WSOP bracelet winner Bradley Jansen open-jammed for roughly 60,000 from early position and Eric Phillips isolated with a 120,000 three-bet from the cutoff.
Bradley Jansen:
Eric Phillips:
Jansen was ahead but didn't like the flop that gave Phillips a straight flush draw.
The sweat didn't last long for Jansen as the turn completed the flush for Phillips and the river ended his tournament.
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Action quickly folded to Josh Reichard who raised all in from the small blind and Preston Kesselring called off his stack from the
Preston Kesselring:
Josh Reichard:
Reichard had Kesselring dominated and the flop didn't change a thing as it Reichard the nut flush draw.
The turn made things interesting as it paired the board bringing possible chop outs, but the fell on the river giving Reichard a straight and ended Kesselring's tournament.
After clashing with MSPT Hall of Famer Pat Steele, David Bashel was all in preflop from the button for his last 112,000 and was called by Tom Zabka from late position.
David Bashel:
Tom Zabka:
Bashel was behind holding an inferior pocket pair and the river ended his tournament on the money bubble.
While PokerNews is here offering live updates from the $1,100 Main Event, we’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you about some of the side events that have taken place out over the past week at the Winter Poker Classic.
In Event #1: $360 NLH Mystery Bounty, 1,181 runners created a $234,700 prize pool + $118,100 in bounties that was paid out to the top 128 players. Among those to cash but fall short of the final table were MSPT Hall of Famer Rob Wazwaz (122nd - $421), Alex Winter (86th - $538), DJ Buckley (32nd - $1,007), MSPT Hall of Famer Jason Seitz (22nd - $1,570), and Jonathan Kim (10th - $26,312).
In the end, it was Minnesota native Patrik Hoffman who collected every chip in play to capture the WPC trophy, along with the first-place $41,694 payday.