2025 World Series of Poker

Event #7: $25,000 Heads Up Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a6
Prize
$500,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$25,000
Prize Pool
$1,504,000
Entries
64
Level Info
Level
66
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
0
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
64
Players Left
16
Players Left 1 / 64

Cooler Leaves Lonis on the Brink

Level 14 : Blinds 800/1,600, 0 ante
Jesse Lonis
Jesse Lonis

Joining the hand with the river already dealt, both players already had all their chips in the middle.
Jesse Lonis was on the wrong side of a nasty cooler versus his second-round opponent, Matthew Wantman.

Jesse Lonis: 66
Matthew Wantman: Q8 All in

Lonis' set not enough versus the rivered flush of Wantman on 376QK board.

Lonis still had some chips behind, roughly 10,000. He moved all in the following hand and was called by Wantman.

Jesse Lonis: A9 All in
Matthew Wantman: Q2

The board ran out of8Q3KK to send Lonis to the rail and Wantman to the next round.

Player Chips Progress
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Matthew Wantman
600,000
300,000
300,000
WSOP 1X Winner
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Jesse Lonis
Busted
WSOP 2X Winner

Tags: Jesse LonisMatthew Wantman