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MICHAEL MIZRACHI LEADS FINAL FOUR PLAYERS IN THE 2025 WORLD SERIES OF POKER MAIN EVENT
Las Vegas, Nevada (July 15, 2025) - Concluding Day One of the 2025 WSOP Main Event Final Table that felt at times like one of the briefest ones in recent memory, only four players remain in the biggest poker event of the year.
Eyeing the $10 million top prize and a chance at poker immortality, Michael Mizrachi, John Wasnock, Braxton Dunaway, and Kenny Hallaert are the only players who remain out of a total field of 9,735 entrants.
The final four players will return to the Las Vegas Horseshoe and Paris for the conclusion of the 2025 WSOP Main Event on Wednesday, July 16th, with cards in the air at 1:30 P.M. Pacific Time. Poker players and fans can watch the action on PokerGO.com for exclusive live coverage of the Main Event and follow updates by downloading the WSOP+ app.
2025 WSOP Main Event Final Four Chip Counts:
Michael Mizrachi (Las Vegas, Nevada, United States) - 445,500,000 Chips
Michael Mizrachi, 44, battled back from having just 2.5 big blinds during the final three tables of the Main Event to now holding the overwhelming chip lead. With only four players remaining, the seven-time WSOP bracelet winner comes into the final day of play with over three-fourths of the total chips in play. A highly decorated professional poker player with four Poker Players Championship titles and nearly $11 million in WSOP winnings, Mizrachi looks to win the WSOP Main Event after finishing in fifth place in 2010.
John Wasnock (North Bend, Washington, United States) - 94,500,000 Chips
John Wasnock, 50, is an investment banker from North Bend, Washington who entered Day One of the 2025 WSOP Main Event Final Table as the overall chip leader. Having only played the WSOP Main Event once before, the family man hailing from the Pacific Northwest has added at least $3 million to his $33,000 total WSOP career winnings by reaching the Final Four of the Main Event.
Braxton Dunaway (Midland, Texas, United States) - 25,500,000 Chips
Braxton Dunaway, 42, hails from Midland, Texas, and makes a living in the oil and gas industry when he isn’t battling on the felt. Winning his lone WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 Monster Stack event for $1,162,681 during the 2023 WSOP, Dunaway looks to use his WSOP final table experience to add $10 million to his $1.3 million total WSOP career winnings.
Kenny Hallaert (London, England, United Kingdom) – 19,000,000 Chips
Kenny Hallaert, 43, is a Belgian professional poker player with $5.9 million in live tournament winnings accrued from multiple poker titles across European poker series. The only non-American player remaining at the final table, Hallaert looks to bring the 2025 WSOP Main Event bracelet back across the Atlantic to his residence in London, England.
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