Calvin Steiner raised on the button to 700, James Alvarez three-bet to 2,100 from the small blind, Chun Law four-bet to 5,400 from the big blind, Steiner folded but Alvarez made the call.
Law bet 3,000 when the flop came 5♥2♥3♦, Alvarez check-called. Law continued with a bet of 6,500 on the 5♦ turn, Alvarez check-called again. Both players checked on the 5♠ river.
Alvarez tabled A♦J♦, but could not beat Law's pair of Q♠Q♣.
Day 1b has just seen its 1,000th entry.
This brings the total entries for the 2025 WSOP Main Event to 1,923. Of those entries, 1,603 still have chips to play with.
Players still in the field include Kevin Rabichow, Yuri Dzivielevski, Niklas Astedt, John Hennigan, Mike Matusow and Nick Schulman.
Players were already on the river looking at 5♥4♣2♣A♦7♣ board. The pot stood at around 14,000.
Sebastian Crane was in middle position and bet 8,200. Jake Parsons moved all in from the cutoff for his remaining 37,100, only just covering Crane.
Crane took less than a minute, but made the call, putting himself at risk of an early elimination.
Sebastian Crane showed K♣J♣ and Jake Parsons flipped over A♣K♦.
Parson's pair of aces didn't stand up to Crane's flush, and he was left with just 1,100 to play with.
In the next hand, Michael Hager opened from middle position to 800 and Sergi Reixach called from late position.
Parsons moved all in for his last 1,1000 and Evgeni Tourevski called from the cutoff. Rene Majed called from the small blind, and so did the remaining players who called the initial bet. A player at the table commended to Parsons, "Well you are getting some value, good luck mate".
The J♣6♥K♣ flop saw Hager check and Reixach bet, with only Majed calling.
The 9♥ turn was checked to the 3♥ river and Majed bet 4,000 which saw Reixach fold, leaving him to go heads-up to showdown with Parsons.
Jake Parsons: 8♣8♥
Rene Majed: J♠9♠
Majed took the pot, leaving Parsons to be eliminated from the freezeout.
Bohdan Slyvinskyi bet 800 on the 10♣7♣J♣ flop, which Kevin Williams raised to 2,500. Slyvinskyi called to the 2♥ turn, where he quickly called Williams' next bet of 6,000.
Williams then put in 16,000 on the 8♥ river, and Slyvinskyi check-folded after some moments in the tank.
Rene Knapp and Ivan Kuziv built a pot of around 7,000 as they went heads-up to the 6♠5♠4♦ flop. Knapp then bet 3,500 from the hijack and Kuziv called in the small blind.
The turn was the K♦ and Knapp moved all in for 27,100. Kuziv spent nearly five minutes in the tank considering the decision, but he eventually folded and Knapp returned his cards face down and raked in the pot.
Five players saw a flop of K♦A♣6♥ in a single raised pot. All five checked their action, bringing in the 9♥ on the turn. Here, Sebastian Hellmann bet out for 2,000, with only Matheus Grazziotin making the call.
The dealer put out the J♥ river, and Hellmann bet out again, this time for 5,000. Grazziotin wasted no time in raising, as he chose a sizing of 16,000. Hellmann clearly wasn't happy with the situation he'd been put in, but ended up making the call either way. He mucked after Grazziotin showed K♥8♥ for the second nut flush.
The second level of the 2025 WSOP Main Event is complete, and players are taking their second 20-minute break.
So far, Day 1b has seen 1,020 entries, and of those, 974 remain.
Here are some highlights from the most recent level:
Play is expected to resume at 4:40 p.m. local time, and the players will return to 200/400 blind levels with a 400 big blind ante.
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