Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship Day 2abc | 2025 World Series of Poker

07-06-2025 13:33 UTC-8

Liu Smacks the River to Double

David Salituro

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Renmei Liu and Sachin Joshi built a pot of around 20,000 as they went heads-up to the 7♦Q♥4♣ flop. Joshi then bet 7,200 from the big blind and Liu called in middle position.

The turn was the 3♣ and Joshi bet 15,200. Liu snap-shoved for 44,500, and Joshi quickly called.

Liu had A♣Q♣ for top pair and a flush draw, but he needed to improve against Joshi's K♦K♥. The 8♣ river gave him his flush and earned Liu the double up.

Brendon Kaufman is also at this table and sitting on a stack of around 250,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brendon Kaufman	250,000 6,500	6,500
Renmei Liu	125,000
Sachin Joshi	61,000 45,000	45,000

Tags: Renmei Liu Sachin Joshi

07-06-2025 13:29 UTC-8

A Payneful Fold For Bernal

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Liam Gannon

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Action was picked up on the flop in a pot between Antonio Payne in the big blind and Jovanni Bernal in late position.

With 19,500 in the middle and a board reading 8♠7♦3♦4♥, Payne bet 12,500 and Bernal put in the chips to call.

Payne sized up to 27,000 on the river K♠ and Bernal whipped his cards into the muck, seeing Payne grow to over 200,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Antonio Payne	216,500 63,100	63,100

Jovanni Bernal	43,500 51,200	51,200

Tags: Antonio Payne Jovanni Bernal

07-06-2025 13:27 UTC-8

Some Updated Chip Counts at Last Break

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Myles Phago

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicholas Rigby	255,000 53,000	53,000
Stephen Peppin	238,000 32,000	32,000
Damon Fine	172,000 50,000	50,000
Daniel Negreanu	138,500 42,500	42,500

Justin Lapka	89,000 48,000	48,000
Robert Varkonyi	71,000 27,000	27,000

Noel Rodriguez	47,000 24,500	24,500

James Dempsey	42,000 34,000	34,000

Steve Zolotow	26,000 6,000	6,000

07-06-2025 13:26 UTC-8

Some Updated Chip Counts From Bronze

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Laura Fryer

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Some count have been taken directly from the WSOP+ app.

Player	Chips	Progress
Juliet Hegedus	337,000 70,000	70,000
Dakota Baggett	280,000 9,600	9,600
Hitesh Patel	263,500 242,500	242,500
Lucas Greenwood	178,300 15,300	15,300

Eric Worre	136,500 47,400	47,400
Josselin Gardes	130,500 71,600	71,600
Leon Sturm	130,000 15,000	15,000

Jared Williams	126,100 500	500
Jeffrey Mccauley	121,300 42,300	42,300
Francisco Perez Moreno	103,000 46,600	46,600
Patrick Stacey	102,300 8,700	8,700
Matija Dobric	80,200 16,700	16,700
Brandon Sowers	76,800 15,800	15,800
Justin Delrio	46,200 9,800	9,800
Maximiliano Castagnini	35,300 21,300	21,300
Adrian Lopez	34,300 34,700	34,700
Ari Pelcovitz	33,800 2,200	2,200
Ignacio Moron	22,500 2,500	2,500
Steve Gallo	11,800 33,200	33,200
Caitlin Comeskey	Busted

07-06-2025 13:23 UTC-8

Assorted Counts from Paris Yellow

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Mizrachi	278,000 42,000	42,000

Sanjeev Kapoor	203,400 111,800	111,800
Harry Kazazian	172,900 60,000	60,000
Joshua McSwiney	166,500 28,500	28,500
Alec Magdan	164,500 20,500	20,500
Ronald Corcoran	161,800 8,500	8,500
Nishant Sharma	156,700 8,700	8,700
Jamie O'Connor	143,700 24,500	24,500
Carlos Enriquez	137,500 87,000	87,000
Kunal Patni	129,300 700	700
Ravi Raghavan	122,000 20,000	20,000
Hyun Auh	120,000 66,500	66,500
Callum Roque	118,800 5,000	5,000
Martin Donoghue	116,500 47,500	47,500
Kazuomi Furuse	114,900 12,500	12,500
Frederik Reinert	110,000
Ryutaro Suzuki	106,600 22,800	22,800

Jinlong Hu	103,300 37,900	37,900

Kevin Martin	95,100 10,100	10,100

Ole Nygaard	90,000 4,000	4,000
Hen Rosilio	85,100 30,000	30,000

07-06-2025 13:22 UTC-8

Early Exits

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Dan O'Hair

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Romain Lewis	Busted

Renan Meneguetti	Busted
Matthew Flynn	Busted
Santiago Plante	Busted
John Fitzpatrick	Busted
Adam Dunmars	Busted
Lucas Lew	Busted
Alec Torelli	Busted

Boris Kuzmanovic	Busted
Jeremy Renz	Busted
Aaron Frei	Busted
Joseph Cook	Busted
Samuel Ick	Busted
Sergi Reixach	Busted
Laura Westfall	Busted

Kyle Ho	Busted
Guy Cicconi	Busted
Wendeen Eolis	Busted
Joel Klasson	Busted
James Casement	Busted
Johnny Skeens	Busted
Hernan Crespin	Busted
Randolph Present	Busted
Ranganath Kanchi	Busted
James McCarty	Busted

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Level: 7

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

07-06-2025 13:00 UTC-8

Break Time

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Dan O'Hair

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Players in the field have been sent on their first 20-minute break of the day.

So far, Day 2abc has drawn over 200 new registrants, bringing the total number of entrants for the 2025 Main Event to 8,972 and counting.

Here are some highlights from the past level:

07-06-2025 13:00 UTC-8

Keppler Out

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Eric Keppler opened to 2,000 in cutoff and got a three-bet to 6,200 from the big blind, Donovan Dean. Keppler thought of his options for a few seconds and decided to shove all in for around 50,000. Dean snapped.

Eric Keppler: A♥Q♠ All in
Donovan Dean: K♠K♥

Keppler needed an ace to continue, but the board ran Q♥5♠2♦J♠9♦ ending his main event run.

Player	Chips	Progress
Donovan Dean	93,000 70,700	70,700
Eric Keppler	Busted

Tags: Donovan Dean Eric Keppler

07-06-2025 13:00 UTC-8

Choi Forces a Fold

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Gabrielle Barredo

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

From middle position, Yoon Choi started the action with 1,700 and got two callers in Justin Smith and Allen Patatanyan. Steven Merwin, on the button, went beyond and made it 9,000. Choi called while Smith and Patatanyan folded.

The flop came Q♣J♦9♥ and both players checked through the turn 4♥. On the river 6♣, Choi fired 20,000, which was enough to make Merwin fold.