Action folded around to the small blind who limped in for 1,000. Bruno Lopes bumped it up to 4,000 from the big blind and the small blind called.
Lopes continued for 2,500 on 2♦2♠10♦ and his opponent called
The J♣ hit the felt and Lopes sized-up to 12,000. The small blind called once more.
Lopes fired 27,000 on the K♣ river and after some thought, his opponent made the laydown.
Kaylan Chivukula opened the action with a raise to 2,200 from the hijack. The button three-bet to 6,300 and Chivukula made the call.
Action checked through on A♠7♠4♣ before the button fired 7,000 on the J♣ turn. Chivukula called.
Both players checked the 2♠ river and Chivukula rolled over A♣10♠ to scoop the pot.
Jonathan Pastore raised to 3,400 from the small blind and Kiwamu Watabe called from the big blind.
On the 9♥5♥9♦ flop, Pastore checked, Watabe bet 2,600, and Pastore called.
A 10♣ fell on the turn and Pastore went into check-call mode again, this time after Watabe bet 8,000.
The 10♦ river went check-check, and before Pastore could even show his cards, Watabe had mucked. Regardless, Pastore tabled A♦K♦ and was awarded the pot.
Roman Hrabec opened to 2,300 from the hijack and Maria Konnikova called from the small blind.
The flop came K♥6♥K♣ and Konnikova check-called a 1,500 bet from Hrabec.
Both players then checked the 7♦ turn and 4♦ river. Konnikova had A♣10♥ but Hrabec had a slightly better kicker with A♦J♦ to take the pot.
Level: 7
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
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.
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.
Read all about the 1982 WSOP watches here in our feature article!
Players are on a 60-minute dinner break.
Phachara Wongwichit raised to 1,600 from the hijack and Tony Dunst called on the button.
On the 5♣10♣K♠ flop, Wongwichit checked, Dunst bet 1,600, and Wongwichit called.
Both players checked the 9♣ turn and 4♦ river and Wongwichit took it down with 10♥8♥.
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is making a move that will change the online poker game in the US with the launch of WSOP Online, a new platform that will bring players from three states together.
Poker players in Nevada and New Jersey are already competing against each other on WSOP.com, while those in Michigan have a separate single-state site. But that is changing with the trio of states being merged together on one online poker site ahead of the 2024 WSOP. Pennsylvania's WSOP site will not be part of the shared liquidity deal.
On top of the merger news, the WSOP has announced 30 online bracelet events this summer on the new WSOP Online.
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