2018 World Series of Poker

Event #65: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship
Day: 2ab
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

Dahlberg Doubles Through

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Kory Kilpatrick has been eliminated some time ago and Johnathan Dahlberg took over his seat. Just now he ended up all in and at risk for 58,000 on a flop of {A-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{2-Clubs} and Timothy Lau put him at risk with the {7-Clubs}{4-Clubs}. Dahlberg was ahead with the {A-Spades}{K-Diamonds} and the {10-Hearts} turn and {J-Clubs} river run out brought no upset.

Player Chips Progress
Timothy Lau us
Timothy Lau
320,000 -90,000
Johnathan Dahlberg us
Johnathan Dahlberg
160,000 58,900
Kory Kilpatrick us
Kory Kilpatrick
WSOP 1X Winner
Busted

Tags: Johnathan DahlbergKory KilpatrickTimothy Lau

Hall Fires the River

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Under the gun, Tom Hall checked the {3-Clubs}{10-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} flop and his opponent bet 7,000 from middle position. Hall called and they knuckled the {J-Spades} turn to let the {9-Spades} river land for free. Hall then threw in 18,200 and that was enough to collect the chips as his rival gave up.

Player Chips Progress
Tom Hall gb
Tom Hall
380,000 -36,400

Tags: Tom Hall

Metalidi Adds Some More

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

The flop read {3-Clubs}{7-Spades}{4-Hearts} and there was already 33,000 in the middle. The player in the big blind had checked, Artem Metalidi bet from the hijack. The big blind raised and Metalidi called.

The turn came with the {4-Clubs} and Metalidi bet enough to force the check-fold of his opponent.

Player Chips Progress
Artem Metalidi ua
Artem Metalidi
159,700 59,700
Deric Williams us
Deric Williams
Busted

Tags: Artem Metalidi

Shalmi Sends One Out Easily

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

A few hands after showing a bluff with five-high, Devon Shalmi opened to 3,500 on the cutoff. The button and the small blind called. The player in the big blind three-bet shoved for 73,000. Shalmi made the call.

Devon Shalmi: {j-Clubs}{j-Diamonds}
Opponent: {j-Spades}{8-Hearts}

The board ran {10-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{3-Spades}{5-Clubs}{7-Hearts} and Shami won the pot, sending his opponent to the rail.

Player Chips Progress
Devon Shalmi us
Devon Shalmi
359,000

Tags: Devon Shalmi

"Thank You Jesus!"

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Gabriel Abusada was in a four-way three-bet pot where all players had paid 15,000 preflop.

The flop came down {6-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds} and it checked around to the player on the button. He pushed all-in for 45,000 and Gabriel Abusada pushed all in as well for his final 12,700. Another player called and the fourth player folded his hand.

Abusada was pacing back and forth through the Amazon purple section when he had to open up his hand and the other players already did. The player on the button was holding {A-Spades}{A-Hearts} and the third player in the hand had {K-Hearts}{J-Hearts}. When Abusada came back to the table he didn't want to open up his hand, but after a couple seconds he opened up {A-Diamonds}{K-Spades}.

The dealer completed the {6-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds} board with the {5-Diamonds} turn and {4-Diamonds} river and Abusada jumped up and started screaming around the entire purple section in the Amazon room.

"Thank you Jesus! Oh my god, I'm back. Thank you, Jesus, thank you!"

The table was surrounded by cameras and a lot of players stood up from their chairs to check out what just happened. The player with aces won the side pot and Abusada kept yelling "Thank you, Jesus!" around the room.

Player Chips Progress
Gabriel Abusada us
Gabriel Abusada
120,000 21,800

Tags: Gabriel Abusada

Jachtmann Forces His Opponent Off a Chop

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

On a {a-Hearts}{k-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}{k-Diamonds}{5-Clubs} board a player checked to Jan-Peter Jachtmann who bet 10,000. His opponent was agonizing over a decision when we got to the table.

"You have a king?" asked Jachtmann, and his opponent nodded.

"You seem like a really nice trustworthy guy," said his opponent. "Maybe I'm the biggest nit in history."

Jachtmann's opponent had around 120,000 behind.

"It's not your tournament life," said Jachtmann.

"I was 100% folding, but this speech might have just got to me," said his opponent before eventually folding. Jachtmann showed {k-Clubs}{j-Spades}

Player Chips Progress
Jan-Peter Jachtmann de
Jan-Peter Jachtmann
WSOP 1X Winner
125,000 25,000

Tags: Jan-Peter Jachtmann

New Arrivals

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Some new players have joined the tables here in the Miranda room from the Pavilion room. One of them is David Cabrera who took 450,000 in chips with him and looks to be the new chip leader here in this room for now. Cabrera is seated at the same table as Andrew Brokos and David Swift.

Player Chips Progress
David Cabrera es
David Cabrera
450,000 46,000
Richard Gryko gb
Richard Gryko
WSOP 1X Winner
344,000 -31,000
Or Arusi il
Or Arusi
341,000 37,000
Marc MacDonnell ie
Marc MacDonnell
330,000 50,000
Darryll Fish us
Darryll Fish
276,000 116,000
Larry Hirschfield us
Larry Hirschfield
270,000 -2,000
DJ MacKinnon us
DJ MacKinnon
123,000 19,000
Jan-Peter Jachtmann de
Jan-Peter Jachtmann
WSOP 1X Winner
100,000 -29,200
Andrew Brokos us
Andrew Brokos
93,000 -19,000

Tags: Andrew BrokosDavid CabreraDavid Swift

Hunichen Runs into Aces

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Chris Hunichen and Michael Pearson piled about 30,000 into the middle before seeing a {q-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}{3-Spades} flop. Pearson bet 5,500 and Hunichen made the call.

The {2-Hearts} hit the turn and Pearson check-called a bet of 9,600 to bring the {9-Diamonds} on the river. Both players checked and Pearson tabled the {a-Clubs}{a-Hearts} to take the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Michael Pearson us
Michael Pearson
192,000 129,600
Chris Hunichen us
Chris Hunichen
140,000 -50,000

Tags: Michael PearsonChris Hunichen

Klein Takes from Zoughari

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Loren Klein opened to 3,500 from middle position. Moundir Zoughari, on the cutoff called.

''Three-Four-Six, one time baby!'' commented Klein before the dealer spread a flop of {7-Clubs}{6-Spades}{k-Diamonds}. ''Pretty much,'' he added, throwing in a bet of 6,600. Zoughari called.

The turn brought the {a-Hearts} and Klein continued with a bet of 8,500, that was enough to steal the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Moundir Zoughari fr
Moundir Zoughari
265,000 -11,000
Loren Klein us
Loren Klein
WSOP 4X Winner
70,000 9,000

Tags: Loren KleinMoundir Zoughari

Elias Wins a Flip

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Darren Elias made it 3,500 in the middle position, earning a call from the button. The player in the big blind squeeze-shoved 33,500 and Elias called after verifying the count. The other player cleared the way for a heads-up race.

It was a fair fight as Elias' {6-Diamonds}{6-Hearts} stood against {A-Clubs}{J-Spades} and the {8-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}{9-Spades}{3-Clubs} board was a pleasant one for the small pair. Elias scored an elimination and increased his stack to 260,000.

Player Chips Progress
Darren Elias us
Darren Elias
260,000 25,000

Tags: Darren Elias