Event #94: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

07-12-2025 20:40 UTC-8

Kobayashi Doubles

Stewart Morrison

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

After losing a large portion of his stack in a previous altercation, Kobayashi found himself very short-stacked and in the small blind.

Fabian Niederreiter raised to 2,100 from the cutoff, and Kobayashi moved his remaining 4,500 into the middle. Only Niederreiter called, and the cards were flipped over.

Hirokazu Kobayashi: A♥Q♥ All in
Fabian Niederreiter: Q♣J♠

There was no bad beat story to be had for Kobayashi as the board ran out 9♥8♣6♥5♠2♦, giving him a full double-up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fabian Niederreiter	66,400 6,400	6,400
Hirokazu Kobayashi	11,000 6,500	6,500

Tags: Fabian Niederreiter Hirokazu Kobayashi

07-12-2025 20:42 UTC-8

Jaros Takes from Mateos

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Adrian Mateos opened to 2,200 from the hijack and Patrik Jaros defended from the big blind.

The flop came J♥9♠7♦ and Jaros check-called a 3,500 continuation-bet from Mateos.

Both players checked the 2♦ turn leading to the 9♣ river. Jaros bet 10,000 and Mateos opted to fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Rezaei	285,000 225,000	225,000

Adrian Mateos	110,000 35,000	35,000

Patrik Jaros	69,000 3,000	3,000
Pavel Plesuv	67,500 7,500	7,500

Taylor Paur	66,500 6,500	6,500

Gregory Jensen	30,500 29,500	29,500

Tags: Adrian Mateos Patrik Jaros

07-12-2025 20:45 UTC-8

More Level Seven Entries

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
David Jackson	60,000 60,000	60,000

Scott Bohlman	60,000 60,000	60,000

Jun Obara	60,000 60,000	60,000
Chin Wei Lim	60,000 60,000	60,000

Yunkyu Song	60,000 60,000	60,000
George Adams	60,000 60,000	60,000
Artur Martirosian	60,000 60,000	60,000

Amir Mirrasouli	60,000 60,000	60,000
Justin Tran	60,000 60,000	60,000
Bin Weng	60,000 60,000	60,000
Paul Volpe	60,000 60,000	60,000

Johan Guilbert	60,000 60,000	60,000

Shannon Shorr	60,000 60,000	60,000

Level: 8

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 1,200

07-12-2025 20:58 UTC-8

Chen Building a Monster Stack

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

In a preflop confrontation Adrien Favre-Felix was all in from the small blind for a bit under 30,000 and up against Dong Chen who covered him from the button.

Adrien Favre-Felix: A♥10♠ All in
Dong Chen: 8♣8♦

The 7♣8♥J♦2♠K♥ runout gave Chen a set of eights to eliminate Favre-Felix and add more chips to his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dong Chen	320,000 260,000	260,000

Adrien Favre-Felix	Busted

Tags: Adrien Favre-Felix Dong Chen

07-12-2025 20:58 UTC-8

Liu Doubles Through Matakis

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Erick Torres

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Ian Matakis raised before Tian Liu jammed for 23,000 and was called by Matakis to go to a showdown with Liu at risk.

Tian Liu: A♦4♦ All in
Ian Matakis: 9♥9♠

Liu was considerably behind heading into the runout, but the flop changed that when it fanned out A♣Q♥4♣.

Matakis was drawing thin to retake the lead after the flop, but the turn made it so he was drawing dead as it came the A♠ to give Liu a full house.

The meaningless 2♥ on the river peeled off to give Liu the double-up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sean Rosenthal	104,000 21,300	21,300
Erick Lindgren	80,700 37,300	37,300

Ian Matakis	80,200 48,400	48,400

Aram Zobian	73,000 4,200	4,200

Tian Liu	46,600 37,400	37,400
Matthew Sabia	44,000 14,000	14,000

Tags: Ian Matakis Tian Liu

07-12-2025 21:01 UTC-8

Palma Runs into Aces

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Stewart Morrison

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

On the very last hand of the previous level, Nicholas Palma raised from the hijack to 2,100, only to be three-bet by Krasimir Yankov on the button to 6,500. The action folded back to Palma, who four-bet to 14,000, and Yankov called.

Palma continued with a bet of 7,000 on the 10♠7♦4♥ flop, and again, Yankov called.

The dealer added the 2♥ turn to the board, and Palma moved all in for 24,600, which Yankov called.

Nicholas Palma: J♥J♦ All in
Krasimir Yankov: A♥A♦

There was no two-outer for Palma on the river; instead, it was the K♣, sending Palma to the exit and his stack over to Yankov.

Player	Chips	Progress
Krasimir Yankov	107,600 8,200	8,200
Nicholas Palma	Busted

Tags: Krasimir Yankov Nicholas Palma

07-12-2025 21:03 UTC-8

Maue Fades the Ace

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Erick Torres

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Leonard Maue went all in for 18,000 and was called preflop by Daniel Vicente to put Maue at risk.

Leonard Maue: K♠K♣ All in
Daniel Vicente: A♣2♣

Maue needed his kings to hold to stay in the tournament, and hold they did when the runout came 7♠9♠Q♦J♦5♣.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Vicente	132,000 46,000	46,000
Leonard Maue	39,000 21,000	21,000

Tags: Daniel Vicente Leonard Maue

07-12-2025 21:05 UTC-8

Gone But Not Forgotten

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
John Ripnick	Busted
Norman Shapiro	Busted
Taylor Wilson	Busted
Kazuomi Furuse	Busted
Thixoa Nguyen	Busted
Sriharsha Doddapaneni	Busted
Ritvars Cekalins	Busted
Joshua Jacobson	Busted
Iago Sturzeneker	Busted
Jeremy Dan	Busted
Bin Weng	Busted
Stoyan Madanzhiev	Busted

Paul Hong	Busted
Ran Ilani	Busted
Hirokazu Kobayashi	Busted
David Jackson	Busted

Yuya Kita	Busted
Kim Wah Chiu	Busted
John Richards	Busted
Vladimir Minko	Busted
Roeland Peeks	Busted
Giuseppe Pantaleo	Busted

Stefan Dimitrov	Busted
Landon Tice	Busted
Shunjiro Kita	Busted

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07-12-2025 21:14 UTC-8

Lichtenberger Shows the Bluff

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Stewart Morrison

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

The action was joined with Lirui Zhang and Andrew Lichtenberger facing off in a pot that already had 16,000 in the middle.

The flop Q♠6♥9♣ was already face up on the felt, and Zhang was first to act, in the cutoff.

Zhang elected to check, proceeding with a check-call of Lichtenberger's bet of 8,500.

The turn 3♥ brought the back door flush draw, and when Zhang checked again, Lichtenberger continued with a bet of 18,000. Again, Zhang called.

The dealer added the 10♥ river card to the board, and Zhang checked for a third time. This time, Lichtenberger assembled a bet of 41,000 and put it into the middle. Lichtenberger had left himself just 900 chips behind.

Zhang went into the tank, taking time to consider before eventually folding A♥Q♦ face up.

"Wow,” said Lichtenberger, who then showed Zhang the bad news. He flipped over A♦K♥, confirming he had bluffed his opponent.