Miracle River Gives Brazilian Vlogging Superstar Rare Triple KO at WPT Cyprus
On Day 1a of the World Poker Tour (WPT) $3,500 buy-in, $2 million GTD WPT Cyprus Championship at the Chamada Prestige Hotel & Casino, an interesting hand took place involving popular Brazilian vlogger and WPT Global Ambassador Romulo Dorea.
For those who may not be familiar with Dorea, he was a featured guest on Life Outside Poker hosted by Connor Richards:
The Hand
According to the WPT Live Updates, the hand occurred in Level 4 (300/500/500) at Table 16 when action exploded preflop and resulted in Chiboub Abdelmajid getting all in for 22,000 under the gun, Ingles Garcia for 19,500 from the hijack, Andreas Christodolou for 15,000 from the button, and Dorea having them all covered out of the big blind.
Chiboub Abdelmajid: A♦K♠
Ingles Garcia: Q♥Q♣
Andreas Christodolou: 10♠10♣
Romulo Dorea: J♥J♦
According to the PokerNews Odds Calculator, Dorea had a 16.96% chance of winning the hand, but that was cut in half to 8.54% after the flop came down a lackluster 9♠7♠2♣.
The K♣ turn actually gave Abdelmajid the lead with a pair of kings, and Dorea was looking for one of the two remaining jacks on the river to win it all, which any poker player will tell you only has a 5% chance of happening.
Well, this was one of those times as the J♠ spiked to give the Brazilian superstar a rare triple knockout. The card propelled Dorea up to 167,000, which was a 278 bb stack at the time.
PokerNews actually caught up with Dorea at the end of the day to discuss the hand.
"That was actually a no-brainer because of the way it was played," Dorea explained. "The guy slow-played the queens. Someone open-raised from under the gun, the guy called, another guy calls, and a guy who was short went all in. Me, with jacks, I’m crushing his range, I’m going to call, so I call for 17,000. Then a guy went all in for 24,000, the other guy went all in for 27,000, and I had to call like 10,000 more with jacks."
He continued: "I had a good feeling about jacks, to be honest, jacks is my favorite hand … It helped me a lot throughout the day because I had more space to make plays and build my stack."
Dorea went on to bag 228,000, the seventh-largest stack among the 127 players to survive Day 1a. Click here to check out the Day 1a recap on PokerNews.
In another big hand captured by PokerNews, Dorea hit another river to win a nice pot.
Images courtesy of the World Poker Tour
In this Series
- 1 Kassouf & WPT Global Qualifiers Headline Start of the WPT Cyprus Championship
- 2 2025 WPT Cyprus Coming to Chamada Prestige Hotel & Casino August 6-18
- 3 Alexsandr Pak Leads WPT Cyprus Day 1a, Tony Dunst & Romulo Dorea Find a Bag
- 4 Miracle River Gives Brazilian Vlogging Superstar Rare Triple KO at WPT Cyprus
- 5 WPT Prime Cyprus Bubble Boy Gets Revenge By Bagging Championship Chip Lead
- 6 Exclusive Interview w/ Will Kassouf, Self-Proclaimed ‘Donald Trump of Poker’ | PokerNews Podcast #912
- 7 Germany’s Metin Yalciner Bags Biggest Stack on Day 1c of WPT Cyprus Championship
- 8 Will Kassouf Discusses WSOP Controversy: “I Was Only Reacting to How I Was Being Treated”
- 9 Ludovic Geilich Wins WPT Cyprus Mystery Bounty; Ilia Kitsbabahvili Claims Two Side Event Titles
- 10 Bubble Bursts: Big Prize Awaits Winner 11 Years After Last WPT Main Event in Cyprus
- 11 After Six Final Tables Ray Qartomy’s Quest for a "Dream" Title Continues at WPT Cyprus
- 12 WPT Cyprus Final Table Set, Elena Litviniuk Seeks to Become 3rd Women to Win WPT Open Main Event
- 13 It’s a Hattrick! Ilia Kitsbabahvili Wins Two Side Events Plus WPT Cyprus Championship ($401,100)
- 14 Hands of the Week: Crushed Dreams at WPT Cyprus; Kassouf Left Saying “Not Good”
