Blind level
Level 17: 5,000 / 10,000 ante: 10,000
Entries
85/679
Total Chips
27,160,000
Average
319,529

D1C

Blaise de LeonBlaise de Leon
2/16/2025, 4:16:21 PM

Marius Kudzmanas Leads the Field at the Break with 800,000

Level 16: 4,000 / 8,000 ante: 8,000

A scan of the field during the break turned up 15 players with at least 400K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

PlayerChips
800,000(100 BB)
758,000(95 BB)
700,000(88 BB)
674,000(84 BB)
666,000(83 BB)
647,000(81 BB)
RM
640,000(80 BB)
630,000(79 BB)
IF
Ilya FirstovKazakhstan [KAZ]Kazakhstan
570,000(71 BB)
CT
Calvin TanSingapore [SGP]Singapore
516,000(65 BB)
504,000(63 BB)
502,000(63 BB)
KW
Kaifan WangUnited States of America [USA]United States of America
501,000(63 BB)
YY
Yuan YuChina [CHN]China
429,000(54 BB)
409,000(51 BB)
Blaise de LeonBlaise de Leon
2/16/2025, 3:37:28 PM

Yuan Yu Knocks Out a Player

Level 15: 3,000 / 6,000 ante: 6,000

The player on the button is short-stacked and all in with A♦ 5♠ , and needs to improve to stay alive against Yuan Yu's 7♥ 7♣


The board comes 6♥ 5♥ 4♥ 7♦ 9♠ , and the button pairs his five on the flop, but improves no further. Yu wins the pot with a turned set of sevens to eliminate his opponent from the tournament.

PlayerChips
YY
Yuan YuChina [CHN]China
412,000(69 BB)
Blaise de LeonBlaise de Leon
2/16/2025, 9:08:58 AM

Yuan Yu Eliminated by Remy Murcia

Level 6: 400 / 800 ante: 800

Yuan Yu jams for the last 4,600 and Dinesh Alt calls. Remy Murcia then three-bets to39,000 out of the big blind and Alt folds.


Yu's 6♣ 5♣ are live versus A♥ J♥ but fail to connect with the T♠ 9♠ 8♠ 9♥ J♠ runout.

PlayerChips
RM
53,000(66 BB)
DA
Dinesh AltSwitzerland [CHE]Switzerland
22,000(28 BB)
YY
Yuan YuChina [CHN]China
busted