Event #97: $1,500 The Closer | 2025 World Series of Poker

07-16-2025 11:00 UTC-8

Gone But Not Forgotten

Tim Baker

Level 25 : Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Chong Yu	Busted
David Shaw	Busted
Michael Wasserman	Busted
Michael Mcbarron	Busted
Kyle Riley	Busted
Randy Luong	Busted
Pham Nguyen	Busted
Ricardo Nakamura	Busted
Atanas Malinov	Busted
Jose Jaraiz	Busted
Andrea Gaffo	Busted
Michael Aron	Busted
Bob Shao	Busted
David Jackson	Busted

Diego Serrano	Busted
Jason Reels	Busted
Yoshihiko Hirano	Busted
Gonzalo Lopez	Busted
Robert Gill	Busted
Leonardo Valenzuela	Busted
James Sowers	Busted
Yuriy Kudrynskyy	Busted
Caroline Mccarter	Busted
Anzhela Vasylenko	Busted
Linus Goh	Busted

Level: 25

Blinds: 25,000/50,000

Ante: 50,000

07-16-2025 10:58 UTC-8

Tou Doubles Through Kabrhel

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Stewart Morrison

Level 24 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Tawei Tou moved all in from under the gun for 260,000, and only Martin Kabrhel called from the big blind.

Tawei Tou: 3♠3♦ All in
Martin Kabrhel: A♥8♥

There was no help for Kabrhel from the 9♦7♣K♠7♥10♠ runout, providing Tou a full double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Martin Kabrhel	970,000 530,000	530,000

Tawei Tou	580,000 170,000	170,000

Tags: Martin Kabrhel Tawei Tou

07-16-2025 10:54 UTC-8

Vierling Scores With Kings

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 24 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Jessica Vierling raised from middle position to 80,000, and Kevin Theodore three-bet to 240,000. It folded back around to Vierling, who moved all of her chips in the pot for 1,300,000 effective. Theodore called to see the bad news that Vierling had him dominated.

Kevin Theodore: Q♥Q♣ All in
Jessica Vierling: K♦K♥

The cards ran out as 10♦5♦5♠3♥A♠, and Vierling's kings-up was good for a massive double.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jessica Vierling	3,100,000 2,650,000	2,650,000
Kevin Theodore	Busted

Tags: Jessica Vierling Kevin Theodore

07-16-2025 10:49 UTC-8

Zinno Building

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Stewart Morrison

Level 24 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Justin Turkat moved all in from early position for 310,000, and only Anthony Zinno called from the small blind.

Justin Turkat: A♦J♣ All in
Anthony Zinno: K♥K♦

Zinno improved to top set on the 7♠K♠6♥ flop, before the J♥ turn saw Turkat drawing dead.

The inconsequential river added the 2♣ to the board as Turkat said his goodbyes and headed to the exit.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anthony Zinno	1,085,000 245,000	245,000

Justin Turkat	Busted

Tags: Anthony Zinno Justin Turkat

07-16-2025 10:46 UTC-8

The Departed

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Tim Baker

Level 24 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kelly Horrocks	Busted
Jason Bral	Busted
Garik Tamasian	Busted
Oshri Azran	Busted
Dumitru-Adrian Pora	Busted
Thi Xoa Nguyen	Busted
Matthew Beinner	Busted
Adam Owen	Busted
Joris Michl	Busted
Mir Gaskari	Busted
Estevan Pena	Busted
Aleks Dimitrov	Busted

Jaime Reyes	Busted
Kenja Wiseman	Busted
Gerardo Rodriguez	Busted
Samuel Dray	Busted
Chris Goodrow	Busted
Amir Mirrasouli	Busted
Thanh Ha Duong	Busted
Peter Ng	Busted
Zhaken Seitbekov	Busted
Arman Soltani	Busted
Shelok Wong	Busted
Conor Bergin	Busted
Matthew Bode	Busted

07-16-2025 10:41 UTC-8

Kabrhel Loses Some to Tulin

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Tim Baker

Level 24 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

With around 250,000 in the pot, Nikolai Tulin checked from the hijack on a flop of K♠5♦9♦ and Martin Kabrhel checked behind out of the cutoff.

Tulin checked again on the Q♠ turn, prompting Kabrhel to bet 90,000. Tulin stuck around with a call.

Both players checked the A♠ river and Tulin took down the pot with J♠J♦ for a pair of jacks.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nikolai Tulin	1,800,000 600,000	600,000
Martin Kabrhel	1,500,000 460,000	460,000

Benny Glaser	509,500 459,500	459,500

Tags: Martin Kabrhel Nikolai Tulin

07-16-2025 10:36 UTC-8

Checking Dark All the Way

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 24 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

In a blind versus blind scenario, Rania Nasreddine limped from the small blind, and Romica Mihailov checked. Before the flop arrived, Nasreddine checked in the dark. The flop was 2♥4♣2♦, and Mihailov also checked.

Before the turn 8♥, Nasreddine checked in the dark again, and Mihailov followed suit.

Again on the river 3♦, Nasreddine checked dark and Mihailov flipped over Q♥5♦. Nasreddine turned over J♥3♠ and two pair was the winning hand for Nasreddine.

Player	Chips	Progress
Romica Mihailov	1,000,000 505,000	505,000
Rania Nasreddine	880,000 550,000	550,000

Tags: Rania Nasreddine Romica Mihailov

Level: 24

Blinds: 20,000/40,000

Ante: 40,000

07-16-2025 10:26 UTC-8

Some Early Notables

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 23 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Nemeskeri-Kiss	3,125,000

Zhen Cai	2,300,000
Martin Kabrhel	1,960,000 1,732,000	1,732,000

Jakob Miegel	1,825,000 170,000	170,000
David Dongwoo Ko	1,155,000
Safiya Umerova	1,145,000

Justin Arnwine	1,100,000
Casey Hatmaker	1,085,000
Upeshka De Silva	1,045,000

Martin Stausholm	980,000 930,000	930,000
Lukas Hafner	945,000
Josh Arieh	930,000 430,000	430,000

Renmei Liu	910,000
Ronnie Bardah	805,000

Jake Schwartz	660,000
Christian Harder	630,000

Jeff Madsen	610,000

Jason Wheeler	600,000

Justin Zaki	580,000
Melanie Pittard	555,000

Thomas Cazayous	525,000

Dusti Smith	485,000
Jessica Vierling	450,000
Brett Shaffer	395,000

Rania Nasreddine	330,000

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