Event #70: $1,000 Ladies Championship Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-26-2025 15:22 UTC-8

Some Chip Updates

Roxanne Johnson

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
JJ Liu	61,000 41,000	41,000
Aoi Oyama	52,000
Susan Faber	42,500

Ying Zhu	38,200
Vanessa Castro	37,000
Lais Lourencolongo	29,000
Youngran Gong	23,000
Chen Liao	21,000
Anna Antimony	20,500
Sondra Lacoy	20,000
Jennifer Shahade	18,000 500	500

Audrey Verlomme	17,000
Isabelle Dang	15,700
Aurelia Pioget	15,500
Juanda Ridgwaysullivan	15,000
Tamar Abraham	13,900 6,100	6,100

Anastasija Zavorotnaja	12,500

06-26-2025 15:22 UTC-8

De Jong Scores with the Nut Flush

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Dehlia De Jong raised from middle position to 800, and Ashley Young three-bet to 2,400 from the cutoff. De Jong made the call. The flop was 10♥8♥3♥, and De Jong checked and Young bet 5,000. De Jong smooth called.

On the turn K♦, all the action took place. De Jong checked with the nuts, and Young moved all in for her last 7,400. De Jong called.

Ashley Young: A♣A♦ All in
Dehlia De Jong: A♥9♥

The river was an inconsequential K♠, and De Jong received an instant chip boost, while Young was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dehlia De Jong	33,200 10,200	10,200
Ashley Young	Busted

Tags: Ashley Young Dehlia De Jong

06-26-2025 15:23 UTC-8

More Chips for Fong

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Lisa Fong opened to 1,100 and received calls from Esther Fedorkevich on the button and Ashley Frank in the big blind.

The flop came 8♥K♥10♣ and after a check from Frank, Fong continued for 2,200. Only Frank stayed interested and called. On the 6♦ turn however, Frank check-folded after Fong sent 4,100 into the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lisa Fong	82,000
Esther Fedorkevich	25,500
Ashley Frank	10,800 4,300	4,300

Tags: Ashley Frank Esther Fedorkevich Lisa Fong

06-26-2025 15:23 UTC-8

Break

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

The 769 players on the field are on a 20-minute break.

Level: 5

Blinds: 300/500

Ante: 500

06-26-2025 16:00 UTC-8

Mckee Folds to Ramos

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 5 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Melody Mckee opened to 1,200 and it folded to Natalie Ramos who called in the big blind.

The flop came 9♠Q♥Q♦ and Ramos check-called for 1,200. Both players checked on the K♣ turn.

When the 5♣ hit the river, Ramos sent 4,000 in the middle and Mckee quickly folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Natalie Ramos	26,000 26,000	26,000
Melody Mckee	20,600 20,600	20,600

Tags: Melody Mckee Natalie Ramos

06-26-2025 16:07 UTC-8

Kitamura Adds More to her Stack

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 5 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Th board 5♣K♣10♥7♠ was already dealt with a pot containing around 22,000. Hannah Thomson checked and Asako Kitamura tanked for some time before announcing all in, putting Thomson at risk. The latter quickly let it go.

Player	Chips	Progress
Asako Kitamura	61,000
Hannah Thomson	16,000

Tags: Asako Kitamura Hannah Thomson

06-26-2025 16:19 UTC-8

Hellmuth KO's Defending Champ Negreanu in Poker Players Championship

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Eliot Thomas

Level 5 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Daniel Negreanu will not defend his $50,000 Poker Players Championship crown after being knocked out of the event by none other than Phil Hellmuth.

Negreanu, who ended a decade-long bracelet drought when he won last year's event for $1,178,703, would see his tournament end on Day 3 this year, after the seventeen-time bracelet winner Hellmuth made a Queen-high flush to send Kid Poker to the rail.

Nasathaen Gets Value

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 5 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

In a heads-up pot, the flop was K♠J♦A♠ when Orathai Nasathaen check-called Marie Thirlwell for 3,000.

Both checked on the 8♣ turn and a Q♠ hit the river. Nasathaen thought about her move for a minute and bet 7,000. Thirlwell decided to call, but mucked when she saw 8♠7♠ in Nasathaen's hand for the flush.