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

07-01-2025 18:18 UTC-8

Mckenna's Aggression Pays Off

Gabrielle Barredo

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Thomas Watson opened with 7,500 from hijack, and got called by the button, Jay Klitzner, and big blind Christopher Mckenna.

The flop came 9♥K♠6♣. After action was checked to him, he continued with 10,000 which was enough to take the pot down.

Player	Chips	Progress
Christopher Mckenna	405,000
Thomas Watson	315,000 90,000	90,000
Jay Klitzner	96,500

Tags: Christopher Mckenna Jay Klitzner Thomas Watson

07-01-2025 18:14 UTC-8

Sprague Springs Queens on Castillo

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Jerome Solomon

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

All in for 108,000 chips, Loyal Sprague waited for a call. Robert Castillo gave it to him.

Loyal Sprague: Q♦Q♣ All in
Robert Castillo: A♥Q♠

Sprague's queens would hold through the runout of 7♥7♦4♦7♣8♠, with him ending with a full house and Castillo barely hanging on in the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Loyal Sprague	231,000
Robert Castillo	3,000

Tags: Loyal Sprague Robert Castillo

07-01-2025 18:11 UTC-8

Aguilar Wins Race

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Jerome Solomon

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Ian Eckstein moved all in under the gun, drawing a call from Adrian Aguilar

Ian Eckstein: 6♦6♣ All in
Adrian Aguilar: A♥K♥

Eckstein's sixes were ran down in the rundown 2♥J♦9♣K♦4♣ with Aguilar hitting a king on the turn.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adrian Aguilar	231,000 199,000	199,000

Ian Eckstein	Busted

Tags: Ian Eckstein Adrian Aguilar

07-01-2025 18:08 UTC-8

Liebert Leads Into Ward

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Laura Fryer

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Jared Ward was on the button and against Kathy Liebert in the big blind.

Players were already on the K♣9♦7♣ flop and the pot stood at around 8,000.

Liebert bet out 16,000 and Ward called, taking the players to the 10♣ turn.

Liebert lifted some chips to move into the pot and Ward quickly mucked his hand, passing a sizeable pot to Liebert, who already had built a nice stack.

Ward was left with just under 20 big blinds after the hand and was seen walking away from the tournament area just a few hands later.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kathy Liebert	147,500 147,500	147,500

Jared Ward	Busted

Tags: Jared Ward Kathy Liebert

07-01-2025 18:07 UTC-8

Bolleurs' Queens Crush Nathan

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Erick Torres

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Richard Bolleurs raised from early position before Adam Nathan responded with a jam from the big blind. Bolleurs called to send them to a showdown.

Adam Nathan: J♦J♥ All in
Richard Bolleurs: Q♣Q♠

Nathan was in a world of hurt, and the low card flop of 3♣6♥2♠ did not bring any sense of relief.

The 7♣ turn did not change the standings, and the 8♦ river shut the door on Nathan's hope of a suckout.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dylan Wilkerson	279,000 279,000	279,000
Carlos Barrera	210,000 210,000	210,000
Martin Hogarty	128,000 128,000	128,000
Richard Bolleurs	119,000 119,000	119,000
Yu Liu	56,000 56,000	56,000
Adam Nathan	Busted

Tags: Adam Nathan Richard Bolleurs

07-01-2025 18:06 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Watson	405,000 95,000	95,000
Scott Haley	331,500
Nobuaki Sasaki	320,000
Steven Watts	320,000
Ismael Elyaakoubi	320,000 46,200	46,200
Kevin Huang	305,000
Justin Sharpe	290,500
Nicolas Godard	285,000 45,000	45,000
Robert Allen	282,000 245,600	245,600
Henry Monness	265,000
Christian Tomren	253,000 20,200	20,200
Rahul Rastogi	248,000 221,600	221,600
Robert Champion	240,000
Antonio Payne	238,000 10,500	10,500

Noel Nadal	232,000

Ohayom Turns a Flush, Eliminates Fingarson

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Christopher Mott opened to 5,000 and got called by Nissim Ohayon. Action folded to the big blind, Kasey Fingarson, who shoved all-in for around 29,500. Mott folded but Ohayon made the call, taking them to showdown and putting Fingarson's tournament life on the line.

Kasey Fingarson: A♦Q♥ All in
Nissim Ohayon: K♦10♦

Fingarson was ahead with ace-high on a flop of 4♠3♦6♦ but Ohayon caught himself a flush draw, which got completed on the turn 9♦. The river J♠ was dealt with no consequence sending Fingarson to hit the rails.

Player	Chips	Progress
Christopher Mott	210,000 210,000	210,000
Nissim Ohayon	128,000 128,000	128,000
Kasey Fingarson	Busted

Tags: Christopher Mott Kasey Fingarson Nissim Ohayon

07-01-2025 18:02 UTC-8

Schultz Busts

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Barry Russell

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Bryan Schultz shoved roughly 30,000 from under the gun, Benjamin Streber also shoved all in from the cutoff and the blinds folded.

Bryan Schultz: A♥10♥ All in
Benjamin Streber: A♣Q♦

The board ran out 9♣J♣2♣Q♣3♥, and Schultz was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Christopher Smith	220,000 220,000	220,000
Anthony Sinclair	210,000 210,000	210,000
Beau Stanton	140,000 140,000	140,000
Barry Wilson	140,000 140,000	140,000
Benjamin Streber	75,000 75,000	75,000
Satheesh Francis	72,500 43,300	43,300
Fernando Islas	70,000 70,000	70,000
Michael Marder	40,100 40,100	40,100
Bryan Schultz	Busted