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Phil Ivey is starting to heat up at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), and he could be just one day away from capturing his 12th gold bracelet.

The Poker Hall of Famer, with 10 players remaining at the time of publishing, held the chip lead in Event #51: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller, a tournament with 489 entrants.

Bryn Kenney, who is closing in on $80 million in live tournament cashes, busted in 11th place ($134,007). The remaining players still have a shot at the $2,292,155 first-place prize, to be awarded on Friday.

Poker Legend Gaining on Hellmuth?

Ivey, who ended a 10-year bracelet drought last year when he took down the $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw Championship, started the summer off a bit slow. But he’s been stepping it up recently, and bracelet number 12 could be on the horizon, which would pull him closer to Phil Hellmuth’s 17-bracelet record.

The former Full Tilt Poker pro widely considered the best poker player of all time, at the time of publishing, held a sizable chip lead in the PLO High Roller. Ivey was sitting on 12,960,000 chips, a commanding advantage over his nearest competitor, Evan Krentzman, who had 9,570,000 chips. Ben Lamb and Talal Shakerchi were among the big names still standing.

Lamb, the 2011 WSOP Player of the Year, called the tournament his “white whale” on social media, noting that “I’ve been deep in this event several times in the last few years, but never got the job done.”

Ivey entered Day 3 near the bottom of the chip counts, finding himself 26th of 28 with a stack of 785,000. He’s now run it up to more than ten times that among the ten players remaining.

Ivey gained some of those chips in a pot against Daniel Geeng that saw the Poker Hall of Famer four-betting the flop with jacks full and Geeng calling with trips to be eliminated in 17th place for $87,098, according to PokerNews live updates.

Additional chips were earned with 11 players left as Ivey moved all in on the river in a big heads-up pot against Kentzman, only to secure a fold from the first-time bracelet hopeful.

$25k PLO Chip Stacks (At Time of Publishing)

Poker fans can follow Ivey’s chase for bracelet 12 in the $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller here at PokerNews.

Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outside Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for three Global Poker Awards for his writing.

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