Event #68: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-25-2025 18:41 UTC-8

Top Ten Stacks After Dinner Break According to WSOP+ App

Nick Becker

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nikolai Mamut	233,500 69,900	69,900
Charles Keisling	221,700 154,200	154,200
Xiaohu Liu	211,700 211,700	211,700
Niall Duffy	193,900 33,900	33,900
Olivier Busquet	193,600 110,900	110,900
Jacob Mendelsohn	185,300 185,300	185,300
Mark Seif	181,000 110,900	110,900

Rudy Halim	180,200
James Kraetz	180,000 147,000	147,000
Sean Tan	175,600 600	600

06-25-2025 18:53 UTC-8

No-name Hand Takes Down Bullets and Rockets

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Jerome Solomon

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Chips were being sorted after the finish of a hand that had Yaron Malki all in against two players with significantly more chips and far better starting hands.

Yaron Malki: 5♥6♣ All in
Kevin Abecassis: K♦K♠
Kimberly Moore: A♥A♠

Malki — holding hand without a nickname — got into the pot from early position against the two blinds in Moore (small) and Abecassis (big), but the cards fell in his favor.

With a runout of 8♣7♣3♥9♥8♥, he hit a straight on the turn for the triple-up. Moore took down a smaller side pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kimberly Moore	167,000 32,100	32,100
Yaron Malki	124,100
Kevin Abecassis	121,300

Tags: Kimberly Moore Yaron Malki Kevin Abecassis

06-25-2025 18:53 UTC-8

Stoyanov Backdoors into Nut Flush

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Nick Becker

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Radoslav Stoyanov raised to 2,000 on the button and Ankit Ahuja called in the big blind.

The flop came 2♥9♠Q♠ and Ahuja check-called a bet of 1,500 from Stoyanov.

Both players checked on the Q♥ turn and the river brought the K♥.

Ahuja check-called for 3,500 and Stoyanov tabled A♥10♥ for the nut flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ankit Ahuja	52,500
Radoslav Stoyanov	36,500

Tags: Ankit Ahuja Radoslav Stoyanov

06-25-2025 18:59 UTC-8

Tens Spell the End For Taylor

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Joseph Berg

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Samuel Taylor was all in and at risk from the small blind for roughly 35,000 and was up against Jean-Pascal Vernet in middle position.

Samuel Taylor: 10♥10♦ All in
Jean-Pascal Vernet: Q♦Q♣

The dealer ran out a board J♥9♦K♣6♠8♣, sending Taylor to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jean-Pascal Vernet	92,000 92,000	92,000
Samuel Taylor	Busted

Tags: Jean-Pascal Vernet Samuel Taylor

06-25-2025 19:04 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe Serock	160,000 74,600	74,600

Preston Mcewen	159,000 119,000	119,000
Noah Schwartz	140,500

Alex Kulev	139,000 139,000	139,000

Garry Gates	126,000 33,100	33,100
Fabian Gumz	125,000 85,000	85,000
Lander Lijo	125,000 85,000	85,000
Qui Nguyen	120,000 40,000	40,000

Steven Jones	112,000 112,000	112,000

Bin Weng	110,000 110,000	110,000
Jamie Gold	104,500 104,500	104,500

Jeff Platt	100,000
Cherish Andrews	98,500 58,500	58,500
Timur Margolin	96,400 25,100	25,100

John Juanda	95,000 55,000	55,000

Michael Acevedo	92,900 92,900	92,900

Ian Ohara	92,400 92,400	92,400

Darren Rabinowitz	92,000 52,000	52,000

[Removed:548]	90,400 90,400	90,400
Dylan Linde	88,800 2,200	2,200

Tyler Montoya	88,000 88,000	88,000
Nate Silver	80,000 80,000	80,000
Shawn Buchanan	80,000 40,000	40,000
Julien Sitbon	76,000 9,000	9,000

Eric Baldwin	74,800 1,300	1,300

Ace-King for Bohn

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Myles Phago

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Blake Bohn raised to 2,000 from the cutoff, only for Mark Finnane to three-bet to 6,300 from the button. Zhengpeng Liu then four-bet to 20,500 from the small blind, and action was folded back around to Bohn, who five-bet cold jammed all in for 41,300.

Finnane folded, and Liu snap called.

Blake Bohn: A♣K♠ All in
Zhengpeng Liu: A♠J♣

The board ran out 5♥5♦6♦3♥10♠ to give Bohn a double up and more.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mark Finnane	95,500 97,700	97,700
Blake Bohn	93,000 93,000	93,000
Zhengpeng Liu	81,500 81,500	81,500

Tags: Blake Bohn Mark Finnane Zhengpeng Liu

06-25-2025 19:16 UTC-8

Autran Gets There and Gets Paid

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Nick Becker

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Action went four ways to a flop of Q♥9♣10♦. With over 10,000 in the middle, the under-the-gun Ayaz Mahmood was the initial preflop raiser and continued with a bet of 5,000. Only Jean Autran in the hijack continued.

The turn landed the 5♣ and action went check-check, bringing the 7♣ river. Mahmood checked again and Autran fired out a bet of 15,000.

After a moment of thought, Mahmood flicked in the call only to see the bad news when Autran turned over 8♥6♥ for the straight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jean Autran	132,600 132,600	132,600
Ayaz Mahmood	28,500 28,500	28,500

Tags: Ayaz Mahmood Jean Autran

06-25-2025 19:25 UTC-8

Davis Blasts Off with Pocket Rockets

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Joseph Berg

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Andre Akkari raised to 2,200 from under the gun, Zhengpeng Liu then three-bet to 5,500. Matthew Davis then went all in from the big blind for roughly 30,000. Andre Akkari folded, and Liu made the call and was shown the bad news.

Matthew Davis: A♠A♣ All in
Zhengpeng Liu: A♦J♦

The final board read 4♦3♣5♠J♠8♣, giving Davis a vital double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andre Akkari	110,000 110,000	110,000

Matthew Davis	65,000 65,000	65,000
Zhengpeng Liu	29,000 52,500	52,500

Tags: Andre Akkari Matthew Davis Zhengpeng Liu

06-25-2025 19:28 UTC-8

Jacks Hold for Blomdahl

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Myles Phago

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Corey Blomdahl opened to 2,200 from early position, only for Bogdan Munteanu to three-bet to 6,000 from middle position. Maksim Kniter also in middle position flat called, but then Cameron Collins in late position four-bet all in for 15,500.

Blomdahl then five-bet all in for 46,000, and he had all players covered. Munteanu and Kniter folded.

Cameron Collins: A♠K♣ All in
Corey Blomdahl: J♦J♣

A tasty looking flop of Q♠3♣J♠ for Blomdahl and Collins was in trouble and needed to hit a ten to stay alive. No such luck on the 5♦ turn, and even the K♠ river didn't help, and he was sent to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Maksim Kniter	134,000 134,000	134,000
Corey Blomdahl	101,000 101,000	101,000
Bogdan Munteanu	25,000 25,000	25,000
Cameron Collins	Busted

Tags: Bogdan Munteanu Cameron Collins Corey Blomdahl Maksim Kniter

06-25-2025 19:35 UTC-8

Ferraro Jams the Turn

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Nick Becker

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Gal Naim raised to 2,000 in early position and Alan Ferraro flatted in late position.

The flop came 5♦K♠10♠ and Naim bet 1,000. Ferraro put in a min-raise to 2,000 and Naim called.

On the 5♠ turn, Naim checked and Ferraro bet 1,000. Naim then bumped it up to 6,000 and Ferraro responded by reraising all in for 16,800 total to put himself at risk.

Naim took some time to think through his decision before ultimately tossing his cards into the muck.