The nine players who entered the final table arena had already locked up $1million but with 10x that sum up top, and the most coveted title in poker at stake, there was so much still to play for.
Lee runs TPTK into Set
Unfortunately for Daehyung Lee the night would be over almost as soon as it began, in fact on the very first hand…
Lee: A♠ Q♣
Wasnock: 5♠ 5♣
Lee’s open was called in the big blind by Wasnock…
Flop: Q♦ J♦ 5♥
Wasnock check-raised and was shoved on by Lee with his top pair, top kicker. Having flopped a set, the call was an easy one…
Turn: 10♥
The straight draw was of some help to lee but the river bricked…
River: J♥
…and Lee was out in 9th for seven times his entire winnings to date.
Minghini Hits the Rail in 8th
The second bustout of the day was a similar affair, though all the chips went in pre-flop, Minghini’s button raise shoved on…
Minghini: A♦ Q♦
Hallaert: 4♦ 4♣
Flop: 6♦ 3♣ 2♥
Turn: 8♥
River: 10♦
That meant 8th place and $1,250,000 for Minghini’s deep run.
It looked for all the world as though Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi would be out next, but as well as incredible skill, the poker gods have been favourable to the 7-time bracelet winner and that good fortune continued…
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Meanwhile, many in the crowd and the poker community watching live and online were hoping for a first-ever female winner of the Main Event.
Spanish pro Leo Margets had already become the first woman of the modern era to reach the final table, topping her 27th place finish back in 2009, but her remarkable 2025 run would end in the cruelest fashion…
Margets’ dreams end in 7th
It was a blind-on-blind battle that saw Hallaert shove on Margets’ raise and we were off to the races…
Leo Margets: A♥ 10♥
Kenny Hallaert: 6♥ 6♠
Margots was buried deep in her rail, unable to watch as her tournament life was at risk…
Flop: J♥ 7♠ 5♠
Turn: A♠
The celebrations of her rail flared briefly until they realised that the turn also gave Hallaert a flush draw…
River: 9♠
…and there was a stunned hush as the flush came in on the river, Margets’ dreams of Main Event glory and history ended in the most dramatic fashion.
With just six remaining, and two more exits required before calling it a day for the final table, there was no lull in the excitement, and Mizrachi was again at the centre of it all.
Hendrix falls in 6th for $1,900,000
Hendrix wasn’t the short stack but his 28 bigs couldn’t fold when his open was shoved on by “the Grinder”…
Adam Hendrix: J♦ J♣
Michael Mizrachi: A♥ K♦
Flop: Q♣ Q♥ 4♦
The flop was clean for Hendrix but the turn was a kick in the teeth…
Turn: K♠
River: 3♣
Mizrachi had done it again and Hendrix was out in 6th place, a career best $1,900,000 as compensation.
And then there were four…
Almost half the table had been KO’d by the first break and Serbia’s Luka Bojovic had somehow survived and laddered up several times. But, just when he seemed to have company among the short stacks, fate delivered a cruel blow…
Luka Bojovic: A♥ K♠
John Wasnock: A♣ J♠
Wasnock called Bojovic’s shove…
Flop: 3♣ 4♣ 2♣
And picked up a straight flush draw, but he didn’t need it. Instead…
Turn: J♥
…gave him the lead, and the
River: 6♠
…sealed the deal Bojovic was out in 5th with a massive $2,400,000 payday to cushion the blow.
That ended the day’s play, the remaining four players coming back today to fight for the title of poker World Champion. Mizrachi leads the way with a monster stack, almost 3x the others’ combined.
Final table results and chip counts
1 | Mike Mizrachi | USA | 445,500,000 |
2 | John Wasnock | USA | 94,500,000 |
3 | Braxton Dunaway | USA | 25,500,000 |
4 | Kenny Hallaert | Belgium | 19,000,000 |
5 | Luka Bojovic | Serbia | $2,400,000 |
6 | Adam Hendrix | USA | $1,900,000 |
7 | Leo Margets | Spain | $1,500,000 |
8 | Jarod Minghini | USA | $1,250,000 |
9 | Daehyung Lee | South Korea | $1,000,000 |
