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Event #91: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

Day 1 Completed

07-11-2025 01:33 UTC-7

Nacho Barbero Leads After Active Day in $1,500 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha

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Jerome Solomon

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Play has wrapped in Day 1 of Event #91: $1,500 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha, and it was an active one at the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas, with the three-day event drawing a whopping 1,304 entrants to generate a prize pool of $1,837,260.

There are 103 players remaining, all hoping to lay claim to a World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet and the winner's share of $280,214.

Nacho Barbero, who won a bracelet three years ago, ended on top of a star-studded field, bagging 1,382,000 chips at the end of the evening. Narcis Nedelcu, who won his first bracelet earlier in the series, is on Barbero's heels with 1,290,000.

Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	1,382,000	276
2	Narcis Nedelcu	Romania	1,290,000	258
3	Cameron Bramwell	United States	1,088,000	218
4	Paul Gunness	United States	1,040,000	208
5	Andreas Zampas	Greece	967,000	193
6	Thomas Paul	United States	962,000	192
7	Luis Zedan	United States	940,000	188
8	Lok Chan	Taiwan	809,000	162
9	Shota Katagiri	Japan	804,000	161
10	Qiang Xu	China	682,000	136

A host of well-known stars popped into the tournament after busting out of the main event, and most of them busted out of this one as well. Erik Seidel managed to stay alive, bagging 242,000 chips.

It looked like Martin Kabrhel and Daniel Negreanu would surely bag, but they were knocked out on the last hand played at their respective tables.

Negreanu whipped out his camera to document his demise, as he guessed right that he was nearly drawing dead, yet made the set-under-set call anyway.

Phil Hellmuth, Erik Lindgren, Brian Rast, Ryan Riess and Josh Arieh were among the many who were eliminated earlier in the day.

Extended Bubble Time

It took eight hands of hand-for-hand play to eliminate two players and burst the bubble. Through seven hands, just one of the nine all-ins failed to survive.

Finally, Laura Born and Tolga Demirel busted at the same time and split a minimum payout.

DanSindelar was one of the bubble survivors, having flopped quads to stay in for a payday.

Due to the lengthy bubble-bursting process, Day 2 will commence on Level 16, featuring blinds of 3,000/6,000 and a big blind ante of 6,000.

Play restarts at noon local time, Friday, July 11. The schedule calls for the field to play down to five players, through 60-minute levels, with breaks after every two levels.

Stay tuned to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2025 World Series of Poker, for live updates from this and all bracelet events at the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas.

Tags: Andreas Zampas Brian Rast Cameron Bramwell Daniel Negreanu Daniel Sindelar Erik Lindgren Erik Seidel Jose Barbero Josh Arieh Laura Born Lok Chan Luis Zedan Martin Kabrhel Nacho Barbero Narcis Nedelcu Paul Gunness Phil Hellmuth Qiang Xu Ryan Riess Shota Katagiri Thomas Paul Tolga Demirel

07-11-2025 01:20 UTC-7

Day 2 Seat Draw

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Matthew Pitt

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Casino	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 600	1	Paul Clotar	United States	250,000	42
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 600	3	Stian Usterud	Norway	256,000	43
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 600	4	Thomas Mosier	United States	122,800	20
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 600	5	Narcis Nedelcu	Romania	1,290,000	215
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 600	6	Josh Reichard	United States	463,000	77

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 601	1	Ben Yu	United States	37,000	6
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 601	2	Joshua Mccully	United Kingdom	101,000	17
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 601	3	Geoffrey Cudd	United States	570,000	95
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 601	5	Farhad Jamasi	United States	50,000	8
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 601	6	Gerald Fu	United States	463,000	77

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 602	1	Kevin Fleck	United States	104,000	17
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 602	2	James Cavanaugh	United States	601,000	100
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 602	3	Qiang Xu	China	682,000	114
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 602	4	James Vecchio	United States	100,000	17
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 602	5	Jianqiang Yu	China	292,000	49
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 602	6	Leif Force	United States	82,000	14

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 603	1	Bradley Butcher	United States	420,000	70
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 603	2	Brett Elder	Canada	670,000	112
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 603	3	Adam Johnson	United States	336,000	56
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 603	4	Luis Zedan	United States	940,000	157
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 603	5	Daniel Sindelar	United States	195,000	33
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 603	6	Michael Kamran	United States	250,000	42

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 604	1	Kasparas Klezys	Lithuania	462,000	77
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 604	3	Ryan Johnson	United States	247,000	41
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 604	4	Kailun Sun	United States	53,000	9
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 604	5	Andrei Mitsiuk	United States	166,000	28
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 604	6	Bruno Benveniste	France	181,000	30

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 605	1	Kurtis Ruhl	Canada	329,000	55
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 605	2	Joshua Ladines	United States	281,000	47
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 605	3	Joshua Pollock	United States	60,000	10
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 605	4	Vitalijs Zavorotnijs	Latvia	221,000	37
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 605	6	Clayton Bates	United States	143,000	24

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 606	1	Tony Sinishtaj	United States	446,000	74
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 606	2	Jonathan Stoeber	United States	563,000	94
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 606	3	Lok Chan	Hong Kong	809,000	135
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 606	4	Jake White	United States	214,000	36
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 606	5	Alfred Karlsson	Swede	451,000	75
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 606	6	Alexander Yen	United States	177,000	30

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 607	1	Tsz Shing	United States	188,000	31
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 607	2	Brent Roberts	United States	238,000	40
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 607	3	Andrejs Prost	United States	365,000	61
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 607	4	Erik Seidel	United States	242,000	40
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 607	5	Jonathan Bomba	Argentina	403,000	67
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 607	6	Frederic Normand	Canada	45,000	8

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 608	1	Jesse Rockowitz	United States	544,000	91
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 608	2	Allan Le	United States	55,000	9
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 608	3	Jose Nadal	Mexico	482,000	80
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 608	4	Anik Ajmera	India	444,000	74
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 608	5	David Randall	United States	170,000	28
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 608	6	Bin Weng	United States	200,000	33

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 609	1	Jason Stockfish	United States	219,000	37
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 609	2	Noah Boeken	Netherlands	154,000	26
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 609	3	Felix Martel	Canada	97,000	16
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 609	4	Renji Mao	China	299,000	50
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 609	5	Sean Troha	United States	347,000	58
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 609	6	Sterling Lopez	United States	175,000	29

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 610	1	Rajendara Dhar	Bulgaria	250,000	42
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 610	2	Eric Fields	United States	548,000	91
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 610	3	David Wang	Australia	243,000	41
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 610	4	Anirudh Seth	United States	107,000	18
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 610	5	Dario Alioto	Italy	360,000	60
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 610	6	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	1,382,000	230

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 611	1	George Abdallah	Lebanon	307,000	51
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 611	2	Khaled Mahmoud	Canada	452,000	75
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 611	3	Jason Somerville	United States	55,000	9
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 611	4	Joseph Curcio	United States	401,000	67
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 611	5	David Coleman	United States	221,000	37
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 611	6	Paul Gunness	United States	1,040,000	173

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 612	1	Greg Levine	United States	307,000	51
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 612	2	Thomas Gabriel	United States	156,000	26
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 612	3	Ari Oxman	United States	306,000	51
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 612	4	Shota Katagiri	Japan	804,000	134
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 612	5	Yuhong Liu	United States	194,000	32
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 612	6	Andreas Zampas	Greece	967,000	161

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 613	1	Andrew Ostapchenko	United States	261,000	44
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 613	2	Zachary Peay	United States	132,000	22
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 613	3	Sonny Franco	France	195,000	33
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 613	4	Kanishka Upreti	India	566,000	94
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 613	5	Yueqi Zhu	China	138,000	23
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 613	6	Robert Slezak	United States	108,000	18

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 614	1	Darryll Fish	United States	165,000	28
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 614	2	Shrey Maheshwary	India	345,000	58
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 614	3	Nicholas Petitti	United States	140,000	23
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 614	4	Robert Mizrachi	United States	249,000	42
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 614	5	Rodrigo Portaleoni	Brazil	104,000	17
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 614	6	Thomas Paul	United States	962,000	160

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 615	1	Jonathan Hanner	United States	391,000	65
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 615	2	Vadim Zakharyan	Slovakia	184,000	31
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 615	3	Cameron Bramwell	United States	1,088,000	181
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 615	4	Sachin Bhargava	United States	248,000	41
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 615	5	Eli Karp	United States	247,000	41
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 615	6	Benjaman Chen	Canada	361,000	60

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 616	2	Jacob Daniels	United States	154,000	26
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 616	3	Shlomi Elimeleh	Portugal	194,000	32
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 616	4	Ricardo Alvarado	United States	71,000	12
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 616	5	Tim Vanloo	Germany	225,000	38
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 616	6	Justin Tran	United States	267,000	45

EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 617	1	Marius Kaiser	Germany	143,000	24
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 617	2	Yian Zeng	China	178,000	30
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 617	3	Frank Lagodich	United States	514,000	86
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 617	4	Michael Schwartz	United States	74,000	12
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 617	5	Evan Krentzman	United States	52,000	9
EVENT CENTER	BRONZE 617	6	Roel Van Gestel	Belgium	244,000	41

07-11-2025 01:17 UTC-7

End of Day 1 Chip Counts (full)

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Matthew Pitt

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

According to the WSOP+ App, these are the chip counts of the 103 Day 1 survivors.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nacho Barbero	1,382,000 1,338,000	1,338,000

Narcis Nedelcu	1,290,000 940,000	940,000

Cameron Bramwell	1,088,000 388,000	388,000
Paul Gunness	1,040,000 370,000	370,000
Andreas Zampas	967,000
Thomas Paul	962,000 452,000	452,000
Luis Zedan	940,000 218,000	218,000

Lok Chan	809,000 809,000	809,000

Shota Katagiri	804,000 804,000	804,000
Qiang Xu	682,000 74,000	74,000

Brett Elder	670,000 245,000	245,000
James Cavanaugh	601,000 601,000	601,000
Geoffrey Cudd	570,000 570,000	570,000
Kanishka Upreti	566,000 566,000	566,000
Jonathan Stoeber	563,000 563,000	563,000

Eric Fields	548,000 144,000	144,000
Jesse Rockowitz	544,000 544,000	544,000

Frank Lagodich	514,000 514,000	514,000
Jose Nadal	482,000 166,000	166,000
Gerald Fu	463,000 164,400	164,400
Josh Reichard	463,000 463,000	463,000
Kasparas Klezys	462,000 373,900	373,900

Khaled Mahmoud	452,000
Alfred Karlsson	451,000 451,000	451,000
Tony Sinishtaj	446,000 446,000	446,000

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07-11-2025 00:33 UTC-7

Final Busts of Day 1

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Barry Russell

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jon Stanfield	Busted
John Zable	Busted
Bryce Yockey	Busted

Cameron Tung	Busted
Robert Renaud	Busted
Dzmitry Malets	Busted
Robert Giordano	Busted
Hooman Nikzad	Busted
Christopher Meyers	Busted
Timo Schneider	Busted
Aleksandr Bolotin	Busted
Oziel Velador	Busted
Michael Lin	Busted
Dermot Blain	Busted
Daniel Negreanu	Busted

Martin Kabrhel	Busted

Jose Castillo	Busted

07-11-2025 00:31 UTC-7

Negreanu Last To Leave

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Jerome Solomon

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

After a three-man limp to the flop of 6♥A♥10♣ Daniel Negreanu bet 15,000 chips on the button. Andreas Zampas check-raised to 85,000 from the big blind.

Khaled Mahmoud called as did Daniel Negreanu.

The turn came 2♣. Zampas bet 280,000. Mahmoud thought about it for a while before folding.

Negreanu grabbed his camera and began recording for his sites. He said he knew he was drawing almost dead, but there were too many chips in the pot to fold, so he called all in.

Daniel Negreanu: K♠10♠10♦2♠ All in
Andreas Zampas: A♦A♠Q♠7♥

As he figured, Negreanu was not holding the top set. It only got worse for him on the river, as the A♣ gave Zampas a four-of-a-kind winner, sending Negreanu to the rail as the final elimination of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andreas Zampas	967,000 857,000	857,000
Khaled Mahmoud	452,000 452,000	452,000
Daniel Negreanu	Busted

Tags: Andreas Zampas Daniel Negreanu Khaled Mahmoud

07-11-2025 00:28 UTC-7

Brutal River for Normand

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Barry Russell

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

There were roughly 100,000 chips in the pot on 2♥J♦5♥Q♦, Qiang Xu who was in early position bet 98,000, Frederic Normand in the big blind announced all in for 344,000, Xu made the call.

Qiang Xu: A♣5♦2♦2♣ All in
Frederic Normand: K♣Q♣Q♥6♥

Brutal river for Normand as the 6♦ completed a flush for Xu.

Player	Chips	Progress
Qiang Xu	608,000 158,000	158,000

Frederic Normand	32,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: Frederic Normand Qiang Xu

Level: 15

Blinds: 3,000/5,000

Ante: 5,000

07-10-2025 23:53 UTC-7

More Eliminations

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Barry Russell

Level 14 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Talesh Patel	Busted
Donald Fulton	Busted
Elliott Kampen	Busted
Jorge Ufano	Busted
Dash Dudley	Busted

Hiroyuki Noda	Busted
Frank Servidio	Busted
Tomasz Gluszko	Busted
Matthias De Meulder	Busted
Bradley Anderson	Busted

Yuval Bronshtein	Busted

Erick Lindgren	Busted

Anil Jivani	Busted
Zakhar Galper	Busted
Lawrence Wayne	Busted
Giedrius Breive	Busted
Chun Li	Busted
Ren Lin	Busted

Rafael Mota	Busted
Michael Shammas	Busted
Euryd Rivera	Busted
Jordan Spurlin	Busted
Maxx Holland	Busted
Virgile Turchi	Busted
Jonathan Ingalls	Busted

07-10-2025 23:47 UTC-7

Rockowitz Eliminated

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Barry Russell

Level 14 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Joshua Mccully raised to 10,000 from early position, Jesse Rockowitz called in the hijack, Jason Stockfish called in the cutoff, but Jose Castillo three-bet on the button to 56,000. Mccully called, Rockowitz called and put himself all in, and Stockfish called.

"Zero respect" said Castillo before the dealer dealt the flop.

The flop came 5♠K♥5♦, action checked to Castillo who bet 25,000, Mccully called but Stockfish raised to 95,000, Castillo and Mccully folded.

Jesse Rockowitz: J♥9♣10♠7♥ All in
Jason Stockfish: A♦10♦10♣5♣