Stephen Chidwick opened the action with a raise to 11,500 from the hijack, which was called by the small blind Alexander Haber and the big blind Bernd Gleissner.
The flop came A♥J♣9♠ and once it was checked to Chidwick, he moved all in for his stack of 33,900. Both Haber and Gleissner quickly folded to give the pot to Chidwick.
Dirk Gerritse was seen dragging in a sizable pot against Joao Simao. With over 50,000 already in the middle, each player put in an additional 100,000 on the river for a pot that tallied over 250,000.
With the board reading 3♦10♦3♣10♣8♠, Gerritse tabled K♠J♥10♠8♣ for a full house, tens full of eights. Simao mucked his cards and the pot was pushed Gerritse's way.
In the 869th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, sponsored by the free-to-play WSOP App, Chad Holloway hosts from down in The Bahamas at the 2024 World Series of Poker Paradise, while Kyna England is back at Level 9 Studio in Las Vegas. Mike Holtz is out with a broken ankle, so Nikki Limo was kind enough to once again fill in as a special co-host.
Together, they discuss happening at the WSOP Paradise, the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship at the Wynn Las Vegas, and the European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague. That includes Phil Hellmuth making an appearance, the new stage at WSOP, and the Triton Million, which was won by Argentinean rapper Alejandro Lococo for $12 million.
Chad also had the honor of bringing the Women in Poker Hall of Fame trophy down with him to present to Kristen Foxen. In this episode, you can check out her acceptance speech, which PokerNews helped film. Speaking of the WiPHoF, Jeanne David was another inductee and she had a spot of luck drawing a Golden Passport into the ClubWPT Gold $5,000,000 Freeroll, which kicks off today!
At the EPT Prague, Thomas Santerne has already won two side event titles, while the 2022 WSOP Main Event champ, Espen Jorstad, took down the €25K Super High Roller Warm-Up for his first EPT title.
Oh, and we'll also let you know what Phil Ivey is up to as he's been seen double dipping at both the WSOP Paradise and WPT World Championship, including a planned holiday meet-up game (MUG) at the latter.
