While the 2025 World Series of Poker continues to roll on for a few more days, the $10,000 Main Event is on a break as the nine members of the final table get a much-needed rest Monday to prepare for the stretch run. It is one of the stronger groups in recent memory and is setting up to potentially be one of the most historic final tables in Main Event history.
Though neither is the chip leader, the two players that will garner the most attention – and for good reason – are Leo Margets and Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi.
Margets is not only the owner of the title “last woman standing,” but she is the first woman to make the WSOP Main Event final table since Poker Hall of Famer Barbara Enright finished fifth in 1995. A number of women have made it to the dreaded final table bubble, including Kristen Foxen (13th place) last year, but Margets finally broke through, and in the third-largest field of all time.
Margets is also the last woman to win an open WSOP event in Las Vegas, clinching the $1,500 Closer in 2021. And this isn’t her first deep run in the Main Event – she finished 27th in 2009.
And speaking of Poker Hall of Famers, if Michael Mizrachi takes the crown this week, can we just induct him into the Hall before next year’s nomination and voting process? He won the Poker Players Championship for a record fourth time this year and is now at his second Main Event final table.
Mizrachi has got to be one of the least talked about legendary poker talents, yet he just keeps going out and dominating. Second in chips with 93 million, Mizrachi seeks his eighth career WSOP bracelet, which would put him behind just a select few on the all-time list.
But Margets and Mizrachi aren’t the only supreme talents at the table. You have Kenny Hallaert, a tournament director and member of Team PokerStars Pro, who is also at the Main Event final table for the second time, placing sixth in 2016. He has nearly $6 million in live tournament earnings and has won a number of events across the pond, but this would be his first in the United States.
Then there is Alaska’s Adam Hendrix, a poker coach, poker pro, and winner of over $8 million in live tournaments. He has had great success on the PokerGO Tour and has made 11 WSOP final tables, but has yet to grab a bracelet.
There are always little-known players at the Main Event final table and this year’s chip leader is one of them. Boasting a stack of 108.1 million chips, Washington’s John Wasnock has already blown past his total live tournament earnings of $143,463. He told PokerNews that playing in the Main Event ten years ago was a “bucket list” moment. If just playing in it was a chance of a lifetime, what would this moment be?
The 2025 WSOP Main Event final table resumes on Tuesday at 1:30pm local time and will play down to four players. Those four will play down to a champion on Wednesday.
2025 WSOP Main Event Final Table Chip Counts
- John Wasnock – 108,100,000
- Michael Mizrachi – 93,000,000
- Braxton Dunaway – 91,900,000
- Kenny Hallaert – 80,500,000
- Leo Margets – 53,400,000
- Luka Bojovic – 51,000,000
- Adam Hendrix – 48,000,000
- Daehyung Lee – 34,900,000
- Jarod Minghini – 23,600,000
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