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Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #99: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$3,381,000
Total Entries
735
Level
37
Blinds
500,000 / 1,000,000
Ante
1,000,000
Entries
735
Players Left
68
Players Left 1 / 735
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Level 11
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Alfonso Timoteo opened to 5,000 in early position, and Ian O'Hara replied with a three-bet to 14,000 in the hijack. Santiago Plante was next to act in the cutoff, and moved all in for 50,000.
Timoteo took some time before moving his larger stack all in, and O'Hara quickly got out of the way.
Santiago Plante: A♥Q♠ 
Alfonso Timoteo: K♥K♦
Plante was trailing until the 5♣A♣8♠ flop, making top pair. Timoteo found no help on the 4♦ turn, and was already counting out chips as the 3♥ fell on the river.
Plante saw his pair of aces crack Timoteo's pocket kings to earn the double-up.
Level 11
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Action was picked up with Poseidon Ho all-in for 37,000 against David Skidmore.
Poseidon Ho: 10♦10♣
David Skidmore: A♠A♥
Skidmore's aces held on the board of 2♠8♦9♦9♣J♠. Ho left the tournament floor as his chips were added to Skidmore's stack.
Level 11
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
In poker, like in life, they say records are meant to be broken.
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Level 11
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Alex Keating raised to 6,000 on the button and Mike Matusow was in the big blind.
"Don't do it, Mikey," Keating said as Matusow threw in a three-bet to 17,000. Keating responded with a four-bet shove for 43,500 and Matusow beat him into the pot.
Alex Keating: A♣10♣
Mike Matusow: J♥J♣
The flop came A♦6♠3♣ with the ace in the window to give Keating the lead. The 5♣ on the turn and the 3♦ on the river bricked out and Keating scored a double up.
"Mikey, don't do it," Matusow mocked Keating. "The tightest guy raises you and you go ahead and four-bet shove with ace-ten," Matusow went off in frustration.
"Just playing GTO," Keating responded. "You could have king-queen."
"I haven't looked at a f***ing stupid solver in my life. You think I have king-queen there?!"
Level 11
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Edward Pak started the action with a 5,500 bet and got the small blind Armin Rezaei and the big blind David Peters to call.
The flop came 2♦A♦3♥. After the blinds checked, Pak continued with 6,000. Rezaei called but Peters folded. On the turn Q♠, Rezaei check-called Pak's bet of 14,000.
Action slowed when both players checked the river K♠. Rezaei turned over A♣9♠ and won the pot.
Level 11
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Jason Min was all in from the big blind against small blind Andre Marcano.
Jason Min: A♠9♠
Andre Marcano: 7♥7♣
The runout hit Min from the get-go, and he stayed ahead on a full board of 9♥8♥4♦6♥4♣ to double up.
Level 11
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Level 10
: Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
A completed board of 10♠4♣2♣J♦A♥ was spread across the felt with 40,000 in the middle. Richard Bai checked from the big blind and Alejandro Lococo moved all in for 90,000 in the cutoff. Bai asked for a count even though he only had around 75,000 behind.
After sitting in the tank for a couple of minutes, Bai announced that he had pocket jacks, which led to Lococo giving some advice.
"Let me help you out," Lococo started. "You have pocket jacks?" he questioned before Bai nodded his head. "I'm a rapper. I'm from Argentina. I'm known for my bluffs, so you should call. If I have king-queen, then you bust and call it a day," Lococo went on.
Bai quickly sent his J♠J♣ face up into the muck after the speech and Lococo turned over his Q♣8♣ for a missed straight and flush draw which sent the table into full laughter.
