2024 World Series of Poker

Event #41: $1,500 Mixed: No-Limit Hold'em; Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot (8-Handed)
Day: 1
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Event Info
2024 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j♠10♥9♣8♥
Prize
$270,820
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,751,520
Total Entries
1,312
Places Paid
197
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
600,000
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
1,312
Players Left
167
Players Left 1 / 1,312

Big Pot; Wrong Game

Level 1 : Blinds 100/100, 100 ante

It was this tables' understanding that Event #41: Mixed Double Board Bomb Pot was only doing Pot-Limit Omaha bomb pots when they went to two boards.

9♣2♥J♠
7♠K♦8♦

An early position player bet 700 and was called on his left before Joe McCarthy raised it to 3,500. There was a call on his left before Wei Hou also made the call. When it got back to the original better, he went all in for 7,200.

When it got back to McCarthy, he raised it to 30,000 and Hou called. At this point the players at the table called the floor to confirm whether or not they were playing the correct bomb pot. They were not.

The floor then explained that to start each new game (no-limit hold'em, pot-limit omaha) with that sort of bomb pot. This table should have been playing a No-Limit Hold'em bomb pot but too much action had occurred to call a misdeal and the hand continued.

Early Position: Q♣10♠8♠7♣ All in
Wei Hou: K♠9♦6♠4♠ All in
Joe McCarthy: Q♠J♣J♦5♠

The turns and rivers ran out completing the boards as follows:

9♣2♥J♠ 9♠4♣
7♠K♦8♦ 2♣10♥

McCarthy made a jacks-full boat to win one board and Hou won the other with a straight. The early position was left lamenting that they had played the wrong game.

Tags: Joe McCarthyWei Hou