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

Jul 01, 2025

Flopped Flush for Hogarty

Jacob Wilson

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

Martin Hogarty got his entire stack in from the hijack, only for Richard Bolleurs to shove on top on the button. Everyone else folded, cards were flipped, and Hogarty sighed as he saw the bad news.

Martin Hogarty: A♠J♠ All in
Richard Bolleurs: A♥K♥

Hogarty took any and all sighs back as the flop 10♠2♠8♠ had his opponent drawing stone dead He would stay alive no matter what turn and river were to come, and in this case they were the 3♦ followed by the Q♦.

Tags: Martin Hogarty Richard Bolleurs

Jul 01, 2025

Choffardet Hunted Wolfe

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Laura Fryer

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

Mathieu Choffardet opened from middle position to 10,000 and Christopher Wolfe moved all in for his remaining 28,000 from the hijack. Choffardet called and the players flipped their cards.

Christopher Wolfe: A♥4♥ All in
Mathieu Choffardet: Q♥10♦

Wolfe was ahead, but not for long as the Q♠8♥2♠ flop saw Choffardet pair up.

The 10♥ turn was another dagger to Wolfe, and the Q♣ river just completed the boat for Choffardet.

Tags: Christopher Wolfe Mathieu Choffardet

Jul 01, 2025

Ultimate Preflop Cooler

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Jacob Wilson

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

Action was picked up after a hand, with Zen Pool on his feet after heading home in one of the worst ways possible. The board read 3♥7♥7♠2♥4♠ and Pool had K♥K♦ in front of him. Despite the strength of his hand, Douglas Weymeersch had also got all the way to the river, and was tabling A♠A♣.

Weymeersch let PokerNews know that he and Pool had got into a preflop betting war, ending in Pool's six-bet shove, and Weymeersch's call.

"I wanted to fold," said Pool as he was exiting. "I'm not good enough yet, though.”

Tags: Douglas Weymeersch Zen Pool

Jul 01, 2025

Figueredo Triples, Joyner Wins the Side Pot, Grzywaczewski Out

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Gabrielle Barredo

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

Action was picked up with three players in an all-in showdown, with a main pot almost 400,000 and a side pot of about 50,000.

Murilo Souza Figueredo: A♥K♥ All in
Brian Grzywaczewski: 10♠10♦
Timothy Joyner: A♦Q♥

The flop came Q♠7♦8♠ which pushed Joyner in the lead. However, the tides shifted with the turn K♣ putting Figueredo at the front for a potential triple-up. The 3♠ river fell and Grzywaczewski was left in the cold and eliminated while Joyner won the side pot and Figueredo the main.

Tags: Brian Grzywaczewski Murilo Souza Figueredo Timothy Joyner

Jul 01, 2025

Boyd Called Sole's Bluff

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Laura Fryer

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

Russell Boyd was heads-up against Ignacio Sole to his direct left. They were already all in on the 5♣Q♥9♥J♦9♦ board. The pot stood at around 20,000.

Sole had moved all in and action was on Boyd. Boyd took a little time before calling off Sole's bluff.

Sole stood from the table as soon as Boyd made the call, knowing he was likely beat with his king high.

Ignacio Sole: K♠7♦ All in
Russell Boyd: 9♠6♣

Boyd remarked, "He almost got away with it."

Tags: Ignacio Sole Russell Boyd

Level: 15

Blinds: 3,000/5,000

Ante: 5,000

Jul 01, 2025

Jacobs Makes Huge Jump

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Jerome Solomon

Level 14 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

With the board reading 5♣K♣4♠7♣, Percy Jacobs shoved all in with 77,000 chips from the hijack.

It took a while for Chrystal Mahabir, seated to his immediate left in the cutoff, to make the call. No one else wanted in.

Percy Jacobs: 5♦5♥ All in
Chrystal Mahabir: K♥Q♠

Mahabir's pair of kings was already crushed by the set of fives Jacobs sported before the 10♠ hit on the river.

Tags: Congya Zhang Daniel Quesada Drew Sheffield Gareth Devereux Julien Duveau Percy Jacobs Quentin Girardet Shahabaldin Shirazi

Jul 01, 2025

Bink for Ocon

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Barry Russell

Level 14 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

There were roughly 80,000 chips in the pot on 2♦2♣7♣6♦, Navid Mohabaty-Doost was all in for 85,000 from early position, Michelle Ocon called on the button for 79,000 and Matthew Kyler folded in the big blind.

Michelle Ocon: A♣10♣ All in
Navid Mohabaty-Doost: J♣J♠

Brutal river for Doost as it came 6♣, and left him with less than a big blind.

Tags: Matthew Kyler Michelle Ocon Navid Mohabaty-Doost

Jul 01, 2025

Rey's Three-Bet Shove Wins the Pot

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 14 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Andres Rey started the action with an 8,000 raise, which Lucas Jumalon, in the big blind, called. The flop came 7♦4♦6♣.

Jumalon check-raised Rey's bet of 9,000 and made it 21,000. Not letting go of the pot, Rey shoved which made Jumalon fold immediately.

Tags: Andres Rey Lucas Jumalon

Jul 01, 2025

Godard Rivers the Better Full House

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 14 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Nicolas Godard started the action with an 8,000 raise and got a three-bet from Adam Taskinsoy on the button to 22,000. Godard responded by getting all his green 25,000 chips worth 250,000 and jamming it in the middle of the table, effectively putting Taskinsoy all in. Unbothered, Taskinsoy called putting his tournament life on the line.

Adam Taskinsoy: J♥J♠ All in
Nicolas Godard: A♣K♦

Taskinsoy lead was sustained on the flop of 9♥9♣6♦. With another 9♠ on the turn improving Taskinsoy's hand to nines full of jacks. Almost at the finish line, Godard did an upset when the A♠ fell on the river, giving Godard the better full house.

The whole table groaned with the results but Taskinsoy just quietly left the table.

Tags: Adam Taskinsoy Nicolas Godard