Event #78: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

07-01-2025 21:30 UTC-8

Andrews Adds More to His Huge Stack

Gabrielle Barredo

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Mario Gonzalez opened with a 10,000 bet in cutoff and got called by the button Christian Jordanich, small blind Kelly Andrews, and Kengo Sakurai in the big blind.

The flop dropped 7♦A♥2♦. After action was passed to him, Gonzalez continued with another 10,000 and only got Andrews to call.

The turn 4♥ and river A♦ were checked by both players. Andrews turned over J♥7♥ prompting Gonzales to throw his hand to the muck pile.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kelly Andrews	600,000 400,000	400,000
Mario Gonzalez	120,000 16,000	16,000
Christian Jordanich	90,000
Kengo Sakurai	24,000

Tags: Christian Jordanich Kelly Andrews Kengo Sakurai Mario Gonzalez

07-01-2025 21:30 UTC-8

Gkatzas Rivers Two Pair in a Three-Way Pot

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Three players were engaged on a main pot of around 220,000 and a side pot of 6,000 on a board of 9♣6♥K♥2♠. Charles Phillips was all-in for the main pot, which left Andre Cohen and Dimitrios Gkatzas to fight for a side pot.

Cohen and Gkatzas checked the river 5♦ taking all three players to showdown.

Phillips tabled J♥9♥ for a pair of nines and a flush draw on the flop, Cohen hit top pair on the turn with K♠Q♦ and Gkatzas caught two pair on the river with K♣5♣.

Phillips quietly left the table as Cohen got out of his chair visibly frustrated with the turn of events where he missed having scooped a huge pot because of the river card. Gkatzas just scooped both the main and side pots without saying anything.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andre Cohen	390,000 390,000	390,000
Dimitrios Gkatzas	380,000 380,000	380,000
Charles Phillips	Busted

Tags: Andre Cohen Charles Phillips Dimitrios Gkatzas

07-01-2025 21:33 UTC-8

Break Time

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Barry Russell

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Players are on a 20-minute break. Only 69 players till the stone bubble.

Level: 16

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 6,000

07-01-2025 21:54 UTC-8

Battle of the Blinds

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Laura Fryer

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Christopher Dupuy limped from the small bling and James Barnett defended the big blind.

The J♠K♦10♥ flop saw Dupuy bet 6,000 and Barnett called.

The 5♥ was turned and Dupuy checked. Barnett bet 14,000 and Dupuy called.

Both checked to showdown on the K♣ river.

Dupuy showed Q♥10♣ for a pair of tens, and Barnett mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
James Barnett	185,000

Christopher Dupuy	130,000

Tags: Christopher Dupuy James Barnett

07-01-2025 22:03 UTC-8

Liu Gets Hit on the River

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Jerome Solomon

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Jianheng Liu raised under the gun to 15,000. Daniel Lawrence moved all in with 163,000 in chips. Liu called.

Daniel Lawrence: A♣K♦ All in
Jianheng Liu: K♠K♣

Liu was sitting pretty with his kings, until the final car hit the table in a runout of 8♠2♣J♦J♠A♦, putting a serious dent in his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Lawrence	341,000 148,000	148,000
Corey Hochman	327,000
Bruce Vandervort	198,000
Mehrdad Vahabi	158,000
Tom Eady	136,000
Karl Pineault	110,000
Riley Dieckhoff	81,000
Yamaguchi Yota	50,000
Jianheng Liu	40,000

Tags: Bruce Vandervort Daniel Lawrence Karl T Pineault Mehrdad Vahabi Riley Dieckhoff Tom Eady Yamaguchi Yota

07-01-2025 22:05 UTC-8

Duda Flushed Out On the River

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Laura Fryer

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Phuoc Nguyen opened to 16,000 from middle position and Brenton Duda moved all in for his remaining 56,000 from the cutoff.
Nguyen called and covered Duda.

Brenton Duda: A♠K♠ All in
Phuoc Nguyen: A♣K♣

Both were sitting comfortably until the 3♣2♥2♣ flop, which brought in Nguyen the flush draw.

Nguyen was calling for a "Club" on the 4♥ turn.

The flush came in for Nguyen on the 10♣ river, sending Duda home.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phuoc Nguyen	320,000
Brenton Duda	Busted

Tags: Brenton Duda Phuoc Nguyen

07-01-2025 22:17 UTC-8

Smith Sees The Double

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Laura Fryer

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Waheed Feda opened from middle position to 12,000 and Joshua Mcdougall three-bet to 40,000 from the cutoff.

Darragh Smith took some time before moving all in for 38,000, effectively calling Mcdougall. Feda folded.

Darragh Smith: A♦Q♦ All in
Joshua Mcdougall: K♦K♣

The 8♦8♣9♣8♠J♣ runout saw Smith leave with the boat, doubling through Feda.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joshua Mcdougall	500,000 500,000	500,000
Waheed Feda	215,000 215,000	215,000
Darragh Smith	88,000 88,000	88,000

Tags: Darragh Smith Joshua Mcdougall Waheed Feda

07-01-2025 22:18 UTC-8

Zektser Forces a Fold Near the Bubble

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Barry Russell

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

There were roughly 40,000 chips in the pot on 5♥10♦5♣9♣.

Allen Altamirano bet 6,000 from early position, but got raised by Igor Zektser on the button to 17,000, Altamirano called.

Altamirano checked on the 9♠ river, and Zektser decided to bet 50,000, Altamirano went deep into the tank before he eventually folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Fair	230,000 230,000	230,000
Rupom Pal	180,000 180,000	180,000
Igor Zektser	160,000 160,000	160,000

Allen Altamirano	130,000 130,000	130,000
Levent Beyazkilic	109,000 109,000	109,000
Alexandre Bruneau	107,000 57,000	57,000
Raminder Singh	90,000 90,000	90,000
Mathieu Choffardet	82,000 3,000	3,000
Wu Guangbiao	52,000 52,000	52,000