WSOP 2025 Day 7 Recap: Wilklow Wins Mystery Millions, Blom and Negreanu on Collision Course

A massive eight events took place at the 56th annual World Series of Poker as the opening week of action drew to a close. With a winner found in the $1,000-entry, $1m top prize Mystery Millions, Daniel Negreanu and Viktor Blom set up a meeting of two greats in Omaha and another first-time WSOP bracelet winner won life-changing money in Las Vegas. 

Wilklow Beats Acevedo to Million-Dollar Bracelet

Michael Wilklow claimed his first-ever WSOP bracelet as he ended the Mystery Millions opening event with the infamous seven-figure top prize in the title. Beating Costa Rican professional Michael Acevedo heads-up, Wilklow’s win was a life-changing moment as he turned four figures into seven after a focused and disciplined display, especially heads-up. 

“I’ve never felt more focused than today,” Wilklow told reporters after victory. “In the past, when I’ve played the Main Event, I remember feeling very tired on Day 3. Today was different. Before the day started and during the breaks, I was reviewing my heads-up notes just in case , and I was glad that I did.”

With both million-dollar bounties claimed during a dramatic Day 2 of the event, it was all about the final table here in Las Vegas on Day 7 of the WSOP and for a long time, the action in the latter stages made it seem inevitable that Wilklow and Acevedo would make the final battle. So it proved, and with Wilklow ahead, he had queen-jack to Acevedo’s ace-king. A flop of A-Q-Q was a disaster for the Costa Rican and a jack on the turn and ten on the river even worse, as the runner-up called off his stack with Broadway to lost to a turned full house.

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WSOP Event #1 $1,000 Mystery Millions Final Table Results 

Kim the King in $600 Deepstack Event 

Another American winner was celebrating at the conclusion of the 10th event this WSOP as Kenneth Kim won the $600 Deepstack NLHE event for a top score of $318,842. It was an amazing amount of money and Kim’s life-changing top prize was given to him after he beat Ecuador’s Alex Paredes heads-up as North American trumped South America once again.

With 6,090 entries, the event turned for Kim on a hero call with aces and fours for his tournament life when David Gonia shoved on the river with a bigger stack and nothing but a busted flush draw. Kim’s call gave him a way back into the action and momentum at a crucial time. Once there were only five players left, Kim destroyed the field, eliminating Jared Anderson in fifth with top pair, Daniel Muniz in third place with a turned pair and then winning heads-up.

The final battle hinged on another failed weak hand as Alex Paredes tempted fate when he called with an ace-high flush draw with one card to come. Kim’s turned wheel straight held through the river and sent Paredes home with $212,275 as runner-up, claiming the title himself.

"It's an amazing feeling,” Kim said in the aftermath. “I just want to play my best and see what the results will bring.”

WSOP Event #10 $600 NLHE Deepstack Final Table Results 

Viktor Blom and Daniel Negreanu Battle for Gold Tomorrow 

Five players remain in Event #9, the $10,000-entry Omaha Hi-Lo Championship in Las Vegas. Two of them are among the best-known poker players in the world, Viktor Blom (4,020,000) and Daniel Negreanu (3,205,000), who will come into play in first and third positions of five.

Ryan Bambrick (3,250,000), Hunter McClelland (1,300,000) and Ofir Mor (1,190,000) will be hoping to spoil the party but poker fans worldwide will be licking their lips at the prospect of the eight-time WSOP bracelet winner Negreanu going heads-to-head with the Swedish ‘phenom’ Blom, who has won countless millions in his poker career... but never a bracelet.

After an early hand at the final table saw Negreanu lose with pocket aces against Hunter McClelland’s flopped nut flush draw which hit but Kid Poker kept building and ended play not far behind the chip leader Blom. The Swedish superstar, whose many tournament victories online under the pseudonym ‘Isildur1’ made him a poker legend in the post-boom era, has the chance to see it out for his first WSOP bracelet tomorrow.

Negreanu, of course, has the opportunity to win his second bracelet in Las Vegas inside 12 months after taking down last year’s $50,000 Poker Players Championship for $1.1m. PokerGO may stream the action... but your vote counts towards that on X. 

WSOP Event #9 $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship Chip Counts 

Mendoza Making Moves in Mystery Bounty

One day separates James Mendoza from a famously dominant victory in the $10,000 Mystery Bounty Event #11 at the Horseshoe Las Vegas. After a busy Day 2 saw 130 players burst the money bubble with Santosh Suvarna, last year’s $250,000 Super High Roller champion, the victim, 93 players reached the money and players raced to the final table hoping that by eliminating another player they’d win the elusive top bounty prize of $250,000.

Incredibly, that never happened. While three players - ‘Texas Mike’ Moncek, Myles Mullaly and Frank Brannan - all won $100,000 bounties, the ‘quarter-milly’ is somehow still in play with five left, meaning ICM and bounty pressure hell for most, with Mendoza utterly dominant. The Philippines player has a stack of 10.62 million chips, with Alejandro Peinado from Spain (6.9m), Yosef Fox (4.7m) and Richard Green (4.6m) his nearest challengers.

Even British player Patrick Kennedy on 4.25m is no great distance behind as short stack and the British player will rely on his experience at this level to carry him through. If one player doubles through Mendoza, anything could happen but the Philippines player has control with one day to play and a very big bounty out there.

WSOP Event #11 $10,000 Mystery Bounty Chipcounts 

Han Liu Bids for Ultimate Wire-to-Wire Win

Two days of action have been completed in the $1,500-entry Event #12, the No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw event and Han Liu ended his second consecutive day on top of the leaderboard. A total of 532 entries have been whittled down to just five survivors, and Liu’s stack of 4.05 million is some way clear of Brad Ruben’s 3.52 million in second place.

Two Chinese players, Jun Weng (2.28m) and Yueqi Zhu (1.91m) sit in third and fourth on the list, with Brian Yoon a close short stack on just 1,425,000 chips. With vital $25k Fantasy points up for grabs for Yoon, there is everything to play for when play resumes and the final five battle for gold tomorrow.

WSOP Event #12 $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Chipcounts

Three Day 1s Conclude as Chidwick Dominates High Roller

Three more Day 1s concluded on Day 7 of the 2025 WSOP as Stephen Chidwick began by dominating the $25,000-entry Event #14. The high roller, taking place in Pot Limit Omaha and No-Limit Hold'em saw just 70 players survive from the 178 total entries building a prize pool of over $4 million, which can still grow with two more levels of late registration available to kick off Day 2.

After Day 1 of the event, Stephen Chidwick leads with 1,136,000 million chips to Jared Bleznick’s 975,000 at the top of the charts. Other big names Shaun Deeb (893,000), Bryce Yockey (808,000) and Ben Tollerene (668,000) made the top 10, while Jeremy Ausmus (458,000), Nick Schulman (309,000) and Dylan Smith (286,000) all sit inside the top 30.

In Event #13, the $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em event, 2,354 players battled across 17 levels of action, leaving just 174 with chips and inside the money places. With $3.1m in the prize pool, a top prize of $414,950 is on the line, with Forrest Blackwelder (987,000) the chip leader at the end of the opening day. Tetsuma Ishizu (985,000) and Giuseppe Lomuscio (875,000) completed the top three, while luminaries such as Tristan Wade (461,000), Nick Marchington (348,000), Jeremy Becker (332,000), Eric Baldwin (292,000), Brock Wilson (254,000), and David Coleman (215,000) all survived.

Finally, Event #15 concluded with 264 players surviving from 1,239 entries in the $1,500 buy-in Mixed Omaha event. Top of the shop when play ended was a late entry in James Obst, the Aussie WSOP legend registering four hours after the kick off of the event but ending with 481,500 chips. With a top prize of $258,192 on offer in this event, top 10 players Ryan Laplante (388,500), Sammy Farha (338,500) and David Prociak (298,000) will all have hopes of putting themselves in a good position to fight for gold when Day 2 resumes. 

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