Event #65: $1,000 Tag Team Day 2 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-25-2025 20:57 UTC-8

Team Salsberg Can't Find a Queen

Jacob Wilson

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Matthew Salsberg opened the action from under the gun, with a raise to 150,000. He left just 10,000 behind, which Byungeun Shin took advantage of, as he shoved from the cutoff. Salsberg made the call, as well as a sour face as he saw the bad news.

Matthew Salsberg: A♦Q♥ All in
Byungeun Shin: A♣K♦

Salsberg was up and out of his chair early, and he wouldn't return to it as the 5♣2♦J♣5♥10♠ board sealed his fate.

Player	Chips	Progress
Byungeun Shin - Kyle Watanabe	390,000 237,000	237,000
Matthew Salsberg - John Zentner	Busted

Tags: Byungeun Shin Matthew Salsberg

06-25-2025 20:53 UTC-8

Team Farahi Scoops Big Pot From Team Yamaguchi

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Alexander Farahi from Team Farahi raised from early position to 40,000 and received a call from Shotaro Yamaguchi from Team Yamaguchi in the big blind. The flop was Q♠10♣2♥, and Yamaguchi checked, while Farahi bet out 25,000. Yamaguchi made the call.

Both players checked on the turn 4♣.

On the river J♦ Yamaguchi put out a bet of 85,000, and Farahi thought for a moment and reraised to 190,000, leaving just 5,000 behind.

Yamaguchi tanked for a short time and made the fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Louis Seguin - Hugo Blacher	1,100,000 250,000	250,000

Kelvin Kerber - Peter Patricio	840,000 695,000	695,000
Feng Qian - Zhou Lin	800,000 92,000	92,000
Yijhen Ke - Kuanhan Lee	740,000 1,010,000	1,010,000
Michael Lancaster - Derek Stark	500,000 180,000	180,000
Pushpinder Singh - Mehmet Siginc	440,000 25,000	25,000
Alexander Farahi - Alexander Massman	415,000 65,000	65,000
Alan Merdita - Joseph Cada	300,000 123,000	123,000
Shotaro Yamaguchi - Mikiya Kudo	150,000 18,500	18,500

Tags: Alexander Farahi Shotaro Yamaguchi

06-25-2025 20:45 UTC-8

Ace From Space For Maloney

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Jacob Wilson

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Action folded round to Donald Maloney in the cutoff, who open-shoved his remaining 105,000 chips. Samy Boujmala of Team Boujmala had a decision in the big blind, as he asked if Maloney had a "good hand." "You'll see it either way," retorted Maloney. Boujmala ended up calling.

Donald Maloney: A♥9♦ All in
Samy Boujmala: K♦6♦

Maloney was behind on the 4♠2♣6♠ flop, but an "Ace from space" shot him into the lead. He held, as the river 8♣ peeled off, and kept his head above the water for the time being.

Player	Chips	Progress
Samy Boujmala - Hicham Mahmouki	760,000 1,220,000	1,220,000
Donald Maloney - Carlos Guerrero	140,000 100,000	100,000

Tags: Donald Maloney Samy Boujmala

06-25-2025 20:20 UTC-8

Aces For Team Frigeria

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Nataly Sopacuaperu

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Vincent Frigeria from Team Frigeria in the small blind decided to go all in for around 390,000. Samy Boujmala from team Boujmala chose to call from middle position.

Vincent Frigeria: A♦A♠ All in
Samy Boujmala: K♥K♠

The board showed 4♣4♦3♥Q♣2♠

Team Frigeria doubled up and took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Samy Boujmala - Hicham Mahmouki	1,980,000
Vincent Frigeria - Vincent Frigeria	810,000

Tags: Samy Boujmala Team Frigeria Vincent Frigeria

Level: 21

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 20,000

06-25-2025 20:00 UTC-8

Break Time

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Jacob Wilson

Level 20 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Players head into the second and final break of the day, which will last 20 minutes. During this time, the yellow 1,000 denomination chips will raced off.

06-25-2025 19:56 UTC-8

Mills Doubles Through Keating

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Jacob Wilson

Level 20 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Kasey Mills of Team Mills was all in and at risk, but she had to get the better of High Stakes pro Alan Keating, member of Team Daniels.

Kasey Mills: A♥10♥ All in
Alan Keating: 7♥7♦

Mills was already up and celebrating with partner Daniel Marx before the river was dealt, as the 10♦K♥6♣Q♠2♠ runout eliminated any sweat on the flop.

Player	Chips	Progress
Cody Daniels - Alan Keating	1,060,000 540,000	540,000
Kasey Mills - Daniel Marx	660,000 253,000	253,000

Tags: Alan Keating Daniel Marx Kasey Mills

06-25-2025 19:44 UTC-8

Some Chip Updates

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 20 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Cody Daniels - Alan Keating	1,600,000 1,422,000	1,422,000
Conor Hannan - David Sathue	1,105,000 1,072,000	1,072,000
Thijs Hilberts - Tom Verbruggen	860,000 670,000	670,000
Quirin Heinz - Felix Rabas	740,000 297,500	297,500

Feng Qian - Zhou Lin	708,000 626,000	626,000
Min-Sung Lee - Pierre Mothes	480,000 445,000	445,000
Paul Ewen - Josh Reichard	480,000 260,000	260,000
Pushpinder Singh - Mehmet Siginc	465,000 100,000	100,000
Kasey Mills - Daniel Marx	407,000 87,000	87,000
Jeffrey Novello - Jonathan Scott	350,000 226,500	226,500
Matthew Salsberg - John Zentner	247,000 157,000	157,000
Donald Maloney - Carlos Guerrero	240,000 75,000	75,000
Josep Lopez - Sergio Fernandez	176,000 629,000	629,000

06-25-2025 19:40 UTC-8

Team Shteyman Doubles Up

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Nataly Sopacuaperu

Level 20 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Jinny Walker from Team Jenkins opened in middle postion to 32,000. Blaise Ingoglia from Team Ingoglia called in the cutoff. Colton Blomberg from Team Blomberg decided to reraise to 110,000 on the button, while Gil Shteyman from Team Shteyman shoved all in in the small blind.

Walker and Ingoglia, both moved out of the way, while Blomberg made the call.

Gil Shteyman: A♦A♥ All in
Colton Blomberg: 6♣6♠

The dealer ran out the board J♦10♦3♥2♥9♦.

Shteyman was already ahead and the board didn't help Blomberg. Team Shteyman doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Colton Blomberg - Lawrence Brandt	755,000 220,000	220,000
Gil Shteyman - Evan Zhang	680,000 608,500	608,500
Blaise Ingoglia - Peter Cuderman	495,000 404,500	404,500
Brent Jenkins - Jinny Walker	415,000 329,000	329,000

Tags: Blaise Ingoglia Colton Blomberg Gil Shteyman Jinny Walker Team Blomberg Team Ingoglia Team Jenkins

06-25-2025 19:37 UTC-8

Team Dalpra Forced All In on Big Blind

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 20 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Anthony Dalpra from Team Dalpra was forced all in from the big blind for their last 12,000. Maxwell Young from Team Jordison isolated from the button with a raise to 32,000, and the small blind folded.

Anthony Dalpra: 10♠2♦ All in
Maxwell Young: K♠10♥

The board gave no save to Dalpra with K♦2♠J♥K♠6♦, and the trip kings won the pot, eliminating Team Dalpra.