stacked and committed the last of his 5,000 chips before the flop, with William Meeks making the call to try to bust him.
Erik Ladenburg: Q♣9♣3♠2♦
William Meeks: K♣K♦6♣2♠
Meeks was ahead with his two kings, but a lot could change with five cards to come. The 9♥4♦A♦ flop gave Ladenburg a pair of nines. Ladenburg improved to two pair on the Q♦ turn, but the A♥ appeared on the river to counterfeit that two pair. Meeks' pocket kings won the pot, and Ladenburg was out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
90,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
83,100
58,100
|
58,100 |
|
27,000 | |
|
26,000 | |
|
|
25,000 | |
|
|
18,600
6,400
|
6,400 |
|
5,000 | |
|
|
Busted |
Level 4
: Blinds 200/400, 400 ante
An extremely familiar name in the PLO world, Lou Garza, is a wizard with four cards in his hand. The man has two scores of more than $1,300,000 at the World Series, the first coming in 2023 as he took down Event #50: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship. Not only did he win his first bracelet, but his now-wife also won a ring, as he proposed to her seconds after being crowned winner.
The second came this year, as he made an absolutely unthinkable heads-up comeback against Ben Lamb to win Event #14: $25,000 High Roller PLO/NLH Mixed, for another seven-figure score, along with another bracelet. He is a man to be feared today, as he looks to make yet another deep run in the Worls Series, and pick up another big cash.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
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Level: 5
Blinds: 300/500
Ante: 500
83,000
Table 235Seat 3
