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

07-01-2025 22:05 UTC-8

Duda Flushed Out On the River

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 22:03 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 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

Level: 16

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 6,000

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.

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 21:30 UTC-8

Andrews Adds More to His Huge Stack

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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 21:29 UTC-8

Martinez Doubles

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Barry Russell

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

David Vago raised to 10,000 under the gun, Adrian Martinez put the rest of his 34,000 chip stack into the middle, Vago called.

Adrian Martinez: K♥Q♠ All in
David Vago: Q♦10♦

The board ran out 4♥8♠6♠K♦8♥, and Martinez doubled.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gal Bar	320,000 183,000	183,000
Victor Caballero	195,000 69,000	69,000
Damon Fine	145,000 45,000	45,000
Thomas Perrin	120,000 120,000	120,000
Kathy Liebert	120,000 27,500	27,500

Behrooz Jamshidi	90,000 7,000	7,000
David Vago	85,000 52,700	52,700
Adrian Martinez	75,000 75,000	75,000
John Zentner	64,000 37,000	37,000

Tags: Adrian Martinez David Vago

07-01-2025 21:26 UTC-8

Countryman Eliminates Saraf

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Laura Fryer

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

Kathy Saraf moved all in for her remaining 60,000 from middle position and got a single call from Adron Countryman in the small blind who just covered her.

Kathy Saraf: K♥Q♦ All in
Adron Countryman: A♠K♠

The 2♠5♣9♦ flop saw Countryman stay ahead, and the A♣ turn and 8♦ river didn't save Saraf.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adron Countryman	135,000 135,000	135,000
Kathy Saraf	Busted

Tags: Adron Countryman Kathy Saraf

07-01-2025 21:24 UTC-8

Yranek Doubles Up After Short Delay

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Jerome Solomon

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

Larry James started the hand with a raise on the button to 12,000. Berkeley Yuan popped the bet to 38,000 from the small blind. After big blind Jorge Yranek threw all of his 44,000 chips in, James folded.

Larry James: 9♥9♣ All in
Jorge Yranek: K♥10♠

The flop came 4♠3♥3♣, then there was a pause in the runout, because the dealer accidentally dropped a few cards off the top of the deck into the try in front of her.

Though the players all believed she replaced them as they were, the tournament director instructed the dealer to shuffle all of the remaining live cards before continuing the hand.

The river and turn of J♣5♠ didn't improve Yuan's hand, giving Yranek the double-up.