2018 World Series of Poker

Event #34: $1,000 DOUBLE STACK No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
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Event Info
2018 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kq
Prize
$644,224
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$5,130,000
Entries
5,700
Level Info
Level
41
Blinds
500,000 / 1,000,000
Ante
100,000
Players Left 1 / 5700
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Catching Up with Gus Hansen

Level 2 : 50/100, 0 ante

Gus Hansen has been playing predominately high stakes cash games. However, he makes his debut appearance at 2018's World Series of Poker for the Poker Players Championship event. Sasha Salinger of PokerNews catches up with what Gus Hansen has been up to and what inspired him to register the Poker Players Championship event. Does playing high stakes mixed cash games put him at an advantage or a disadvantage in a field full of professional poker players who play many high roller tournaments a year?

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Kolev Loses Small Pot, Elpayaa Has a Tough Start

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Though it is unclear what happened during his first hour of play, Joe Elpayaa is down to 3,650 from the 10,000 starting stack. There is still plenty of time to spin it up and failing that, Elpayaa may well choose to fire another bullet and make use of the unlimited reentries available in this tournament.

Meanwhile, Yuliyan Kolev just lost a very small pot at showdown. The flop read {3-Clubs}{2-Hearts}{8-Clubs} and he had bet 500 in position, which his opponent called. The {4-Hearts}{7-Clubs} turn and river saw a check-check apiece and Kolev mucked when his opponent turned over {5-Diamonds}{5-Hearts}.

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Yuliyan Kolev
10,000
WSOP 2X Winner
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Joe Elpayaa
3,650
3,650
3,650

Mucci Takes it On the Flop

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The player in middle position opened to 250. Annette Mucci, on the button, three-bet to 600. The player in the big blind called. The original raiser called.

The flop came {10-Hearts}{j-Spades}{7-Hearts}. The big blind checked. The original raiser bet 800. Mucci raised to 2,000, enough to take down the pot.

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Annette Mucci
11,700

Flush Takes it

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It's no surprise when the nuts is good for the pot. Getting paid for it, however, is a different story. That is just what John Orth managed to do though. Holding {a-Clubs}{j-Clubs} in his hand and hitting by the turn on a {6-Clubs}{k-Spades}{5-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} board, Orth bet a substantial 4,275 into the pot and found one caller. "You've got the flush and the best one too," said another player at the table. That he did and he climbs to 18,600.

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John Orth
18,600
18,600
18,600

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Lacey Check-Raising

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Patrick Lacey opened to 250 under the gun. The player in middle position three-bet to 750. Lacey called.

A flop reading {5-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} was dealt. Lacey checked. The player in middle position bet 750. Lacey check-raised to 2,000. His opponent called.

The turn came the {4-Hearts}. Lacey threw in a bet of 2,150. His opponent gave up his hand.

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Patrick Lacey
42,000
42,000
42,000

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Darby Doubles

Level 2 : 50/100, 0 ante

{q-Hearts}{10-Clubs}{7-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}

There was a bet of 8,575 in on the river and a call. John Darby had the best of it with {q-Spades}{q-Diamonds} and his opponent was counting out his chips to hand over. It secured Darby a 24,200 pot, which is a great early start to the comp for the American.

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John Darby
24,200
24,200
24,200