WSOP 2025 Day 29 Recap: Three Bracelets Won as de Jonge Wins Battle of the Ages, Kid Poker Defends Hard in PPC

A bumper day of action took place on the 29th day of the 2025 WSOP, with three WSOP titles won at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos, and six other events in progress, including the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. It was a big day for former champions in the PPC, with both Daniel Negreanu and Michael Mizrachi both heavily involved in the action.

De Jonge Wins First Title

In Event #59, the $1,000-entry Battle of the Ages concluded at the WSOP with a total field of 3,074 whittled down to a first-time winner. The Dutch player Sebastiaan de Jonge took home a top prize of $335,390 as he made his first-ever WSOP final table and booked a win from having just a handful of big blinds when final table play began. Beating Ignacio Sagra heads-up, De Jonge’s victory came after the elimination of the former winner Allan Le in seventh place for $54,814 and the overnight leader Joseph Roh’s departure in fifth place for $93,820.

Winning from the under-50s side of the draw - Roh was the only over-50 player to make the final, De Jonge was happiest about getting so lucky throughout the final day.

“Incredible run, actually really lucky, ridiculously lucky. It's funny how many rivers, how many good rivers, you need to win the tournament. If you think back on all the rivers you had, it's really insane.”

Despite his victory coming after the final four were all lower than 50 years of age, he didn’t see the win as a signal that the younger generation are superior.

“It's not as simple as that,” he said. “The older guys were playing well; they were often a little less technical, less GTO than the younger guys, but the blinds were going so fast, and everybody was playing really slow. It was not a lot of poker, it was a lot of all-in and survive, survive, survive. I am the biggest survivor, I guess.”
De Jonge certainly was, and his win was worth the biggest result of his poker career so far. 

WSOP Event #59 $1,000 Battle of the Ages Final Table Results

Gavrieli Gets the Gold as Bohlman Bags POY Points

Moshe Gavrieli became the next player to win his first-ever WSOP bracelet from being a short stack in Event #60, the $3,000-entry Limit Hold'em 6-Max event. While the American Gavrieli came back from the dead to win the gold, his heads-up opponent, Scott Bohlman just missed out on his second WSOP win of the series but banked a lot of POY points to put himself in what looks like a two-horse sprint to the line with three-time 2025 bracelet winner Benny Glaser.

“I'm very excited. It’s a dream come true," Gavrieli said after victory. “I feel I was just dominating . I had it almost every time, except once when I bluffed and he caught me but 99% of the time I had real hands because of card distribution. He's an amazing player, but everything just went my way today.”

Gavrieli is a recreational player and has played home games more than anything, and credited his opponents from back home in Oakland, California with helping him to win. “They’re my best friends and they know me better than anyone, this win is for them too. I never dreamed I’d win a bracelet. I came out for five days just to play this tournament. I don't even have a hotel or a flight home right now!”

After promising that he’ll ‘go back to work’, Gavrieli said he’d be back in Las Vegas only once or twice a year. To him, winning a bracelet was his golden goal all these years.

“Poker is my hobby, my sport, my competition. I just wanted to prove something and now I did. This means everything.”

WSOP Event #60 $3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Max Final Table Results

Savage Love as Harrison Loses Heads-Up

In the $500-entry NLHE Freezeout Event #61, Craig Savage won gold after defeating Tony Harrison heads-up for the $229,628 top prize. With an incredible 5,082 entries in the event, Day 1 left only 211 in chairs, while the penultimate day of the event reduced the field to nine.

At the final table, Savage took control, as Sean Cronin (9th for $22,314) and Arthur Morris (4th for $84,584) both missed out on the title. It was a huge flip to decide the event, with Savage holding more chips and pocket queens, as Harrison hoped for a huge double-up with ace-king. A queen on the flop saw Harrison bust in second for $152,874 instead as Savage won by far the biggest prize of his poker career and his first WSOP bracelet. 

WSOP Event #61 $500 NLHE Freezeout Final Table Results

Reichard Holding the Cards in Millionaire Maker 

In Event #53, the $1,500-entry Millionaire Maker, just 44 players started the penultimate day of action, and across a busy day, seven survivors were left waiting one more night until they can battle for gold and a huge top prize of $1,255,180.

Leading the way is Josh Reichard, who, after winning 16 WSOP Circuit rings in his career, is one day away from winning his first bracelet. Reichard is on 84.3 million chips but with the three-time WSOP Online bracelet winner Jesse Yaginuma (55.7m) looking to click to win and Jonah Labranche (35.1m) hovering ominously behind the top two, anything could happen on what will doubtless be a dramatic day.

WSOP Event #53 $1,500 Millionaire Maker Final Table Chip Counts

Former Winners Flourish on Day 1 of PPC

The $50,000-entry Poker Players Championship saw 88 entries battle down to 68 survivors as former champions thrive in the red-hot atmosphere of the iconic WSOP event. With the Chip Reese trophy and millions of dollars on the line, the reigning champion, Daniel Negreanu, bagged a top ten stack with 662,000 chips, while the former three-time PPC champion, Michael Mizrachi, stacked up 849,000 chips.

The chip leader at the close of play on Day 1 was Ali Eslami, who totalled 903,000, with the six-time WSOP champion and Poker Hall of Fame nominee Jeremy Ausmus in second place on 886,500. Other big names to fly high included Chris ‘Big Huni’ Hunichen (828,000) and Chris Vitch (809,000), both of whom made the top five.

Others who made the cut, albeit lower down the pecking order, included the 2019 champion Phil Hui (470,000), 2014 winner John Hennigan (438,000), the eight-time bracelet winner and POY leader Benny Glaser (392,500), 11-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey (380,500), Mike ‘the Mouth’ Matusow (365,000), Josh Arieh (302,000), Scott Seiver (227,500), Shaun Deeb (204,000), and Nick Schulman (162,500).

Players who busted on Day 1 included Alex Livingston, Dylan Smith, Paul Volpe, Cary Katz, Brian Rast and Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates, who was first to hit the rail after suffering in two harsh beats against Matt Glantz. 

WSOP Event #66 $50,000 Poker Players Championship Chip Counts

Boivin and Farrell Flying High in 6-Max NLHE Event 

Both Sweden’s Thomas Boivin and Scottish player Niall Farrell starred on Day 2 of the $5,000 buy-in 6-Max NLHE Event #2, as 54 players survived to Day 3 from the 1,168 who began the event.

With 2.66 million chips, German player Robert Ashelm booked the lead while Samuel Bernabeu from Spain was closest behind on 2.16m. Behind them, Boivin (2m) and Farrell (1.73m) are big names thriving in the top 10, while Jake Schwartz (1.08m), Natasha Mercier (1.04m), Vlad Darie (1.02m), Anthony Zinno (750,000) and Renji Mao (570,000) still have a great shot at glory too.

WSOP Event #62 $5,000 6-Max NLHE Chip Counts

Cummings Shoots for Unique Win 

The $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Event #63 saw just 11 players remain in the hunt for gold and a top prize of $157,172 tomorrow. One of those players, mid-ranking Aaron Cummings, has the opportunity to do something that no-one has achieved since Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates did in 2022, and that is to successfully defend a WSOP event by winning it the next year too.

Cates won the $50,000-entry Poker Player Championship in both 2021 and 2022, and with 574 entries in this event, Cummings looks to claim back-to-back wins in the event where lowball skills are the best ones. Japanese player Hideki Nakamura (2.92m) will be toughest to shift from the end zone for Cummings, with the reigning champion on just 1.02m chips as he bids to achieve the extremely unlikely.

WSOP Event #63 $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Chip Counts

Two More Day 1s Begin in Vegas 

While the opening day of the $50,000 Poker Players Championship garnered plenty of interest, two other Day 1 flights began in other events on Day 29 of the 56th annual WSOP. In Event #64, the $1,000-entry Super Seniors event, 3,338 entries were reduced to just 860 players overnight as the 60-plus crowd of silver surfers hope to ride the waves to a $356,494 top prize. Menahem Asher (280,000) took the lead after Day 1, with Patricia Yamano (268,000) and Kenna James (212,500) two strong female players who are high on the leaderboard.

Finally, in Event #65, the $1,000 Tag Team event, 1,373 teams of two players took each other on in a bid to emulate greats of the past and claim the $184,780 top prize that will be split between the winners in 2025. Just 276 teams made the Day 2 cut, with Carson and Matthew Richards (285,500) and Kacper Pyzara and Dzmitry Urbanovich (279,000) reaching the top 10, with just 206 teams due to be paid, as the bubble burst on Day 2 tomorrow. 

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