The remaining 15 players are on a 60-minute dinner break. The tournament will resume at 10 p.m. local time.
The remaining 15 players are on a 60-minute dinner break. The tournament will resume at 10 p.m. local time.
All the bracelet winners from the first week of the 2019 WSOP including the controversial hand from the $50K Super High Roller.
Button Yuval Bronshtein raised to 7,500, Frank Kassela called on the button and Galen Hall raised to 30,000 from the small blind. Both of Hall's opponents made the call. "Here's where the skill comes in!" said Kassela as they drew one each. All three then checked and Kassela announced that he had a pair of sixes, Bronshtein that he had an ace. Hall just rested his head on the edge of the table for a moment and mucked and Bronshtein took it with ![]()
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Steven Tabb raised to 9,000 on the button and Shaun Deeb jammed for 67,600 from the big blind. Tabb asked for a count and called after a minute or so. Deeb stood pat and Tabb did as well.
"You got me," Deeb said, rolling over ![]()
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. Tabb indeed did well by not breaking his hand as he started with ![]()
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The 2018 WSOP Player of the Year was eliminated in 16th place while Tabb boosted his gigantic stack to the neighborhood of 390,000.
Michael Gathy raised to 8,000, James Chen called in the cutoff, and Jameson Painter shoved all in for 53,600. Gathy repushed for 121,400, and Chen seemed to be interested for a moment. However, he eventually let his hand go.
Painter drew one and Gathy stood pat with ![]()
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and his new card was the
, securing him the juicy double.
Moments later Painter eliminated Dave Alfa in 17th place, confirming that this level has been a heated one for him - he started it with 56,000.
Start-of-day chip leader Steven Tabb has been pretty active on his table in the second half of Level 16. He played three pots in a row in the last 10 minutes, and won two of them. A three-way hand (after the draw) saw Tabb bet 30,000, called by Jerry Wong but not third opponent Shaun Deeb. Tabb won this pot with ![]()
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The next hand was a Tabb raise-and-take-it.
The third was again against Wong, who called Tabb's initial raise to 9,000. Both players drew one but declined to bet; Tabb showed a king and Wong a jack.
Under the gun, Dave Alfa made it 7,000 and his neighbor Michael Gathy three-bet to what looked like 21,000. Alfa, however, slid the vast majority of his chips forward, four-betting to around 80,000 out of an 85,000-chip stack. Gathy studied the situation for a while and then gave up.
Michael Sortino moved all-in for 72,100 after Matthew Smith had made it 27,000 to get to the draw. Smith called him and drew one, while Sortino stayed pat with ![]()
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. Smith mucked his hand when he saw the nine, and dropped to under 100,000.
Galen Hall raised from the first position and Jen Harman shoved her last 28,200 out of the big blind. Hall asked for a count and then called.
Harman needed one and Hall quickly rolled over ![]()
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. She needed to fade an ace, king or a queen. Unfortunately for her, she received the
and that sealed her fate in the $1,500 NL 2-7 Lowball Draw event.
In a blind-versus-blind clash, Galen Hall and Bjorn Geissert were after the draw when the action was caught, and Hall led out 24,000. Geissert tanked for a bit and then he loudly announced a call. Hall instantly turned up ![]()
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, expecting to win, and his feeling was correct as Geissert mucked his hand.