Event #86: $1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 1a Started
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #86: $1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1a
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$3,064,720
Entries
5,284
Level
40
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
1,600,000
Entries
2,171
Players Left
325
Players Left 1 / 5284
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Welcome back to PokerNews, your official media partner for the 2025 World Series of Poker, as we continue bringing you live updates from every bracelet event at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
Today, our attention turns to Event #86: $1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha, where standard payouts are in play from Day 1, with the added excitement of bounties kicking in on Day 2.
The tournament begins at 10 a.m. local time on Tuesday, July 8 (Flight A) and Wednesday, July 9 (Flight B), with each player starting with 40,000 chips. On Day 1, players will compete across 12 levels, with breaks scheduled every three levels and a longer break after Level 12. Late registration will remain open until approximately 8:00 p.m. on both days.
Day 2 begins on Friday, July 10, at 11:00 a.m. and will play down to a winner. Players will have 15-minute breaks every three levels, with a 60-minute break after Level 26 (around 5:30 p.m.). It’s worth noting that $300 of each buy-in goes directly into the bounty pool, which allows players to draw a random prize for every opponent they eliminate.
The reigning champion of this event is German Sascha Wilhelm, who claimed the 2024 title and a $282,290 payday after beating a field of 4,280 players. Wilhelm, who also collected around a dozen bounty prizes, managed to push his winnings to over $300,000.
“How did it go?” Wilhelm commented to PokerNews shortly after his victory, “Pretty slow. I didn't catch many hands, one big pot. From then, I had to chip up like all the time and got lucky in the end.”
| Year | Entries | Winner | Country | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4,280 | Sascha Wilhelm | Germany | $282,290 |
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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.
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.
PokerNews' Brad Whitehouse captured a hand on Saturday that might end up being the rarest we'll see all summer at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP). At the very least, the rarest chop pot.
Gus Hansen and Dzmitry Urbanovich battled for a hefty pot on Day 2 in Event #23: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship with 35 out of 127 players remaining. The pot ended in a chop, but it left future Poker Hall of Famer Nick Schulman in awe.
"I've never seen that before," Schulman, who has seen nearly everything at the poker table, was overheard saying as he glanced at the tabled cards. "Wow, that's an amazing one."
Day 1a is now on the dinner break with action set to resume at about 8:10. The field is now at 2,091 entries with 527 remaining and prizes of more than $1.2 million.
For two decades, Tom Goldstein was at the top of the legal world. He argued more cases before the United States Supreme Court than almost any private attorney and founded SCOTUSblog, a legal blog that quickly became the go-to source for Supreme Court analysis. He lectured at Stanford University and Harvard University and regularly appeared on national news programs.
But Goldstein had another life. When he wasn’t arguing before Supreme Court justices, Goldstein was flying to Hollywood or Hong Kong and winning or losing millions in ultra-high-stakes poker matches. He played heads-up against California businessmen and foreign gamblers, at one point allegedly winning over $50 million in just a few sessions.
Goldstein’s luck turned in January 2025 when the US Department of Justice a federal grand jury initiated a 22-count indictment accusing the attorney of failing to report millions in poker winnings and diverting law firm funds to pay his personal poker debts.
In a new PokerNews video essay, we take a look at the life of Tom Goldstein and the high-stakes poker game that led to his federal indictment.
In poker, like in life, they say records are meant to be broken.
But sometimes, someone sets a milestone that just feels impossible to top. Whether it’s because of insane skill, perfect timing, a bit of luck, or a mix of all three, the World Series of Poker has seen some feats over the years that seem like they’ll never be matched.
However, while all records may eventually fall, these achievements are currently some of the most jaw-dropping in WSOP history. Will any of them ever be broken? Only time will tell. For now, though, here are the most incredible WSOP records that will (probably) never be broken.
According to the WSOP+ App, these are the chip counts of the 325 surviving players from Day 1a.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,135,000
1,135,000
|
1,135,000 |
|
||
|
1,087,000
1,087,000
|
1,087,000 |
|
||
|
917,000
917,000
|
917,000 |
|
831,000
831,000
|
831,000 |
|
813,000
813,000
|
813,000 |
|
791,000
791,000
|
791,000 |
|
774,000
774,000
|
774,000 |
|
760,000
760,000
|
760,000 |
|
||
|
|
729,000
729,000
|
729,000 |
|
713,000
713,000
|
713,000 |
|
710,000
710,000
|
710,000 |
|
698,000
698,000
|
698,000 |
|
684,000
684,000
|
684,000 |
|
683,000
683,000
|
683,000 |
|
674,000
674,000
|
674,000 |
|
655,000
655,000
|
655,000 |
|
||
|
648,000
648,000
|
648,000 |
|
|
||
|
641,000
641,000
|
641,000 |
|
|
640,000
640,000
|
640,000 |
|
|
633,000
633,000
|
633,000 |
|
630,000
630,000
|
630,000 |
|
|
||
|
629,000
629,000
|
629,000 |
|
|
627,000
627,000
|
627,000 |
|
612,000
612,000
|
612,000 |
|
|
||
|
608,000
608,000
|
608,000 |
