Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship Day 5 | 2025 World Series of Poker

Jul 10, 2025

Hesse Rivers Haxton

Frank Visser

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

Stephen Hesse raised to 60,000 in early position. Isaac Haxton called in the next seat over, and Yuchen Chen came along in the cutoff with 5♠5♥.

Joey Padron deemed his Q♦2♥ worthy of a call in the big blind, and the quartet saw a flop of 10♥2♣4♦. After Padron checked, Hesse continued for 80,000. Haxton called before Chen and Padron mucked their cards.

The 6♦ turn saw both remaining players check to the 9♣ river, where Hesse picked the aggression back up with a bet of 275,000.

Haxton quickly called, but his A♠10♠ disappeared into the muck when Hesse tabled 10♦9♦ for a rivered two pair.

Tags: Isaac Haxton Joey Padron Stephen Hesse Yuchen Chen

Jul 10, 2025

Lee Turns Up Heat on Flop

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Erick Torres

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

Gianluca Cedolia raised from early position to 50,000 and was called by Daehyung Lee from the hijack and Michael Graffeo in the big blind.

Graffeo checked the 10♦4♥9♠ flop before Cedolia put out a bet of 55,000.

Lee wanted to play for more and raised to 150,000, which got a quick fold from Graffeo. Cedolia pondered for a moment, but decided on a fold to end the hand as Lee dragged in the pot.

Tags: Daehyung Lee Gianluca Cedolia Michael Graffeo

Jul 10, 2025

Hecklen Falls to Sasaki

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

The cards were on their backs preflop and Henrik Hecklen had the best of it out of the small blind when he was all-in for 630,000 against Seiji Sasaki in the cutoff.

Henrik Hecklen: A♠K♥ All in
Seiji Sasaki: A♥Q♦

The 6♥3♠3♣ flop kept Hecklen in the lead but he fell behind on the Q♣ turn, now needing one of the remaining three kings in the deck. Neither of them came on the 9♣ river and that spelled the end for the Danish poker pro.

Tags: Henrik Hecklen Seiji Sasaki

Jul 10, 2025

A Welcomed Triple Up for Camargo

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Adam Lamers

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

Florian Ribouchon opened to 50,000 in early position from seat two and Vinicius Camargo moved all in for 250,000 on the button. Craig Trost was in the big blind in seat nine and called the all-in. He then went to flip over his cards, not realizing that there was a raise across the table. Ribouchon said he saw a red king and then just called.

The flop came K♠7♣5♦ and Trost led out with a bet of 125,000 which got Ribouchon to fold and the two remaining hands were tabled.

Vinicius Camargo: 7♠7♥ All in
Craig Trost: K♥8♥

"I wouldn't have called if I saw that," Trost indicated to the initial raise. Meanwhile, Camargo was in fine shape with a set of sevens and the Q♥ on the turn locked up the pot before the 4♥ hit the river. Camargo got a much-needed triple up to stay alive on Day 5 of the Main Event.

Tags: Craig Trost Florian Ribouchon Vinicius Camargo

Jul 10, 2025

Reichard Flipped Out of Main

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Connor Richards

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

Josh Reichard made waves yesterday when he made an epic hero-call with just ace-high on the stone bubble, but the mid-stakes crusher's Main Event run has reached an end.

Reichard started the day among the chip leaders with 3,025,000, but was down to around a million when he found himself all in against Mitchell Hynam, as recounted to PokerNews.

Reichard held pocket queens against the ace-king of Hynam and couldn't win a flip as he was eliminated to earn a payout of $35,000.

Tags: Josh Reichard Mitchell Hynam

Jul 10, 2025

Merson Extracts Value From Viox

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Kai Cocklin

Level 22 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Greg Merson limped in with A♥J♠ from middle position and Chris Viox limped J♣8♣ on the button. Santiago Montes completed with K♠5♠ in the small blind, and Dmitrii Perfilev checked 10♥8♠ in the big blind.

They saw a flop of 7♠2♦Q♦, where all four players checked to the J♦ turn. When the action got to Merson, he fired out 75,000, which only Viox called.

A 2♠ on the river paired the board and Merson bet 110,000. Viox, with his pair of jacks, couldn't resist the price and called. Merson showed a pair of jacks with a better kicker, and took down the pot.

Tags: Chris Viox Dmitrii Perfilev Greg Merson Santiago Montes

Jul 10, 2025

Villa Bounces Back

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 21 : Blinds 10,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

On the tail end of a A♠K♣6♥3♥2♦ board, Alexander Villa in the big blind bet 230,000. He was called by Guy Holtzman on the button and tabled his K♠3♣ for turned two pair to win the pot. Villa had previously lost a big portion of his stack but since leaped above the average again.