Camel Meriem opened from under the gun to 1,200 and Robert Lauer called from early position. Zachary Camp defended the big blind and the players went three-ways to the flop.
Action was checked from the 10♣6♦2♠ flop to the K♦ turn.
The turn saw Camp and Meriem check, and Lauer raise to 5,000. Camp called and Meriem folded.
The 8♦ fell on the river and Camp bet out 12,500. Lauer folded and passed the pot to Camp.
Seeing two limps in front of him, Jon-Michael Gisler raised to 5,500 from the hijack. Both the limpers called, including Brandon Takao, but the rest of the table folded.
Gisler continued with a bet of 8,000 on the 2♣2♦8♦ flop, and only Takao called.
The turn 7♥ saw another check-call from Takao, this time for a more substantial 20,000.
When the dealer burned and turned the 9♣ river, Takao announced "All-in". No sooner had the words left his mouth than Gisler had announced "Call", whilst immediately turning over 9♠9♦ for a rivered full house.
Takao turned over his A♦5♦, as was necessary, before cutting out the chips from his stack to double up his neighbour.
Lei Yu raised to 2,500 in first position and Vanessa Selbst called in early position.
The flop rolled out 9♥J♥9♦ and Yu bet 3,000 to see Selbst call.
On the turn 4♣, Yu bet 6,000 and Selbst elected to call a second time.
Both players checked the river 2♦ and Yu turned over 7♠7♦ for nines and sevens. It was no good against Selbst who turned over 8♥8♣ for nines and eights, leaving the WSOP bracelet winner to take down the pot.
Four players still held hole cards on the turn, with the board reading J♥2♣K♦8♥ William Beer bet out for 10,000 into a pot of 15,000. Narongsak Dhanjaichon and Eric Ethans stuck in the call, but Jason Cross let go of his hand.
The river 6♥ slowed Beer down, as he checked his option. After some tank, Dhanjaichon fired out a near pot-sized bet of 37,500 into the middle. Ethans took a long time to come to a decision, and after around two minutes he decided to fold. "What did you have?" questioned Beer, who was also clearly in quite the spot. He took a similar amount of time before folding K♣J♣ face up.
"I had that beat," announced Ethans, who let his opponent know that he had folded pocket eights. The two debated about what Dhanjaichon could have had. He didn't let them know, and stayed silent, returning his cards face down.
Henry Liang limped from the small blind, and Ramon Rivera defended his big blind with a 4,000 raise. Liang called to see the flop.
The flop came A♦6♠7♦ and Liang checked. Rivera continued with 2,000, which Liang called again. On the 6♥ turn and after another check, Rivera shot out 10,000, which was good enough to take the pot.
Evan Clark raised from under the gun to 2,500, and Matthew Hunt three-bet from early position to 6,500. Action then folded to Chin Wei Lim, who four-bet to 14,500 from late position. Clark then five-bet jammed all in.
Hunt asked for the count, which totaled 36,500 and then flat called. Lim got out of the way.
Evan Clark: A♣K♥
Matthew Hunt: A♥A♦
The 3♥K♦3♣ flop gave Clark the slightest glimmer of hope but this faded when the 2♠ came on the turn and was extinguished fully when the 7♥ peeled off on the river and he was sent packing.
Heads-up on a flop of 2♠4♦8♣, Calvin Anderson bet 5,200 from the cutoff and Atanas Malinov called in the hijack.
Both players checked the 7♠ turn before Malinov bet 19,000 on the 9♣ river. Anderson shot out of his seat to take a good look at Malinov's remaining stack, taking off his sunglasses and headphones as he spent several minutes considering the decision. He eventually folded and Malinov took the pot.
At the same time at another table, Jason Mercier and Jon Towers arrived at the river on a board of 10♥9♠J♥5♠K♣ with around 25,000 in the pot when Mercier moved all in from the button.
Towers took a minute before calling for his last 35,000 in early position, and Mercier showed A♥Q♠ for the rivered straight. Towers tossed J♣10♣ into the muck as he made his way to the exit.
For all-time bracelet leader Phil Hellmuth, it all started with a victory in the 1989 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, a year before the birth of his son Phillip Hellmuth III. Now at the 2025 WSOP, both Hellmuths are searching for a world championship on Day 2abc of the $10,000 WSOP Main Event as Hellmuth III makes his Main Event debut.
Before he was moved to the feature table, the elder Hellmuth found himself in the back corner of the Horseshoe Ballroom, while his son sat on the other side of the room in the same Blue section. Both are wearing Aria hoodies, but only one is blowing up at his opponents.
Joshua Remitio just got moved into the Horseshoe Events Center and took his seat at Table 420. Once that current hand was finished, he was asked by Montgomery Cole to give some background information.
"Since you're the new guy at the table, can you tell us a little bit about your play style?" Cole asked.
"I'll bluff the flop and the turn, but never the river," Remitio replied. "I three-bet aces and seven-deuce, the rest I just flat-call."
Little does Cole know, that he could go back and see many of the hands Remitio played en route to his fourth-place finish in the 2021 WSOP Main Event where he cashed for $2.3 million. That was the start of Remitio's poker career which has now seen him claim three gold bracelets in the online streets in the past two years.
"Now your turn. You guys have to give me the lowdown," Remitio bargained, but didn't get much help.
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