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

07-05-2025 14:24 UTC-8

Yellow Getting More Stacked

Frank Visser

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Adam Levy	96,000 36,000	36,000

Terrance Reid	72,300 12,300	12,300
Davin Anderson	71,000 11,000	11,000
Dean Hutchison	67,000 7,000	7,000
Ramon Kropmanns	60,000 60,000	60,000
Brock Wilson	60,000 60,000	60,000
Anthony Spinella	60,000 60,000	60,000

Daniel Strelitz	60,000 60,000	60,000

Brian Battistone	60,000 60,000	60,000
Mounir Tajiou	60,000 60,000	60,000
Eric Mizrachi	60,000 60,000	60,000
Mike Holtz	60,000 60,000	60,000

Arthur Morris	60,000 60,000	60,000
Wai Kiat Lee	60,000 60,000	60,000
Jerry Wong	60,000 60,000	60,000

Christopher Staats	45,500 14,500	14,500

David Coleman	27,000 33,000	33,000

07-05-2025 14:23 UTC-8

Yockey Over the Starting Stack

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Tim Baker

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

With around 7,000 in the middle on a completed board of 10♣A♠2♥2♠8♠. Bryce Yockey checked from the cutoff and Marshall Brenden bet 2,500 from the button. Yockey paused a few moments before making the call.

Brenden revealed 6♠6♥ for a pair of sixes and lost the pot to Yockey's 10♦9♥ for a pair of tens.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bryce Yockey	67,000

Marshall Brenden	62,000

Tags: Bryce Yockey Marshall Brenden

07-05-2025 14:09 UTC-8

Leonard Coolers Jones to Double

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Brett Slezak

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Patrick Leonard from under the gun and Brian Jones from the big blind were tangled in a massive pot with around 65,000 in the middle by the river with the board reading K♦10♠10♦3♦8♠.

Jones checked to Leonard on the river who jammed for his remaining 18,700. Over three minutes would roll off the clock before Jones flicked in a chip to call.

Leonard showed A♥A♣ for the winner as Jones tapped the table and pushed his cards into the middle. Another player at the table indicated that they must be turned over for an all-in situation, but Leonard kindly added that he does not care if his opponent just mucks. Jones then flipped over A♠K♣ as he could not get away, and Leonard collected the full double.

Player	Chips	Progress
Patrick Leonard	102,000 55,000	55,000

Brian Jones	29,000

Tags: Brian Jones Patrick Leonard

07-05-2025 14:06 UTC-8

Fight Didn't Last Long

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Jerome Solomon

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Dan Sepiol started the action by raising to 600 from the hijack. Mathieu Choffardet called on the button.

After the small blind folded, Steven Jones made it 4,200 to go. To his surprise, both Sepiol and Choffardet called without hesitation.

"Is it too late to just call?" Jones joked.

When the flop hit J♣2♦10♣, Jones checked. Sepiol bet 5,000 chips.

Choffardet and Jones quickly threw in their cards.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dan Sepiol	77,100 17,100	17,100

Steven Jones	70,000 10,000	10,000

Mathieu Choffardet	56,900 56,900	56,900

Tags: Dan Sepiol Mathieu Choffardet Steven Jones

07-05-2025 14:00 UTC-8

Assorted Counts From Horseshoe Blue

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Andrada	113,000 113,000	113,000
Lachezar Petkov	77,000 77,000	77,000

Oscar Peleg	74,900 74,900	74,900
Blaz Zerjav	70,000 70,000	70,000

Jonathan Tamayo	68,000 68,000	68,000

David Uvaydov	67,000 67,000	67,000
Hugues Girard	64,000 64,000	64,000
Marc MacDonnell	59,500 59,500	59,500
Omar Eljach	59,000 59,000	59,000

Steve Watts	58,000 58,000	58,000
Kahle Burns	54,200 54,200	54,200

Georgios Sotiropoulos	53,000 53,000	53,000

Sergio Aido	51,300 51,300	51,300

Antoine Saout	47,000 47,000	47,000
Anton Wigg	45,000 45,000	45,000
Ari Engel	15,500 44,500	44,500

David Dao	Busted

07-05-2025 13:56 UTC-8

Kornuth Struggling Early; Foxen Arrives

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David Salituro

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Chance Kornuth has already fallen down to around 12,000 early in his Main Event, while Mason "Uncle Ron" Hinkle (wearing a yellow shirt that reads "If my nipples are hard, I don't have jacks") is on an extreme short stack.

Alex Foxen and Dan Sepiol, meanwhile, have just started their Main Event in the Paris Black section.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Lichtenberger	110,000

Mike Leah	90,000

Thomas Meehan	62,000
Alex Foxen	60,000

Dan Sepiol	60,000

Craig Varnell	50,000

Daniel Rezaei	42,000

Yannick Schumacher	40,000
Chance Kornuth	12,000

Mason Hinkle	3,000

07-05-2025 13:50 UTC-8

Updated Counts in Horseshoe Red

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Brett Slezak

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Vivian Saliba	85,000 19,000	19,000

Jonah Labranche	83,000 23,000	23,000

Kane Kalas	82,000 22,000	22,000
Eric Blair	81,000 21,000	21,000
Thomas Taylor	74,000
Kristen Foxen	73,000 13,000	13,000

David "ODB" Baker	73,000 13,000	13,000

Brian Hastings	71,000 11,000	11,000

Brian Yoon	68,000

Asher Conniff	67,000 7,000	7,000

Damjan Radanov	63,000
Sean Winter	60,000
Matt Berkey	60,000
Jeremy Ausmus	59,000 1,000	1,000

Kyle Miholich	57,000 3,000	3,000

James Chen	56,000 4,000	4,000

Justin Liberto	55,000 5,000	5,000

Dietrich Fast	54,000 6,000	6,000

Matthew Stout	49,000 11,000	11,000
Blair Hinkle	38,000 22,000	22,000

Dan Heimiller	22,000 38,000	38,000

Jeremy Becker	9,000 51,000	51,000

07-05-2025 13:41 UTC-8

Updated Counts in Horseshoe White

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Stewart Morrison

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Here is a look at some of the chip counts in the Horsehoe Ballroom - White section.

Some of the counts come courtesy of the WSOP+ app.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bixi Yao	113,300 53,300	53,300
Thomas Roach	80,000 21,400	21,400
Julio Esquivel	76,900 17,100	17,100
Leo Worthington-Leese	62,300 2,300	2,300
Dean Lyall	60,000
Dimitar Danchev	60,000

Jack Oliver	57,700 2,300	2,300
Wai Kit Lo	56,800 3,200	3,200
Erik Seidel	55,200 4,800	4,800

Travis Davis	54,700 8,100	8,100
Elijah Berg	53,300 6,700	6,700
Matt Glantz	52,600 7,400	7,400

Ludovic Geilich	51,000 9,000	9,000

Ben Miller	42,000 18,000	18,000
Brandon Harris	22,600 37,400	37,400

07-05-2025 13:33 UTC-8

Some Familiar Faces in Horseshoe White

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Stewart Morrison

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Killeen	60,000 60,000	60,000
Lou Garza	60,000 60,000	60,000

Christian Roberts	60,000 60,000	60,000

Parker Talbot	60,000 60,000	60,000

Fahredin Mustafov	60,000 60,000	60,000
Renan Bruschi	60,000 60,000	60,000

Robert Kuhn	60,000 60,000	60,000

07-05-2025 13:29 UTC-8

Some Updated Chip Counts from Paris Purple & Green

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Tim Baker

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Brad Owen	120,000 3,000	3,000

Grant Gardner	109,800 49,800	49,800
Josh Arieh	97,000 37,000	37,000

Clement Bonnant	88,200 2,800	2,800
Cassandra Yong	88,000 500	500
Jason Glover	70,700 10,300	10,300
Barak Wisbrod	66,000 6,000	6,000

Steven Buckner	63,000 2,000	2,000
Ryan Laplante	63,000 3,000	3,000

Esther Taylor	63,000 2,000	2,000

Mario Colavita	62,000 2,000	2,000
Vladimir Nex	62,000 3,000	3,000
Tom Verbruggen	61,000 1,000	1,000
Jesse Sylvia	59,000 1,000	1,000
Natalie Teh	58,000 2,000	2,000
Jose Fibla	57,500 22,500	22,500
Marcello Del Grosso	57,000 3,000	3,000
Edgaras Kausinis	55,000 10,000	10,000
Shaun York	54,000 5,000	5,000
Jeff Sluzinski	52,000 13,000	13,000

Brian Rast	51,600 6,900	6,900

Yuriy Kudrynskyy	48,000 9,700	9,700
Michael Wang	45,000 15,000	15,000

Liubomyr Melnyk	40,000 14,000	14,000
Marc Foggin	38,000 22,000	22,000

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