Jonathan Schwartz made it 600,000 from early position. Ben Hoy jammed all in and Schwartz put in his remaining chips when it was back on him.
Jonathan Schwartz: J♥J♠
Ben Hoy: A♠Q♦
Schwartz would need jacks to hold as the flop came 8♦7♦7♣. The turn was the 5♠ and the river the 4♣ as he clapped his hands and got a slap on the back from a buddy on the rail with his stack back in contention.
Uri Reichenstein pushed forward 1,000,000 which was for almost his entire stack from early position. Erlend Melson called from the cutoff. Ben Hoy then jammed all in from the big blind, Melson folded quickly out of turn and Reichenstein put in the rest of his chips.
Uri Reichenstein: K♣Q♣
Ben Hoy: 9♥9♠
The flop came 5♠2♦8♦. The turn stayed clean as well with the 5♥ coming off and the river was the A♦ to end the run for the Israeli pro who adds another good score to his resume.
Nikolay Yosifov minraised from under the gun and it folded to Joseph Carden in the cutoff. He three-bet to around 2,000,000 chips, which was slightly more than half of his stack. Yosifov quickly put him all in and Carden called.
Joseph Carden: A♠J♠
Nikolay Yosifov: K♠K♣
Carden sighed in disappointment when he saw Yosifov’s hand. The board came 2♠7♦Q♦5♥3♠. Carden did not make a better hand than Yosifov’s pair of kings and he was eliminated.
Maxx Coleman jammed from the cutoff, Erlend Melsom re-jammed from the cutoff and everyone else folded.
Maxx Coleman: 9♦9♥
Erlend Melsom: Q♠Q♥
The board ran out safe for the queens as it came down 8♥6♥2♣6♦10♥ and just like that the field was down to only five and the event is now guaranteed a first time bracelet winner.
With the field quickly getting down to five players, there is now a dinner break until 5 p.m. which is when cards will be back in the air with 7:14 left in Level 31.
The stream will start at 6 p.m. which is when the live updates will continue.
Earlier this year on an ordinary Monday afternoon, a bespectacled man walked into the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on Las Vegas Blvd. Tucked under his arm was an uninteresting box that only he knew contained something rather interesting – a pair of gold watches dating back more than 40 years.
These were not your run-of-the-mill wristwear, but rather evidence of a unique and often overlooked time of poker history, a year when the World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet, now the game’s highest accolade, was replaced in favor of watches.
1982 WSOP watches
The man holding the box was David Sklansky, who in 1978 forever changed poker by advocating a mathematical approach to the game in his groundbreaking book The Theory of Poker. Nicknamed “The Mathematician,” he proved his prowess just four years later when he won two WSOP tournaments in five days.
First, he won the 1982 WSOP Event #7: $800 Mixed Doubles Limit Seven Card Stud, a tournament that paired one man with one woman, alongside Dani Kelly, and followed that up by taking down Event #12: $1,000 Limit 5-Card Draw High. A year later, the Binions reverted back to the beloved bracelets players know today, and Sklansky captured his third piece of WSOP hardware by winning Event #11: $1,000 Limit Omaha.
It was a remarkable accomplishment, and for more than four decades he’s kept safe the evidence of his victories, both of which still worked. So, why was Sklansky carrying his 1982 WSOP gold watches, two of only 15 ever awarded, into a pawn shop? Well, he was looking to sell them of course, but not to just any of the dozens of pawn shops spread across Las Vegas. Oh no, he was walking into arguably the most famous pawn shop in the world, the home to the wildly popular television show Pawn Stars, and he was there to do it with cameras rolling.
In this first hand back on the stream, Erlend Melsom raised to 500,000 from early position with J♠J♣. Nikolay Yosifov made it 1,300,000 from the button holding K♠9♠ and Melsom waited a bit before firing out a three-bet to 3,600,000.
Yosifov folded quickly and Melsom evened out the stacks at the top of the leaderboard.
