Full Seat Redraw Needed on Day 2 in WSOP High Roller After 72 Max Late Register

Mass max late registration in a 2025 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) occasion on Sunday pressured event employees to redraw seats for your entire discipline on Day 2.

Occasion #26: $25,000 Excessive Curler, to not be confused with the $25,000 Excessive-Curler 6-Max that ended on Saturday, had 300 entries via Day 1. However registration remained open for one full stage on the event’s second session.

One other Uncommon Taking place on the 2025 WSOP

The excessive curler event closed with a file 392 entrants, thanks partly to 40 gamers getting within the sport for the primary time or rebuying simply earlier than registration closed following Degree 9, and 72 complete throughout the first stage of the day.

A recent chip stack of 150,000 was good for simply 12.5 large with the Degree 10 blinds at 6,000/12,000 (12,000 large blind ante). It is not unusual for gamers to max late register for a WSOP occasion. Nevertheless it’s uncommon for thus many gamers to max late register in a excessive curler, and even rarer for event employees to be pressured to have your entire discipline of 158 gamers — almost half max late registered — redraw seats one stage into Day 2.

Ben Lamb, Stanley Tang, Landon Tice, and Ben Tollerene have been amongst those that entered the event simply earlier than registration closed. The sphere shortly dwindled all the way down to beneath 120 gamers as a lot of those that max late registered started shoving to construct up stacks.

Some gamers spent $25,000 for a couple of minutes of enjoyable. On the time of publishing, Fahredin Mustafov and Alexandre Reard had the largest stacks. Cherish Andrews, Joe McKeehen, and Alex Foxen have been additionally cruising together with massive stacks.

Solely 59 of the remaining gamers will receives a commission, and the bubble will burst later within the session. The winner, to be topped on Monday, will take dwelling $1,949,044, and the runner-up will obtain $1,299,333. PokerNews is your supply for dwell reporting protection of the $25,000 Excessive Curler from begin to end.

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