WSOP 29025 Day 28 Recap: Robert Wells Wins First Bracelet, Roh Ruling the Battle of Ages

A thrilling day’s action at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas saw Welshman Robery Wells win his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, while Scott Bohlman is 10 players from his second title of the series in the pursuit for the WSOP Player of the Year award. Seven events were in action on the Sin City strip as millions of dollars and plenty of gold was on the line.

Robert Wells Wins First Ever Bracelet

British player Robert Wells won his first WSOP gold bracelet in Las Vegas tonight as his fourth cash of the 2025 WSOP provided his biggest ever live poker result. Event #58, the Nine Game Mix, proved Wells; speciality as he trumped his previous best-ever result, the $112,000 he won by coming fifth in the PokerGO $25,000 10-Game Mix Championship as part of the PGT Mixed Games Series back in February.

With 409 entries, this event saw close runs from David Bach (6th for $34,394), Anthony Ribeiro (4th for $68,304) and Thomas Taylor, who came second to Wells for $149,152 after losing to the Welsh player heads-up. Wells, who becomes the eighth most successful player from Wales in live ranking tournaments, and he celebrated at the end as he finally claimed gold in Las Vegas.

“I feel tiredness mostly, not really feeling like it’s real. It’s amazing,” Wells said after the moment of victory. “I came second twice last year, so I know that pain on the other side, so being on this side of it is amazing. If I could have picked any tournament to win, this would probably be two on the list, besides the PPC.”

WSOP Event #58 $3,000 Nine Game Mix Final Table Results

Wang on Course for Win in Millionaire Maker 

With just 44 players surviving from the 357 players who began Day 3 of the $1,500-entry Event #53, the Millionaire Maker event, Kaifan Wang (21.9m) is on course to win the $1,255,180 top prize at the Horseshoe Las Vegas casino. With an amazing $15.9 million prize pool, second place will win a seven-figure prize too, but everyone wants the title, with Brazilian Jacques Ortega currently second in chips on 19.22 million chips.

Former WSOP bracelet winners Jonas Lauck (4.62m), Leo Margets (4m) and Jinho Hong (3m) have a stack and a chance at glory, while their fellow former champion Carlos Leiva (1.5m) will start from 43rd of the 44 remaining players as he looks to go from the back of the pack to the top of the deck.

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

Roh on Top as Eight Remain in Battle of the Ages

Just eight players are left in Event #59, the $1,000-entry Battle of the Ages event. On Day 2, 461 players began in their pursuit of the $228,632 top prize as Day 1a’s over 50s were combined with Day 1b’s younger generation. With a $2.7m prize pool on offer, Joseph Roh leads the remaining players, with a stack of 17.3 million, the equivalent of 34 big blinds.

At the other end of the scales, Xia Wang, Sebastian De Jonge and former WSOP bracelet winner Allan Le all have six big blinds or fewer. Roh, the only former bracelet winner other than Le, is clear of most by more than half their stack, with Srivinay Irrinki on 14.85 million chips as his nearest challenger. Incredibly, of the remaining eight players, seven of them came from the under 50 flight, but it is the runaway chip leader Roh who represents the older generation heading into the final day.

Who will win the $335,390 top prize and the gold bracelet? It’s a question for the ages and it will be answered tomorrow.

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

Bradshaw and Bolhman Among Limit Hold’em Runners

Just 11 players are left in it from 343 players on Day 2 of the $3,000 Limit Hold’em Event #60, with British player Andrew Bradshaw in line to take home the $200,303 top prize as things stand. Sitting on a stack of 2,475,000 chips, Bradshaw is some way clear of Kerry Welsh (1.91m) in second place, while WSOP regular Roland Israelashvili (1.28m) has every chance of claiming gold tomorrow too.

After Scott Bohlman (975,000) also made the final 11, Bradshaw’s late pot against shorter stack Ian Pelz (765,000) ended with the British player making two pair and getting value bets called on turn and river.

“You can take a horse to water, but you bring a donkey to the river.” Said Bradshaw, to everyone’s amusement, including Pelz himself. Tomorrow, we’ll find out if Bradshaw wins by some length or whether he falls close to the finish line.

WSOP Event #60 $3,000 Limit Hold'em Chip Counts

Three More Events Begin 

In Event #61, the $500 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout event saw a massive field of 5,082 entries take to the felt at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas with just 211 still in the hunt for the $229,628 top prize. Top of the chip counts after Day 1 is Spanish player Juan Lucena (1,990,000), with Arthur Morris (1,100,000) and Matthew Bode (905,000) comfortably inside the top 50 survivors too.

Event #62 is the $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em 6-max event, with 996 entries starting Day 1 and just 348 making it past the final hand. Of the players chasing part of the $4,500,000 prize pool with registration still open is Sebastian Toro (695,000), with Jake Schwartz (383,500) and Ryan Leng (331,000) also flying high. Others to make the cut inside the top 50 players included Taylor Paur (313,500), recent five-time WSOP champion Adrian Mateos (302,000) and Patrick Leonard, who bagged up 243,000 chips.

Finally, Event #63, the $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw event, saw 574 entries - a new record - trimmed to just 113 survivors, with the 2018 WSOP bracelet winner Yueqi Zhu (395,000), Colton Blomberg (359,000) and Brandon Shack-Harris (350,000) in the podium places as things stand.

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