2022 World Series of Poker

Event #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event World Championship
Event Info

2022 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q2
Prize
$10,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$80,782,475
Entries
8,663
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
896
Players Left
631

Pantaleo's Kings Bust Aces for Knockout

Level 4 : 300/500, 500 ante

Action was picked up after Giuseppe Pantaleo moved all in and got a call from two seats to his left, whom he had covered.

Opponent: {a-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}
Giuseppe Pantaleo: {k-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}

Pantaleo was in rough shape but improved quickly as the king appeared in the window on the {8-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}{k-Hearts} flop. The {q-Diamonds} turn and {5-Hearts} river affected nothing, and the pot belonged to Pantaleo, while his opponent was sent to the rail with quite a bad beat story to tell.

Player Chips Progress
Giuseppe Pantaleo de
Giuseppe Pantaleo
WSOP 1X Winner
105,000 28,000

Tags: Giuseppe Pantaleo

Weng Not a Believer

Level 4 : 300/500, 500 ante
Bin Weng
Bin Weng

There were already 14,000 chips in the pot on the {a-Clubs}{j-Spades}{9-Hearts}{7-Clubs} turn when Bin Weng checked and Aleksejs Ponakovs bet 9,200.

Weng called to see the {6-Spades} river and checked again.

Ponakovs gave up and Weng showed {k-Clubs}{j-Clubs} for a pair of jacks to take the pot as his opponent mucked.

Player Chips Progress
Bin Weng us
Bin Weng
95,000 8,000
Aleksejs Ponakovs lv
Aleksejs Ponakovs
35,000 -20,000

Tags: Aleksejs PonakovsBin Weng

Gerhart Chips Up

Level 4 : 300/500, 500 ante
Kevin Gerhart
Kevin Gerhart

A player opened to 1,300 from under the gun and was called by Kevin Gerhart in middle position as well as the big blind.

The big blind checked on a flop of {4-Clubs}{j-Clubs}{6-Hearts} and the preflop raiser continued for 1,500. Both Gerhart and the big blind called to keep action three-handed heading to the turn.

Action was checked to Gerhart on the {2-Diamonds} turn and he bet 5,000, eliciting speedy folds from both of his opponents and moved his own stack further up the chip counts.

Player Chips Progress
Kevin Gerhart us
Kevin Gerhart
WSOP 4X Winner
125,000 -15,000

Tags: Kevin Gerhart

Goldfarb Breathes a Sigh of Relief

Level 4 : 300/500, 500 ante

Trenton Holmes bet 6,000 from the big blind on a flop of {3-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}{9-Hearts} and a player on the button called. Michael Goldfarb, in the small blind, went into the tank for a few moments, counting out his remaining stack, before he also called.

All three players checked down the {10-Spades} turn and {q-Diamonds} river. Goldfarb turned over two jacks and both opponents quickly mucked.

Goldfarb raised his arms in the air when he found out his jacks were good. "I almost folded. I almost folded," he repeated as he took in the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Trenton Holmes us
Trenton Holmes
150,000
Michael Goldfarb us
Michael Goldfarb
75,000

Tags: Michael GoldfarbTrenton Holmes

Josh Arieh Flushed Out of WSOP Main Event Early; Four Past Champs in Day 1a

Level 4 : 300/500, 500 ante
Josh Arieh
Josh Arieh

At the dinner break on Day 1a of the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, Josh Arieh was already out thanks to some rough luck, while four previous winners are working on building stacks.

The first session of poker's world championship event kicked off at 11 a.m. PST with the defending champion, Koray Aldemir, announcing "shuffle up and deal." Last year's world champion didn't take his seat to play as he intends to enter the Day 1c flight on Tuesday.

Catch up on all the action early on Day 1a of the Main Event

Tags: Josh Arieh

Pospiech Calls Bluff

Level 4 : 300/500, 500 ante

The board read {6-Spades}{6-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}{7-Hearts} on the river. Marius Pospiech was in the hijack and was facing a bet of 12,000 from his opponent in early position.

His opponent put his cards in front of the dealer without touching them to the muck and said "I will show you either way". There was a bit of confusion as to what the motion meant but Pospiech called. His opponent then slid his cards toward Pospiech and said good call.

Pospiech clarified if it was a muck before mucking himself and saying he only had ace-high and collecting the pot. "You had me crushed," said his opponent while Pospiech added some more chips to his growing stack.

Player Chips Progress
Marius Pospiech de
Marius Pospiech
142,000 17,000

Tags: Marius Pospiech

Assorted Gold Counts

Level 4 : 300/500, 500 ante
Player Chips Progress
Wendy Bowers us
Wendy Bowers
209,000 209,000
Andrew Moreno us
Andrew Moreno
155,000 -23,000
Kelly Minkin us
Kelly Minkin
155,000 78,000
Kevin Gerhart us
Kevin Gerhart
WSOP 4X Winner
140,000 61,800
Alexandre Mantovani br
Alexandre Mantovani
115,000 43,700
Faraz Jaka us
Faraz Jaka
WSOP 1X Winner
113,000 62,000
Johan Schumacher be
Johan Schumacher
113,000 5,500
Michael Gathy be
Michael Gathy
110,000 19,000
Michael Marder us
Michael Marder
105,000 40,000
Paulina Loeliger at
Paulina Loeliger
82,000 18,000
Thomas Muehloecker at
Thomas Muehloecker
68,000 3,000
Sergio Aido es
Sergio Aido
65,000 2,000
Matthew Gonzales us
Matthew Gonzales
63,000 -6,000
Kitty Kuo tw
Kitty Kuo
43,000 -20,000
Bertrand Grospellier fr
Bertrand Grospellier
23,000 -31,000