2025 WSOP Day 12: Can Mike “The Mouth” Matusow Finally Break Bracelet Drought?

Welcome again to PokerNews protection from the 2025 World Series of Poker!

One other WSOP weekend is underway, with two extra bracelet winners topped as Blaz Zerjav and Aloisio Dourado each clinched maiden titles.

Two extra will probably be topped at the moment because the $1,500 PLO Bomb Pot and $10,000 Stud Championship attain their conclusion. All eyes will probably be on the latter, to see if Mike Matusow can break a 12-year bracelet drought and at last win bracelet quantity 5!

In the meantime, Day 2 of the Colossus will get underway with a discipline of over 16,000 trimmed all the way down to a simply 2,326. That resumes at 11 a.m. native time.

Matusow, Heimiller and Friedman Headline $10,000 Stud Championship Day 3

“I do not know if you happen to had been watching at the moment, I performed phenomenal,” Mike Matusow instructed PokerNews shortly after bagging on Day 2 of Event #25: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship. “I believe I am pretty much as good as anyone else.”

They sound just like the phrases of a person trying to win his fifth WSOP title, and he heads into the ultimate day fourth in chips. He’ll need to take care of eight different powerful stud gamers, together with Corridor of Famer Mori Eskandani, 2025 bracelet winner Dan Heimiller and present chip chief Chino Rheem.

One other Corridor of Famer within the form of Daniel Negreanu narrowly missed out on a spot within the closing day, eliminated in 11th place by the hands of Qiang Xu.

Occasion #25: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship Day 2 Chip Counts

Xixiang Luo Eyes Again-to-Again Bomb Pot Bracelets

Twelve months in the past, the very first double board bomb pot occasion was held on the WSOP, and was received by Xixiang Luo. Now, that occasion was a mixture of No-Restrict Maintain’em and Pot-Restrict Omaha, with one bomb pot per orbit. Quick ahead to now, and the occasion is only Omaha with bomb pots on each hand.

The tweaks, apparently, didn’t work as Luo leads the ultimate 13 gamers in Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot into the ultimate day

Luo leads from Day 1 chip chief Samuel Stranak, with former WSOP Participant of the Yr Ian Matakis sitting fourth in chips.

The remaining gamers are all assured $14,748 with the winner taking dwelling $290,400.

Occasion #24: $1,500 Pot-Restrict Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot Day 2 Chip Counts

Mustafov Chasing Maiden Bracelet in $25,000 Excessive Curler

Day 1 of Event #26: $25,000 High Roller attracted 300 entries, with simply 96 advancing to Day 2. Late registration stays open by way of the primary degree of play on Day 2, with extra entries anticipated so as to add to the prize pool, which has already surpassed $7,000,000.

Main the best way is Bulgarian Fahredin Mustafov forward of Cherish Andrews, however there’s expertise all over the place you look on this excessive curler discipline.

Different notable names that bagged up for Day 1 embrace John Juanda, Stephen Chidwick, Joao Simao and Mustapha Kanit. Certainly one of poker’s most well-known married couple The Foxens each bagged up for Day 2 with Alex Foxen barely pipping his spouse Kristen Foxen within the chip counts.

Occasion #26: $25,000 Excessive Curler Prime 10 Chip Counts

Bubble Bursts as Rodgers Leads $1,500 Large O

207 gamers will head to sleep this night protected within the data of locking up a $3,027 min-cash in Event #27: $1,500 Big O after 15 ranges of play on Day 1.

Michael Rodgers will maybe sleep soundest of all, bagging the chip lead with 654,000 chips, however there’s loads of four-card specialists ready within the wings. They embrace Justin Liberto, trying to win his second gold bracelet and finish a 10-year drought since profitable Event #51: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Max in 2015.

On Sunday, the match will play all the way down to its closing 5 gamers, with the winner ultimately strolling away with $297,285.

Occasion #27: $1,500 Large O Prime 10 Chip Counts

Final Colossus Flight Sees Deeb Bag Large Stack

After the final of 4 beginning flights in Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS, 847 gamers survived into Day 2. That brings the full variety of survivors to 2,326.

Main the best way after Day 1d is Stephanie Alderman, with former WSOP Participant of the Yr Shaun Deeb bagging fourth in chips. Deeb final cashed a dwell Colossus on the WSOP in Las Vegas in 2018, ending 1,418th for $920, and is in good place right here in 2025.

Different notables advancing to Day 2 from Day 1d embrace Jeremy Becker (1,207,000), Yuliyan Kolev (1,130,000), Eddie Sabat (1,025,000), Lily Kiletto (841,000), and Roberto Romanello (598,000).

Occasion #19: $500 COLOSSUS Day 1d Prime 10 Chip COunts

Get Prepared for Sunday WSOP Motion!

There will probably be a complete of seven occasions underway on Day 12 of the 2025 World Sequence of Poker, with winners topped in Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot and Event #25: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship.

Day 2 of the Colossus will undoubtedly take up a variety of house within the Paris and Horseshoe, with over 2,000 gamers returning, however there are additionally Day 2s within the $25,000 High Roller and $1,500 Big O tournaments.

There’s additionally going to be house for 3 new occasions that begin on Sunday.

Primarily based in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract dwell reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time employees 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.