WSOP 2025 Day 21 Recap: Boivin Bags Chip Lead in $250,000 Super High Roller, Tollerene and Foxen in Contention 

Eight events of the WSOP continued on Day 21 of the 56th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP), with the drama in the $250,000-entry Super High Roller Event #46 making headlines. The money bubble burst in that other events as Viktor Blom reached yet another final table in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Boivin on Top, Both Kabrhel and Foxen Survive to Final Day

Eight players are left hunting a top prize of $4.75 million in the $250,000-entry Super High Roller Event #46. It was a thrilling day at the felt as the 46 players who entered yesterday were added to by 17 late registrations, with Alex Foxen among those buying in for a second bullet. As it stands, that looks like a terrific decision, because after being busted by Martin Kabrhel on Day 1 in painful circumstances, Foxen chipped up past his Czech nemesis on Day 2 and put his second bullet to great use.

While Foxen built a stack worth 48 big blinds, Thomas Boivin built the biggest pile of chips, with his 28 million way above even his closest rival, Ben Tollerene on 15.45m chips. Foxen’s stack of 14.5m was followed by Seth Davies (10.5m), Bryn Kenney (9.9m) and David Peters, who ended the day on 9.65m after a stunning river bluff shove on Kabrhel. Folding trips to Peters’ top pair on the flop hit Kabrhel’s stack hard as the Czech motormouth finished on just 3.67m chips, a little ahead of Chris Brewer who was the short stack on 2.7m at the close of play.

Throughout the day, Kabrhel’s antics annoyed his fellow super high rollers, for whom table talk was at a premium, Kabrhel chattered throughout and even the usually serene Daniel Negreanu snapped when after a bet from Kabrhel, stood up and announced, “A million, b*tch!” Kabrhel folded, moaning that he would have been given a four-round penalty for such an action, but like so much of his conversation, it was flimsy.

In the end, Negreanu was knocked out by Foxen, ace-king beating ace-nine to send the Canadian home in ninth place for a return of more than double his entry. The bubble boy was Andrew ‘Chewy’ Lichtenberger, who busted in 11th place for nothing.

One of the eight remaining players will win a massive top prize and the most valuable WSOP of the series so far tomorrow. 

WSOP Event #46 $250,000 Super High Roller Day 2 Chip Counts

Monster Madness Leaves 54 in Seats 

With an incredible 9,920 entries overall, the $1,500-entry Monster Stack Event #37 is down to just 54 players, with both Santiago Montes (21.9m) and Ashish Gupta (21.75m) at the top of the counts. With players such as James Gauley (17.87m), Nicholas Funaro (17.5m) and James Leonard (17.1m) completing the top five.

With a massive $1,204,457 top prize and the WSOP gold bracelet on offer, only Dylan Linde (12.57m) has ever won a bracelet before. Sitting 11th of the remaining 54 players, Linde will doubtless be a huge threat but if he doesn’t win, a new bracelet winner will be celebrating life-changing money.

WSOP Event #37 $1,500 Monster Stack NLHE Chip Counts

Blom Chasing Glory Yet Again in Big O

Swedish star Viktor Blom reached his fourth final table of the 2025 WSOP as he bids to finally end his bracelet drought. The Swede, who has finished 2nd, 4th and 6th at this summer World Series so far, as well as cashing five times in total before this $10,000-entry Big O Championship, sits second in chips on 5m. He’s only behind Marco Johnson, who is going for his third WSOP title tomorrow when the final five only return.

Of those five, the only other bracelet winner is the four-time champion Phil Hui but the former PPC winner has 3.4m, the lowest stack of the players left. 
Can Blom end his long wait for Vegas gold tomorrow, or will it be yet another near miss? We won’t have long to wait until we find out.

WSOP Event #44 $10,000 Big O Championship Chip Counts

Couden Tops the Counts in Salute to Warriors

In the $500-entry Salute to Warriors Event #45, Joey Couden ended Day 2 top of the pile as he racked up 14,375,000 on a day where 625 players at the beginning of play were reduced to just 32 players by the close of the action.

Sebastian Medina (11,650,000) and Luciano Melo (10,800,000) completed the podium places, while the overnight Day 1 chip leader Ofer Saha (5,700,000) is still in contention. Couden, however, is the only former bracelet winner in the ranks and will be hoping to add a massive $187,937 top prize to his profit column for the series.

WSOP Event #45 $500 Salute to Warriors NLHE Chip Counts

Glaser and Hellmuth Chase Glory

In the $2,500 buy-in Mixed Omahe Hi-Lo 8 or Better and Seven Card Stud 8 or Better Event #47, Tobias Hausen (2m) has the top prize of $244,674 in his sights, some way clear of his nearest challenger Shirley Rosario, on 1.74m. Of the final 27 players still in contention, Benny Glaser is going for his third bracelet this series from a position of sixth on 1.11 million chips.

Other big names still in the ‘mix’ include the Poker Hall of Famer Brian Rast (760,000), six-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb (725,000) and the record-holding 17-time WSOP champion Phil Hellmuth, with The Poker Brat starting on 660,000. Gus Hansen sits on 635,000 as he bids to win a first WSOP bracelet since taking down the €10,000 Heads-Up High Roller at WSOP Europe in 2010 for over $350,000.

WSOP Event #47 $2,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo/ Seven Card Stud Chip Counts

Three Day 1s Kick Off

In Event #48, the $1,000-entry Seniors NLHE Championship, 3,365 entries were reduced to 621 survivors on Day 1. Steven Snyder topped the counts on 925,000 chips, with Yoon Kim (390,000) and Massoud Eskandani (297,000) among the top players too as the field battled towards Day 2.

Ori Hanson ended Day 1 of the $3,000-entry NLHE 6-Max NLHE Event #49, piling up 3,665,000 to finish some way clear of Matthew Wantman (2,355,000) in second place and Tyler Patterson (1,800,000) in third. Players like Tyler Cornell (1,735,000), Stephen Song (1,075,000), Chris Moorman (765,000) and Brian Hastings (765,000) all sit comfortably inside the top 30 players of the 69 survivors from 1,421 entries.

Finally, Event #50, officially the halfway point of the 2025 WSOP, saw 102 players take on the $10,000 buy-in Razz Championship, with Maxx Coleman top-scoring with 319,500 chips by the close of play. Both Max Pescatori (188,500) and John Racener (185,500) made the top 10 and with seven bracelets between them, will be two big threats on Day 2. 

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