ESPN’s coverage of the 2013 World Series of Poker, from the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, will air every Tuesday from July 23 through November 5, with the exception of September 3 & 10. The WSOP will air on Tuesday nights in two-hour blocks from 9:00 ET to 11:00 PM ET.
To kick off the programming schedule this year, the inaugural World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific Main Event final table will air on Tuesday, July 23, at 9 p.m. ET. WSOP Main Event coverage begins on August 6 at 9 p.m. ET.
Norman Chad and Lon McEachern will call the action.
Four players each put in 400 to see a flop of . Two checks saw a player bet, Phil Ivey call off his last 100 and then some three and four-bets occur. As a raising war played out between the other three players on both the turn and river, Ivey sat quietly.
When it was time for the showdown, Ivey waited for his opponents to reveal their hands for the sizable side pot.
Player 1:
Player 2:
Player 3:
As Ivey was waiting for the side pot to get sorted out, he flipped over the and joked with the dealer, "I get half of that."
Ivey was referring to the gigantic side pot, which made his main pot look quite paltry. Ivey has great powers but was unable to convince the dealer to push him that pot. Instead he had to settle for half the main pot.
On dinner break from Event #18 , there's one player that just can't get enough of the action.
We found Phil Ivey in the gold section of the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low tournament when play resumed after dinner. He's a bit short stacked at the moment, around 1,700 in chips, so we'll see if he can build a stack big enough to multi-table both events.
Level 6 is in the books, and that means it's time for the 90-minute dinner break. When the players return they'll play four more levels before calling it a night.
There has been a flurry of eliminations here just before the dinner break. Among them was 1989 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Phil Hellmuth.
His demise came on an flop with four players in the hand. Hellmuth and another player were already all in, while Calvin Anderson and another player created a side pot that resulted in the former being all in. The turn and river were run out and Anderson tabled the for half the main and side pots. His opponent showed the for half the side pot, the other at-risk player showed for half the main pot and Hellmuth was left out in the cold with the .
We caught the action on a board when Vanessa Selbst got her last 1,650 in against her good friend Jason Mercier. The former had the and the latter the . The river kept Selbst in the lead and allowed her to double through Mercier.