Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.
In the seventh episode, Connor speaks with World Series of Poker (WSOP) commentator Norman Chad, one of the most recognizable voices in poker who has provided color commentary on poker's biggest stage for over 20 years.
Chad talks about getting his start as a sports writer in college, his decades-long syndicated sports humor column for the Washington Post and being asked to commentate on the 2003 WSOP Main Event that sparked the Poker Boom.
Chad also discusses the state of poker broadcasting today, the need for more color commentary in the booth, and the need for more interesting characters on the felt.
In a heads-up pot on a board of 6♠K♣6♦5♠, Daniel Negreanu checked and Isaac Haxton bet 19,000. Negreanu called.
Negreanu then led out for 16,000 on the A♠ river and Haxton called. Negreanu said he had a king and showed K♠10♦, but it was no good against the A♣9♣ of his opponent.
Adrian Mateos, Masashi Oya, and Dan Smith were three-ways to a flop of A♦A♥6♦, which got checked through. Mateos then bet 6,000 chips on the J♥ turn, folding out Oya but receiving a call from Smith.
Mateos checked to Smith on the 9♥ river, and the latter placed a pot-sized bet of 28,000 chips. Mateos quickly mucked his cards as the pot was shipped to Smith.
Chance Kornuth limped in the small blind, then called a raise to 10,000 from Orpen Kisacikoglu in the big blind.
Kornuth check-called a bet of 10,000 from Kisacikoglu on the A♦J♦J♥ flop.
Both players checked through the 10♣ turn to the K♦ river at which point Kornuth bet out 12,000. Kisacikoglu responded with a raise to 42,000, which Kornuth promptly called holding Q♥9♦ for broadway. Kisacikoglu had K♠Q♦ for the same straight to chop up an early pot with Kornuth.
With 17 players on the clock, the first level of the 2024 WSOP $100,000 High Roller Event has begun as the "shuffle up and deal" echoed through the room.
Welcome back to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2024 World Series of Poker and home of live updates from all bracelet events.
Today sees the start of Event #47: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em here at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
This three-day event gets underway at 12 p.m. local time, with late registration open for 13 levels, which comes after the first level of Day 2. There will be 15-minute breaks every three levels and this tournament is played with a 30-second shot clock. Each player is permitted one reentry.
The starting stack is 600,000 chips with the plan for Day 1 to play 12 40-minute levels. For the surviving players or late entrants, Day 2 resumes at 12 p.m. Wednesday and closes after 15 more levels have played out. Day 3 is when a winner will be crowned.
Last summer, Jan [Removed:565] topped a star-studded final table and Cary Katz in heads-up play to capture his second bracelet and $2,576,729 winner's prize. Ninety-three entrants were recorded, creating the massive $8,997,750 prize pool. Can those figures be usurped this time around?
“Live [poker] is more pressure," [Removed:565] told PokerNews. "There’s people around, there’s cameras, live-streamed final table. There’s added pressure. The first bracelet was just an online tourney, and basically, all that people saw in the end was who won. So, this is very different. Way more special, I would say.”
Year
Entries
Winner
Country
Payout
2023
93
[Removed:564]
Netherlands
$2,576,729
2022
62
Aleksejs Ponakovs
Latvia
$1,897,363
2021
64
Michael Addamo
Australia
$1,958,569
2020
-
Not held
-
-
2019
99
Keith Tilston
United States
$2,792,406
2018
105
Nick Petrangelo
United States
$2,910,227
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