Event #64: $1,000 Super Seniors Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-24-2025 17:02 UTC-8

Top 10 Chip Stacks After Dinner per WSOP+ App

Claudio Elizalde

Level 7 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
David Vieyra	171,000
Todd Hansen	170,000 50,000	50,000
William Ring	168,000
Steven Abramowitz	155,600
Shawn Dunn	152,000 15,000	15,000
Jason Anderson	150,000
Larry Vezina	149,700 33,900	33,900
Marcelo Bottino	142,000
Robert Bassuk	135,300 3,800	3,800
Kenna James	134,400 5,600	5,600

06-24-2025 17:22 UTC-8

Life is a Freeroll After 60, According to Nguyen

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 7 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

1998 Main Event Champion, Scotty Nguyen, was heard saying the following at his Super Senior's table:

"It's a freeroll, baby! If you make it this far, if you make it past sixty, it's all a free roll, baby! Nothing to lose, just play."

Nguyen's table whole-heartedly agreed and the moment was further proof of the camaraderie that is bred in closed events (i.e. Employees, Seniors, Womens).

Nguyen cashed Event #48: Senior's Championship in 39th place ($17,948) and it marks his only cash of the 2025 World Series of Poker thus far. Only time will tell how the five-time bracelet fares the rest of the Series.

Player	Chips	Progress
Scotty Nguyen	49,200 49,200	49,200

Tags: Scotty Nguyen

06-24-2025 17:24 UTC-8

Reigning Main Event Champ Jonathan Tamayo on New WSOP Rules & Folding Pocket Queens

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Connor Richards

Level 7 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Life Outside Poker is a podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.

In the 30th episode, Connor talks with 2024 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Tamayo about growing up in Humble, Texas, studying hotel management at Cornell University, graduating during the 2008 recession, running deep in the 2009 and 2015 Main Events, his friendship with fellow Main Event champion Joe McKeehen, winning the biggest-ever WSOP Main Event for $10 million, and his first purchase as world champion.

Tamayo also spoke about his infamous fold with pocket queens late in the 2024 Main Event, which he says cost him $120,000 in equity, and gave his thoughts on new rules implemented at the 2025 WSOP in the wake of "LaptopGate," as well as the Main Event structure and Phil Hellmuth's proposed boycott that he has since rescinded.

Tags: Connor Richards Joe McKeehen Jonathan Tamayo

06-24-2025 17:50 UTC-8

Diwan Gets a Shot at Bailey; It Backfires

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 7 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Archie Bailey got his last few thousand chips into the middle preflop and Ashish Diwan easily made the call.

Archie Bailey: K♠4♣
Ashish Diwan: A♣A♥

"I'm going to need a couple fours...", said Bailey as he saw he was up against aces.

The flop brought a collective affirmation from the table as it scrolled across 4♦8♣2♣.

Bailey got there the other way when the K♦ turned and the table was in an amused uproar when the river bricked the J♥.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ashish Diwan	13,000
Archie Bailey	7,600

Tags: Archie Bailey Ashish Diwan

06-24-2025 17:59 UTC-8

Poker Vlogging Legend Brad Owen Chasing 'Dream' By Shot-Taking in $50K WSOP PPC

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Calum Grant

Level 7 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Brad Owen, one of poker’s most popular vloggers and a WPT Global Ambassador, is officially taking his shot in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, the biggest and toughest mixed-game event of the summer.

From selling action at a markdown to bringing new eyes to the mixed-game world, find out why this is “the dream he didn’t know he had” and how he plans to represent his massive fanbase on poker’s biggest stage.

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Level: 8

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

06-24-2025 18:05 UTC-8

Old School Pros in the Field; Johnny Chan is Here

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 8 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Long standing poker fans might be surprised to hear of the tough competitors drawn to the Super Seniors.

Eli Elezra, a long time staple of televised high stakes, has yet to tally a cash at the 2025 World Series of Poker but he has been on the felt, as he bubbled the $1,500 Big O deep in Day 1 earlier in the Series.

JJ Liu, with nearly $4,000,000 in lifetime earnings has cashes dating back to 1996 and she makes the pilgrimage to the WSOP every summer. She's easy to spot, as she always has a vibrant fashion sense. Liu cashed Event #10: $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack but has yet to find a big score,

Two-time Main Event Champion, Johnny Chan, was also seen in the mix. He often cherry picks the events he feels like playing, putting in less volume than many of his peers. Chan is an elite group of double-digit bracelet winners with a whopping 10. The poker legend hasn't logged a single cash in 2025 but that doesn't mean he won't be a force to be reckoned with when he does show up.

Player	Chips	Progress
JJ Liu	55,800 55,800	55,800
Eli Elezra	20,000 20,000	20,000

Johnny Chan	20,000 20,000	20,000

Tags: Eli Elezra JJ Liu Johnny Chan

06-24-2025 18:32 UTC-8

Some Notable Chip Counts; Elezra is Out

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 8 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ramana Epparla	143,000
Kenna James	127,300 7,100	7,100
Scotty Nguyen	101,000 51,800	51,800

Dara O'Kearney	73,400

Humberto Brenes	31,100 9,100	9,100

JJ Liu	23,500 32,300	32,300
Johnny Chan	15,000 5,000	5,000

Eli Elezra	Busted