2018 World Series of Poker
Keith Block under the gun opened to 14,000, Andrey Zaichenko one seat over made the call as well as a third player. The player situated in the hijack pushed all in for about 160,000 and Block quickly four-bet shoved. The others players folded and it created the following showdown:
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The board brought Block an
and he was able to grab the pot and eliminate his opponent.
Level: 20
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
The flop was showing ![]()
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and around 90,000 were already in the middle when Paul Varano check-called Ramin Hajiyev's bet of 27,000.
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fell on the turn and both players checked. On the
river, Varano, after some thought, fired 65,000, putting Hajiyev to a difficult decision. After some time, the latter ended up folding his hand and Varano is now up to 570,000 chips.
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Mohsin Charania moved all in and Isaac Baron made the call with ![]()
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, Charania had the dominated hand and the board brought him no help.
The 2017 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em winner headed to the cashier to collect his $3,654 prize.
Tony Dunst opened and the player in the small blind three-bet for 42,000. After some thought, Dunst announced all-in for a stack worth 260,000. His opponent quickly called with a little bit less in his stack to create the following showdown:
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It was a flip situation but the ![]()
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gave the winning hand and the massive pot to Dunst, who eliminated one more player.
Sang Liu, who came second out of 13,070 runners in the $565 COLOSSUS for $500,000, is still in the event but sits on 110,000 and will be looking for a double-up.
A few hands after having lost a huge pot due to a bad beat, David Peters, down to 7 big blinds, got eliminated from the tournament.
The winner of the 2016 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em was sent to the cashier to collect his $3,654 prize.
Tristan Wade opened for 13,000 and the big blind raised to 31,000. Wade made the call and ![]()
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fell on the flop. Both players checked, as well as on the
turn and
river.
Wade tabled ![]()
for a pair of sevens and his opponent mucked her hand.