WSOP Day 25 – Aces vs Kings vs Queens as $250k SHR Beasts Square Off

The WSOP always sees more than a few incredible hands and yesterday it was AA vs KK vs QQ that grabbed the headlines – especially because it saw poker heavyweights Justin Bonomo, Ike Haxton, and Jason Koon pitted against each other!

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Justin Bonomo (courtesy of WSOP)

Event #55: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em

The hand saw Haxton flat after Koon 3-bet Bonomo’s open, Bonomo ratcheting up the price by re-entering the raising wars. His 4-bet was met by Koon’s 5-bet and a Haxton 6-bet shove, two calls finally ending the betting action, Bonomo and Haxton at risk…

Justin Bonomo: A♣ A♦

Isaac Haxton: K♦ K♥

Jason Koon: Q♦ Q♥

Flop: J♦ 3♥ 8♠

Turn: 3♠

River: A♠

The triple up saw Bonomo end the day with a healthy stack, Koon soon rebuying and bagging a top 10 stack as 58 entries were reduced to 45 players on day 1, led by Sean Winter.

Top Ten Chip Counts

RankPlayerCountryChip Count 
1Sean WinterUSA4,475,000 
2Adrian MateosSpain4,210,000 
3Aram OganyanUSA3,935,000 
4Jonathan JaffeUSA3,395,000 
5Alex KulevBulgaria3,020,000 
6Leon SturmGermany2,960,000 
7Jason KoonUSA2,830,000 
8Santhosh SuvarnaIndia2,720,000 
9Chance KornuthUSA2,690,000 
10Justin SalibaUSA2,670,000 

Day 25 saw three bracelets awarded, with Maksim Pisarenko taking down Event #45: $10K H.O.R.S.E. Championship, George Alexander scooping Event #50: $10,000 Razz Championship, and Erlend Melsom bagging Event #49: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em.

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Event #46: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship

The over 50s bracelet event is now down to just 26 contenders, $28,444 sewn up and all chasing the $677,326 first prize. Marc Seif is the only bracelet champion left in the field after the likes of Greg Raymer and Bill Chen fell by the wayside.

Top 10 Chip Counts

RankPlayerCountryChip Count 
1Marc WolpertUSA17,900,000 
2Andrew BradshawUK14,700,000 
3Shawn StuartUSA12,275,000 
4Khang PhamUSA10,000,000 
5Ahmed AminUSA9,400,000 
6Renmei LiuCanada8,850,000 
7Ray DevitaCanada8,525,000 
8William ByrnesUSA8,525,000 
9Lavern FrossUSA8,125,000 
10Manfred FrickGermany7,650,000 

Event #52: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em (6-Handed)

Only 37 players remain from 817 entries and the man with a wonderful name for playing poker, Turbo Nguyen, leads the way in the chase for the $656,747 top prize.

2015 Main Event champ Joe McKeehen was among those fell before the money bubble, Scott Seiver among those who cashed but won’t be back for day 3, while German former pro footballer Max Kruse, a WSOP Europe bracelet winner, made it through both.

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Max Kruse (courtesy of WSOP)

Top 10 Chip Counts

RankPlayerCountryChip Count
1Turbo NguyenUSA2,700,000
2Lucas BlancoSpain2,645,000
3Georgios SotiropoulosGreece2,190,000
4Yang ZhangChina2,170,000
5Nenad DukicSerbia2,100,000
6Bogdan MunteanuRomania1,800,005
7Jake SchwartzUSA1,690,000
8Ihar SoikaBelarus1,580,000
9Kharlin SuedUSA1,570,000
10Jose LatorreSpain1,545,000

Event #53: $3,000 Nine Game Mixed (7-Handed)

Australia’s Ashish Gupta leads the final 16 chasing WSOP gold and the $215,982 top prize, with 2021 Main Event winner Koray Aldemir among the chasing pack.

The bubble burst yesterday when Kenny Hsiung was outdrawn by Nick Guagenti, with Shaun Deeb also cashing, in 43rd place for $6,080.

Top 10 Chip Counts

RankPlayerCountryChip Count
1Ashish GuptaAustralia2,629,000
2Adam FriedmanUSA1,814,000
3Scott BohlmanUSA1,538,000
4Warwick MirzikinianAustralia1,420,000
5Yuri DzivielevskiBrazil1,361,000
6Bradley JansenUSA1,337,000
7Tomasz GluszkoPoland1,007,000
8Nicholas JuliaUSA809,000
9Richard AshbyUK750,000
10Phillip HuiUSA700,000

Event #54: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold’em

The first starting flight of this hugely popular event saw 2802 entries, among them 2009 Main Event champion Joe Cada and 2014 Main Event champion Martin Jacobson, as well as original Hendon Mobster Barny Boatman.

Austria’s Ori Elul leads the way but 2006 WSOP main Event champ Jamie Gold and EPT founder John Duthie both busted out early.

Top 10 Chip Counts

PositionPlayerCountryChip Count 
1Ori ElulAustria673,500 
2Muaaz GaniUSA615,000 
3Philip VerelUSA573,000 
4Justin BelfortiUSA453,500 
5Michael HauptmanUSA366,000 
6Shiina OkamotoJapan365,500 
7Luis DornelesBrazil360,000 
8Liran BetitoIsrael334,500 
9Felix RabasAustria330,000 
10Roman KorenevRussia329,500 

Event #56: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball

Shaun Deeb had a fine opening day, bagging a top 10 stack in another record-breaking field of 371 entries. The prizepool sits at $825,475 with $177,045 up top, with Patrick Leonard still in the mix.

Notable bustouts included Barry Greenstein, Brian Yoon and newly-crowned WSOP hatrick winner, Christopher Vitch.

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Christopher Vitch (courtesy of WSOP)

Top 10 Chip Counts

RankPlayerCountryChip Count
1Ryan KoUSA343,000
2Mark RolandUSA317,000
3Masayoshi TanakaJapan304,000
4Gary BensonAustralia280,000
5Nicolas MilgromFrance275,000
6Matthew SchreiberUSA267,000
7Shaun DeebUSA254,000
8Jon KyteNorway252,000
9Chad EveslageUSA243,000
10Kenta ShimotsuJapan240,000

Today sees Event #57: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em added to the multiple events playing out at Horseshoe and Paris casinos and we’ll bring you all the best of the news and action every day right here at VIP Grinders, so be sure to check in regularly!

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An avid poker player, he dreams of one day playing the WSOP Main Event and has promised himself he will fold aces and kings if he gets them on the first hand to avoid front-page headlines.
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