The ultimate desk is about within the 2025 Card Participant Poker Tour Venetian $1,000,000 assured $1,600 no-limit maintain’em principal occasion. After three beginning flights and one other full day of motion, the sector of 588 entries has been narrowed down to simply six contenders with a shot on the title and the highest prize of $167,076.
The remaining gamers will return at midday on Sunday, Feb. 16 for the ultimate desk, which will likely be stay streamed on Venetian Poker Reside beginning at 1:00 PM native time. The cards-up motion will likely be broadcast from the venue’s model new Poker Studio, with manufacturing and distribution by PokerGO.
Dan Stavila enters the ultimate day because the chip chief with 5,675,000. Stavila (pictured above) has almost $820,000 in prior match earnings, together with a runner-up end in final yr’s World Poker Tour Montreal principal occasion for $205,520.
Sizzling on Stavila’s heels is Victor Shih with 5,660,000. The Las Vegas resident will likely be properly located so as to add to his almost $450,000 in match earnings in a significant approach at this ultimate desk, having already locked up at the least $36,561 for making it this far.
Bracelet winner Ryan Laplante sits in third with 2,160,000. The 2016 WSOP $565 pot-limit Omaha occasion winner has surpassed $4 million in earnings by surviving to this ultimate desk, and would file his ninth six-figure rating had been he to make it right down to the ultimate two on this occasion.
Cody Wiegmann (1,980,000), two-time bracelet winner Evan Sandberg (1,190,000), and Paul Lozano Martin (995,000) spherical out the ultimate six.
Rank
Participant
Chips
1
Dan Stavila
5,675,000
2
Victor Shih
5,660,000
3
Ryan Laplante
2,160,000
4
Cody Wiegmann
1,980,000
5
Evan Sandberg
1,190,000
6
Paul Lozano Martin
995,000
Day 2 of this occasion started with 75 gamers remaining, all of whom had locked up at the least $4,088 by making it by means of their respective beginning flights. Loads of huge names hit the rail on the best way right down to the ultimate desk, together with WPT Venetian champion Ben Palmer (74th), WPT champion Justin Younger (73rd), 2021 CPPT Venetian champion Ankush Mandavia (forty ninth), 2024 WSOP Circuit Commerce principal occasion winner Jessica Vierling (forty seventh), start-of-day chip chief David Coleman (thirty ninth), four-time bracelet winner and three-time WPT champion Anthony Zinno (forty first), bracelet winner Nicholas Pupillo (thirty first), WPT champion James Romero (twenty fifth), bracelet winner and WPT champion Ryan Tosoc (twenty second), three-time bracelet winner Nipun Java (18th), Darren Rabinowitz (fifteenth), bracelet winner Mitchell Halverson (14th), Michael Rossitto (eleventh), and bracelet winner Francis Anderson (eighth).
Motion concluded on the finish of day 2 with 11:07 remaining in stage 27, with blinds of 40,000-80,000 and an enormous blind ante of 80,000.
Take a look at the ultimate desk stay stream beneath beginning at 1:00 PM on Sunday, Feb. 16:
Here’s a have a look at the remaining payouts which might be up for grabs:
1st – $167,0672nd – $120,0543rd – $87,4164th – $64,4995th – $48,2326th – $36,561
Stavila picture credit score: WPT.