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Event #67: $300 Gladiators of Poker
Day 1c Completed
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #67: $300 Gladiators of Poker
Day: 1c
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1c
Buy-in
$300
Prize Pool
$6,058,734
Total Entries
24,629
Level
45
Blinds
5,000,000 / 10,000,000
Ante
10,000,000
Entries
6,551
Players Left
204
Players Left 1 / 24,629
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Event #67: $300 Gladiators of Poker No-Limit Hold'em is shaping up to be a big one. When the action closed on Day 1c, the total entry count for the event had hit a massive 16,144.
At the end of Day 1c, Joseph Butler and Nicholas Naughton, bagged 3,275,000 and 2,735,000, respectively. With Hari Srinica Kamireddi taking thirs place with 2,730,000 in their bag.
With 204 Day 1c survivors joining the field for Day 2, the current Day 2 field stands at 470. These survivors will join with the Day 1d survivors on Day 2.
Day 1c Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Butler | United States | 3,275,000 |
| 2 | Nicholas Naughton | United States | 2,735,000 |
| 3 | Hari Sriniva Kamireddi | United States | 2,730,000 |
| 4 | Rosmel Munoz Cedeno | United States | 2,500,000 |
| 5 | Daniel King | Australia | 2,345,000 |
| 6 | Elhanan Cohen | Israel | 2,290,000 |
| 7 | Ron Parrish | United States | 2,245,000 |
| 8 | Jesus Rodriguez | United States | 2,220,000 |
| 9 | Ilan Boujenah | Israel | 2,155,000 |
| 10 | Michael Blanovsky | United States | 2,100,000 |
There are four Day 1 flights to this event.
Coming up Saturday is the final flight, Day 1d, which will begin at 10 a.m. local time on June 28.
Play will last for 22 30-minute levels, and attendance is expected to be high. Last year's event hit 20,647 entrants, so this year's turnout is well on its way to being even larger!
You can catch PokerNews traditional live coverage of this event starting on Day 2 at 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 29.
Reigning World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Jonathan Tamayo flipped his way into this year's championship event, meaning he won't even have to put up the $10,000 buy-in to defend his title.
Tamayo announced on Sunday that he won a WSOP Online $160 All-In Flipament, a flip-and-go-style event that puts players all-in blind and that needs 64 players to run, according to Kevin Mathers.
Tamayo demonstrated his luck a year ago when he navigated the largest WSOP Main Event field in history to win $10 million. The longtime poker pro from Texas proved luck is still on his side in 2025.
"I won the 3pm one it seems," Tamayo wrote on X.
Twenty-two years after his last bracelet, four-time WSOP winner and 1996 Main Event champion Huck Seed is in pole position to triumph once again on poker’s grandest stage.
Seed currently leads the $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better event, heads-up against Slovenian standout Blaz Zerjav.
For two decades, Tom Goldstein was at the top of the legal world. He argued more cases before the United States Supreme Court than almost any private attorney and founded SCOTUSblog, a legal blog that quickly became the go-to source for Supreme Court analysis. He lectured at Stanford University and Harvard University and regularly appeared on national news programs.
But Goldstein had another life. When he wasn’t arguing before Supreme Court justices, Goldstein was flying to Hollywood or Hong Kong and winning or losing millions in ultra-high-stakes poker matches. He played heads-up against California businessmen and foreign gamblers, at one point allegedly winning over $50 million in just a few sessions.
Goldstein’s luck turned in January 2025 when the US Department of Justice a federal grand jury initiated a 22-count indictment accusing the attorney of failing to report millions in poker winnings and diverting law firm funds to pay his personal poker debts.
In a new PokerNews video essay, we take a look at the life of Tom Goldstein and the high-stakes poker game that led to his federal indictment.
PokerNews' Brad Whitehouse captured a hand on Saturday that might end up being the rarest we'll see all summer at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP). At the very least, the rarest chop pot.
Gus Hansen and Dzmitry Urbanovich battled for a hefty pot on Day 2 in Event #23: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship with 35 out of 127 players remaining. The pot ended in a chop, but it left future Poker Hall of Famer Nick Schulman in awe.
"I've never seen that before," Schulman, who has seen nearly everything at the poker table, was overheard saying as he glanced at the tabled cards. "Wow, that's an amazing one."
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Millionaire Maker champion will collect the $1 million bonus check from ClubWPT Gold regardless of the WSOP's ruling on the alleged chip-dumping scandal, PokerNews confirmed.
Jesse Yaginuma overcame a 9-1 chip deficit to James Carroll during heads-up play in the $1,500 buy-in tournament to win the $1,255,180 first-place prize, a payout that is currently in limbo due to an open investigation into the matter. Carroll's $1,012,320 second-place cash also remains uncertain.
