2025 WSOP Day 11: Final Tables Set in $25K 6-Max and $1,500 Badugi; Friedman Leads Stud Championship

4 bracelets had been handed out right now — congratulations to the winners — as motion on the 2025 World Series of Poker actually begins to warmth up.

Two extra will likely be topped on Saturday, with the $25,000 6-Max and $1,500 Badugi right down to ultimate tables.

In the meantime, anticipate a large discipline on the final beginning flight within the $500 Colossus which has already attracted over 10,000 entries.

Vaitiekunas Eyes First Dwell Bracelet in $25,000 6-Max

Simply 15 gamers stay in Event #22: $25,000 High Roller 6-Handed from a large discipline of 336 gamers.

Main the way in which is Lithuania’s Paulius Vaitiekunas who’s attempting to find his first dwell bracelet after successful a web based bracelet in 2023.

One participant who is aware of what it takes to win a dwell bracelet is Jared Bleznick. On the heels of a large cooler late within the day, Bleznick coasted via the final degree to place himself in a major place to win WSOP titles in back-to-back years after successful his maiden bracelet in Event #92: $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller for $2,037,947.

The remaining gamers have all locked up $87,971, with the winner set to stroll away with $1,734,717.

Occasion #22: $25,000 Excessive Curler 6-Handed Day 2 Chip Counts

Seven Stay in $1,500 Badugi

Simply two former bracelet-winners stay in Event #23: $1,500 Badugi with Dominick Sarle and Matthew Schreiber sitting second and third in chips respectively.

They path Day 2 chip chief Aloisio Dourado who’s the one non-American on the ultimate desk of seven. Dourado has come near successful a bracelet earlier than, ending second to Shaun Deeb within the 2023 $1,500 8-Game. He additionally recorded a 53rd-place finsih within the 2024 WSOP Main Event.

The seven remaining gamers will compete to find out a winner on Saturday, with the victor set to take dwelling $138,114.

Occasion #23: $1,500 Badugi Day 2 Chip Counts

WSOP Europe Bracelet-Winner Stranak Leads PLO Bomb Pot Day 1

Again in 2021, Samuel Stranak took down a €2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha match on the WSOP Europe for his first bracelet. Now within the very first PLO Bomb Pot bracelet occasion, he is heading into Day 2 of Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot because the chip chief.

He bagged 783,000 chips forward of former bracelet winner Robert Nehorayan’s 727,000. An entire host of different notables and bracelet-winners are via to Day 2 as properly, together with Nacho Barbero, David “ODB” Baker and Michael Mizrachi in addition to final 12 months’s champion within the Event #41: $1,500 Mixed NLH / PLO Double Board Bomb Pot Xixiang Luo

Occasion #24: $1,500 Pot-Restrict Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot High 10 Chip Counts

Former Champ Friedman on High in $10,000 Stud Championship

After a seventh-place end within the $10,000 Dealer’s Choice Championship, Adam Friedman is again at it in Event #25: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship, ending Day 1 on the prime of the counts with 420,000. In 2022, Friedman won this very event after overcoming a 96-player discipline.

He leads from Dan Heimiller (364,500), seeking to do the double after his victory within the $1,500 Seven Card Stud, and Daniel Negreanu (302,000) who’s the one different participant above 300,000 in chips.

As anticipated from a combined recreation Championship occasion, there are many massive names remaining among the many 46 survivors from the 100-player discipline. A number of winners of the occasion up to now are additionally nonetheless in, together with 2021 champion Anthony Zinno (96,000), 2023 champion Brian Yoon (188,500), and defending champion James Obst (130,000).

Occasion #25: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship Day 1 Chip Counts

Camno New Chip Chief After Third Flight in Colossus

The third beginning flight in Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS was the biggest by far, with 4,286 entries. The chip chief as soon as the mud settled was Spain’s Rafael Camno with 1,733,000.

Bracelet winners additionally advancing embrace Kartik Ved (1,186,000) who sits fifth in chips after Day 1c, in addition to Dan Zack (383,000), Jeremy Pekarek (300,000), Anthony Spinella (299,000), former WSOP Predominant Occasion ultimate tablist Bruno Politano (163,000) and Felipe Ramos (128,000)

Occasion #19: $500 COLOSSUS Day 1c Chip Counts

What’s Occurring on Day 12 of the 2025 WSOP?

In addition to two winners being topped, there are additionally 5 different occasions happening. A large discipline is predicted on Day 1d of the Colossus which ought to unfold throughout a number of match rooms at Paris and Horseshoe.

Day 2s get underway within the $1,500 PLO Bomb Pot at 12 p.m., and the $10,000 Stud Championship at 1 p.m., as two different occasions get underway.

Event #26: $25,000 High Roller begins at 12 p.m. with eight 60-minute ranges scheduled on Day 1. Final 12 months, Nick Schulman gained $1,667,842 in this event after topping a discipline of 318 gamers.

For this with barely smaller financial institution rolls, or extra affinity for Omaha, Event #27: $1,500 Big O begins ath the marginally later time of two p.m.

Big O is a type of Omaha poker the place, as an alternative of 4 playing cards, gamers obtain 5 playing cards. The format can be performed Hello-Lo break up with half the pot being awarded to the excessive hand, and the opposite half to the low hand. Final 12 months, Michael Christ was the champion in this event and gained $306,884

Based mostly in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract dwell reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time workers in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor.

He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.