On a completed boaerd of K♦9♠3♥2♣7♣, Ole Nygaard led for 1,300 in the small blind and Nishant Sharma raised to 7,200 in the cutoff. Nygaard then reraised to 28,400 and Sharma went deep into the tank before he called.
Nygaard tabled his 9♦9♥ for a set of nines and Sharma mucked.
Ramon Munoz raised it up from middle position and Michael Berk three-bet to 6,600 in the small blind. Munoz four-bet to 13,000 and Berk cllicked it back with a five-bet to 20,000. Munoz just called and the flop of 8♥7♦3♣ hit the felt.
Berk led out with a small bet of 4,000 and Munoz raised to 12,000 which prompted a quick fold from Berk. Munoz was shipped the pot and he threw his Q♠5♠ face up into the middle of the table.
Gilad Rubinsky raised to 2,000 from early position only to face a three-bet from Jiyun Qu in middle position to 5,500. Maciej Gut, also in middle position, then four-bet all in for 23,100. Rubinsky folded, and Qu called.
Maciej Gut: A♣K♦
Jiyun Qu: Q♣Q♦
The flop came 6♥4♣3♣ and was no real danger for Qu, and when the 8♦ peeled off on the turn Gut was drawing to six outs. The 10♠ on the river was not one of them and he was sent to the rail.
Benny Glaser, Scott Bohlman, Martin Kabrhel, and Shaun Deeb. Those have been the four names trading spots at the top of the 2025 World Series of Poker Player of the Year leaderboard.
But by the end of Sunday's action, Deeb could have his three closest competitors drawing thin.
Just three days removed from capturing his seventh career bracelet, Deeb is now on the verge of number eight, and with it, the inside track to yet another WSOP Player of the Year crown. He leads the final three in Event #84: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em, a tournament that was supposed to wrap up last night but needed an extra day to determine a winner.
Deeb returns to the Horseshoe Events Center at 2 p.m. local time with more than half the chips in play, holding 21,200,000. Zdenek Zizka (12,500,000) and Jeffrey Thoney (3,800,000) stand between him and the $232,498 first-place prize, and a Player of the Year race that is becoming his to lose.
With the turn reading K♦8♠3♣3♦, Anil Kadimisetty check-called a bet of 11,000 by Ahir Chatterjee in the next seat and then checked the Q♠ in the river, hiding nearly almost all of his face under the hoodie. Chatterjee gave it some thought and then prepared a bet of 22,600 while leaving only one and a half big blinds behind.
That was enough to win the pot without showdown as Kadimisetty sent his cards into the muck.