Mar 16, 2025
Photo: Chipleader Faraz Jaka begins Day 2 with 340,000 (227 big blinds).
There were 312 entries on Day 1 of the WPT Rolling Thunder Championship, and 154 of them bagged up chips to advance to Day 2. However, registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the first break (around 1:15 pm), so the field — and the prizepool — will continue to grow.
Here is the official seat draw for the start of Day 2, with plenty of empty seats to accommodate players who take advantage of late registration:
25-1 Daniel Lee – 76,000
25-2 David Stamm – 116,000
25-3 David Pock – 78,500
25-4
25-5 Bijan Shapouri – 27,000
25-6 Jeff Platt – 189,000
25-7
25-8
26-1 Thomas Morris – 88,500
26-2 Ray Villaman – 42,500
26-3
26-4 Edward Lewis – 45,500
26-5 Peter Thao – 154,000
26-6
26-7 Daniel Marcus – 95,000
26-8 Elvin Reyes – 70,500
27-1 Dan Stir – 163,000
27-2
27-3 Nick Pupillo – 162,500
27-4
27-5 John Knight – 104,500
27-6
27-7 Tyler Patterson – 81,500
27-8 Marcelino Vieira – 186,500
28-1 Jesse Rockowitz – 105,000
28-2 Francis Anderson – 68,500
28-3 Mitchell Collins – 61,000
28-4
28-5 Elvyn Bello – 50,000
28-6 Sean Munjal – 167,500
28-7 Peter Cross – 17,500
28-8 Justo Avalos Palacios – 46,500
29-1 Victor Paredes – 66,500
29-2 Shyamsundar Challa – 55,000
29-3 Nicholas Marchington – 119,000
29-4
29-5 Kyle Welter – 38,500
29-6 Jeff Farnes – 155,000
29-7 Yifu He – 155,000
29-8 Bhargav Kakani – 33,000
30-1 Adam Duong – 157,500
30-2 Taylor Paur – 181,500
30-3 Eric Zheng – 48,500
30-4 Florian Pesce – 55,000
30-5 Mitchell Halverson – 68,000
30-6 Quyen Hoang – 303,000
30-7 Nick Shkolnik – 73,000
30-8 Moshe Gavrieli – 90,000
31-1
31-2 Michael Persky – 94,000
31-3 Kat Klassen – 51,000
31-4 Joshua Steinberg – 70,500
31-5
31-6 Ferit Bulutoglu – 39,000
31-7 Justin Lapka – 67,000
31-8
32-1 Scott Eskenazi – 116,500
32-2 Casey Sandretto – 19,000
32-3 Xuan Yang – 59,500
32-4
32-5 Chang Liu – 102,500
32-6 Sateesh Vemuri – 102,200
32-7 Joseph Bergh – 164,000
32-8 Daniel Turner – 174,500
33-1 Tsolmon Jargalsaikhan – 78,500
33-2 Anthony Swift – 80,500
33-3 Eric Afriat – 208,000
33-4 Noah Bronstein – 100,000
33-5 Michael Herring – 26,000
33-6 Sasha Sabbaghian – 97,000
33-7
33-8 Andrew Greenawalt – 47,500
34-1
34-2 Natalie Ferguson – 57,000
34-3 Jeffrey Spruitenburg – 133,500
34-4 Alexandros Kolonias – 145,000
34-5 Martin Verdegaal – 114,000
34-6
34-7
34-8 Byung Eun Shin – 97,500
35-1 Aaron Motoyama – 50,500
35-2 Jonathan Tamayo – 51,500
35-3
35-4 Brett Murray – 77,000
35-5 Paul Richardson – 166,000
35-6 Andrew Ostapchenko – 161,500
35-7 Steven Spunt – 141,000
35-8 Jasthi Kumar – 101,500
36-1
36-2 Noah Curhan – 91,000
36-3 David Larson – 47,000
36-4 Ian Steinman – 173,500
36-5 Dan Sepiol – 145,500
36-6 Aliaksei Kalinau – 64,000
36-7
36-8 Eddie Pak – 72,500
37-1 Cole Miller – 101,500
37-2 Michael Mcdonough – 130,500
37-3 Aditya Prasetyo – 52,500
37-4 Nguyen Le – 199,000
37-5 Abraham Tannous – 198,000
37-6 Vera Dong – 130,000
37-7
37-8 Jesse Lonis – 177,000
38-1 Matthew Grattan – 38,000
38-2
38-3
38-4
38-5 Gerald Peltola – 57,500
38-6 Alfie Poetra – 45,500
38-7 Francis Nguyen – 60,500
38-8 Mark Egbert – 93,500
39-1 Xuan Liu – 104,000
39-2 Faraz Jaka – 340,000
39-3
39-4 Brandon Cantu – 129,000
39-5 Matt Salsberg – 91,500
39-6 Andrew Moreno – 89,000
39-7
39-8 Ryan Awwad – 105,000
40-1 Vijay Ramani – 251,500
40-2 Scott Heiligman – 159,000
40-3 Robert Sellers – 37,500
40-4
40-5
40-6 Arish Nat – 86,000
40-7 Marco Johnson – 50,000
40-8 Michael Wang – 87,000
41-1 Pedro Rodriguez – 64,500
41-2 Mario Lopez – 64,500
41-3 David Ha – 167,500
41-4 Casey Mccarrel – 75,500
41-5 Linsen Huang – 184,000
41-6 Jared Smith – 177,000
41-7 James Minghini – 40,500
41-8
42-1 Jesse Kandola – 42,500
42-2 Anthony Zinno – 52,000
42-3 Dan Shak – 98,500
42-4 Brendan Buckner – 95,000
42-5 Antonio Ma – 47,000
42-6 James Verdi – 20,000
42-7 John Hernandez – 80,500
42-8 Jeremy Becker – 213,500
43-1
43-2 Peter Pap – 35,000
43-3 Satyarajeev Annam – 105,500
43-4 Kathy Liebert – 42,000
43-5 Matthew Kramer – 55,500
43-6 Benjamin Primus – 217,500
43-7
43-8 Matthew Wantman – 94,000
44-1 Gal Yifrach – 88,000
44-2 Denis Lee – 142,500
44-3 Louis Antoine – 15,000
44-4
44-5 Chahnhoon Jung – 187,000
44-6
44-7 Stephen Kujubu – 39,000
44-8
45-1 Evan Sandberg – 69,000
45-2 Lily Kiletto – 117,000
45-3 Carmelo Sison – 66,000
45-4
45-5
45-6 Artak Aramyan – 32,000
45-7 Donald Landwirth – 54,500
45-8 Stephen Buell – 103,500
46-1 Travis Fujisaka – 119,000
46-2 Shawn Daniels – 225,500
46-3 Brian Altman – 45,500
46-4 Ron Fetsch – 148,500
46-5 Hien Hoang – 28,000
46-6 J.C. Tran – 197,500
46-7 James Casement – 60,500
46-8 Cody Wiegmann – 137,000
47-1 Michael Teixeira – 89,500
47-2
47-3 Shijia Liu – 176,000
47-4 Kevin Nathan – 148,000
47-5
57-6
47-7 Maxwell Young – 102,500
47-8 Darren Rabinowitz – 132,500
48-1 Tony Ho – 16,000
48-2 Dylan Wilkerson – 74,500
48-3 Joshua Prager – 153,000
48-4 Philip Li – 49,000
48-5 Roman Shainiuk – 241,500
48-6 Benh Kieu – 102,000
48-7 Paul Spano – 75,000
48-8 Alexander Farahi – 70,500
Action is scheduled to begin at 11:00 am, so stay tuned to WPT.com for our continuing coverage of the WPT Rolling Thunder Championship.