2019 World Series of Poker
The cutoff opened to 4,400 and Yervand Boyadjian jammed his last 28,000 from the small blind. The big blind gave it some thought and folded, while the cutoff called and tabled the ![]()
. Boyadjian was trailing with the ![]()
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board to double with two pair.
The cards were already on their backs with the board spread across the table but the players were kind enough to fill us in on the monster pot. There was a raise to 5,000 in early position and Tom Cannuli three-bet to 15,500 in middle position. The action folded back to the initial raiser who shoved all in for just over 100,000. Cannuli called and the cards were tabled.
Tom Cannuli: ![]()
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The flop came ![]()
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and despite hitting an ace, Cannuli was way behind his opponent's set of queens. The turn was the
to give Cannuli some outs for a larger full house. The river brought the
to make Cannuli aces full of fours. His opponent was confused at first as to why the dealer was shipping the pot to Cannuli until the table filled him in that Cannuli rivered the larger full house.
Gus Hansen raised to 5,500 from under the gun, and a player in early position called. Giovanniluigi Zarcone three-bet to 20,000, and Hansen said, "I'm pretty sure I...am...out," before folding. The early position player stuck in a call.
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flop, the early position player checked, and Zarcone jammed for 55,000. His opponent folded.
Ryan Hartmann was in the small blind and was all in for what looked to be a four-bet shove worth 81,000. A player on the button with 17,000 in front tanked awhile and reluctantly gave it up, and Hartmann showed ![]()
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, Lawrence Ma checked from the big blind and Jon Bennett bet 4,000 under the gun. Ma check-called.
The dealer burned and turned the
and both players checked it to the
river. Ma threw in a bet of 12,500 and Bennett tank-called. Ma turned over ![]()
for two pair and Bennett sent his hand to the muck.
Brad Butcher was in the cutoff and bet 31,000 into about 45,000 on ![]()
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. Ekrem Bozkurt was tanking in middle position.
"I have a big hand, but I feel like I am being beaten," he said.
Finally, he slapped in calling chips, but he mucked in disgust when Butcher showed ![]()
for a backdoor full.