Chris Moneymaker was among the many early casualties because the 2025 WSOP Predominant Occasion obtained underway in Las Vegas final evening
The hunt to see who the subsequent world champion of poker shall be kicked off final evening in Vegas with 7-time bracelet winner Billy Baxter doing the ‘shuffle up and deal’ honours…
Billy Baxter used few phrases to announce ‘shuffle up and deal!’ for Flight 1A of the 2025 Predominant Occasion. Watch Flight 1A on https://t.co/pGPDDvqFQG beginning at 7pm PT/10pm ET. #WSOP2025 pic.twitter.com/xvr3RoQrih
— WSOP – World Collection of Poker (@WSOP) July 2, 2025
Some 923 gamers took the earliest alternative to stake their declare at WSOP glory and riches as day 1a stuffed the Horseshoe and Vegas On line casino and, as ever, all eyes have been on who would exit first. Casualty vampires perhaps, however we’ve all had the nightmare of being first to fall.
Seat open!
Lauren Hazelgreen was the headline act, dealing with a 3-bet on the flop…
Lauren Hazelgreen: A♠ J♠Pedro Garagnani: 10♠ 10♥
Flop: 10♣ J♣ 4♦
…and deciding to shove with TPTK right into a bloated pot. The unhealthy information didn’t enhance…
Flip: 6♠
River: A♥
Everybody else within the room might breathe a sigh of aid, however 300 gamers would be a part of Hazelgreen on the Predominant Occasion rail earlier than the day was accomplished, some very huge names amongst them:
BUSTED!
Chris Moneymaker (2003 Predominant Occasion champ)Joe Cada (2009 Predominant Occasion champ)Barny Boatman (unique Hendon Mobster)Billy Baxter (Poker Corridor of Famer)Jean Robert Bellande (highstakes money sport professional)
Moneymaker’s exit was a brutal one…
Chris Moneymaker: Q♠ J♦David Brown: Q♦ Q♣
Flop: J♠ J♣ 6♥
Moneymaker, within the small blind, examine referred to as to the flip…
Flip: 10♠
Play went examine, examine…
River: Q♥
A elevating warfare noticed Brown 5-bet shove and the 2003 champ had a really troublesome choice to make for his match life.
“Do you actually have pocket queens?” requested Moneymaker, ultimately deciding on “In case you’ve obtained queens, you’ve obtained queens”, placing his chips in and that was that for large Chris!
BAGGED!
Those that made it via the 5 2-hour ranges to bag a day 2 stack included:
Johnny Lodden (Norwegian poker-boom legend)Adrian Mateos (highstakes MTT beast)Bobby Baldwin (1978 Predominant Occasion champ)Scott Blumstein (2017 Predominant Occasion champ)Martin Kabrhel (most-disliked participant of all-time?)
Czech highstakes professional Kabrhel was contemporary off his win of the Mini-Predominant Occasion, turning $1k into 843 buy-ins for the Predominant Occasion correct. Will he run deep once more?
.@martinkabrhell Defeats Alexander Yen Heads-As much as Win the Mini Predominant for $843,140!
This places him within the lead for the POY Race!#WSOP2025 pic.twitter.com/tlSbHn84bM
— WSOP – World Collection of Poker (@WSOP) July 2, 2025
His huge win (and 4th WSOP gold) didn’t stop him from moaning about an prolonged streamed desk and you’ll anticipate to see and listen to extra from the motormouth because the Predominant Occasion progresses.
Day 1a High 10 chip counts
1
Victor Vo
USA
352,000
2
Justin Yaker
USA
348,000
3
Miguel Coussement
Belgium
320,200
4
Marc Spitaleri
USA
309,500
5
Jeremy Dan
USA
282,000
6
Stanislav Zegal
Germany
256,400
7
Benjamin Gold
USA
249,300
8
Wenzhi Fei
China
246,300
9
Chad Energy
USA
243,900
10
Yamamoto Toshiyuki
Japan
243,200
We’ll be bringing you all the perfect of the motion from this 12 months’s WSOP predominant Occasion, so you’ll want to examine in repeatedly for all the newest information!
