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Event #85: $600 Ultra Stack
Day 1a Started
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #85: $600 Ultra Stack
Day: 1a
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
Buy-in
$600
Prize Pool
$2,992,086
Total Entries
7,057
Level
46
Blinds
4,000,000 / 8,000,000
Ante
8,000,000
Entries
2,718
Players Left
213
Players Left 1 / 7,057
Filter
(1)
Welcome back to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2025 World Series of Poker, where we’re bringing you full coverage of every WSOP bracelet event live from Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
We're expecting thousands of entries today with Event #85: $600 Ultra Stack No-Limit Hold’em, a popular mid-summer fixture returning to the schedule for a third consecutive year.
Flights A and B get underway at 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 6, and Monday, July 7, respectively. Each player is allowed two re-entries per flight, with late registration open through Level 12 (approximately 6:15 p.m.).
Day 1s will play 22 levels, featuring 30-minute levels, 20-minute breaks every four levels, and a 75-minute break following Level 12. Surviving players from both flights will merge for Day 2 on Tuesday, July 8 at 1 p.m. and play either 17 levels or down to five players (whichever comes first). Day 3 resumes on Wednesday, July 9, to crown 2025's champion.
PokerNews traditional coverage of this event begins on Day 2.
We saw a fairy tale story in last year’s Ultra Stack as Germany’s Carsten Heidemann topped a massive field of 6,628 entries to win his first WSOP bracelet and a career-best $343,010.
Heidemann, a recreational player, had traveled to Las Vegas to fulfill his dream of playing the Main Event. After his tournament ended on Day 1, he decided to enter the $600 Ultra Stack.
Speaking to PokerNews, Heidemann said, “It is the dream of every poker player to win a bracelet, it’s the WSOP; I am so happy, it’s so amazing. Yeah, I am crying now.”
"I have to sleep now and think about it. Tomorrow evening, I am flying back to Germany, and then I will calm down and realize what really happened here today."
| Year | Entries | Winner | Country | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6,628 | Carsten Heidemann | Germany | $343,010 |
| 2023 | 7,207 | Joseph Roh | United States | $401,250 |
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“I probably played better than the last three I won. Everything went my way this tournament. I was always at the top of the leaderboard, never really got short, and probably played my best overall.”
That's what Michael Mizrachi had to say after he cruised to victory in Event #66: $50,000 Poker Players Championship.
Already sharing the record for most $50,000 Poker Players Championship victories with Brian Rast, Mizrachi now stands alone after capturing his historic fourth title on Saturday at the 2025 World Series of Poker. "The Grinder" conquered the 107-entry field, earning $1,331,322 from the $5,162,750 prize pool and further cementing his legacy as the event's most dominant force.
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.
