Schill Chip Leader Again as Six Players Remain in PokerNews Deepstack Championship

The final six are set in Event #78: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship after 55 players entered Day 3 at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) vying for the top prize of $302,165, the WSOP gold bracelet, and the 24-karat gold PokerNews Deepstack Championship winner’s coin at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

Daniel Schill finished as the headliner. Schill entered Day 3 as the chip leader, and accomplished the feat of going back-to-back days of leading the chip standings as he managed to put together a strong run towards the end of Day 3 to top the charts with 41,000,000. Schill is searching for his first WSOP bracelet, and should he pull off a victory, he would nearly triple his recorded career earnings.

Final Table Seating and Chip Counts

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Nicolas Godard	France	23,200,000	23
2	Ran Kadur	Israel	31,300,000	31
3	Nick Ahmadi	United States	36,200,000	36
4	Jason Li	Canada	23,500,000	24
5	Jorge Dominguez	Argentina	15,600,000	16
6	Daniel Schill	United States	41,000,000	41

Day 3 Action

Although he entered and finished the day as chip leader, it was not smooth sailing for Schill. He began to fade, especially after he ran into a cooler when he got the chips in with pocket kings versus the pocket aces of Xizhe Yuan, which saw him dip down to below eight million. Schill began to walk on the comeback trail and reestablished his footing when he eliminated Assaf Zeharia to cross the 20-million mark. He hovered above that mark until he culminated his evening by winning a big pot against Nick Ahmadi to take over the chip lead.

Ahmadi had a tremendous rise on Day 3 despite his setback against Schill to end the evening. He did not enter Day 3 atop the standings, but battled his way to finish second in chips (36,200,000) by the end of the day. Ahmadi announced his presence at the unofficial final table when he scored knockouts over Nathan Thrush and Aditya Sushant to propel up the leaderboard. He kept his foot on the gas and clashed with Jason Li in a pot that shot him into first in chips. Ahmadi will look to add to his resume, which has just over seven figures in recorded career earnings, but the WSOP gold bracelet is not something he has accomplished yet in his career.

Ran Kadur finished the day third in chips (31,300,000), and like Ahmadi, did not enter the day as a top ten stack, yet had a strong day to end in a position to win it all on the final day. Kadur doubled against Felix Mcpeake early in the day, but still hovered near the middle of the pack as they entered the final three-table redraw. He rose up the charts and hit the final two tables healthy, but his big push began in earnest after he eliminated Pablo Valdes in eighth place and Mario Diaz Quilez in seventh place. He then took a bite out of Ahmadi to establish himself as a stack to be reckoned with towards the end of the evening.