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

07-01-2025 10:54 UTC-8

Chahal Rivers Two Pair

Gabrielle Barredo

Level 3 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Luis Jaikel limped under the gun, and Mandeep Chahal three-bet to 1,000. Andres Matos in the big blind called, and so did Jaikel. The dealer flopped 9♠10♣Q♠.

All players checked. The turn K♣ fell, and Matos led with a 1,100 bet, which was enough to push Jaikel out of the pot. Chahal stayed on to see the last card.

Both players checked the river 3♥. Matos showed A♦7♦ while Chahal tabled Q♦3♦ for two pair on the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andres Matos	26,900 26,900	26,900
Mandeep Chahal	18,700 18,700	18,700
Luis Jaikel	10,200 10,200	10,200

Tags: Andres Matos Luis Jaikel Mandeep Chahal

07-01-2025 10:54 UTC-8

Bet and Take for Giudice

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Barry Russell

Level 3 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Bryan Obregon raised to 800 from under the gun, Pablo Sciortino on his direct left three-bet to 1,400, Daniel Song called in the hijack, Carol Harmon called in the small blind Pietro Lo Giudice four-bet to 5,500 from the big blind and Song was the only caller.

The flop came K♣9♦9♠, and Giudice fired out a bet of 11,000, Song quickly folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pietro Lo Giudice	48,000 48,000	48,000
Robert Allen	36,400 36,400	36,400
Bryan Obregon	36,000 36,000	36,000
Daniel Song	32,000 32,000	32,000
Carol Harmon	31,000 31,000	31,000
Marion Decout	31,000 31,000	31,000
David Jehel	22,300 22,300	22,300
Pablo Sciortino	9,900 9,900	9,900

Tags: Bryan Obregon Carol Harmon Daniel Song Pablo Sciortino Pietro Lo Giudice

07-01-2025 11:01 UTC-8

Willey Doubles Through Vanhorn

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Laura Fryer

Level 3 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Players were heads-up on the 9♠K♠2♥ flop when Michael Willey bet to 2,100 on the button.

Jared Vanhorn was in the small blind and called.

The A♠ was turned and Vanhorn checked. Wiley bey 3,000 and Vanhorn raised to 14,000. Wiley moved all in for around 27,000 and Vanhorn snap called.

Michael Willey: Q♠6♠ All in
Jared Vanhorn: 8♠5♠

Both had hit the flush on the turn but Wiley was head.

Wiley secured the double after the 2♣ river was placed, leaving Vanhorn short stacked just before the break.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Willey	63,000 63,000	63,000
Jared Vanhorn	7,400 7,400	7,400

Tags: Jared Vanhorn Michael Willey

07-01-2025 11:02 UTC-8

Schwartz Takes Some Back from Michael

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 3 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

In a previous hand, David Schwartz and Rubens Michael went toe to toe, with Michael winning a significant pot with a full house.

They found themselves heads up once again a few hands after where Schwartz opened to 600 in hijack. He got three callers in Christopher Wolfe on the button, Alexander Brenneke in small and Michael in the big blind.

The flop came 10♣Q♣Q♥. Michael fattened the pot with a 600 bet. Schwartz called, but the rest left the two to go heads-up.

Both players checked the 3♦ turn. On the river 9♣, Michael led out with a 1,300 bet. A few seconds of thought, and Schwartz pushed back with a 4,000 raise, sending Michael to the tank. Michael ultimately folded, conceding the pot to Schwartz.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rubens Michael	66,000 66,000	66,000
David Schwartz	33,000 33,000	33,000
Christopher Wolfe	28,000 28,000	28,000
Alexander Brenneke	26,000 26,000	26,000

Tags: Alexander Brenneke Christopher Wolfe David Schwartz Rubens Michael

07-01-2025 11:02 UTC-8

Break Time

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Jacob Wilson

Level 3 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Players head to their first break of the day, scheduled to last 20 minutes. The first three levels have seen a total of 2,846 entries, with 2,545 players still with chips at first break.

Level: 4

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

07-01-2025 11:36 UTC-8

Peich Comes Back From Domination

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Jacob Wilson

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Alexandre Peich found himself all in and at risk preflop against Eric Hess, who was holding a dominating hand.

Alexandre Peich: A♠7♥ All in
Eric Hess: 7♦7♣

Peich found an ace on the flop, as the 4♣8♠A♥Q♠2♥ runout kept him alive.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eric Hess	48,000 11,000	11,000
Alexandre Peich	12,800 6,000	6,000

Tags: Alexandre Peich Eric Hess

07-01-2025 11:42 UTC-8

Reyes Flopped it Again!

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Laura Fryer

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Min So opened from the cutoff to 800 and Manuel Reyes defended the big blind.

Reyes bet to 1,300 on the 9♠Q♥10♦ flop. So called.

The 9♦ turn saw Reyes bet again to 5,000. So didn't go anywhere and made another call.

Reyes moved 8,000 into the middle on the 2♦ river and got a quick call from So.

Reyes showed J♠8♦ for the straight which he had made on the flop, and So mucked his hand.

Ali Ayub commented "Nice hand," and the pair shared some table talk, with Ayub recalling how only a few hands earlier in the tournament Reyes had won another big pot having flopped the best hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Manuel Reyes	63,500 63,500	63,500
Min So	46,500 46,500	46,500

Tags: Ali Ayub Manuel Reyes Min So

07-01-2025 11:44 UTC-8

Morariu Scoops a Nice Pot

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Barry Russell

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

There were roughly 18,000 chips in the pot on 3♦Q♥7♠8♦, action checked to Sorin Morariu who was on the button and he fired out a bet of 5,300, Xizhe Yuan called in early position and Demarco Howard called in the hijack.

Morariu put all of his 17,100 chips into the middle when the Q♦ fell on the river, Yuan quickly folded and Howard made the call.

Howard tabled K♥Q♣ for three of a kind, but could not beat the full house of Morariu as he tabled 7♥7♦.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sorin Morariu	84,000 84,000	84,000
Xizhe Yuan	56,000 45,900	45,900
Davide Zella	48,800 48,800	48,800
Ronnie Duvall	38,000 38,000	38,000
Bastien Joly	36,000 36,000	36,000
Kieran Toledo	29,000 29,000	29,000
Rahul Rastogi	26,400 26,400	26,400
Shawn Beaupre	11,900 11,900	11,900
Demarco Howard	11,100 11,100	11,100