In an electric atmosphere at the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, Daehyung Lee was eliminated from the WSOP Main Event final table on the very first hand.
Lee entered as the second-shortest stack with 22 big blinds but lasted just five minutes on the biggest final table of his career.
He raised from UTG+1 with 
and picked up a call from chip leader John Wasnock in the big blind with 
.
The 
flop gave Wasnock a set, while Lee had flopped top-pair, top-kicker.
Wasnock checked, Lee bet 3 million, and Wasnock raised to 6.5 million. Lee responded by moving all his chips into the middle, and Wasnock snap-called and showed him the bad news.
Lee had a 4% shot of winning the pot, and while the 
turn brought him some outs, his equity was still only 9%.
The river bricked out with the 
and Lee had to settle for ninth-place money — a cool $1 million.
Wasnock moved up to 144 million and remains the only player to crack the 100-million mark. Michael Mizrachi is second with 93 million.
Rails ramp up in the Horseshoe
Action got underway later than the advertised 1.30pm start time, as players posed for photographs and the various rails found their places and fired up the noise.
Leo Margets and Mizrachi have generated the biggest headlines. Margets could become the first woman to win the Main Event. She’s already the only woman to make the Main Event final table in the modern era — and just the second in history, following Barbara Enright’s fifth-place finish in 1995.
Mizrachi could make history as the first player to win both the $50K Poker Players Championship and the Main Event — widely considered the two most prestigious WSOP events — in the same year. It’s a feat that may never be repeated.
The plan is to play down to four players today, when action will pause until 1.30pm Wednesday. That’s when the biggest pay jumps will be decided, and the bracelet — along with the $10 million first prize — will be awarded to the 2025 champion.
