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02-10-2026 20:17 UTC+3

Super High Roller Cash Game 5-Bet Jam for $1,700,000 Ends in Disaster | PokerNews Podcast #937

Tim Baker

Level 10 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

In the 936th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway, Mike Holtz, and Ben Ludlow are all in Las Vegas at Level 9 Studio to talk about a pair of big hands from the Super High Roller Cash Game on PokerGO. One saw Sameh Elamawy lay down the second nuts to Justin Gavri, and the other was Andrew Robl five-bet bluffing smack into the pocket aces of Eric Wasserson, which led to a discussion on Robl and his chances of the Poker Hall of Fame.

From there, the crew heads out to the desert for some fun with Las Vegas ATV Tours, Mike 'Timex' McDonald winning a national Chess Championship, and Jean-Robert Bellande taking down the Onyx High Roller for $1.5 Million. Finally, hear about how 23-year-old Harvey Castro claimed the WPT Player of the Year and why the 'Jungleman' boxing match result against Elf was overturned.

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02-10-2026 20:16 UTC+3

Wunscher Starts His Spin Up

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Tim Baker

Level 10 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Phillip Wunscher had lost a few big pots and was left with just 25,000. He ended up getting all-in preflop with Tom Vogelsang trying to finish him off from the blinds just before the dinner break.

Phillip Wunscher: K♣10♦7♠6♣ All in
Tom Vogelsang: J♥5♦3♦3♠

Wunscher managed to end up with the best hand on the 4♥7♥2♣Q♣9♣ runout by improving to a flush.

Wunscher was up to around 50,000 and perhaps this was the start of his spin-up in the Main Event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Vogelsang	600,000 56,000	56,000

Phillip Wunscher	50,000 50,000	50,000

Tags: Phillip Wunscher Tom Vogelsang

02-10-2026 20:00 UTC+3

Khoueiry Makes the Right Hero Call

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Tim Baker

Level 10 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

On a completed board of A♥10♠6♣10♣5♣, Vincent Khoueiry was deep in the tank and burning through all of his time banks while standing up from the table.

Khoueiry had checked from the blinds and Luuk van den Belt had bet 190,000 from the button, for roughly the size of the pot. After around two minutes of tanking and having exhausted all of his time banks, Khoueiry slammed in the call for the majority of his stack.

Van den Belt turned over K♠Q♠10♦8♥ for trip tens and lost the pot to Khoueiry's J♣J♥10♥2♣ for a backdoor flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vincent Khoueiry	550,000 121,000	121,000
Luuk van den Belt	100,000 280,000	280,000

Tags: Luuk van den Belt Vincent Khoueiry

Level: 10

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 10,000

02-10-2026 19:53 UTC+3

Myrmo Scores the Double Knockout

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Tim Baker

Level 9 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

On a flop of 4♦J♣3♥,and with about 150,000 in the pot, Basem Abudavas jammed from the small blind for just under pot. Lautaro Guerra moved in over the top from middle position, and Espen Myrmo called both all-ins with the covering stack from the button.

Basem Abudavas: A♠A♦Q♠3♣ All in
Lautaro Guerra: J♠9♠8♥7♣ All in
Espen Myrmo: K♣6♥4♣4♠

Myrmo was ahead with a set of fours, but a lot could change with two cards to come.

The 6♣ came on the turn and the A♣ arrived on the river. Abudavas improved to a higher set, but it was still second best to Myrmo's nut flush.

Abudavas and Guerra headed to the rail, while Myrmo's stack grew to almost two million. Guerra has reentered and is sitting with a fresh starting stack of 250,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Espen Myrmo	1,900,000 980,000	980,000
Lautaro Guerra	250,000 490,000	490,000

Basem Abudavas	Busted

Tags: Basem Abudavas Espen Myrmo Lautaro Guerra

02-10-2026 19:33 UTC+3

Zhou Wins a Small Pot With Cowboys

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Tim Baker

Level 9 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Laszlo Bujtas raised to 20,000 from the hijack with Quan Zhou calling on the button, and Aku Joentausta defending from the big blind.

All three checked the Q♣10♣Q♦ flop to see a 4♥ roll out on the turn. After two more checks, Zhou bet 29,000, which only Bujtas called.

Check, check came after the 5♦ river and Bujtas showed J♦10♦9♣7♣ or a pair of tens. Zhou tabled K♠K♣6♠2♥ for a pair of kings and he was awarded the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Quan Zhou	720,000 105,000	105,000
Aku Joentausta	700,000 52,000	52,000
Laszlo Bujtas	500,000 5,000	5,000

Tags: Aku Joentausta Laszlo Bujtas Quan Zhou

02-10-2026 19:17 UTC+3

Selected Chip Counts

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Tim Baker

Level 9 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Gergo Nagy	1,100,000
Espen Myrmo	920,000
Eelis Parssinen	920,000

Youness Barakat	869,000

Geoffrey Mooney	780,000
Aku Joentausta	752,000
Lautaro Guerra	740,000

Siamak Shirazian	733,000
Tom Vogelsang	656,000

Quan Zhou	615,000
Laszlo Bujtas	495,000
Eugene Golubchik	480,000
Basem Abudavas	455,000
Vincent Khoueiry	429,000
Sergei Nesterenko	403,000
Luuk van den Belt	380,000
Jelle de Kroon	377,000
Maximilian Wieser	347,000
Liviu Ignat	325,000

Level: 9

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 8,000

02-10-2026 19:00 UTC+3

Break Time

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Tim Baker

Level 8 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Players are now on a 10-minute break.

02-10-2026 18:57 UTC+3

De Kroon Can't Bust "Dafishh"

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Tim Baker

Level 8 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

On a flop of 7♣3♠J♦, all of Dafishh's chips of roughly 80,000 got into the middle with Jelle de Kroon trying to win them.

Dafishh:Q♥Q♦10♣8♦ All in
Jelle de Kroon: J♣10♥9♣5♣

Dafishh was already up and out of his seat, perhaps anticipating defeat. But the dealer had other ideas, putting out the K♥ on the turn and the A♦ to complete the board, giving Dafishh the nut straight.

Dafishh survived and doubled to around 200,000, while De Kroon still had approximately 350,000 remaining.