2022 World Series of Poker
It appears that table 138 is the deadlock for players with a pair of aces as yet another short stack got it in with them and ended up second-best. Armando Collado struck with his ![]()
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when the board ran out ![]()
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for Collado to make kings full of tens.
After Ken Aldridge raised to 4,000 in early position and was called by Ray Henson on the button, Aden Salazar three-bet to 15,000 out of the small blind.
Both opponents called to see a flop of ![]()
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. Salazar led out for 35,000, which sent Aldridge into the tank as he cut down his chips and contemplated his decision.
After about a minute of thought, Aldridge shuffled his cards in his hands, then tossed them into the muck. Henson then also folded, bringing a pot to Salazar that has him right among the chip leaders.
Matthew Gonzalez just alerted the PokerNews reporting team to a beat he recently took that saw him lose a large portion of his stack.
Gonzalez called a raise from Conrad Fourie preflop, then on a ![]()
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flop, the duo alternated raises until all the money was in the middle for a roughly 200,000 chip pot.
Gonzalez held ![]()
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for a set of sevens, while Fourie held ![]()
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for a pair of kings with a flush draw.
The turn brought a
, giving Fourie a full house of jacks full of sevens, with the river
changing nothing to send the huge pot to Fourie.
In a preflop four-bet pot to the ![]()
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flop, the opponent of Vasil Medarov already moved all-in in the dark with the covering stack and said "why don't we save the time and get it in already". Once it was on Medarov, he called all-in for 127,900 and tabled the ![]()
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for two pair.
He was up against ![]()
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and remained ahead throughout the
turn and
river to join the current chip leaders.
Armando Collado raised to 4,000 and a short stack then jammed for 15,000 in the cutoff. Norbert Szecsi called on the button and Collado also came along. The two active players checked down the ![]()
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board and Collado's ![]()
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for a straight won the pot, as the short stack had the ![]()
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and Szecsi briefly showed his ![]()
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.
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500
With 376 players remaining from a field of 634, the last 15-minute break of the day has been called, with tournament staff racing off T-100 chips.