Day 25 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas saw three new gold bracelets find three new wrists on which to rest.
Matt Vengrin won a bracelet in the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event. Vengrin has three previous runner-up finishes in WSOP events, but this was his first time taking a WSOP event down outright.
Samuel Rosborough and Dennis Weiss also claimed their first U.S. WSOP titles (Weiss has previously won a WSOPE event).
Rosborough won his bracelet in the $1,500 NLH Freezeout, beating Asher Conniff heads up and Weiss won the $25,000 PLO High Roller, emerging victorious from a tough final table that included poker legend Phil Ivey.
Ka Kwan Lau Leads Star-Studded PLO HR Field After Day 1
Ka Kwan Lau.
The biggest tournament of the day was Event #57: $50,000 Pot Limit Omaha High Roller, which played its first 12 blind levels, winnowing down the field of 148 entrants to just 62.
The high buy in attracted a ton of huge poker stars to the field. The top ten chip count alone included players like Alex Foxen (1,525,000), Sean Winter (1,175,000), and Isaac Haxton (1,130,000).
By the end of the day, Ka Kwan Lau led the field with 2,700,000 in chips. Biao Ding was in second place with 1,765,000.
The list of other players who found a bag on Day 1 includes Phil Ivey (525,000), the all-time tournament earnings leader Bryn Kenney (395,000), online poker legend Viktor "Isildur" Blom (380,000), and live poker legend Erik Seidel (365,000).
Day 2 starts at 1 p.m. at which time blinds will be 10,000/15,000 with a big blind ante of 15,000.
There is still time to buy a stack, with late registration remaining available until the end of level 13. Level 13 is expected to end around 2:15 p.m.
PokerNews will have live coverage of the event all the way to the end.
Event #57: $50,000 Pot Limit Omaha High Roller
The Millionaire Maker Hits 8,007 Entries
Francisco Benitez leads the field after Day 1c
Day 1c was the third of four Day 1 flights for the Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em.
The day's action added another 3,947 entries to the event — the biggest flight so far — bringing the total number of entries to 8,007.
This massive field made for a bigger spread of chip counts than on previous days with Francisco Benitez out at the extreme of the bell curve. He bagged a stack of 1,243,000 in chips, the biggest of the tournament so far. Behind him, two-time bracelet winner Ilija Savevski bagged 979,000 in chips, while the third-place finisher barely bagged a third of Benitez's stack with 433,000.
Lots of big names entered the event, looking to win a million and a bracelet. These included Jessica Vierling (281,500), Daewoong Song (251,000), John Hennigan (248,000), Sergi Reixach (244,000), Dan Shak (175,500), Matt Glantz (163,000), Punnat Punsri (145,500), Jose "Nacho" Barbero (118,000), Sean Troha (108,000), original member of the Hendon Mob Barny Boatman (90,500), Martin Kabrhel (53,000), and Main Event winner Qui Nguyen (53,000).
Day 1d begins at 10 a.m. Vegas time on June 21.
PokerNews will have live coverage of the event beginning on June 22 when Day 2 of the event begins.
Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker Day 1c Top Ten Chip Counts
Dennis Carlson Leads Final Seven In $1k Seniors Event
Dennis Carlson.
Day 4 of Event #48: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em began with 19 players remaining from a field that started out with 7,575 entries.
Dennis Carlson (49,250,000) and Brett Lim (44,825,000) lead the field by a wide margin with Jose Boloqui chasing up in third with just 18,425,000.
Play ended with the elimination of Ron Fetsch in eighth place after he lost most of his stack to Jason Reels (18,400,000). Fetsch earned $85,872. There is $653,839 up top from a prize pool of $6,938,700.
The $1k Seniors will return for Day 5 at 2:00 p.m local time on June 21 when the remaining seven competitors will play down to a winner. The blinds will be 250,000/500,000 with a 500,000 big blind ante when the action resumes.
The live stream for the final table will start at 3:00 p.m. on a one-hour delay.
Event #48: $1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold'em Championship Final Table Chip Counts
$10,000 Event Down To A Four H.O.R.S.E Race
Kristopher Tong.
Just four players remain in Event #55: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship chasing the $452,689 first-place prize.
Day 3 saw a final 16 — including Huck Seed (16th), Cary Katz (15th), Todd Brunson (12th), and John Hennigan (11th) — whittled down to a final four.
These four are the last players standing from a 207-entry field that included some of the best poker players in the world.
Of the remaining four, Kristopher Tong is in the lead with 7,145,000. He holds the majority of the chips on the table. All three of his opponents's stacks combined come to 6,280,000 between the three of them.
Maximilian Schindler (2,680,000) is in second, followed by Brad Ruben (1,305,000), and Jason Mercier (1,295,000).
The action yesterday ran late, so an additional day was added to the schedule. The final four will return at 2 p.m. to play down to a winner. The blinds will start at Level 26 with limits of 120,000-240,000.
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