Action was folded around to Angela Defoe in the cutoff, who open jammed all in for 160,000. Cesar Del Pino in the small blind flat called only to see Corey Kempson three-bet all in from the big blind, having both players covered. Del Pino got out of the way.
Angela Defoe: A♣4♠
Corey Kempson: 8♠8♦
The flop of J♠10♠4♣ didn't help Defoe enough, nor did the Q♦ dropping on the turn. When the A♠ peeled off on the river, it made her a better pair, two pair actually, and the pot was pushed Defoe's way for a handsome triple-up.
Pursuit of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet in Event #68: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em continues today at the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas at noon local time. Of the 351 players who reached the money in Day 2, just 127 remain, out of a field of 2,338 total entries, vying for the first-place prize of $830,685.
Kunal Patni, who has an extensive list of cashes at WSOP events in the past decade, is in prime position to claim his first bracelet. Patni, who finished 20th in this event a year ago, and eighth in a $3,000 Freezeout here two years ago, enters the day second in chips with 2,125,000.
Hamid Toghyan holds the chip lead (2,545,000) on an international leaderboard that has eight countries represented among the top ten players.
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
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Austria
1,530,000
77
Bracelet winners Yuliyan Kolev, Jerry Yang, Romain Lewis, Daniel Sepiol, Diego Ventura and Martin Finger are all in the hunt with more than 1,000,000 in chips.
Day 3 will begin with blinds at 10,000/20,000 and a big blind ante of 20,000. The schedule calls for the field to play down to five players, through 60-minute levels, with breaks after every two levels and a one-hour dinner break after Level 26 (around 6:30 p.m.).
Stay tuned to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2025 World Series of Poker, for live updates from this and all bracelet events at the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas.
