Event #68: $3,000 No-Limit Holdem Day 2 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-26-2025 22:51 UTC-8

Six More Hands

Myles Phago

Level 19 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

The floor has paused the clock and announced that the players will play six more hands for the night and then bag up their chips.

06-26-2025 23:03 UTC-8

Killeen Continues to Climb

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Nick Becker

Level 19 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

Kevin Killeen raised to 35,000 under the gun and Fabian Niederreiter flatted in the small blind.

The flop came 7♦6♣6♦ and Niederreiter check-called a bet of 25,000 from Killeen.

On the 4♠ turn, Niederreiter checked again and Killeen fired out a bet of 95,000.

Niederreiter went into the tank before letting out a sigh and tossing his cards into the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Killeen	1,075,000 775,000	775,000
Fabian Niederreiter	425,000 95,000	95,000

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06-26-2025 23:06 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Niall Duffy	Busted
Kyriakos Papadopoulos	Busted

Stephen Courtney	Busted
Craig Chait	Busted
Allen Shen	Busted
Colin Robinson	Busted

Lyudmil Ivanov	Busted
Jason Wheeler	Busted

David Roepke	Busted
Tarmo Tammel	Busted
Joseph Beasy	Busted
Sean Tan	Busted
John Reiter	Busted
Hieu Ngo	Busted
Christopher Dombrowski	Busted

Yu Liu	Busted
Edouard Sacrispeyre	Busted
Patrick Sacrispeyre	Busted
Erfan Geula	Busted
Tanner Smith	Busted
Siddhesh Kudtarkar	Busted
Kuljinder Sidhu	Busted
Tony Sinishtaj	Busted
Jeffrey Yanchek	Busted

Jiyang Gan	Busted

Play Concludes

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Nick Becker

Level 19 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

The remaining 127 players are bagging up their chips for the night and will return Friday, June 27 at 12:00 p.m. local time for Day 3.

06-26-2025 23:14 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Hamid Toghyan	2,545,000 1,855,000	1,855,000

Kunal Patni	2,125,000 1,131,000	1,131,000
Ilan Cukrowicz	2,055,000 1,300,000	1,300,000
Yuliyan Kolev	1,920,000 380,000	380,000

Alexander Greenblatt	1,855,000 1,815,000	1,815,000
Yuriy Boyko	1,815,000 715,000	715,000
Ehsan Amiri	1,695,000 110,000	110,000
Jerry Yang	1,680,000 1,680,000	1,680,000

Romain Lewis	1,660,000 190,000	190,000

[Removed:546]	1,530,000 20,000	20,000
Rachid Amamou	1,480,000 868,000	868,000
Ashish Gupta	1,435,000 1,200,000	1,200,000
Yuya Kita	1,360,000 10,000	10,000
Yilong Wang	1,265,000 595,000	595,000

Fabrizio Gonzalez	1,255,000 420,000	420,000

Steven Jones	1,255,000 405,000	405,000

Corey Kempson	1,230,000 597,000	597,000
Jiawei Mao	1,220,000 270,000	270,000
Smain Mamouni	1,130,000 380,000	380,000
Dan Sepiol	1,125,000 435,000	435,000

Olivier Busquet	1,101,000 245,000	245,000
Martin Zamani	1,095,000 295,000	295,000
Lander Lijo	1,090,000 967,000	967,000
Diego Ventura	1,085,000 454,000	454,000

Brian Luo	1,080,000 236,000	236,000

Casino	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Event Center	Bronze 600	1	Nitesh Rawtani	United States	635,000	32
Event Center	Bronze 600	2	Arunas Sapitavicius	Lithuania	800,000	40
Event Center	Bronze 600	3	Jonathan Therme	France	500,000	25
Event Center	Bronze 600	4	Fabian Bartuschk	Germany	675,000	34
Event Center	Bronze 600	5	Kartik Ved	India	590,000	30
Event Center	Bronze 600	6	Artem Riabov	Russia	1,050,000	53
Event Center	Bronze 600	7	Rohit Mariwalla	United Kingdom	650,000	33
Event Center	Bronze 600	8	Ran Ilani	Israel	945,000	47
Event Center	Bronze 600	9	Ari Engel	United States	390,000	20

Event Center	Bronze 601	1	Adrian Mateos	Spain	740,000	37
Event Center	Bronze 601	2	Marle Cordeiro	United States	330,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 601	4	Brian Luo	United States	1,080,000	54
Event Center	Bronze 601	5	Tom-Aksel Bedel	Norway	475,000	24
Event Center	Bronze 601	6	Martin Zamani	United States	1,095,000	55
Event Center	Bronze 601	7	Hamid Toghyan	United Kingdom	2,545,000	127
Event Center	Bronze 601	8	Jiawei Mao	China	1,220,000	61
Event Center	Bronze 601	9	Matthew Zola	United States	235,000	12

Event Center	Bronze 602	1	Lander Lijo	Spain	123,000	6
Event Center	Bronze 602	2	Takumi Odani	Japan	440,000	22
Event Center	Bronze 602	3	Michael Vanier	United States	655,000	33
Event Center	Bronze 602	4	Elizabeth Boles	Canada	230,000	12
Event Center	Bronze 602	5	Alex Berenson	United States	915,000	46
Event Center	Bronze 602	6	Diego Ventura	Peru	1,085,000	54
Event Center	Bronze 602	7	Yilong Wang	China	670,000	34
Event Center	Bronze 602	8	Benjamin Eilers	United States	625,000	31
Event Center	Bronze 602	9	Stuart Young	United States	365,000	18

Event Center	Bronze 603	1	Beka Iordanishvili	Ukraine	175,000	9
Event Center	Bronze 603	2	Steven Jones	United States	1,255,000	63
Event Center	Bronze 603	3	Sung Jin Yun	South Korea	645,000	32
Event Center	Bronze 603	4	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	1,002,000	50
Event Center	Bronze 603	5	Ashish Gupta	Australia	1,435,000	72
Event Center	Bronze 603	6	Xuemei Liang	China	460,000	23
Event Center	Bronze 603	7	Seunghyun Nam	United States	615,000	31
Event Center	Bronze 603	8	Yunkyu Song	United States	455,000	23
Event Center	Bronze 603	9	Fabian Niederreiter	Germany	425,000	21

Event Center	Bronze 604	1	Asish Ghosh	India	510,000	26
Event Center	Bronze 604	2	Pierre Merlin	France	375,000	19
Event Center	Bronze 604	3	Charles Thomas	United States	1,015,000	51
Event Center	Bronze 604	4	Edward Leonard	United States	305,000	15
Event Center	Bronze 604	5	David Rheem	United States	260,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 604	7	Stephen Song	United States	900,000	45
Event Center	Bronze 604	8	John Oneal	United States	530,000	27
Event Center	Bronze 604	9	Ital Levy	Israel	450,000	23

Event Center	Bronze 605	1	Marco Bich	Italy	205,000	10
Event Center	Bronze 605	2	Robert Wells	United Kingdom	325,000	16
Event Center	Bronze 605	3	Chen Kuanying	Taiwan	740,000	37
Event Center	Bronze 605	4	Dylan Linde	United States	680,000	34
Event Center	Bronze 605	5	Tanner Lefferts	United States	575,000	29
Event Center	Bronze 605	6	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	1,695,000	85
Event Center	Bronze 605	7	Olivier Busquet	United States	1,101,000	55
Event Center	Bronze 605	8	Leandro Bustillo	Argentina	340,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 605	9	Christopher Da Silva	United Kingdom	330,000	17

Event Center	Bronze 606	1	Andrew Fleming	United Kingdom	500,000	25
Event Center	Bronze 606	2	Zhiyuan Xu	China	1,060,000	53
Event Center	Bronze 606	3	Rahul Rastogi	Australia	710,000	36
Event Center	Bronze 606	4	Dimitrios Farmakoulis	United Kingdom	460,000	23
Event Center	Bronze 606	5	Adrian Buckley	United States	425,000	21
Event Center	Bronze 606	7	Shai Arbel	Israel	755,000	38
Event Center	Bronze 606	8	Fabien Antho Gun	France	710,000	36
Event Center	Bronze 606	9	Charles Lee	United States	395,000	20

Event Center	Bronze 607	1	Weizheng Zhong	United States	340,000	17
Event Center	Bronze 607	2	Pedro Gusmao Madeira	Brazil	426,000	21
Event Center	Bronze 607	3	Ravi Shankar	United States	620,000	31
Event Center	Bronze 607	4	Kevin Killeen	Ireland	300,000	15
Event Center	Bronze 607	5	Daniel Sepiol	United States	690,000	35
Event Center	Bronze 607	6	Yiannis Liperis	United Kingdom	590,000	30
Event Center	Bronze 607	7	Luigi Soncin	Brazil	300,000	15
Event Center	Bronze 607	8	Jack Duong	United States	96,000	5
Event Center	Bronze 607	9	Felipe Boianovsky	Brazil	766,000	38

Event Center	Bronze 608	1	Yenhan Chen	Taiwan	370,000	19
Event Center	Bronze 608	2	Felix Martel	Canada	395,000	20
Event Center	Bronze 608	3	Yuriy Boyko	Ireland	1,815,000	91
Event Center	Bronze 608	4	Yuliyan Kolev	Bulgaria	1,920,000	96
Event Center	Bronze 608	6	Fabrizio Gonzalez	Spain	1,255,000	63
Event Center	Bronze 608	7	Smain Mamouni	France	1,130,000	57
Event Center	Bronze 608	8	Lucas Pochat	Argentina	309,000	15
Event Center	Bronze 608	9	Jonah Labranche	United States	910,000	46

Event Center	Bronze 609	1	Xiaohu Liu	China	474,000	24
Event Center	Bronze 609	2	Cesar Del Pino	Spain	1,000,000	50
Event Center	Bronze 609	3	Corey Kempson	Australia	633,000	32
Event Center	Bronze 609	4	Jessica Vierling	Germany	265,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 609	5	Preston Mcewen	United States	990,000	50
Event Center	Bronze 609	6	Xao Yang	United States	1,680,000	84
Event Center	Bronze 609	7	Reiji Kono	Japan	475,000	24
Event Center	Bronze 609	8	Alexander Greenblatt	United States	1,855,000	93
Event Center	Bronze 609	9	Angela Defoe	United States	160,000	8

Event Center	Bronze 610	1	Pablo Valdivieso	Ecuador	425,000	21
Event Center	Bronze 610	2	Feng Yu	United Kingdom	550,000	28
Event Center	Bronze 610	3	Brennen Duke	United States	565,000	28
Event Center	Bronze 610	4	Rachid Amamou	Switzerland	1,480,000	74
Event Center	Bronze 610	5	Neil Walker	United Kingdom	495,000	25
Event Center	Bronze 610	7	Hannes Jeschka	Germany	1,025,000	51
Event Center	Bronze 610	8	Damian Salas	Argentina	510,000	26
Event Center	Bronze 610	9	Dean Ruan	United States	370,000	19

Event Center	Bronze 611	1	Paawan Bansal	India	920,000	46
Event Center	Bronze 611	2	Joshua Boulton	United Kingdom	915,000	46
Event Center	Bronze 611	3	[Removed:546]	Austria	1,530,000	77
Event Center	Bronze 611	4	Arthur Morris	United States	745,000	37
Event Center	Bronze 611	5	David Paredes	United States	550,000	28
Event Center	Bronze 611	6	Fady Khabbaz	United States	745,000	37
Event Center	Bronze 611	7	Yuya Kita	Japan	1,370,000	69
Event Center	Bronze 611	8	Jacob Mendelsohn	United States	540,000	27

Event Center	Bronze 612	1	Diego Dos Santos	Argentina	202,000	10
Event Center	Bronze 612	2	Xing He	Canada	820,000	41
Event Center	Bronze 612	3	Filipp Khavin	United States	970,000	49
Event Center	Bronze 612	4	Leonard Maue	Germany	1,055,000	53
Event Center	Bronze 612	5	Ilan Cukrowicz	France	2,055,000	103
Event Center	Bronze 612	6	Martynas Vitkauskas	Lithuania	40,000	2
Event Center	Bronze 612	7	Upeshka Desilva	United States	570,000	29
Event Center	Bronze 612	8	Kunal Patni	India	994,000	50
Event Center	Bronze 612	9	Antoine Saout	France	255,000	13

Event Center	Bronze 613	1	Aaron Massey	United States	270,000	14
Event Center	Bronze 613	2	Ignacio Sagra	Argentina	565,000	28
Event Center	Bronze 613	4	Manas Gandhi	United States	500,000	25
Event Center	Bronze 613	5	Russell Brooks	United States	260,000	13
Event Center	Bronze 613	6	Ken Aldridge	United States	645,000	32
Event Center	Bronze 613	7	Laurie Tournier	Brazil	604,000	30
Event Center	Bronze 613	8	Bruno Mota	Brazil	500,000	25
Event Center	Bronze 613	9	Evan Sandberg	United States	285,000	14

Event Center	Bronze 620	1	Martin Finger	Germany	1,050,000	53
Event Center	Bronze 620	2	Romain Lewis	France	1,850,000	93
Event Center	Bronze 620	3	Ren Lin	China	310,000	16
Event Center	Bronze 620	4	Jason Richard	United States	390,000	20
Event Center	Bronze 620	6	Conor Bergin	Netherlands	550,000	28
Event Center	Bronze 620	7	Roeland Peeks	Netherlands	605,000	30
Event Center	Bronze 620	8	Jakub Sterba	Czech Republic	970,000	49
Event Center	Bronze 620	9	Michael Berk	United States	235,000	12

Jerry Yang Sits Among The Chip Leaders Going Into Day 3 of $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em

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Myles Phago

Level 19 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante

After nine levels of play, Day 2 action has come to a close here in Event #68: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em at the 2025 World Series of Poker, hosted by the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas.

Of the 1,097 runners who started the day, only 127 players will return for Day 3 on Friday. All eyes will be on the first-place prize of $830,685 and the coveted WSOP Gold Bracelet.

Hamid Toghyan sits atop of the field going into Day 3 with 2,545,000. Toghyan cruised through the day and went relatively under the radar, but was continuously building up his stack. Toghyan has just over $100,000 in lifetime winnings and will eagerly be chasing down his first WSOP bracelet. Following Toghyan in second spot is Kunal Patni (2,125,000). Rounding out the top three spots is Ilan Cukrowicz (2,055,000).

Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Hamid Toghyan	United Kingdom	2,545,000	127
2	Kunal Patni	India	2,125,000	106
3	Ilan Cukrowicz	France	2,055,000	103
4	Yuliyan Kolev	Bulgaria	1,920,000	96
5	Alexander Greenblatt	United States	1,855,000	93
6	Yuriy Boyko	Ireland	1,815,000	91
7	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	1,695,000	85
8	Jerry Yang	United States	1,680,000	84
9	Romain Lewis	France	1,660,000	83
10	[Removed:546]	Austria	1,530,000	77

Players to Keep an Eye On

Many big-name players will be returning for Day 3 and trying to add to their resumes. Some of poker’s top name players still in the hunt for the bracelet include Jerry Yang (1,680,000), Dylan Linde (680,000) fresh off his win in the $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller, Adrian Mateos (740,000), Martin Zamani (1,095,000), and Ari Engel (390,000).

Yang, the 2007 WSOP Main Event Champion, will be hoping to add to his bracelet collection. Yang has been relatively quiet on the poker scene in recent years, but is starting to reappear, and this is his first cash of the 2025 WSOP.

Notable Eliminations

Many top-name players put in an appearance, with most firing the two bullets that the structure allowed. Among some of the notable players who fell by the wayside on Day 2 were Phil Ivey, Martin Kabrhel, John Juanda, Chance Kornuth, Juha Helppi, Nick Schulman and Kenny Hallaert.

All 127 remaining players are guaranteed a payout of $7,343, but will be eager to reach the final table where a ninth-place finish locks up a minimum of $77,760, with all of the top seven finishers guaranteed a six-figure payday.

Remaining Payouts

Place	Prize	Place	Prize
1	$830,685	14-17	$39,091
2	$553,692	27-35	$26,069
3	$406,016	36-44	$21,640
4	$300,649	45-53	$18,163
5	$224,833	54-62	$15,416
6	$169,818	63-71	$13,234
7	$129,563	72-80	$11,491
8	$99,859	81-89	$10,094
9	$77,760	90-98	$8,971
10-11	$61,183	99-125	$8,068
12-13	$48,647	126-127	$7,343
18-26	$31,751

Day 3 will start at 12 p.m. local time on Friday, June 27, where it is scheduled to play down to five players. The tournament will resume in Level 20 with blinds at 10,000/20,000/20,000, and there will be a 15-minute break every two levels. A one-hour dinner break will take place after the completion of Level 26, at approximately 6:30 p.m.

Be sure to follow PokerNews for the remainder of this event, as well as future coverage throughout the summer.

Tags: Adrian Mateos Alexander Greenblatt Ari Engel Chance Kornuth Dylan Linde Ehsan Amiri Hamid Toghyan Jerry Yang John Juanda Juha Helppi Kenny Hallaert Kunal Patni Martin Kabrhel Martin Zamani Nick Schulman Phil Ivey Romain Lewis Yuliyan Kolev Yuriy Boyko