The remaining 243 players are heading on their first break of the day. It will roughly be a 25-minute break as the tournament staff colors up the 1,000 denomination chips. Here is a look at what happened in the first level of Day 5:
The remaining 243 players are heading on their first break of the day. It will roughly be a 25-minute break as the tournament staff colors up the 1,000 denomination chips. Here is a look at what happened in the first level of Day 5:
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Carlos Matos-Erarte opened to 55,000 from under the gun and Marle Spragg moved all-in with a stack of 308,000.
Matos-Erarte shuffled his chips as a pair of TV cameras hovered overhead and he eventually folded.
Spragg was seen getting another three-bet jam through a few orbits earlier.
Yuhei Sanada raised and then near instantly called the shove by Joey Weissman for 440,000, which represented nearly half of his stack.
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board kept Weissman in contention as he once more doubled with his short stack.
Jeffrey Trudeau raised to 50,000 from late position and then called the 175,000 three-bet Michael Lavin made from the cutoff.
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, Trudeau check-called the 125,000 continuation bet from Lavin, then did the same for 250,000 after the
turn, then again for 600,000 after the
river.
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for a pair of fours but it was no good as Trudeau held a made hand of ![]()
to win the pot.
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was spread across the felt with around 750,000 in the middle already. Nick Petrangelo counted out a bet of 425,000 and Pierre De Almeida flicked in a chip to call.
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for a rivered straight while De Almeida showed ![]()
for a set of tens. De Almeida stood up from the table in agony after being left with one of the shortest stacks in the tournament.
Jack Oliver bet the heads-up turn of ![]()
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to get raised by Richard Lee in the cutoff as confirmed by Tristan Wade. Oliver then checked the
on the river and Lee moved all-in for 1,113,000 total. Oliver asked for a count and the camera crews rushed by to film a potential all-in showdown.
However, Oliver opted to fold instead as Lee dragged in the large pot.
Photos by Alec Rome (PokerNews / WSOP).
Matthew Kaplan raised big from the button and Sammy Lafleur three-bet jammed from the small blind for the big blind to fold but for Kaplan to make the call with the shorter stack.
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bricked out for Kaplan and he was eliminated.