David 'ODB' Baker has three bracelets in his World Series of Poker career. They came in 2012, 2019, and 2023, and all of which were mixed games.
Tomorrow, he has a chance to win his first NLH bracelet in the $5K Seniors High Roller as he comes in with the chip lead four-handed.
Mike Matusow had hopes of being there, too, but his run ended in 15th place. He lost a pivotal flip with against
in a blind-versus-blind battle to ruin his deep-run hopes. Still, he had well wishes for Baker as he tries to close it out.
"Good luck to my friend David Baker to take it down," said Matusow on X.
The Monster Stack field is set
After four starting flights in one of the most popular tournaments of the summer, Day 2 is finally set in the $1.5M Monster Stack. A total of 3,217 players of the 9,920 entrants return tomorrow to compete for the mammoth $13,682,160 prize pool. The exact payouts haven't been released yet, but 15% of the field means 1,488 will make the money. They are still several levels from the money, and will start the journey at 11 am local time.
Numbers were up significantly from 2024 in this same event. That iteration saw 8,703 entrants when Pedro Neves won $1,098,220. First place will be even bigger in this one, so another millionaire will be made a few days from now.
Andrew Moreno holds the largest fantasy player stack with 135 big blinds for Day 2.
PLO and Razz come back to play to the winners
Two more bracelets are set to be given away as the $1K PLO and $1.5K Razz come back to small fields.
Seven players return for the PLO action with Carlos Leiva leading the field. Dylan Weisman represents fantasy owners in sixth place with work to do.
In the Razz streets, nine players come back for a final day tomorrow. Allan Le (1st), Shaun Deeb (3rd), and Maxx Coleman (4th) are the fantasy players with bracelet dreams.
The big one: $250K Super High Roller
One of the largest public buy-ins you'll see will also be featured tomorrow as the $250K Super High Roller kicks off at noon local time. The biggest and best stars in the game are expected to turn out in the star-studded affair.
Santhosh Suvarna won the 2024 edition for well over $5 million. All eyes will be interested in who turns up to pony up a quarter of a million dollars, and who will come out on top of the massive tournament.
We'll be highlighting all of these stories and more, so keep it tuned right here to PokerOrg for our daily WSOP coverage.