Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship Day 1b | 2025 World Series of Poker

07-03-2025 15:55 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
David Kaufmann	176,500 84,000	84,000
Alessandro Pagliuso	151,200 51,200	51,200
Jason Weissman	98,700 1,100	1,100
Raoul Kanme	94,000 34,000	34,000
Petko Tsakov	89,100 9,100	9,100
Simeon Tsonev	89,000 29,000	29,000
Andrew Brown	87,900 4,400	4,400

Daniel Ott	82,400 23,700	23,700
Stephen Friedrich	76,500 7,100	7,100
Gustavo Barbero	74,500 3,600	3,600
Ioannis Pentefountas	73,000 13,200	13,200
Sonny Lee	66,200 11,800	11,800
Niklas Astedt	66,000 5,400	5,400
Tom Sinistaj	64,500 4,400	4,400
Leo Margets	60,300 13,300	13,300

Mike Krescanko	60,000 600	600
Phil Hellmuth	60,000

Ron Ware	56,500 1,200	1,200

Daniel Myers	51,000 9,100	9,100
David Boyaciyan	49,200 10,800	10,800
Juan Cantu	44,100 15,200	15,200
Arunas Sapitavicius	43,900 7,200	7,200
An Kiang	43,200 1,400	1,400
Adrian Strobel	41,100 10,000	10,000
Jerry Lim	39,200 6,000	6,000

Updates Counts After the Break

Laura Fryer

Level 3 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Hager	141,000 58,000	58,000
David Vanreyk	101,800
Brendan Buckner	100,200 51,900	51,900
Jake Buckley	96,300 28,800	28,800
Harold Hauck	94,200 16,200	16,200
Dana Howard	86,000 8,000	8,000
David Frutchey	82,000
Justin Belforti	78,000 3,100	3,100
Lam Loi	77,300 23,300	23,300
Kevin Gimble	76,800 23,700	23,700
Jean-Francois Alexandre	75,200 12,100	12,100
Sebastian Crane	74,400 7,600	7,600
Evgeni Tourevski	70,000 33,000	33,000
Steve Sebbag	68,800 13,600	13,600
Edward Rosenbaum	64,000
Michael Krescanko Jr	63,700 17,400	17,400
Patrick Hall	58,000 4,000	4,000
Alexandre Vuilleumier	57,800

Gaoming Zhu	57,100
Matthew Kenyon	45,100 30,900	30,900
Victor Chu	44,900 500	500
Alan Skriel	42,400 3,100	3,100
Jeffrey Tench	41,000 25,500	25,500
Anatoly Nikitin	40,700 29,300	29,300
Sergi Reixach	39,000 6,900	6,900

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Level: 3

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

07-03-2025 15:38 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Dustin Sampey	192,200 2,200	2,200
James Gorham	182,500 37,500	37,500

Brian Tolley	169,300 14,600	14,600
Kai Yang	150,100 53,100	53,100
Ian Pelz	140,000 6,500	6,500

Eben Kurtzman	132,200 12,800	12,800
Jamie Nixon	119,600 12,500	12,500

Guifang Liu	113,000 18,000	18,000
Kevin Rabichow	112,800 4,100	4,100

Robert Zeidman	101,500 24,300	24,300
Artur Martirosian	94,500 4,500	4,500

Espen Sandvik	87,500 27,500	27,500

Yuri Dzivielevski	85,700 9,200	9,200

Max Hoffman	85,600 25,600	25,600
Daniel Negreanu	85,500 42,000	42,000

Eric Baldwin	84,900 4,900	4,900

Ana Marquez	84,300 1,700	1,700
Kyna England	83,300 4,000	4,000
Aaron Barone	83,200 200	200

Dillon Ott	82,400 5,400	5,400
David Frutchey	82,000 5,000	5,000
Max Steinberg	80,500 8,200	8,200

Daniel Zadok	73,000 14,500	14,500
Monika Zukowicz	70,000 2,000	2,000
Michael Mizrachi	68,300

Players Take Second Break

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Stewart Morrison

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

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.

07-03-2025 15:17 UTC-8

Update Chips Counts Horseshoe Red

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Barry Russell

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Rabichow	116,900 3,100	3,100

Randy Barry	102,000 18,000	18,000
Artur Martirosian	99,000 8,000	8,000

Nicholas Marchington	85,000 14,500	14,500
Yoon Shin	78,100 22,000	22,000
Paul Otto	70,600 5,600	5,600
Andrea Cobbe	59,600 2,400	2,400
Andrew Murphy	57,000 1,000	1,000
Arif Rahim	56,000 3,000	3,000
Michael Kuney	53,000 53,000	53,000
Baris Caliskan	48,400 14,600	14,600
Mariano Molino	48,100 9,900	9,900
Gavin Sardini	47,000 23,000	23,000
Carlos Ibarra	44,300 300	300
Rosalie Petit	42,000 12,800	12,800
John Krupey	40,200 21,000	21,000
Timothy Barchie	40,200 19,000	19,000
Shota Kashiyama	33,200 10,000	10,000
Arnaud Fabre	31,000 8,000	8,000
Yujiro Fukushima	30,100 22,000	22,000
John Colich	28,000 7,000	7,000
Tiago Abreu	22,200 2,200	2,200
Shachaf Sholdman	Busted
Luiz Hota Neto	Busted

07-03-2025 15:16 UTC-8

Grazziotin Backdoors It

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Jacob Wilson

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matheus Grazziotin	70,000 70,000	70,000
Sebastian Hellmann	20,500 31,300	31,300

Tags: Sebastian Hellmann Matheus Grazziotin

07-03-2025 15:13 UTC-8

Knapp Shoves the Turn on Kuziv

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David Salituro

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ivan Kuziv	50,000
Rene Knapp	42,000

Tags: Ivan Kuziv Rene Knapp

07-03-2025 15:13 UTC-8

Updated Chip Counts

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Maxime Taldir

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kai Yang	97,000 32,000	32,000
Jay Romano	88,000 25,000	25,000
Robin Gerard	88,000 32,000	32,000
Ana Marquez	86,000 26,000	26,000
Julien Loire	85,000 16,100	16,100
Pedro Marques	85,000 85,000	85,000
Dillon Ott	77,000 15,000	15,000
Gabriel Nastasa	75,000 9,000	9,000
Jake Schwartz	75,000 15,000	15,000
Nikita Kuznetsov	70,000 10,000	10,000
Felipe Ketzer	60,000 8,000	8,000
Ka Kwan Lau	60,000 60,000	60,000

Noah Schwartz	59,000 1,000	1,000

Kevin Kernan	58,000 2,000	2,000
Tim Reilly	57,000 3,000	3,000
Cole Ferraro	57,000 3,000	3,000

Xiang Lian	47,000 21,500	21,500
Matthew Gouge	44,000 10,000	10,000
Michael Gathy	36,000 8,600	8,600

Kenneth Zuspan	32,000 13,000	13,000

07-03-2025 15:12 UTC-8

Williams Gets One Through

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Frank Visser

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

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.