2018 World Series of Poker

Event #65: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship
Event Info

2018 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kj
Prize
$8,800,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$74,015,600
Entries
7,874
Level Info
Level
44
Blinds
2,000,000 / 4,000,000
Ante
500,000

Jensen Tanks About 15 Minutes Before Making Massive Call on Altman

Level 24 : 20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante
Brian Altman
Brian Altman

There was over 1 million in the pot between Frederik Jensen on the button and Brian Altman in the cutoff. The board had come {7-Hearts}{j-Hearts}{9-Spades}{q-Spades}{k-Spades} and a player at the table filled us in on the action leading to Jensen tanking for his stack.

Apparently, Altman had opened cutoff and Jensen called. Altman check-called 115,000 on the flop and 315,000 on the turn. On the river, Altman checked and Jensen bet 810,000. Altman shoved all in for Jensen's remaining chips, just over 2.9 million. Jensen had apparently been tanking around 10 minutes already. He placed his head in his hands as he thought and thought. Players from the table milled about, discussing the hand among themselves.

Finally, after about 15 minutes in the tank, Jensen grabbed some chips and placed them in the middle. Altman turned over {a-Spades}{a-Hearts} for aces with the nut flush blocker and Jensen showed {10-Hearts}{8-Hearts} for a flopped straight.

"Yes!" he cried in relief, head turned up to the ceiling.

Player Chips Progress
Frederik Brink dk
Frederik Brink
7,000,000 3,720,000
Brian Altman us
Brian Altman
1,650,000 -3,150,000

Tags: Brian AltmanFrederik Jensen