2018 World Series of Poker
All players are in the money after more players busted in the final hand before the small pause. Those remaining are guaranteed to take home a share of the $4,258,800 prize pool. Everyone will collect at least $1,500, but they're all eyeing that first place prize of $559,332 and a WSOP gold bracelet.
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, Robert James moved all in for 38,000 into a pot around 20,000 and he found one caller, the two tabled their hands.
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for a straight draw and he opponent showed ![]()
for a flopped set. James would need some help and the
on the turn was not what he was looking for.
When the
hit the felt on the river James tapped the table, celebrating his rivered straight and taking down the pot for a double up.
We are very close to the money and tournament has been paused to confirm the amount of players left in the tournament.
Changyang Liu opened for to 3,500 from early position, Renato Nomura moved all in from late position for 23,700 and Liu made the call, players turned over their hands.
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and Liu's flopped set took down the pot, eliminating Nomura from the tournament.
Level: 13
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
The players will now be taking their first 15-minute break of the day.
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when there was a bet of 21,000 in front of Calvin Anderson.
His opponent ended up calling, but as soon as Anderson showed ![]()
they folded their hand and Anderson raked in the pot.
Jonathan Little just lost a small pot, but seems to have built out his stack since the start of Day.
Little raised preflop and continued on the ![]()
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flop, but he folded once his opponent took the lead on the
turn. Little does have almost double of what he started with today.
With 738 players remaining we're also closing in on the money.
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, Alexandru Papazian put a bet of 12,500 out and the pot already had around 35,000 in it. His opponent took a few seconds and then threw his cards in the muck, Papazian added another pot to his growing stack.