Event #69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-27-2025 16:35 UTC-8

Updated Counts on Break

Nick Vazquez

Level 29

Ante: 30,000
Bring-In: 30,000
Completion: 120,000
Limits: 120,000-240,000

Here is a chip count update while the players take their break

Player	Chips	Progress
Blaz Zerjav	7,400,000 6,660,000	6,660,000

Michelle Konig	3,900,000 100,000	100,000
Sergei Tolkachov	2,120,000 280,000	280,000
Huck Seed	1,900,000

Jay Kerbel	45,000

Level: 30

Ante: 30,000
Bring-In: 50,000
Completion: 150,000
Limits: 150,000-300,000

06-27-2025 16:44 UTC-8

Jay Kerbel Eliminated in 5th Place ($34,842)

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Yori Epskamp

Level 30

Ante: 30,000
Bring-In: 50,000
Completion: 150,000
Limits: 150,000-300,000

Huck Seed: A♥8♠ / 3♥8♦A♣7♥ / 4♠
Jay Kerbel: 6♠2♦ / 2♥J♣Q♦5♠ / 8♥
Blaz Zerjav: XxXx / 5♣10♥Q♠ folded on fifth street
Michelle Konig: XxXx / 6♥5♦Q♥ folded on fifth street
Sergei Tolkachov: XxXx / 7♠10♣4♦ folded on fifth street

Jay Kerbel was the bring-in and went all in for his last 15,000. All other players paid 50,000 to match the official bring-in amount. On fifth street, Huck Seed bet and the others folded.

Kerbel flipped over a six and quipped, "one more low" before opening the deuce. Seed had two pair and ended up making an 8-7-4-3-A- low on top of it.

Kerbel only ended up with a pair of deuces in the end, and he made his way to the exit.

Player	Chips	Progress
Huck Seed	2,300,000 400,000	400,000

Jay Kerbel	Busted

Tags: Blaz Zerjav Huck Seed Jay Kerbel Michelle Konig Sergei Tolkachov

06-27-2025 16:53 UTC-8

Full House for Seed

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Nick Vazquez

Level 30

Ante: 30,000
Bring-In: 50,000
Completion: 150,000
Limits: 150,000-300,000

Huck Seed: 2♣2♠ / 6♣2♦J♣3♦ / 6♦
Michelle Konig: XxXx / Q♠A♣4♣J♠ Xx
Blaz Zerjav: XxXx / 7♠5♥- folded on fourth street
Sergei Tolkachov: XxXx / 8♥K♠ - folded on fourth street

Blaz Zerjav completed, and every other player at the table called.

Konig bet on fourth, and only Seed called. This pattern repeated on fifth street.

On sixth street, Konig checked and Seed bet, Konig called.

Konig also checked on seventh, Seed bet and Konig made the call. Seed announced that he had a full house, and that won him the entire pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Blaz Zerjav	7,230,000 170,000	170,000

Michelle Konig	3,400,000 500,000	500,000
Huck Seed	2,830,000 530,000	530,000

Sergei Tolkachov	2,000,000 120,000	120,000

Tags: Blaz Zerjav Huck Seed Michelle Konig Sergei Tolkachov

06-27-2025 17:01 UTC-8

Zerjav Closing on Ten Million

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Yori Epskamp

Level 30

Ante: 30,000
Bring-In: 50,000
Completion: 150,000
Limits: 150,000-300,000

Blaz Zerjav: XxXx / 4♠3♦J♣8♥ / Xx
Sergei Tolkachov: XxXx / 5♣10♠8♦K♠ / Xx

Huck Seed was the bring-in with a deuce and Blaz Zerjav completed a four. Sergei Tolkachov made it two bets with the five, Seed folded, and Zerjav called. Tolkachov caught paint on fourth and checked, Zerjav bet, and Tolkachov called. Both players then checked fifth street.

Zerjav fired bets on sixth and seventh street and Tolkachov called both times. Zerjav showed J♠9♥3♠ for jacks up and Tolkachov mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Blaz Zerjav	9,600,000 2,370,000	2,370,000

Sergei Tolkachov	1,100,000 900,000	900,000

Tags: Blaz Zerjav Huck Seed Sergei Tolkachov

06-27-2025 17:04 UTC-8

Tolkachov Finds Rolled Up Tens

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Yori Epskamp

Level 30

Ante: 30,000
Bring-In: 50,000
Completion: 150,000
Limits: 150,000-300,000

Huck Seed: 6♦5♣ / 7♠3♣5♥3♠ / 7♥
Sergei Tolkachov: 10♥10♠ / 10♦2♥8♣9♥ / 4♣

Blaz Zerjav was the bring-in with a five. Sergei Tolkachov completed, Huck Seed made it two bets, Zerjav folded, and Tolkachov called. Seed bet fourth street, Tolkachov raised, and Seed called.

On fifth street, Tolkachov's final chips went in and he revealed his rolled-up tens. Seed still had plenty of outs with a low draw and gutterball but ended up with two pair instead.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sergei Tolkachov	2,300,000 1,200,000	1,200,000
Huck Seed	1,700,000 1,130,000	1,130,000

Tags: Blaz Zerjav Huck Seed Sergei Tolkachov

06-27-2025 17:22 UTC-8

Seed Gets Fold from Konig on River

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Nick Vazquez

Level 30

Ante: 30,000
Bring-In: 50,000
Completion: 150,000
Limits: 150,000-300,000

Huck Seed: XxXx / J♦2♥4♠8♠ / Xx
Michelle Konig: XxXx / A♦10♦7♥6♦/ Xx
Blaz Zerjav: XxXx / 8♦4♣ - folded on fourth street

Blaz Zerjav completed, Michelle Konig and Huck Seed called.

On fourth street, Konig bet, Seed called and Zerjav folded.

Konig check-called fifth and sixth, and checked again on seventh. Seed bet again and Konig asked "Ace queen any good?", Seed shook his head no, and Konig folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Blaz Zerjav	8,000,000 1,600,000	1,600,000

Huck Seed	3,100,000 1,400,000	1,400,000

Sergei Tolkachov	2,500,000 200,000	200,000
Michelle Konig	2,200,000 1,200,000	1,200,000

Tags: Huck Seed Blaz Zerjav Michelle Konig

06-27-2025 17:30 UTC-8

Trip Sixes for Konig

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Nick Vazquez

Level 30

Ante: 30,000
Bring-In: 50,000
Completion: 150,000
Limits: 150,000-300,000

Michelle Konig: 6♥3♠ / 6♦7♣9♥6♠ / 2♠
Sergei Tolkachov: XxXx A♣K♠5♣7♥/ Xx

Michelle Konig completed and Sergei Tolkachov raised next to act. Konig called.

Tolkachov bet on fourth and fifth, before Konig hit an open pair on sixth. Both players checked.

On the river, Konig bet and Tolkachov called. Konig showed trip sixes, and that took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michelle Konig	2,760,000 560,000	560,000
Sergei Tolkachov	2,100,000 400,000	400,000

Tags: Michelle Konig Sergei Tolkachov

06-27-2025 17:41 UTC-8

"I Can't Beat You in a Pot"

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Yori Epskamp

Level 30

Ante: 30,000
Bring-In: 50,000
Completion: 150,000
Limits: 150,000-300,000

Huck Seed: A♥2♠ / 5♠Q♦3♠3♥ / Xx
Sergei Tolkachov: 2♥2♣ / 7♣8♠Q♠2♦ / 6♥

Huck Seed was the bring-in, Sergei Tolkachov completed, Seed made it two bets and Tolkachov called. Seed bet fourth, fifth, and sixth street, where Tolkachov raised all in for a few chips more.

Seed called but was dismayed when Tolkachov showed him buried deuces that made trips on sixth. Seed had four to a wheel but bricked all the draws on the river.

"I can't beat you in a pot," Seed said. "Either you are rolled up" — referring to two earlier rolled-up hands from Tolkachov — "or you make it on sixth."