Event #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event World Championship Day 4 | 2022 World Series of Poker

07-10-2022 12:40 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Kenny Smaron	540,000 116,000	116,000
Bradley Berman	265,000 162,000	162,000

A Few Hands With "Wes"

Connor Richards

Level 16 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

PokerNews spent a few hands with Wesley Fei, better known as "Wes" from the Hustler Casino Live stream, before his table broke inside the Bally's blue section.

Hand 1: Joshua Rothberg opened to 18,000 in late position and Fei defended out of the big blind. The flop of checked through and Fei led out with a bet of 50,000 on the turn to win the pot without a fight.

Hand 2: The action folded to Fei in the small blind and he raised to 18,000. Craig Casino folded face-up out of the big blind to send another pot to Fei.

"Always lucky!" Fei laughed as he scooped in the blinds.

Hand 3: Dean Sanderson raised to 20,000 from early position and Brian Kirschner called in late position, while Fei folded from the button and the big blind also came along. Sanderson continued with a bet of 25,000 on the flop of and both of his opponents folded.

Hand 4: Kirschner opened to 17,000 in late position and Fei folded in the cutoff before the button also called. The small blind then three-bet jammed to win the hand without going to a flop.

Hand 5: Fei opened to 17,000 from the hijack and only the small blind called. The small blind checked on the flop of and Fei bet 15,000. The small blind raised to 48,000 and Fei took a moment before calling. The small blind sized up to 90,000 on the turn and Fei laid it down.

"You bluff me that hand?" Fei later asked his opponent, who said it wasn't a bluff.

Hand 6: In the last hand before the table broke, Fei folded in middle position before the button raised to 18,000 to see the big blind call. The flop of checked through and the same action took place on the turn. The big blind led out for 21,000 on the river and folded when his opponent bumped it up to 73,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Wesley Fei	750,000

Tags: Wesley Fei

07-10-2022 12:44 UTC-7

Doering Adds to Stack

Calum Grant

Level 16 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Keith Doering opened to 16,000 from under the gun before Guillaume Nolet made it 42,000 from the next seat over. Doering quickly called.

Doering check-called bets of 20,000 and 65,000 to have the board show . The river checked through and Doering tabled his .

Nolet couldn't help but wonder if another barrel would do the trick to which Doering replied, "If you had moved in, you'd have been walking out."

Player	Chips	Progress
Keith Doering	900,000 180,000	180,000
Guillaume Nolet	200,000 -10,000	-10,000

07-10-2022 12:47 UTC-7

Bust Outs in Bally's Blue

Calum Grant

Level 16 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Lisa Xie	Busted
Rabah Aitabdelmaler	Busted
Khanh Truong	Busted
Benjamin Primus	Busted

07-10-2022 12:48 UTC-7

Smith Gets All in, Unfortunate to Chop

blaisebourgeois

Level 16 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Dan Smith opened under the gun to 18,000 and was called by Danny Hannawa in middle position. Eric Most, from the small blind, three-bet to 72,000. Smith and Hannawa both called.

The flop came and after Hannawa checked, Smith bet 60,000. Hannawa got out of the way and Most called.

The turn brought the and after Smith bet 120,000, Most shoved and and Smith called with the rest of his stack.

Dan Smith:
Eric Most:

While Smith had Most completely dominated on the flop, the turn had them chopping but drawing to one another's potentially better full houses.

Each player dodged disaster on the river and were forced to chop it up, earning Hannawa's dead money plus the blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
Danny Hannawa	710,000 -76,000	-76,000
Eric Most	550,000 44,000	44,000
Dan Smith	360,000 49,000	49,000

Tags: Dan Smith Danny Hannawa Eric Most

07-10-2022 12:53 UTC-7

Lima Flops Set to Oust Opponent

Brandon Bloom

Level 16 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

A player in the small blind had gotten their stack of about 100,000 in and was at risk against Elson Lima in early position.

Opponent:
Elson Lima:

The flop vaulted Lima ahead, and the and completed the board to confirm the result, as the at-risk player made his exit with cracked cowboys.

Player	Chips	Progress
Elson Lima	1,350,000 1,349,999	1,349,999

Tags: Elson Lima

07-10-2022 12:54 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts in Bally's Red

Adam Lamers

Level 16 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Wilbern Hoffman	1,790,000 244,000	244,000
Zilong Zhang	1,550,000 278,000	278,000
Ali Imsirovic	1,060,000 -68,000	-68,000
Kyle Ho	945,000 -41,000	-41,000
Espen Jorstad	773,000 -29,000	-29,000

Loni Hui	750,000 750,000	750,000

Steven Buckner	630,000 -82,000	-82,000
Toby Lewis	465,000 65,000	65,000

Dan Shak	407,000 96,000	96,000
Jordan Spurlin	350,000 3,000	3,000
Colten Yamagishi	309,000 -56,000	-56,000

Kenny Hallaert	225,000 1,000	1,000
Ebony Kenney	192,000 129,000	129,000

07-10-2022 12:58 UTC-7

Bad Beat Sends Kelsall to the Rail

Mike Patrick

Level 16 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

After a player in early position raised to 16,000, Andrew "AJ" Kelsall moved all in for his last 196,000 from the hijack and was called by Rene Knapp on the button. The early position player folded and the always friendly Philadelphia sports fan was at risk.

Andrew Kelsall:
Rene Knapp:

Kelsall was in great shape until the flop gave Knapp a set of jacks.

The turn and river couldn't bail Kelsall out and his day in the Main Event was ended quickly.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rene Knapp	810,000 50,000	50,000
Andrew Kelsall	Busted

Tags: Andrew Kelsall Rene Knapp

07-10-2022 13:00 UTC-7

Early Eliminations

Adam Lamers

Level 16 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Randall Taylor	Busted
Lyor Yiflach	Busted
Luke Blindert	Busted
Mathew Moore	Busted
Athanasios Polychronopoulos	Busted

Ryan Lamanque	Busted
Ruben Setien	Busted
Terence Etim	Busted
Michael Ermie	Busted
Gavin O'Rourke	Busted
Isaac Kempton	Busted
Michael Ziemba	Busted
David Melius	Busted
Marcelo Giordano Mendes	Busted

John Farley	Busted
Karina Lima	Busted
Bryan Livingston	Busted
Casey Glick	Busted
Stanislav Andreev	Busted
Landen Lucas	Busted
Hai Le	Busted
Emmanuel Nakache	Busted
Alexander Ziskin	Busted
Ori Hasson	Busted

Richard Mullen	Busted

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07-10-2022 13:00 UTC-7

Srinivas Empties the Chamber

TerranceReid

Level 16 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Cliff Josephy and Arjun Srinivas were engaged in a battle of the big stacks. The board showed , Josephy checked to Srinivas who bet 48,000 into the pot of about 78,000. Josephy made the call.

The turn brought the , and Josephy checked once more. Srinivas bet 110,000. After some thought, Josephy called again.

The final card was the , Josephy checked one more time. Srinivas fired the final bullet for 180,000. Josephy thought it over before deciding to let it go.

Srinivas flashed the for the straight.

"It felt like king-ten," said Josephy.