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

07-04-2025 12:54 UTC-8

Varkonyi "Straddle" Turns into Preflop Fireworks

Dan O'Hair

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

2002 Main Event Champ Robert Varkonyi jokingly put in a 400 blind raise from under the gun as a "straddle" and was three-bet to 1,200 by Paul Guilbeau from the hijack. Just behind him in the cutoff, Manuel Lopez made it 3,000 to go. Not to be outdone, Jonathan Snyder five-bet to 11,000 from the big blind.

"What have I started?" Varkonyi said as he folded.

Guilbeau quickly folded and Lopez said, "I don't think these are any good," as he open-folded pocket queens.

Snyder made no comment and slid his cards into the muck before collecting the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonathan Snyder	65,000 65,000	65,000
Paul Guilbeau	61,000 61,000	61,000
Manuel Lopez	57,000 57,000	57,000
Robert Varkonyi	55,000 5,000	5,000

Tags: Jonathan Snyder Manuel Lopez Paul Guilbeau Robert Varkonyi

07-04-2025 12:56 UTC-8

Cabusas Chips Up Slightly

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Tim Baker

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Paul Taylor made it 500 to go from middle position with Glen Cabusas calling from the small blind, and Daemon Richardson calling out of the big blind.

Everyone checked the 6♦2♠7♣ flop to see the 5♥ appear on the turn. Cabusas led out for 1,000, which only Richardson called.

Both players checked the 3♣ river and Cabusas revealed 8x6x for a pair of sixes to win the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daemon Richardson	76,600 1,900	1,900
Glen Cabusas	64,000
Paul Taylor	57,500

Tags: Daemon Richardson Glen Cabusas Paul Taylor

07-04-2025 12:56 UTC-8

Queens Flops Quads to Beat Aces and Kings

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Frank Visser

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Shawn Partovi in the big blind, Ole Nygaard in middle position, and Emery Martindale in the hijack had gathered a humongous pot of 56,000 when they saw the Q♥3♥Q♣10♣ turn. All three checked to the 6♠ river, where Partovi bet 8,000.

Nygaard tossed in a call, and Martindale quickly followed suit.

Partovi stood up and triumphantly smashed his Q♠Q♦ on the table. His flopped quads sent the cards of Nygaard and Martindale to the muck.

"I almost folded preflop," Martindale claimed, stating he had pocket kings. The whole table agreed Nygaard could only have had aces as Partovi was awarded the giant pile of chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shawn Partovi	103,000
Emery Martindale	39,000
Ole Nygaard	30,000

Tags: Emery Martindale Ole Nygaard Shawn Partovi

07-04-2025 13:03 UTC-8

Assorted Counts in Horseshoe Red

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Liam Gannon

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Wagner Wysotchanski	93,000 12,000	12,000
Damarjai Davenport	90,300 2,000	2,000
Tamas Lendvai	85,300 17,300	17,300

Craig Trost	78,000 18,000	18,000
Max Pescatori	73,000 13,000	13,000

Romain Lewis	72,000

Michael Newman	71,500 11,500	11,500
Lara Eisenberg	71,200

Cero Zuccarello	71,000
Mike Lancaster	68,500
Calvin Anderson	66,000 6,000	6,000

James Hundt	60,600 600	600
Everett Carlton	58,000
Aditya Prasetyo	56,000
Freddy Deeb	56,000 4,000	4,000

Michael Perrone	55,300

Wesley Cannon	44,000 16,000	16,000
Brendan Shiller	43,000 17,000	17,000
Mitchell Collins	42,000
Eric Bunch	39,000 21,000	21,000
Sung Lee	33,000
Bin Weng	26,300 33,700	33,700

07-04-2025 13:03 UTC-8

Artee Annihilates Stack After Running Into Aces

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Frank Visser

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Constantino Artee had gotten his stack of 53,500 in before the flop and was at risk against Dennis Morrison.

Constantino Artee: K♠K♥ All in
Dennis Morrison: A♠A♣

Morrison left Artee drawing dead after the J♦Q♦4♦A♦ turn, and the meaningless Q♠ river completed the board.

Artee saw his Main Event dreams crushed in Level 1, while Morisson gleefully raked in the pot, which was worth about 550 big blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dennis Morrison	110,000
Constantino Artee	Busted

Tags: Constantino Artee Dennis Morrison

07-04-2025 13:05 UTC-8

Break

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Liam Gannon

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

The players have gone on a 20-minute break.

Here below are some of the highlights of the past two hours of play.

07-04-2025 13:24 UTC-8

Top Twenty Stacks

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Liam Gannon

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

These players have been listed as the biggest stacks in the tournament according to WSOP+

Player	Chips	Progress
Sung Choi	140,000 140,000	140,000
Marcio Zacconi	133,000 133,000	133,000
Marte Sandberg	131,000 131,000	131,000
Lirui Zhang	126,000 126,000	126,000
Darrell Washburn	123,000 123,000	123,000
Paul Vulpis	122,000 10,000	10,000
Majed Abusaid	120,400 120,400	120,400
Can Miral	117,000 117,000	117,000
Victoria Livschitz	115,700 55,700	55,700
Arnaud Mattern	115,500 115,500	115,500
Yueqi Zhu	115,500 5,500	5,500

John Wasnock	112,600 112,600	112,600

Cyrille Rousset	112,300 112,300	112,300
Yuya Kita	111,000 111,000	111,000
John White	110,000 110,000	110,000
Damarjai Davenport	110,000 19,700	19,700
Marvin Rosenglick	108,600 108,600	108,600
Kenneth Der	106,600 106,600	106,600
Paul Berthiaume	106,000 106,000	106,000

Level: 2

Blinds: 200/300

Ante: 300

07-04-2025 13:27 UTC-8

Updates Chip Counts from Gold Section

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Tim Baker

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Some of these chip counts have been taken directly from the WSOP+ app.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Koral	83,000 23,000	23,000

Daemon Richardson	78,500 1,900	1,900
Glen Cabusas	76,000 12,000	12,000
Brian Borst	75,400 15,400	15,400
Nathan Ivarsen	73,000 10,000	10,000
Paul Taylor	72,000 14,500	14,500
Mikki Mase	71,000 1,800	1,800
Michael Sklenicka	68,800 8,800	8,800
Paul Newey	67,600 7,600	7,600
Andreas Kniep	67,000 7,000	7,000
Viktor Blom	63,500 6,200	6,200
Portia McDaniels	63,000 800	800

Adam Travis	62,500 2,500	2,500
Timmy Tran	62,400 11,100	11,100
Kunal Patni	62,000 2,000	2,000
Mitchell Johnson	62,000 2,000	2,000
Simon Higgins	62,000 62,000	62,000
Yudhishter Jaswal	62,000 7,200	7,200
Wendeen Eolis	61,500 1,500	1,500
Alexandre Mantovani	61,000 1,000	1,000

Henry Fewster	58,000 2,000	2,000
Andreas Berggren	57,500 2,500	2,500
Gabriel Schroeder	54,000 6,000	6,000

Refael Dahan	53,200
Lewis Spencer	51,700 8,300	8,300

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07-04-2025 13:29 UTC-8

Assorted Horseshoe Counts

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Frank Visser

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

As per the WSOP+ App

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Hunichen	81,000 21,000	21,000

Jake Cody	75,000 15,000	15,000

Max Pescatori	73,000

Lee Johnson	71,800 21,800	21,800
Heather Alcorn	68,500 8,500	8,500
Gary Blackwood	68,100 8,100	8,100
Samuel Ju	64,600 4,600	4,600
Vanessa Selbst	60,100 100	100

Ognyan Dimov	60,000

Dan Shak	60,000
Bruno Fitoussi	59,000 1,000	1,000
Kelvin Kerber	58,200 1,800	1,800

Ahir Chatterjee	56,000 27,300	27,300
Rutger Hennen	50,900 9,100	9,100
David Susigan	42,200
Katie Swift	25,200 34,800	34,800

Bin Weng	15,700 10,600	10,600