A player opened to 16,000 and only got called by Jiyang Gan in the big blind.
The flop fell 4♦5♠K♥ and Gan check-called his opponent for 12,000. The 4♣ paired the board on the turn and Gan checked again. His opponent bet 25,000 and Gan replied with a shove. His opponent quickly called and Gan grabbed the pot.
Big blind bet for 16,000 while two players made the call. Joseph Sheppard jammed all in from the cutoff for 129,000. Only the middle position player made the call, and both players revealed their hands.
Joseph Sheppard: K♦Q♦
Opponent: A♥J♥
The board ran out A♠K♣6♥Q♠2♥ for Sheppard to get a double up.
David Peters raised in middle position to 16,000 and picked up a call from the big blind.
Things heated on the A♠3♠Q♦ flop. The big blind checked and Peters continued for 22,000. His opponent jammed for 146,000 and Peters quickly called with slightly more chips:
Big Blind: Q♠J♠
David Peters: A♣K♦
Peters had hit top pair while his opponent was hoping for the flush, but the latter didn't find any of the outs he needed on the 8♣ turn and 5♣ river and made his way to the payout desk.
Rommel Berges was under the gun and raised all in for about 239,000 and an early position player called.
Rommel Berges: K♥K♠
Early position player: J♥J♠
The board came out J♦10♥7♦K♣3♠ and although both players hit their set the kings of Berges took the pot.
Elsewhere Jeff Platt was sitting with a nice stack of 520,000 and Abby Merk had 285,000.
Also Mauro Avila had a huge tower of chips with 1,500,000.
Camille Brown raised in early position to 16,000 and the player in late position three-bet to 50,000 and Brown four-bet all in for about 240,000. The late position player called.
Late position player: K♥K♣
Camille Brown: A♥K♦
The board came out with a relief for Brown with A♦6♦8♣8♥4♠ and the win with her two pair.
On the eighth episode of “Calling the Clock,” Chad Holloway and Jesse Fullen cover eight more topics “On the Board.” That included who they like for Poker Hall of Fame, Brian Rast winning the $50,000 Poker Players Championship for the third time, and Phil Ivey making the final table, just missing out on his eleventh bracelet.
They also highlight Jeremy Ausmus winning his sixth bracelet, the upcoming PokerNews Cup at Golden Nugget, the July 2 Celebration of Life for Doyle Brunson, and Phil Hellmuth arriving in costume with his tag team partner Dan “Jungleman” Cates.
Check out those stories and more in the latest “Calling the Clock” straight from the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP)!
Players have headed on dinner break for 60 minutes. They will return to blinds of 5,000 and 10,000 with a 10,000 big blind ante.
With its ever-growing backlog of deserving players and industry professionals waiting for their time to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, some players are calling for changes to the nomination and induction process.
One of those players is Daniel Negreanu, poker's biggest ambassador and himself a member of the Poker Hall of Fame who was inducted in 2014. Negreanu has long called for overhauls to the Poker Hall of Fame nomination process and renewed his calls this week on his daily vlog during the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP).
"How I would fix the Hall of Fame is this: every single year, two players get in — players, not contributors," Negreanu told his vlog viewers. "Every single year, two players get in. Every third year ... we add an additional third person who is a contributor to the game. That would be the Isai Scheinbergs and the Matt Savages of the world. Every three years, one of them would get in. That way, we don't have to constantly compare apples to oranges."
Level: 18
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
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