Event #52: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem Day 2 | 2025 World Series of Poker

Jun 18, 2025

Life Outside Poker: David Daneshgar Used Poker Winnings to Build a Multimillion-Dollar Business

Connor Richards

Level 19 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Life Outside Poker is a podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.

In the 27th episode, Connor talks with World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner and venture capitalist David Daneshgar, who used poker winnings to launch a successful start-up that raised tens of millions. The Californian with $2.5 million in Hendon Mob earnings talks about his companies BloomNation and Whippy AI, teaching a college poker class, quitting his finance job to play poker, and getting Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss to write his letter of recommendation to business school.

Daneshgar also spoke about getting cheated in private LA games, AI in poker, and why entrepreneurs should play in poker games.

The Life Outside Poker podcast is available on major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and iHeartRadio. You can also watch the interview with David Daneshgar by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.

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Jun 18, 2025

River Double, a Dealer Error, and an Eye in the Sky

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 19 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Patricia Moore was in the nine-seat and had tangoed in a significant pot against Jacopo Achille on her direct right. There were several messy barrels between both players as the dealer had accidentally mixed some of Moore's stack with either the pot or Achille's stack.

The board read 8♥5♦A♥7♥K♠.

Patricia Moore: K♥J♠ All in
Jacopo Achille: Q♥Q♣

Moore had secured the double but as several other players at the table witnessed, the dealer had mixed some of the accounting stacks together. Luckily, the floor was quick to stop the motion of the chips, review the footage, and rectify the true chip counts in a delay that lasted less than ten minutes.

The table seemed unperturbed by the short delay and more concerned with making sure Moore was paid her due pot.

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Jun 18, 2025

Daneshgar Collects Chips with a Full House

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Nataly Sopacuaperu

Level 19 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Action was picked up on a completed board of A♠A♦8♠8♦3♣. Travis Endersby checked for the showdown in the small blind, but David Daneshgar bet 100,000 from the big blind. Endersby went into the tank and decided to call after all.

Danesgar showed his cards K♣8♦ and Enderby reacted by mucking his cards.

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Jun 18, 2025

New Round of Chip Counts

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 19 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Jun 18, 2025

Saderne Finds a Double Up

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 19 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

The action was picked up on a board 3♦K♣A♥J♦9♥, with Jeremy Saderne being all in and at risk for a stack worth 158,000 and with A♣K♦ in his hands for top two pair.

His opponent, Brandon Sowers, was holding A♦10♣ and conceded the pot to Saderne.

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Jun 18, 2025

Meli Switches Places with Peretz; Jaka Takes Another One Down

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Claudio Elizalde

Level 19 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Vincent Meli was all in and at risk on a flop of 3♥7♥8♠ against Yaniv Peretz who had about twice the stack Meli had.

Vincent Meli: 9♣9♠ All in
Yaniv Peretz: A♥J♥

Meli was ahead and dodged the over cards and hearts as the board completed with the 10♦ and 5♠

One table over, Faraz Jaka was seen eliminating Francis Alegado with kings full to Alegado's ace-ten high.

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Jun 18, 2025

Some More Recent Eliminations

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Laura Fryer

Level 19 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

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Jun 18, 2025

Berman Makes the Right Call

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Gaelle Jaudon

Level 19 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

The board was already showing K♣9♣4♥4♣4♦ with a pot containing around 100,000 when Eric Berman checked and Matthew Simila announced an all-in, putting Berman at risk. After some thinking, Berman called for his last 156,000.

Berman revealed 8♦8♣ for a full house while Simila quickly sent AxQx into the muck and Berman took down the nice pot.