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

07-04-2025 21:32 UTC-8

Some Updated Chip Counts from Horseshoe Gold

Tim Baker

Level 5 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

These chip counts are taken directly from the WSOP+ app.

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Taylor	206,500 61,500	61,500
Daemon Richardson	194,600 64,600	64,600
Michael Sklenicka	168,800
Jason Cooper	157,400
Andreas Kniep	150,200 35,200	35,200
Kunal Patni	145,000 14,600	14,600
Paul Newey	105,200 37,000	37,000
Andreas Berggren	103,900 5,000	5,000
Gabriel Schroeder	100,000 15,000	15,000

Tom Koral	82,000 1,000	1,000

Yudhishter Jaswal	79,600 28,000	28,000
Wendeen Eolis	77,000 17,500	17,500
Lukas Pazma	67,300 18,200	18,200

Nathan Ivarsen	65,000 12,000	12,000
Rodrigo Portaleoni	61,000 1,300	1,300
Henry Fewster	59,300 2,700	2,700
Jordan Glazer	59,000 21,100	21,100
Daniel Tafur	45,500 8,700	8,700
Adam Travis	42,300 5,600	5,600
Glen Cabusas	36,100 13,800	13,800
Mitchell Johnson	29,000 6,500	6,500
Robert Tencza	27,900 19,800	19,800
David Baldanza	25,700 6,300	6,300
Gunner Stever	17,800 35,200	35,200
Brian Borst	12,900 17,600	17,600

07-04-2025 21:37 UTC-8

Updated Chip Counts - Horseshoe Silver

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Stewart Morrison

Level 5 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

Here is a look at the updated chip counts from Horseshoe Silver, courtest of the WSOP+ app.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryuta Nakai	195,200 83,700	83,700
Zhihao Ye	159,000
Ioana Apostol	147,900 87,600	87,600
Lindsey McDougall	130,400 41,000	41,000
Paul Vulpis	130,000 17,900	17,900
Valentin Antoine	126,000 10,000	10,000

Erick Lindgren	112,400 33,600	33,600

Kyle Chang	107,200 12,400	12,400
Syed Saleh	107,000 12,400	12,400
Tomas Szwarcberg	104,300 21,600	21,600
Lucas Greenwood	101,500 1,800	1,800

Louis Warlow	100,000 14,500	14,500
Richard West	97,300 15,200	15,200
Shyam Ravindran	89,500 7,100	7,100
Matan Mesika	84,800 9,600	9,600
David Wintersberger	82,200 7,400	7,400
Zack Marshak	73,000 5,100	5,100
Nikola Gasevic	66,600 2,500	2,500
Sergii Ulitskyi	64,100 11,800	11,800
Ardit Kurshumi	59,500
Hen Rosilio	55,300
Carlos Martinez	53,200 29,300	29,300
Charles Phillips	52,000 16,300	16,300
Asako Kitamura	40,000 38,300	38,300
Richard Spencer	37,100

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07-04-2025 21:42 UTC-8

Bunch's Ladies Win Him the Pot

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Tim Baker

Level 5 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

John Bunch came in with a raise to 1,300 from middle position and only Viktor Blom called from the big blind.

Blom knuckled the action over to Bunch on the 2♠6♠A♥ flop, and Bunch bet 1,300. Blom quickly called.

The 2♣ turn and 8♣ river checked through and Bunch revealed the winner with Q♦Q♥, as Blom showed K♥6♣ for just a pair of sixes.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Bunch	75,000 21,000	21,000
Viktor Blom	55,000 10,300	10,300

Tags: John Bunch Viktor Blom

07-04-2025 22:33 UTC-8

Assorted Chip Updates from Horseshoe Bronze

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 5 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Yueqi Zhu	175,000 36,500	36,500

Jon Kyte	164,000 19,000	19,000
Thi Ngo	137,000 11,100	11,100
Iago Sturzeneker	135,000 19,000	19,000
Raja Chirumamilla	133,000 35,200	35,200
Sean Cha	124,000 26,500	26,500
Marco Dickner	124,000 28,000	28,000
David McGowan	118,000 14,000	14,000
Simon Lofberg	112,000 23,100	23,100

Blake Borden	109,000 19,600	19,600
Justin Jones	97,500 22,500	22,500
Todd Sninski	92,000 32,000	32,000
Nick Eastwood	90,200 80,000	80,000

Boris Angelov	88,000 13,500	13,500
Dimitrios Kilintaris	78,000 6,400	6,400
Peter Brown	65,000
JJ Liu	57,500 2,000	2,000
Hannah Richardson	52,000 15,400	15,400
Adrian State	48,100 5,600	5,600
Sebastian Zalazar	47,000 48,000	48,000
Matthew Waterfall	46,000 21,700	21,700
Michael Reisman	46,000 42,000	42,000

Philip Sternheimer	45,000 47,000	47,000

Ming Yew Liow	43,100 8,100	8,100
Michael Niegsch	42,000 15,000	15,000

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07-04-2025 23:12 UTC-8

Anderson Over 200k

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Dan O'Hair

Level 5 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

Heads-up on a flop of J♣7♦K♣, Joshua Rotenberg bet 1,200 from early position and Calvin Anderson called from middle position.

Rotenberg check-called a 2,000 bet from Anderson on the 10♣ turn, but check-folded after Anderson announced a bet of 7,000 on the Q♣ river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Calvin Anderson	205,000 90,000	90,000

Joshua Rotenberg	48,000 48,000	48,000

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07-04-2025 23:18 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Adrian State	Busted
Julien Martini	Busted

Or nEzer	Busted

Rafael Souza	Busted
Michael Reed	Busted
Ryan Hughes	Busted

Alexander Sokolovsky	Busted
Abilio Neto	Busted
Erwin Wiechers	Busted
Heather Alcorn	Busted
Xixiang Luo	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Adrian State	Busted
Julien Martini	Busted

Or nEzer	Busted

Rafael Souza	Busted
Michael Reed	Busted
Ryan Hughes	Busted

Alexander Sokolovsky	Busted
Abilio Neto	Busted
Erwin Wiechers	Busted
Heather Alcorn	Busted
Xixiang Luo	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Andriy Lyubovetskiy	392,400 57,400	57,400

Bin Weng	336,000 14,000	14,000
Eric Bunch	309,300 3,700	3,700
Brendon Kaufman	256,500 256,500	256,500
Igor Picone	256,000 58,200	58,200
Colin Beveridge	237,400 81,900	81,900
Braxton Dunaway	234,800 5,200	5,200

Randall Lack	232,200 232,200	232,200
Paul Taylor	232,200 25,700	25,700
Ray Medlin	230,400 230,291	230,291
Calvin Anderson	230,200 25,200	25,200

Saymon Dias	229,000 229,000	229,000
Joshua Boulton	224,700 224,700	224,700

James Farrelly	216,700 216,700	216,700
Alex Lynskey	216,600 216,600	216,600
Yoon Choi	216,300 3,700	3,700
Brad Brown	214,900 214,900	214,900
Kyriacos Hajikypri	214,500 214,500	214,500
Tian Liu	213,800 213,800	213,800
Marte Sandberg	213,300 16,200	16,200
Yueqi Zhu	211,100 36,100	36,100

Umang Dattani	210,800 210,800	210,800
Joshua Quint	209,200 209,200	209,200
Sergio Da Silva Veloso	209,000 209,000	209,000
Charles Pinckernell	208,400 208,400	208,400

Andriy Lyubovetskiy Leads, Bin Weng Bags Piles on Day 1c of Main Event

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 5 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

The most anticipated poker tournament of the year continued today, with players from around the world descending on the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas, for Day 1c of EVENT #81: $10,000 WSOP MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold’em World Championship.

The third of four starting flights began with 1,114 entries, with the attendance increasing to 1,678 by the end of the night after five two-hour levels, at which point 1,249 players remained.

Day 1c Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Andriy Lyubovetskiy	Ukraine	392,400	491
2	Bin Weng	United States	336,000	420
3	Eric Bunch	United States	309,300	387
4	Brendon Kaufman	United States	256,500	321
5	Igor Picone	Belgium	256,000	320
6	Colin Beveridge	United States	237,400	297
7	Braxton Dunaway	United States	234,800	294
8	Randall Lack	United States	232,200	290
9	Paul Taylor	United States	232,200	290
10	Ray Medlin	United States	230,400	288

Two-time bracelet winner Andriy Lyubovetskiy finished the night at the top of the counts with an impressive 392,400 chips, worth 491 big blinds going into Day 2.

Just behind Lyubovetskiy is Bin Weng, who ended Day 1c with 354,800. Weng soared up to the top of the leaderboard late in the night after making an epic hero call against Scott Kahler. With over nine million in career tournament earnings and three seven-figure scores under his belt, Weng has been crushing large-field no-limit hold’em tournaments for the past seven years and will be a force to be reckoned with going into Day 2.

The 2023 Monster Stack Champion Braxton Dunaway bagged one of the largest stacks of the day with 234,800. Dunaway began rapidly ascending the counts in the last two levels of the night after getting three streets of value with pocket queens on a jack-high runout.

Day 1c Action

Despite the Main Event’s slow structure, Yueqi Zhu wasted no time scoring the first elimination of the day in the first half-hour. Zhu was on the right side of a classic cooler, holding pocket aces over Thomas Henshaw’s pocket kings. With both players flopping an overpair in a four-bet pot, Henshaw check-called the flop, led the turn and shoved the river on a queen-high runout. Zhu correctly called to put a hasty end to Henshaw’s Main Event.

Another brutal cooler took place shortly after Henshaw’s elimination. In what can only be described as the ultimate action flop, Tam Ho flopped top set, Paul Vupis flopped middle set, and Zack Marshak flopped the second-nut straight. A raising war ensued that saw Marshak fold the best hand before Vupis called Ho’s all-in. Vupis hit his one out on the turn to make quads and Ho was out the door after failing to produce a one-outer of his own on the river.

Vanessa Selbst made a rare appearance in today’s starting flight. Despite retiring from professional poker in 2018, the three-time bracelet winner showed little rust as she navigated through today’s Main Event field. Selbst picked up a big pot with pocket kings midway through the day and was able to ride that momentum en route to bagging a respectable 155,200 by the end of the night.

Some notables to make it through Day 1c include Calvin Anderson (230,200), Jon Kyte (206,200), Lucas Greenwood (193,600, Michael Addamo (92,600), Philip Sternheimer (91,900), Boris Angelov (82,500) and Jack Sinclair (72,900). All players who made it through the day will join the Day 1a and Day 1b survivors for Day 2abc on July 6.

Among those to see their Main Event aspirations come to an end today were Xixiang Luo, Julien Martini, Punnat Punsri, Vlad Darie and Ryan Bambrick.

Full chip counts for Day 1c will be posted as soon as they become available. Day 1d kicks off Saturday, July 5 at noon while late registration remains open until the end of Level 7 on Day 2.

Stay tuned to Pokernews for all your live coverage needs for the 2025 WSOP Main Event.

Tags: Andriy Lyubovetskiy Bin Weng Boris Angelov Braxton Dunaway Calvin Anderson Jack Sinclair Jon Kyte Julien Martini Lucas Greenwood Michael Addamo Paul Vupis Philip Sternheimer Punnat Punsri Ryan Bambrick Scott Kahler Tam Ho Thomas Henshaw Vanessa Selbst Vlad Darie Xixiang Luo Zack Marshak