2025 World Series of Poker

Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship
Day: 2abc
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
103
Prize
$10,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$90,535,500
Entries
9,735
Level Info
Level
41
Blinds
1,000,000 / 2,500,000
Ante
2,500,000
Players Info - Day 2abc
Entries
2,946
Players Left
1,320
Players Left 1 / 9735

All Heart, No Hearts

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Donovan Dean, playing from the cutoff, and big blind John Barr had already constructed a pot of roughly 50,000 by the time the turn was dealt.

The flop 1062 was already out, and the dealer added the A turn card to the board.

Barr led out with a bet of 25,000, but Dean seemingly wanted to play a bigger pot, putting in a raise to 69,000.

Action back to Barr, who took some time to consider all of his options. After a minute or so, he moved all in, covering his opponent. There were no theatrics from Dean, who immediately folded.

Barr then windmilled the Q across the table, to show he didn't have a flush. Dean joined in the fun by exposing the K from his hand, implying he was bluffing, too.

"Same hand [as me]?" Barr asked.

"I had king-jack, but I had the jack of hearts" was the response from Dean.

Barr ended the conversation by saying, "I had king-queen", which, in a way, meant he was value betting.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of John Barr us
John Barr
294,000
132,800
132,800
Profile photo of Donovan Dean us
Donovan Dean
122,000
45,000
45,000

Tags: Donovan DeanJohn Barr