Mario Diaz Quilez raised on the button to 3,400,000. Ran Kadur asked for a count of his entire stack, which was 6,800,000. Kadur then moved all in, and Diaz Quilez called.
Mario Diaz Quilez: A♣7♦
Ran Kadur: 8♥8♦
Diaz Quilez needed help, but the board of J♣10♥2♠Q♦3♥ board did not provide it, and he finished in seventh place.
Daniel Schill began the hand with a raise to 1,600,000 from the hijack before he was called in two spots by Nick Ahmadi in the small blind and Jason Li in the big blind to create a three-handed pot.
All three players checked the 8♦J♥7♥ flop.
Ahmadi bet 2,500,000 on the 5♣ turn. Li responded with a raise to 5,200,000, which elicited a fold from Schill. Ahmadi called to send the hand to a river.
Both players checked the 4♣ river. Ahmadi showed Q♠Q♦ for pocket queens, and Li did not show as he threw his cards in the muck.
Ran Kadur opened to 1,700,000 in middle position and got called by Daniel Schill in the big blind to the see the flop.
The flop came 2♠Q♣10♣. Schill check-called Kadur's bet of 1,500,000. The same thing happened on the A♠ turn when Kadur bet 2,200,000 which Schill called.
Action slowed on the river 7♠ where both players tapped the felt.
Schill turned over Q♦J♣ for a pair of queens on the flop. Victoriously, Kadur flipped over A♣K♣ for top pair.
Daniel Schill raised to 1.6 million from the cutoff. Nick Ahmadi called from the big blind.
The flop came A♦4♣3♣, and Ahmadi checked. Schill bet 1,400,000, and Ahmadi called.
On the Q♦ turn, Schill now bet 4,000,000 after Ahamdi checked. Once again, Ahmadi called.
The river brought the Q♥, and Ahmadi checked a third time. Schill put out a large stack of chips, totaling a bet of 9,000,000. Ahmadi didn't waste any time calling. Schill turned over the A♣K♣, which was good, and he dragged a large pot.
Ran Kadur opened to 1,700,000 from the cutoff and got a three-bet to 4,800,000 from Nick Ahmadi on the button. Jorge Dominguez thought for a second, then announced all in for 7,800,000. Kadur got out of the way, and Ahmadi asked for a count.
Dominguez was telling Ahmadi to just call, but Ahmadi replied he wanted a count to be sure how much he'd have to call. After the count was done, he made the call.
Jorge Dominguez: A♦Q♦
Nick Ahmadi: A♣10♥
Dominguez let out a cheer when he saw he dominated Ahmadi. He was looking at a potential double-up when the flop dropped 9♣8♠7♦, giving Ahmadi an open-ended straight draw.
Dominguez started saying, "No" indicating he didn't want a card to complete Ahmadi's straight, and clapped when the 5♦ came on the turn. He anxiously waited for the river to be dealt with when the A♠ came, making his double-up a certainty.
At which point, Kadur commented that if Ahmadi hadn't pushed him out of the hand, Dominguez would have been eliminated. Pretending to be pained by the comment, Dominguez said with a smile, "I thought you were my friend."
The final six are set in Event #78: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship after 55 players entered Day 3 at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) vying for the top prize of $302,165, the WSOP gold bracelet, and the 24-karat gold PokerNews Deepstack Championship winner’s coin at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
Daniel Schill finished as the headliner. Schill entered Day 3 as the chip leader, and accomplished the feat of going back-to-back days of leading the chip standings as he managed to put together a strong run towards the end of Day 3 to top the charts with 41,000,000. Schill is searching for his first WSOP bracelet, and should he pull off a victory, he would nearly triple his recorded career earnings.
Final Table Seating and Chip Counts
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Nicolas Godard
France
23,200,000
23
2
Ran Kadur
Israel
31,300,000
31
3
Nick Ahmadi
United States
36,200,000
36
4
Jason Li
Canada
23,500,000
24
5
Jorge Dominguez
Argentina
15,600,000
16
6
Daniel Schill
United States
41,000,000
41
Day 3 Action
Although he entered and finished the day as chip leader, it was not smooth sailing for Schill. He began to fade, especially after he ran into a cooler when he got the chips in with pocket kings versus the pocket aces of Xizhe Yuan, which saw him dip down to below eight million. Schill began to walk on the comeback trail and reestablished his footing when he eliminated Assaf Zeharia to cross the 20-million mark. He hovered above that mark until he culminated his evening by winning a big pot against Nick Ahmadi to take over the chip lead.
Nick Ahmadi
Ahmadi had a tremendous rise on Day 3 despite his setback against Schill to end the evening. He did not enter Day 3 atop the standings, but battled his way to finish second in chips (36,200,000) by the end of the day. Ahmadi announced his presence at the unofficial final table when he scored knockouts over Nathan Thrush and Aditya Sushant to propel up the leaderboard. He kept his foot on the gas and clashed with Jason Li in a pot that shot him into first in chips. Ahmadi will look to add to his resume, which has just over seven figures in recorded career earnings, but the WSOP gold bracelet is not something he has accomplished yet in his career.
Ran Kadur
Ran Kadur finished the day third in chips (31,300,000), and like Ahmadi, did not enter the day as a top ten stack, yet had a strong day to end in a position to win it all on the final day. Kadur doubled against Felix Mcpeake early in the day, but still hovered near the middle of the pack as they entered the final three-table redraw. He rose up the charts and hit the final two tables healthy, but his big push began in earnest after he eliminated Pablo Valdes in eighth place and Mario Diaz Quilez in seventh place. He then took a bite out of Ahmadi to establish himself as a stack to be reckoned with towards the end of the evening.
Final Table Results / Remaining Payouts
Place
Player
Country
Prize (USD)
1
$302,165
2
$201,233
3
$149,601
4
$112,101
5
$84,676
6
$64,477
7
Mario Diaz Quilez
Spain
$49,497
8
Pablo Valdes
Mexico
$38,310
9
Aditya Sushant
India
$29,897
Play will resume at 11 a.m. local time with the blinds at 500,000/1,000,000 as they play down to a champion.
Stay tuned here at PokerNews for updates on the final table and a newly crowned champion, as well as updates throughout the rest of the summer.
