Level: 5
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 0
Level: 5
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 0
Players are now on their second 15-minute break of the day.
It looked like there were about 40,000 chips in the middle and the board read when we got to the table. Justin Bonomo was in the cutoff and heads-up against the player who was under the gun. He checked and Bonomo bet 32,600. After over a minute in the tank, he tossed his hand into the muck, and Bonomo took the chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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134,500
9,500
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9,500 |
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With the completed board showing and more than 60,000 already in the middle, Tim McDermott moved all in for his last 43,500. He faced big stack David Wang and the latter gave it some thought before tossing in two green T-25,000 chips.
McDermott nodded and rolled over his for kings up and a busted flush draw, while Wang had the
for the nut straight.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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400,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
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Busted |
Our 888 Poker Spotlight shines on Maria Ho's five cashes through just three weeks at the 2018 WSOP. She now has 50 World Series of Poker cashes in her career.
Jacob Kalb and Majid Yahyaei were able to increase their stacks while Jonathan Abdellatif has re-entered for his second and final bullet in this event.
Serial Pot-Limit Omaha crusher Tommy Le, who has six WSOP final tables and one bracelet to his name, entered for the first time just prior to Abdellatif.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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190,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
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185,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
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160,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
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125,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
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125,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
|
Action folded to Connor Drinan in the cutoff and he raised to 2,000. Josh Arieh three-bet to 5,300 from the button and Drinan called.
The flop came and Drinan checked. Arieh bet 4,600 and Drinan called.
The fell on the turn and both players checked.
The river brought the and they checked again. Arieh tabled
and took the pot with sevens full of aces.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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142,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
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140,500
17,000
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17,000 |
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Among those to bust recently were Jonathan Abdellatif and Noah Schwartz, both still have the option to re-enter once, though.
New additions to the field include Jussi Nevanlinna, Cary Katz, Randy Ohel, Anson Tsang, Bryn Kenney and Yevgeniy Timoshenko.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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230,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
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210,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
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200,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
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190,000
27,500
|
27,500 |
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175,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
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135,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
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130,000 | |
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125,000 | |
|
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125,000 | |
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125,000 | |
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120,000 | |
|
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120,000 | |
|
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70,000 | |
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65,000
-27,000
|
-27,000 |
|
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Action folded around to the player on the button and he raised to 1,700. Anthony Zinno three-bet to 5,300 from the small blind, the button four-bet to 16,500, and after brief consideration, Zinno called.
The flop came and Zinno moved 30,000 chips into the middle. His opponent went into the tank but ultimately folded and Zinno took the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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121,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
|
On a heads-up flop of , Ryan D'Angelo was all in and at risk with the
and his former nemesis Veselin Karakitukov looked him up with the
. The
turn gave Karakitukov a straight, but D'Angelo improved to the higher straight thanks to the
on the river.
One hand later, Jesper "Kipster" Hougaard raised to 1,500 and Junayed Khan called in the small blind. Khan bet the flop for 2,000 and Hougaard called. On the
turn, Khan made it 4,000 to go and Hougaard raised to 13,000, which was called by Khan. Both checked the
on the river and Khan announced a straight. Hougaard showed the
for a flush and claimed the pot.
Jason Mercier has also recovered from the earlier blow in the three-way all in and more than doubled his short stack since.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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345,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
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150,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
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70,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
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40,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
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16,500
6,500
|
6,500 |
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