Yesterday (June 10) at the 2025 Wynn Summer Classic saw the $10,000 Seniors event reach the end of late registration, confirming a prize pool of $950,000 and playing down to a final eleven.
Meanwhile, the $1,600 No Limit Hold’em event, with a massive $2,500,000 guarantee, played two more Day 1 flights.
Hang Xu Leads $2.5m Guaranteed Event After Day 1C & 1D
Hang Xu.
After drawing in 368 players on Monday, the $1,600 No Limit Hold’em topped that with 537 entries on Tuesday.
Yesterday's turnout set the current prize pool at $1,294,150 and the field at 905 entries.
Today will see the last two flights of this event play out, and those final numbers resolve.
The Day 1A & 1B chip leader was Craig Mason, who hauled off a bag of 926,000 in chips.
However, the Day 1C and 1D flights have rejigged the top 10 chip counts so that Hang Xu has taken Mason's place with 943,000 in chips, putting Mason in second and Corel Theuma (879,000) in third.
The priciest event of the series so far, the $10,000 Seniors, saw the end of late registration early on in Day 2 of the tournament.
Once the gates closed, the number of entries was set at a nice round 100 players, resulting in a respectable prize pool of $950,000.
The day ended with a final eleven players confirmed for Day 3. Ernest Bush leads those players by a wide margin (with 1,178,000 in chips).
Bush's closest competition is Michael Lang in second place with 616,000 in his stack. But Lang has a lot of catching up to do with just a little over half the amount of chips that Bush has in his stack.
As a result, competition will be tough when the players return later today to play down to a winner.
$10,000 Seniors NLH 50+ Remaining Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Chip Count
1
Ernest Bush
1,178,000
2
Michael Lang
616,000
3
John Morgan
611,000
4
Kevin Nathan
608,000
5
Jun Liu
608,000
6
Phong Nguyen
427,000
7
Paul Newey
263,000
8
Curt Kohlberg
252,000
9
Judith Bielen
180,000
10
Michael Farris
141,000
11
Konstantinos Nanos
113,000
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The schedule for today (June 11) is similar to yesterday's. Once again, the day is largely dominated by a pair of Day 1 flights for the $1,600 No Limit Hold’em event. And once again, the first of these (Day 1E) kicks off at 11:00 a.m.
The evening flight (Day 1F) kicks off at 7:00 p.m. and will be a turbo flight with 20-minute blind levels.
Day 1F will be the last flight of the event, with the survivors piling back in tomorrow for a combined Day 2.
In addition to the $1.6k NLH flights, the final day of the $10,000 Seniors event kicks off at 11 a.m. This event will see the last two tables return and play down to a winner.
TIME
EVENT
GUARANTEE
ENTRY
CHIPS
LEVELS
END OF REG.
11:00 a.m.
No Limit Hold'em Day 1E
$2,500,000
$1,600
40,000
30/40
3:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
No Limit Hold'em Day 1F (Turbo)
$2,500,000
$1,600
40,000
20/40
10:00 p.m.
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Wednesday (June 11), was all about the $1,600 No Limit Hold’em event at the 2025 Wynn Summer Classic.
The final two flights of the $2,500,000 guaranteed event dominated the Wynn’s tournament space while the last two tables of the $10,000 Seniors No Limit Hold’em event played down to a winner.
Phong Nguyen Wins Seniors Event After Three-Way Chop
Ernest Bush came into the final day of the $10,000 Seniors No Limit Hold’em event with an overwhelming chip lead. His stack contained 1,178,000 in chips while the next biggest stack (in front of Michael Lang) contained just 616,000.
At the bottom of the pile, Konstantinos Nanos had the small stack with 113,000 in chips in front of him.
Despite his paucity of chips, Nanos was able to hang in on the felt while Michael Farris (10th - $23,750) and Curt Kohlberg (11th - $23,750) were knocked out, bringing the field down to the final table.
When the final table eventually reached the final three players, they struck an agreement for an even split. As a result of this deal, Phong Nguyen , Ernest Bush, and Jun Liu all earned $186,026 each.
Then they played on with Nguyen emerging as the final winner, earning himself one of the huge Wynn Summer Classic trophies to go with the cash.
$10,000 Seniors NLH 50+ Final Table Results
Place
Player
Hometown
Prize
1
Phong Nguyen
Tustin, CA
$186,026
2
Ernest Bush
Fort Lauderdale, FL
$186,026
3
Jun Liu
Shanghai, China
$186,026
4
Kevin Nathan Roseville, CA
$86,688
5
Paul Newey
Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom
$65,312
6
Michael Lang
Henderson, NV
$49,875
7
Judith Bielen
Las Vegas, NV
$39,662
8
Konstantinos Nanos
Essen, Germany
$32,300
9
John Morgan
Las Vegas, NV
$27,075
Prize Pool Of $3.4m Up For Grabs In $1.6k No Limit Hold'em
Alexandre Reard.
With all six Day 1 flights tallied up, the prize pool for the $1,600 No Limit Hold’em came to $3,439,150. This is by far the biggest prize pool of the festival so far.
The vast majority of those funds came from the players who entered during yesterday’s Day 1E and Day 1F Turbo flights. The huge turnout brought the number of entries up to 2,405.
The number of survivors from all six Day 1 flights came to 298 players, all of whom will return later today for Day 2.
Their leader is Alexandre Reard with 1,200,000 in chips. However, he cannot get too comfortable, with so much to play for and Hang Xu close behind him in second place with 943,000 in chips.
$1,600 No Limit Hold’em Combined Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Chip Count
1
Alexandre Reard
1,200,000
2
Hang Xu
943,000
3
Craig Mason
926,000
4
Corel Theuma
879,000
5
Sachin Joshi
868,000
6
Daniel Koysev
835,000
7
Alfie Poetra
831,000
8
Thomas Cannuli
808,000
9
Donovan Dean
777,000
10
Lok Tsui
777,000
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With the massive Day 1 flights for the $2.5m $1,600 No Limit Hold’em tournament completed, the tournament floor will fill up at midday with the combined Day 2 field of the event.
At 2:00 p.m., the $3,000 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max will kick off. Players can enter until around 6:30 p.m. when late registration closes.
Then at 6:00 p.m., there will be another $1,100 No Limit Hold’em Turbo tourney. Late registration runs until around 9:00 p.m.
TIME
EVENT
GUARANTEE
ENTRY
CHIPS
LEVELS
END OF REG.
2:00 p.m.
NLH 8-Max
$500,000
$3,000
30,000
30
6:30 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
No Limit Hold'em Turbo
$100,000
$1,100
30,000
20
9:00 p.m.
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