WSOP 2025 Day 31 Recap: Tag Team Among Bracelet Winners, Bubble Bursts in Poker Players Championship 

Two bracelet events concluded and seven more were in action on Day 31 of the 56th annual WSOP, where Tag Team gold and a NLHE Event awarded gold bracelets and the $50,000 Poker Players Championship burst the bubble, leaving 17 players in the money.

Kerber and Patricio Take Tag Team Gold

An exciting final table ended the $1,000-entry Tag Team event in the favor of Brazilians Kelvin Kerber and Peter Patricio. They beat Samy Boujmala and Hicham Mahmouki heads-up after just two hands were needed to wrap up Event #65 in the Brazilians favor. Kerber said afterwards that finding the key points to switch or stay in their seat was vital to the team’s success, their first bracelet victory.

“We were 30 left with a big stack, and we decided, let’s switch whenever you feel like, okay, I don’t think I’m on my A-game anymore. We didn’t mind switching a lot. We kept switching, and it was working. When we were six left, I just told him, if you want to, I got this. I think I got this guy. And he’s like, just go for it. I trust you.”

After they took gold, Kerber described the magical bond that exists between him and Patricio, who were in the same poker stable 14 years ago.

“It’s the dream that everybody that starts playing poker looks to. He has been playing for a bit more than me. We have been friends for my whole journey. We tried to give as much information as we can. It’s a good experience to be here with the rail and everything, but I’m glad it was fast.”

WSOP Event #65 $1,000 Tag Team NLHE Final Table Results

Andrejevic Wins First Bracelet 

Five players returned to the felt in Event #62, the $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em event and at its end, poker professional Andjelko Andrejevic claimed his first gold bracelet and a top prize of $855,515.

After the field of 1,168 players had come back into play with just five left on the final day, a slower start gave way to a frantic finish as Niall Farrell busted in third place to an ace-high hand of Adrien Delmas before just one hand settled heads-up, as Delmas’ pocket fives busted to Andrejevic’ pocket sevens. The short stack had done it and after eight all-ins went his way on the final day, he was relieved to have made it.

“It's something that every poker player dreams of,” he said afterwards. “It's a breath of fresh air to finally be here. I came in as the short stack and was just trying to hang on, and won a couple of lucky all-ins. Three-handed, I turned up the aggression and made some hands. Heads-up was one hand, so it was great!”

After the win of his poker career, Andrejevic promised that his series was not over, as following celebrations, he’d be right back at it.

WSOP Event #62 $5,000 6-Max NLHE Final Table Results

Yeh Thrives After Four Hour Money Bubble in PPC

Just 17 players remain in the $50,000 entry Poker Players Championship (PPC), where a four-hour money bubble ended the day in dramatic fashion. After players such as Daniel Negreanu (30th), Jeremy Ausmus (27th) and Chris Brewer (22nd) all busted, there were late bust-outs for Phil Hellmuth, who busted in 20th place just three short of the money and the current POY pacesetter Benny Glaser, who missed out on a cash by just two places.

With 18 players left, the money bubble was torture for some players, but a free-for-all for others, with Andrew Yeh, who finished the day as chip leader on 7.9 million chips, making hay alongside others such as Albert Daher (5.15m) and Michael ‘Grinder’ Mizrachi, who bagged up 3.56m in an effort to become the first player ever to win this event four times.

Others were in a world of pain, and while it was eventually Chris Klodnicki, who bit the bullet on the bubble, leaving in 18th for nothing, Ben Yu (95,000), Jon Kyte (230,000) and Matthew Ashton (285,000) all struggled to stay alive and will need to catch cards early to go any further on Day 4.

With other big names such as Mike Matusow (1,545,000), Day 2 chip leader Erick Lindgren (1,500,000), Bryn Kenney (890,000) and Day 1 chip leader Ali Eslami (800,000) all still in the hunt, the race to make the final table will begin when 17 likely very tired players return, having ended play at 3am local time.

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

Super Seniors Reaches Final Table

The $1,000-entry Super Seniors NLHE Event #64 reached the final nine players as Marton Kohler (11m) bagged the chip lead in a bid to win his first bracelet. All nine players at the final stage have never won gold before at the WSOP and it was another potential debutant who busted last on the night.

Marcel Luske had led the field after Day 2 but was all-in and at risk with pocket queens when he ran into Lawrence Whyte’s pocket kings in the last elimination of the night. Whyte (5.45m) sits in the middle of the ranks but with one day to play and nine North American players fighting to win a debut bracelet, victory could be anyone’s in Vegas tomorrow.

WSOP Event #64 $1,000 Super Seniors NLHE Final Table

Jerry Yang in Top 10 of NLHE Event

In Event #68, the $3,000-entry No-Limit Hold'em event, 1,097 began Day 2 with only 127 of them still in seats at the end of the day. With a top prize of $830,685 and the WSOP bracelet up for grabs, it is British player Hamid Toghyan (2,545,000) has the chip lead from the Indian Kunal Patni on 2,125,000, with Frenchman Ilan Cukrowicz (2,055,000) in third place.

Stars of the felt such as Jerry Yang (1.68m), Romain Lewis (1.66m), Danny Sepiol (1.12m), Diego Ventura (1.08m), Martin Finger (1.05m) and Stephen Song (900,000) are all still in the hunt for the gold as Day 3 looms.

WSOP Event #68 $3,000 NLHE Chip Counts

Kerbel King of Final 11 in Seven Card Stud

Only 11 players are left in the hunt for the gold in Event #69, the $1,500-entry Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better event. Of them, only two have previously won a WSOP title, with Denis Strebkov (320,000) a two-time WSOP bracelet winner. Sitting on 635,000 chips, Huck Seed is a former WSOP Main Event winner in 1996 and has three other bracelets to his name.

Seed hasn’t won a WSOP bracelet since 2003, but over two decades since his last title, the eponymous poker star may yet grab another, although to do so he’ll likely have to take down the runaway chip leader, Jay Kerbel, who will start the final day on 3.52 million chips.

WSOP Event #69 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Chip Counts

 
Three More Day 1s in Progress

In Event #67, the $300-entry Gladiators of Poker event, Jonathan Kirch top scored with 5.11 million chips as 147 players survived from an incredible 4,589 entries on Day 1b at the Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris casinos. Kirch, who had never cashed in a ranking live poker tournament before, is already guaranteed to make the money now, and will be dreaming on life-changing money in what is sure to be a mammoth event by its conclusion.

The Ladies Event, Event #70 on the WSOP schedule, costs $1,000 to play and saw a stunning performance from the defending champion Shiina Okamoto, who bagged a top three stack of 251,500 chips, behind only Dorothy Ecaldre (297,500) and Jill Bowen (271,500) in her pursuit of a back-to-back championship win. Okamoto, who came second in this event in 2023, has the opportunity to defend her crown over the next two days, though other stars such as Susan Faber (205,200), Leo Margets (139,000), Kathy Liebert (97,000), and Barbara Enright (45,000) will have other ideas about that.

Finally, Event #71 saw 123 players put up the $10,000 buy-in to take on the Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship. Just 50 made Day 2, with Jon Shoreman (360,000), Oscar Johansson (336,000) and Yueqi Zhu (323,000) in the podium places. Other stars of the mixed games such as John Monnette (282,000), Jeremy Ausmus (240,000), Daniel Negreanu (182,000), Matt Glantz (158,000) and Bryce Yockey (149,000) all inside the top half of the remaining players. 

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