Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship Day 3 | 2025 World Series of Poker

07-08-2025 14:29 UTC-8

Updated Counts from Those Remaining in Paris Black

Connor Richards

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Affleck	650,000 290,000	290,000
Joseph Cheong	510,000 50,000	50,000

Chance Kornuth	430,000 116,500	116,500

Nick Pupillo	320,000 90,000	90,000

Landon Tice	300,000 12,000	12,000
Kathy Liebert	245,000 70,000	70,000

Gary Benson	165,000 82,500	82,500

Cliff Josephy	162,000 253,000	253,000

Ashley Frank	100,000 25,000	25,000
Chad Eveslage	75,000 177,500	177,500

07-08-2025 14:28 UTC-8

Assorted Chip Counts from Blue

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Sava Krink

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kyle Grupp	535,000 83,000	83,000
Konstantin Puchkov	505,000 115,500	115,500

Kenneth O'Donnell	485,000 28,000	28,000

Viktor Blom	460,000 173,000	173,000
Scott Baumstein	320,000 38,000	38,000

Masato Yokosawa	310,000 10,000	10,000
Nadya Magnus	286,000 3,000	3,000
Monika Zukowicz	275,000 109,000	109,000
Nitesh Rawtani	265,000 85,000	85,000
Anson Tsang	220,000 220,000	220,000

Eric Siegel	217,000 56,500	56,500

Kevin Gerhart	180,000 182,500	182,500

Jamie Walden	160,000 10,000	10,000

Jennifer Harman	138,000 20,000	20,000

Michael Noori	91,000 122,500	122,500

Cedric Schwaederle	90,000 93,000	93,000

07-08-2025 14:28 UTC-8

Title Defense Is Tamayover

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Liam Gannon

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Jonathan Tamayo raised to 6,000 from early position and in the hijack Alen Tenorio three-bet to 17,500. Action folded back around to Tamayo who moved all in for 107,500 and Tenorio called.

Jonathan Tamayo: 8♥8♠ All in
Alen Tenorio: A♣K♣

The board ran out A♦J♣9♣9♠Q♥ and the aces and nines were good for Tenorio to take down the pot. The 2024 WSOP Main Event champion took his leave from the tournament, opening the opportunity for another world champion to rise.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alen Tenorio	526,000 206,000	206,000
Jonathan Tamayo	Busted

Tags: Alen Tenorio Jonathan Tamayo

07-08-2025 14:24 UTC-8

Huge Hold for Shields

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Stewart Morrison

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The action was joined with 29,000 already in the pot and three players competing for it.

The flop K♠8♣2♠ had already been dealt, and action was on Tyler Shields in the small blind. He chose to check, and the big blind player then placed a bet of 22,500. Quan Tran called from middle position, and the action was back on Shields.

After a moment of consideration, Shields elected to move all in for 81,500. The big blind player folded, and action returned to an immediately pained-looking Tran, who chose to flick in the call.

Tyler Shields: K♥8♥ All in
Quan Tran: 9♠8♠

It was two pair for Shields versus a pair and a flush draw for Tran.

The board ran out clean for Shields, the turn coming the 4♦ and the river the 9♦, and the dealer pushed the pot in his direction.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tyler Shields	230,500 4,500	4,500
Quan Tran	163,500 111,000	111,000

Tags: Quan Tran Tyler Shields

07-08-2025 14:20 UTC-8

Is Big-Stacked Rigby Headed for Another Deep WSOP Main Event Run?

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Jon Sofen

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

It wouldn't be Day 3 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event if Nicholas Rigby didn't have a big stack.

The Pittsburgh poker player had over 140 big blinds at the first break on Tuesday afternoon. He's no stranger to spinning up a stack in the $10,000 buy-in World Championship event, and he's doing it the same way he's done it in the past — playing any two cards aggressively.

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07-08-2025 14:20 UTC-8

Wilson Three-Bet Shoves the River on Reid

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Kai Cocklin

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

In a pot that had around 75,000 in it on a board of K♦10♦5♥J♣K♠, Andrew Wilson bet 17,000 on the river from the cutoff. Terrance Reid then put in a raise to 65,000 before Wilson shoved.

Reid had just over 200,000 remaining in his stack and needed to put them all at risk if he wanted to go to a showdown. Instead, Reid decided to let it go, which meant Wilson took the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Wilson	500,000 150,000	150,000
John Tech	420,000 132,000	132,000
Terrance Reid	205,000 194,500	194,500

Tags: Terrance Reid Andrew Wilson

07-08-2025 14:19 UTC-8

Recent Eliminations

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Tim Baker

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Mcadam	Busted
Taisho Takahashi	Busted
Sergei Petrushevskii	Busted
Anders Karlsen	Busted
Timothy Sheehan	Busted
Ricardo Nuno	Busted
Katherene Lundgren	Busted
Mykhailo Lendel	Busted
Dimitrios Anastasakis	Busted
Rupom Pal	Busted
Cassandra Yong	Busted
Matthew Obrien	Busted
Moran Merdinger	Busted
Corey Wright	Busted
Robert Valden	Busted
Ryan Miller	Busted

Alan Carr	Busted
Daniel Muniz	Busted
Shannon Fahey	Busted
Kerry Bell	Busted
Andrew Ding	Busted
Randall Emmett	Busted
Christian Kropac	Busted
Gregory Orlick	Busted
Benjamin Purer	Busted

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07-08-2025 14:19 UTC-8

Eskandari Eliminated, Jackson Close to 1,000,000 Chips

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Barry Russell

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

David Jackson raised in early position to 6,000, Massoud Eskandari shoved 104,000 from the big blind, Jackson called.

Massoud Eskandari: 7♥7♦ All in
David Jackson: A♦K♦

Great start for Jackson as the flop came 10♣4♣A♠, Eskandari could not find a seven as the board ran out 2♠Q♦, and his main event run came to an end.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Jackson	880,000 100,000	100,000

Masato Yokosawa	300,000 83,500	83,500
Igor Kurganov	130,000 19,500	19,500

Chris Moorman	76,000

Massoud Eskandari	Busted

Tags: David Jackson Massoud Eskandari

07-08-2025 14:18 UTC-8

Fernandez Triples Up

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Liam Gannon

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Scott Boxenhorn raised to 7,000 from early position and Rahul Rastogi called in the hijack. On the button, Daune Fernandez moved all in for 48,500 and both Rastogi and Boxenhorn called.

The flop rolled out 9♦8♥2♥ and Boxenhorn check-folded to a bet of 30,000 from Rastogi.

Daune Fernandez: A♠Q♣ All in
Rahul Rastogi: J♠J♦

Fernandez ended up improving on the 10♦J♥ runout to make a queen-high straight and he survived his all in confrontation.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rahul Rastogi	212,000 68,000	68,000
Daune Fernandez	153,000 29,000	29,000
Scott Boxenhorn	141,000 100,000	100,000

Tags: Daune Fernandez Rahul Rastogi Scott Boxenhorn

07-08-2025 14:17 UTC-8

Barattini Cracks Tsujisaka's Aces

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Brett Slezak

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Action picked up heads-up to the turn with a little under 70,000 in the middle in a hand between Juan Barattini from middle position and Tetsuya Tsujisaka from the hijack.

With the board reading 10♣6♣3♦9♠, Barattini checked to Tsujisaka who bet 30,000. Barattini responded with a check-jam for 96,000 effective as the slightly covering stack, and Tsujisaka snapped it off.

Tetsuya Tsujisaka: A♠A♥ All in
Juan Barattini: 6♠6♦

"Are you kidding me?" Tsujisaka lamented as he saw the bad news and he sheepishly revealed his aces.

Tsujisaka pleaded with the dealer "One time, baby!" as the 5♣ landed on the river which improved neither player, and Tsujisaka's Main Event dream was cut short holding pocket aces.

Player	Chips	Progress
Juan Barattini	315,000 41,000	41,000
Tetsuya Tsujisaka	Busted

Tags: Juan Barattini Tetsuya Tsujisaka