2025 World Series of Poker
The players folded to Zhihao Ye on the button who raised to 3,000. Paul Kildal-Brandt called in the small blind but Miles Swain decided to three-bet to 11,200. Only Ye made the call.
The flop came A♣8♠J♣ and Swain continued for 8,000. After a minute, Ye raised it to 25,000 and Swain tanked but eventually folded.
Onur Unsal raised to 2,400 in the hijack and in the cutoff, Jedd Kossew three-bet to 6,100 which saw only Unsal call.
The flop rolled out 8♥4♥Q♣ and Unsal check-called a bet of 5,100 from Kossew.
Both players checked the turn A♣ over to the river J♦ where Unsal bet 9,000. Kossew thought about his decision for forty seconds before tossing his hand into the muck.
Alexandros Kolonias opened to 2,500 in middle position and was called by Calvin Anderson on the button. Todd Bareika shoved all in for 14,700 in the small blind and Kolonias just called. Anderson threw his cards away and the two remaining hands were shown.
Todd Bareika: 9♥9♣
Alexandros Kolonias: A♣10♥
The flop came 9♦7♠5♦ and Bareika took a stranglehold on the hand with a set of nines. If that wasn't enough, the 9♠ hit the turn to lock up the pot for Bareika before the 4♦ hit the river.
Action was picked up with Andrej Tekel all-in and Timothy Barchie making the call.
Andrej Tekel: K♥K♣
Timothy Barchie: 8♥8♠
The board ran 2♣A♦3♦10♥6♦ and with nothing to help Barchie, Tekel doubled up leaving Barchie with only three big blinds behind.
Barchie was eliminated after a few hands.
Johan Schumacher opened from under the gun to 2,500 and Kevin Macphee called from the cutoff. Jose Guilher Valerio also called on the button and Mohsin Charania defended the big blind.
Charania and Schumacher checked the 9♥Q♠6♠ flop and Macphee bet 7,800. Valerio folded and Charania moved all in for his remaining 25,000. Macphee was the only caller and the players flipped heads-up.
Mohsin Charania: Q♥9♣
Kevin Macphee: Q♣Q♦
Charania was sitting with two pair, but Macphee flopped trip queens.
There was no luck for Charania on the K♠ turn and 6♣ river, and he was eliminated from the tournament just after the second break of the day.
Catching the action on a K♥K♣4♦3♠ turn, Andrius Tapinas checked from the small blind to James Farrelly on the button, who fired 30,000 into a pot of around 40,000. Tapinas called to the 9♥ river, which he also checked.
Farrelly barreled in a bet of 35,000. Tapinas snap-called, and revealed K♠Q♦ for trip kings once Farrelly admitted he had jack-high.
The next hand, Farrely opened to 2,400 in the cutoff, and Tapinas called on the button. The 6♣Q♣10♥ flop checked through to the 9♣ turn, where Farrelly check-called Tapinas' bet of 2,000. The A♥ river was checked to showdown, where Tapinas won once more with Q♥2♥.
Syed Saleh started with a raise to 2,400 and Christopher Frank called in the cutoff, followed by Nils Pudel in the big blind.
The trio saw a flop 7♠5♠10♣ and it checked to Frank who bet 2,300. Only Saleh called to stay in the pot. The turn was the J♠ and Saleh check-called again, this time for 6,800.
Both checked on the 6♥ river and Saleh revealed K♥Q♠ for king high. It wasn't enough to claim the pot as Frank tabled 4♠4♥ to grab the chips.
Matt Salsberg defended the big blind in three-way action and then jammed the J♣5♠4♦ flop for the last 9,800. It folded to Gregory Zarefes, who reluctantly folded. Salsberg picked up the pot and moved to around 15 big blinds but lost these shortly after.
Rafael Pfleger raised to 15,000 in the hijack, leaving only a few chips behind, and Taras Mikulik moved all in from the small blind. The table folded back to Pfleger who tossed in his last chips.
Rafael Pfleger: K♥10♥
Taras Mikulik: 8♥8♣
Plfeger needed to survive the flip to stay alive, but he couldn't connect with the Q♠3♥4♦3♦4♥ board and was sent to the rail.