🇫🇷 Antoine Berruel ends on top of the count on WSOPc Main Event Day1 B!

Stefano Atzei
Nov 29, 2025
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Day 1B of the WSOP Circuit Main Event is now in the books, with today’s session registering a total of 257 entries and producing 35 players who will advance to Sunday’s Day 2.

The best stack of the day belongs to French player Antoine Berruel, who bagged 1,198,000 chips — the equivalent of 120 big blinds at the restart, since the regression rule will move the structure back one level to blinds 5,000/10,000.

Here is what the day’s main protagonist told us once play wrapped up:

“I’d say the day was pretty average. At one point I was down to around 20 big blinds, I think during the level with blinds at 600/1,200. Then I played a huge three-way all-in with tens against queens and ace-queen. They hit an ace on the flop, but I ran out runner-runner straight and survived.

Later on, I ended up in another massive confrontation, about 15 spots before the money. We were both sitting with around 50 big blinds — roughly 100K effective — and I got it in with A-K against queens, hitting runner-runner straight again. That was a huge pot and definitely the turning point of my day.

From there everything went pretty smoothly. I kept raising, three-betting, putting pressure where needed, and the stack kept growing. That’s really all there is to it.

Now I’ve got enough chips for Day 2, and I’m happy with how the day ended.”

Top 5

At the top of the counts, alongside the already mentioned Antoine Berruel, we find Julien Bolimowski with 1,160,000, followed by Anthony Apicella with 940,000. Alessandro Orsi (930,000) and Marco Bognanni (867,000) take fourth and fifth place, completing the leading group.

The full list of all 35 Day 1B qualifiers follows in the next section.