Blind level
Level 15: 2,000 / 4,000 ante: 4,000
Entries
24/152
Total Chips
4,560,000
Average
190,000

Day1A

SMPSMP
5/8/2025, 12:41:26 PM

Mao Steals

Level 11: 1,000 / 1,500 ante: 1,500

China’s Ye Zhifan opens from the lowjack for 3,000 and gets calls from Leo Soma of France in the cutoff and Korean Kim Seongje on the button before anther Chinese player in Mao Renji makes a bid to pilfer all the dead money from the SB by 3-betting to 20,000.


It works as everyone folds.

PlayerChips
LS
Leo SomaFrance [FRA]France
106,000(71 BB)
KS
Kim SeongjinKorea (Republic of) [KOR]Korea (Republic of)
97,700(65 BB)
RM
89,000(59 BB)
YZ
35,500(24 BB)
SMPSMP
5/8/2025, 7:12:20 AM

Rozhynskyi Helped by Ladies

Level 4: 200 / 400 ante: 400

Now on his second bullet after getting railed earlier while holding Aces, Erik Rozhynskyi of the Ukraine is all-in preflop this time against China’s Ye Zhifan. Rozhynskyi covers Ye.


The cards a turned over the reveal that Rozhynskyi has Q Q and is in great shape against Ye’s J J .


The subsequent runout goes: 7 5 T 4 8 as Ye gets sidelined. Rozhynskyi still has a long grind ahead.

PlayerChips
34,000(85 BB)
YZ
busted
SMPSMP
5/8/2025, 6:48:14 AM

Table 9 Chip Counts

Level 3: 100 / 300 ante: 300
PlayerChipsTableSeat
28,000(93 BB)91
YZ
14,000(47 BB)92
LS
Leo SomaFrance [FRA]France
19,000(63 BB)93
34,600(115 BB)94
MN
Martin NgSingapore [SGP]Singapore
37,800(126 BB)95
31,500(105 BB)97
PS
41,700(139 BB)98