Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship
Day 1c Completed
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship
Day: 1c
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Level 5
: Blinds 300/600, 600 ante
The most anticipated poker tournament of the year continued today, with players from around the world descending on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas for Day 1c of the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event.
The third of four starting flights began with 1,114 entries, with the attendance increasing to 1,678 by the end of the night after five two-hour levels, at which point 1,249 players remained.
Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship Day 1c Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
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| 1 | Andriy Lyubovetskiy | Ukraine | 392,400 | 491 |
| 2 | Bin Weng | United States | 336,000 | 420 |
| 3 | Eric Bunch | United States | 309,300 | 387 |
| 4 | Brendon Kaufman | United States | 256,500 | 321 |
| 5 | Igor Picone | Belgium | 256,000 | 320 |
| 6 | Colin Beveridge | United States | 237,400 | 297 |
| 7 | Braxton Dunaway | United States | 234,800 | 294 |
| 8 | Randall Lack | United States | 232,200 | 290 |
| 9 | Paul Taylor | United States | 232,200 | 290 |
| 10 | Ray Medlin | United States | 230,400 | 288 |
Two-time bracelet winner Andriy Lyubovetskiy finished the night at the top of the counts with an impressive 392,400 chips, worth 491 big blinds going into Day 2.
Just behind Lyubovetskiy is Bin Weng, who ended Day 1c with 354,800. Weng soared up to the top of the leaderboard late in the night after making an epic hero call against Scott Kahler. With over nine million in career tournament earnings and three seven-figure scores under his belt, Weng has been crushing large-field no-limit hold’em tournaments for the past seven years and will be a force to be reckoned with going into Day 2.
2023 Monster Stack Champion Braxton Dunaway bagged one of the largest stacks of the day with 234,800. Dunaway began rapidly ascending the counts in the last two levels of the night after getting three streets of value with pocket queens on a jack-high runout.
Day 1c Action
Despite the Main Event’s slow structure, Yueqi Zhu wasted no time scoring the first elimination of the day in the first half-hour. Zhu was on the right side of a classic cooler, holding pocket aces over Thomas Henshaw’s pocket kings. With both players flopping an overpair in a four-bet pot, Henshaw check-called the flop, led the turn and shoved the river on a queen-high runout. Zhu correctly called to put a hasty end to Henshaw’s Main Event.
Another brutal cooler took place shortly after Henshaw’s elimination. In what can only be described as the ultimate action flop, Tam Ho flopped top set, Paul Vupis flopped middle set, and Zack Marshak flopped the second-nut straight. A raising war ensued that saw Marshak fold the best hand before Vupis called Ho’s all-in. Vupis hit his one out on the turn to make quads and Ho was out the door after failing to produce a one-outer of his own on the river.
Vanessa Selbst made a rare appearance in today’s starting flight. Despite retiring from professional poker in 2018, the three-time bracelet winner showed little rust as she navigated through today’s Main Event field. Selbst picked up a big pot with pocket kings midway through the day and was able to ride that momentum en route to bagging a respectable 155,200 by the end of the night.
Some notables to make it through Day 1c include Calvin Anderson (230,200), Jon Kyte (206,200), Lucas Greenwood (193,600, Michael Addamo (92,600), Philip Sternheimer (91,900), Boris Angelov (82,500) and Jack Sinclair (72,900). All players who made it through the day will join the Day 1a and Day 1b survivors for Day 2abc on July 6.
Among those to see their Main Event aspirations come to an end today were Xixiang Luo, Julien Martini, Punnat Punsri, Vlad Darie and Ryan Bambrick.
Full chip counts for Day 1c will be posted as soon as they become available. Day 1d kicks off Saturday, July 5 at noon while late registration remains open until the end of Level 7 on Day 2.
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Level 5
: Blinds 300/600, 600 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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392,400
57,400
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57,400 |
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336,000
14,000
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14,000 |
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309,300
3,700
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3,700 |
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256,500
256,500
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256,500 |
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256,000
58,200
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58,200 |
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237,400
81,900
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81,900 |
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234,800
5,200
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5,200 |
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232,200
232,200
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232,200 |
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232,200
25,700
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25,700 |
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230,400
230,291
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230,291 |
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230,200
25,200
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25,200 |
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229,000
229,000
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229,000 |
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224,700
224,700
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224,700 |
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216,700
216,700
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216,700 |
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216,600
216,600
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216,600 |
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216,300
3,700
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3,700 |
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214,900
214,900
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214,900 |
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214,500
214,500
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214,500 |
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213,800
213,800
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213,800 |
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213,300
16,200
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16,200 |
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211,100
36,100
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36,100 |
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210,800
210,800
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210,800 |
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209,200
209,200
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209,200 |
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209,000
209,000
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209,000 |
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208,400
208,400
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208,400 |
Level 5
: Blinds 300/600, 600 ante
The tournament has finished for the day as 1,249 ended up advancing from today.
Level 5
: Blinds 300/600, 600 ante
As relayed back by Ben Slack and Josh Quint, a huge hand happened just before the. end of the night.
Slack made it 1,200 before Josh Quint three-bet to 3,500 from a few seats over. Srinivasa Vemulamada cold four-bet to 10,500, which forced Slack to fold. Quint five-bet to 30,200, and Vemulamada just called.
Vemulamada checked the 10♥6♥2x flop and Quint bet 22,400, Vemulamada jammed to put Quint all in, and Quint immediately called.
Josh Quint: AxAx 
Srinivasa Vemulamada: KxKx
It was the classic cooler of aces versus kings in a pot of 209,200, and Quint was the player at risk. The turn and river were bricks, allowing Quint to earn a huge double-up at the end of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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209,200
209,200
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209,200 |
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75,800
75,800
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75,800 |
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47,200
47,200
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47,200 |
Level 5
: Blinds 300/600, 600 ante
David Baldanza checked from early position on the flop of 2♦7♠8♥ and Braxton Dunaway bet 2,500 from the hijack. Baldanza stuck around with a call.
The 4♦ fell on the turn and Baldanza check-called another bet from Dunaway, this time for 3,500.
After Baldanza checked the J♣ river, Dunaway fired a third barrel of 10,000. Baldanza eventually called and was shown Q♥Q♣ by Dunaway for an overpair. Baldanza mucked, and the pot was pushed to Dunaway.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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240,000
25,000
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25,000 |
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41,000
34,000
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34,000 |
Level 5
: Blinds 300/600, 600 ante
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Level 5
: Blinds 300/600, 600 ante
With about 20,000 in the pot, Allen Shen and Eric Bunch arrived on the 2♥J♣5♦6♥10♦ river. Shen bet 18,000 from under the gun, which Bunch raised to 57,000.
Shen spent some minutes in the tank before he laid his hand down, still unsure whether it was the right decision.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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313,000
90,000
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90,000 |
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82,000 |
Level 5
: Blinds 300/600, 600 ante
The tournament staff have announced that the tournament will deal only four more hands for the day.
