Margets, 2nd Girl to Make Ultimate Desk at WSOP Primary Occasion, Busts Out on Day 1
The historic run of Leonor “Leo” Margets’ on the 2025 World Sequence of Poker was not as historic as hundreds of thousands had been hoping.
Spanish poker professional Leo Margets is proven throughout her unsuccessful bid to advance additional than Day 1 of the WSOP Primary Occasion. (Picture: Caesars Leisure)
The one lady to make the Primary Occasion’s ultimate desk in 30 years was knocked out on Day 1 of the Primary Occasion at Horseshoe Las Vegas. The Spanish poker professional walked away with a formidable seventh-place and $1.5 million. However her bid for the title, and the $10 million prime prize, was stopped by a merciless river card.
On the twenty eighth hand, in a pot in opposition to Kenny Hallaert, Margets — who started the day fifth in chips and slipped solely downward — referred to as his pair of sixes (a coronary heart and a diamond) with an ace and 10 of hearts for her final 39.6 million chips.
The Spanish poker professional gained an ace on the flip, sending her supporters right into a tizzy, earlier than the belief set in that it was an ace of golf equipment, and Halleart had already picked up two golf equipment on the flop, giving him a flush draw.
The river was a 9 of golf equipment, sealing his flush and her heartbreaking loss.
Margets exited the Occasion Middle at Horseshoe Las Vegas to a standing ovation from all sides of the room.
“Leo Margets is an inspiration for not solely feminine poker gamers, however each poker participant all over the world,” WSOP CEO Ty Stewart stated in an announcement emailed to On line casino.org. “This efficiency was nothing wanting historic, and we want her many extra deep runs. It gained’t be 30 extra years till one other lady reaches the Primary Occasion Ultimate Desk and Leo is a giant cause why.
“The WSOP thanks her for the humility and beauty she displayed in competitors all the way down to the final card.”
Whereas Margets’ $1.5 million was a file payout by a lady in poker’s world championship occasion, Barbara Enright, the primary lady in historical past to win a Primary Occasion seat, completed larger (fifth place) in 1995, when the prizes have been all a tenth of what they’re at present.
