James Obst raised from the hijack, and Scott Seiver three-bet in the cutoff. Yuval Bronshtein then called on the button before Obst went all in for 10,000 total. Seiver and Bronshtein tossed in the extra T-1,000 chip required for a call.
Seiver bet the 3♦3♥5♦ flop, seeing Bronshtein call. The 10♣ turn was then checked by the defending champion before he called Bronshtein's bet. Bronshtein also bet the Q♠ river, but this time Seiver check-folded.
Bronshtein opened A♥J♥8♦3♣ for trop threes, and Obst cards were only shown briefly before he exited the tournament area.
Maxx Coleman bet from the cutoff on the turn with the board reading K♣J♠7♠Q♠. Paul Volpe called from the small blind and Benjamin Miner called from under the gun.
The river 2♥ was checked to Coleman and he bet again. Volpe called, but Miner folded.
Coleman revealed the winner with A♠K♥8♠5♥ for the nut flush to win the pot.
Patrick Moulder raised in the hijack, with Ben Yu calling on the button and Richie Allen doing so in the small blind. James Davis then bumped it up with a three-bet in the big blind, which all players called.
Davis' bet on the 5♣7♥9♦ flop was also called by every player involved, while his bet on the 4♦ turn only folded out Allen.
Davis completed his triple barrel on the Q♠ river, again seeing Moulder and Yu call. Davis opened A♠A♦J♥2♥ for a pair of aces and the nut low, but would only receive a quarter of the pot as Yu played the same low with A♥Q♥6♣2♦ and Moulder had a better high with K♦6♠3♥2♣ for a straight.
Yehuda Buchalter raised from early position with Daniel Negreanu calling from the next seat, and Jesse Lonis calling from the blinds.
Lonis and Buchalter checked to Negreanu on the A♦5♥9♣ flop and he bet. Lonis raised, which forced Buchalter to fold. Negreanu called.
Lonis bet when the J♦ came on the turn, and Negreanu raised. Lonis called.
The river was 7♣ and Lonis check-called Negreanu's bet. Negreanu showed A♥J♣6♦2♣ for top two pair, and Lonis showed K♥4♥2♠2♦ for a seven-five low, meaning they chopped the pot.
Heads-up to the 7♦J♣A♦ flop, Kane Kalas checked from the small blind before he raised Matt Glantz's bet. He checked the 9♥ turn as well, raising all in when Glantz fired again.
Glantz quickly called, and the cards were revealed.
Kane Kalas: J♥J♦6♦2♣
Matt Glantz: AxK♠10♥Q♥
The 9♠ river made Kalas a full house to secure his double-up in the tail end of Day 1.
In the big blind, Per Hildebrand had gone all in for 10,000 on the 3♥9♦Q♥ flop, with Andrew Brown calling in middle position and Frankie O'Dell doing so on the button.
Brown then fired a bet into the side pot on the 8♥ turn, to which O'Dell quickly folded.
Per Hildebrand: A♠A♦7♥3♦
Andrew Brown: A♥A♣6♦3♠
Both players had pocket aces, but Brown rivered the better low when the 2♥ emerged from the deck, awarding him three-quarters of the pot.
Jason Gola bet on the flop of 9♦10♥3♣ and Anthony Zinno raised. Yuval Bronshtein called, and Gola also called.
The 5♣ turn and 6♦ turn got checked through by everyone and Zinno showed A♠A♦6♥4♣. Zinno scooped the pot with pocket aces for the high and six-five for the low.
After ten levels of poker, Day 1 of Event #9: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship here at the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas, during the 2025 World Series of Poker has concluded. From the 183 players that took to the baize, only 93 managed to find a bag at the end of the night.
Topping the chip counts is Ryan Bambrick with a stack of 325,000, while Austin Marks is hot on his heels with 320,000. Micah Brooks rounds out the podium positions with 306,000, making these three the only players to have surpassed the three-hundred-thousand-chip mark.
End of Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Ryan Bambrick
United States
325,000
41
2
Austin Marks
United States
320,000
40
3
Micah Brooks
United States
306,000
38
4
Ofir Mor
United States
266,000
33
5
Eddie Blumenthal
United States
262,000
33
6
William Remshardt
United States
252,000
32
7
Joey Couden
United States
249,000
31
8
Robert Mizrachi
United States
242,000
30
9
Fabrizio Gonzalez
Uruguay
242,000
30
10
Daniel Negreanu
Canada
241,000
30
Canada’s Daniel Negreanu squeezed inside the top ten with a stack of 241,000 after a late surge up the chip counts. Part of his climb came from a multi-way pot where he and Steve Chanthabouasy chopped the chips from two other players. With seven WSOP bracelets already on his resume, Negreanu has put himself in a solid position to chase number eight in this prestigious championship event.
Huck Seed
With this being one of the pinnacle events of the series, a host of notables have maneuvered their way into Day 2. Among them are the five-time bracelet winner Robert Mizrachi (242,000), mixed game specialist Anthony Zinno (225,000), and Poker Hall of Famer and ten-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (132,000).
A few of the notables who were unable to secure a bag at the end of the night include four-time bracelet winner Mike Matusow, seven-time bracelet winner and the winner of this event last year, Scott Seiver. Also getting eliminated were Josh Arieh, Paul Volpe, and Poker Hall of Famer Brian Rast.
Scott Seiver
Day 2 gets underway at 1 p.m. on Level 11 with blinds starting at 2,000/4,000 and limits of 4,000/8,000. There will be five 60-minute levels to start play tomorrow, with 90-minute levels from that point onward. Late registration remains open until the start of Level 12, which will be approximately 2:15 p.m.
Be sure to tune back in to PokerNews on Sunday, June 1, as we bring you all the latest updates from Day 2, as well as comprehensive summer-long coverage of the 2025 WSOP.
