With four players left in the WSOP $25K No-Limit High Roller event on Saturday night, a controversial hand went down.
UK pro Chris Moorman was the big chip leader, while the other three players – Jared Bleznick, Blaz Zerjav and Landon Tice – had roughly similar stacks.
Moorman raised preflop with and Bleznick three-bet to 1.5M with
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Zerjav woke up with and considered his bet before announcing 1.3M. The dealer pointed out the 1.5M three-bet and Zerjav asked, "What does that mean?"
"Oh wow, I don't think he saw Bleznicks' three-bet," Jeff Platt said on commentary. "He said it wrong because the orange chips in his hand are worth 1 million apiece. So he did mean to four-bet, I believe."
"But he verbalized 1.3," said co-commentator Brent Hanks. Zerjav's action was ruled a call.
Angle or innocent mistake?
Hanks voiced concern on comms. "Oh, this is a very, very bizarre one," Hanks said. "I don't know if this is a little angley."
The flop came down giving Zerjav a set of kings, and Hanks continued, saying, "We have no idea if this was intentional or an innocent mistake."
Bleznick bet 1.2M and Hanks said, "I do not like what I'm seeing so far. I'm feeling for Blez in this exact moment."
Zerjav called with his set of kings, and the dropped on the turn, giving Bleznick an open-ended draw to go with his pair. Bleznick checked.
"I do not know what the repercussions are in these types of scenarios," Hanks said. "Whether it was intentional or not, I feel like this should be addressed. I have no idea how to proceed with any sort of ruling."
Zerjav bet 1.5M and Bleznick called. The on the river didn't help Bleznick, and he tank-folded to a covering shove from Zerjav. The pot was 9.1M on the river, and it took half of Bleznick's stack.
"I'm sorry, man, I wanted to do 3.3," Zerjav said to Bleznick. "I don't know why I said 1.3."
"That was the weirdest thing I've ever seen," Bleznick replied.
"I think I even picked the right chips, but I said 1.3," Zerjav said. "I can't even explain it."
Bleznick finished in third place for $752,737, with Tice falling in fourth, but he'll be thinking about that hand tonight.
You can watch it play out below.
Moorman frustrated heads-up
After all of that drama, Moorman seemed a lock to win his third WSOP bracelet, taking a massive lead heads-up. But Zerjav flipped the script on the endgame to win his first bracelet and the huge $1,734,717 first prize.
Moorman's lead turned to dust after two hands in which Zerjav went from 11 to 44 million, leaving the Brit with crumbs. First, Zerjav jammed with queens and Moorman called with fours. The queens held, and Zerjav was within four million of Moorman.
A few moments later, Zerjav got it in again, this time with . Moorman called with
and watched in horror as the flop ran out
to double Zerjav again. The sequence left Moorman with around 5 million, a gulf behind Zerjav's 44 million.
Moorman had a few hope spots after this but couldn't spin it back up. He eventually got the rest in with AJ, but Zerjav closed the deal on the WSOP bracelet with ace-king. Moorman cut a disconsolate figure at the end as he took home $1,129,608 for second.
Watch the final hand play out below.
Angle or innocent mistake?
The drama at this WSOP final table comes after a similar controversy at the 2025 EPT Monte Carlo final table last month, where another 'misclick' was called out by Jamil Wakil.
Wakil was eliminated in sixth place in that hand and posted on X afterwards to say he was convinced it was an angle. The accused, and eventual champion in Monte Carlo, Aleksandr Shevliakov, posted to say it was an honest mistake in a high-stress situation.
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