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

07-05-2025 20:55 UTC-8

Recent Casualties on Day 1d

Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Yoshitaka Okawa	Busted
Jacob Baumgartner	Busted
Ruslan Dykshteyn	Busted
Ryota Nagata	Busted
Quan Zhou	Busted
Keisuke Sakaguchi	Busted
Arthur Morris	Busted
Michael Soyza	Busted

Lily Kiletto	Busted
Reiji Kono	Busted
Kyriakos Papadopoulos	Busted

Danny Pyke	Busted
Robert Mizrachi	Busted

Farah Galfond	Busted
Peyman Luth	Busted
Jordan Westmorland	Busted
Jamie Vilela	Busted
Marsha Wolak	Busted

Dominik Panka	Busted

Andrey Zaichenko	Busted

Robert West	Busted
Martin Sedlak	Busted
Lucas Reeves	Busted
Jonathan Dimmig	Busted

Heni Mokni	Busted

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07-05-2025 20:49 UTC-8

Rast Back to Half the Starting Stack

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Tim Baker

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

After Mykola Kostyrko checked from the big blind on a flop of 5♦Q♣2♣, Brian Rast put out a bet from early position, with Russell Sartin calling from the hijack. Kostyrko check-raised to 7,300, which only Rast called.

Upon seeing the J♣ turn, Kostyrko paused for a long time before checking the action over to Rast, who checked behind.

The A♠ river got another check from Kostyrko, but Rast bet 12,300. Kostyrko deliberated for a while before ultimately folding and allowing Rast to drag in the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Russell Sartin	70,000
Mykola Kostyrko	35,200
Brian Rast	30,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: Russell Sartin Brian Rast

07-05-2025 20:49 UTC-8

Observed Stacks

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Frank Visser

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Dean Hutchison	99,000 13,000	13,000
Isaac Haxton	85,000 25,000	25,000

Niall Farrell	62,500 9,900	9,900

Eric Mizrachi	52,500 40,200	40,200
Leonard August	40,000 16,000	16,000
[Removed:554]	35,000 4,900	4,900
Arthur Morris	34,600 32,400	32,400

07-05-2025 20:47 UTC-8

Jha Personally Keeping Kornuth Alive

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David Salituro

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Heads-up on a flop of 9♠7♠4♥, Chance Kornuth bet 1,500 from the cutoff and Mrityunjay Jha called in the big blind.

The turn was the Q♥ and Jha led out for 4,500. Kornuth called to see the 7♣ river, where Jha bet another 6,500, representing most of Kornuth's remaining stack.

Kornuth stopped to take a sip of his tea before calling as Jha showed 10♥8♥ for a missed straight draw. Kornuth turned over A♠9♥ for two pair to win the pot.

"Chance, if you win this tournament, you owe him at least 10 percent," a tablemate said.

"He'll make the Christmas list for sure," Kornuth replied.

"I've doubled him up three times already," Jha added.

"And I still have half of a starting stack," Kornuth said.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mrityunjay Jha	120,000
Chance Kornuth	30,000 40,600	40,600

Tags: Chance Kornuth Mrityunjay Jha

07-05-2025 20:29 UTC-8

New in Yellow

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Frank Visser

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Lars Kamphues	60,000
Max Kruse	60,000

Nicolas Milgrom	60,000

Long Tran	60,000
David Williams	60,000

Dash Dudley	60,000

Isaac Haxton	60,000

Dominick Sarle	60,000

07-05-2025 20:20 UTC-8

Apartoglou's Aggression Gets Kessler to Fold

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Tim Baker

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Spyridon Apartoglou raised preflop and Allen Kessler defended from the big blind.

Kessler checked the 9♦K♥6♠ flop and Apartoglou bet 1,000. Kessler didn't take long to slide out the call.

When the 10♠ came on the turn, Kessler chose to lead out for 2,400. Apartoglou raised to 6,500, which was enough to get Kessler to fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Spyridon Apartoglou	85,000 85,000	85,000
Allen Kessler	50,000 15,000	15,000

Tags: Allen Kessler Spyridon Apartoglou

07-05-2025 20:01 UTC-8

Zapolski Leads Into Table Leader

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Frank Visser

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Three-way to the Q♦9♣3♣8♥ turn, Vernon Barlow made a bet of 1,600 from the big blind. Krzystof Zapolski called in late position before Najeem Ajez raised to 8,500 in the hijack.

Barlow said goodbye to his cards, but Zapolski tossed in a call after some thinking time. The J♣ came on the river, and Zapolski decided to take the initiative with a bet of 11,500.

Ajez tanked for a couple of minutes, but eventually decided to fold his hand, surrendering the pot to his neighbor.

Player	Chips	Progress
Najeem Ajez	149,500 10,500	10,500
Krzystof Zapolski	101,000
David Peters	86,000 3,500	3,500

Jesse Lonis	67,500 5,500	5,500

Paul Hong	37,000 1,800	1,800
Vernon Barlow	20,200 9,000	9,000
Luis Galvao	15,000

07-05-2025 19:43 UTC-8

Updated Chip Stacks in Paris Black; Yau Takes His Seat

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David Salituro

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe Ford	120,000 3,500	3,500
Chad Eveslage	120,000 20,000	20,000

Vanessa Kade	110,000 10,000	10,000
Lexy Gavin-Mather	90,000 40,000	40,000

Thea Booysen	85,000 5,000	5,000
Frederic Delval	80,000 25,000	25,000
Dan Sepiol	80,000 10,000	10,000

Mikita Badziakouski	75,000 75,000	75,000

Ryan Riess	65,000

Rene Nezhoda	65,000 5,000	5,000
Ethan Yau	60,000 60,000	60,000

Eoghan O'Dea	60,000 60,000	60,000
Bob Slezak	55,000 5,000	5,000

Cecile Ticherfatine	50,000 50,000	50,000
Dragos Trofimov	45,000 5,600	5,600
Sylvain Loosli	45,000 2,100	2,100

Loni Hui	45,000 25,000	25,000

Malcolm Franchi	40,000 40,000	40,000
Francis Obadun	30,000 25,000	25,000
Doug Polk	28,000 2,000	2,000

Farah Galfond	25,000 1,800	1,800
Daniel Rezaei	15,000 21,000	21,000

07-05-2025 19:33 UTC-8

Assorted Counts in Horseshoe

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Kuhn	170,000 35,000	35,000
Cade Lautenbacher	170,000

[Removed:548]	168,900 57,700	57,700
Daniel Wilson	166,000 41,000	41,000
Nick Pupillo	164,000 4,000	4,000

Jordan Griff	153,700
James Wicker	142,500 15,500	15,500
Dylan Weisman	132,800 132,800	132,800

Sam Chartier	127,700 58,700	58,700
Hisashi Yamanouchi	126,000
Kevin Allen	120,000 120,000	120,000
Matt Davenport	118,000 118,000	118,000

Jonathan Tamayo	95,000 8,000	8,000

Mauricio Salazar Sanchez	90,000
Nevan Chang	75,000

Shiina Okamoto	70,300

Micha Hoedemaker	70,000
Aneris Adomkevicius	65,000
Paul Hoefer	51,000

Olivier Busquet	38,000