Event #55: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2024 World Series of Poker

Jun 22, 2024

Negreanu Doubles Through Ausmus' "Dog Shit"

Connor Richards

Level 15 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

Daniel Negreanu has been goading Ben Tollerene into raising his big blind and continued to do so as action folded to the Tollerene on the button. Tollerene gave a smile and folded before Jeremy Ausmus put Negreanu to the test by pushing out a stack of chips in the small blind. Negreanu pulled out the selfie stick before calling with around 1,600,000.

"This is binding," Negreanu said as he started filming. "You just have dog shit. I call."

Daniel Negreanu: K♦Q♣ All in
Jeremy Ausmus: 10♣9♦

Negreanu stayed ahead as the board ran out A♣K♠10♠5♥2♦ and he made sure to rub it in the face of the six-time bracelet winner, Ween enthusiast and recent $100,000 High Roller runner-up.

"That's how you win! You go all in with dog shit, dog shit, dog shit and you hope to catch. But I got the best hand!" cheered Negreanu. "They try to rob my blinds because they think I'm a pushover over here. You think I'm going to fold king-queen, buddy? I would've called you with king-jack suited, even."

Negreanu wasn't quite done with the needling and even referenced Ausmus' great pocket-jacks-themed Death Cab for Cutie cover.

"Pocket jacks, how does it go?" asked Negreanu.

"I'll sing it later," said Ausmus.

Tags: Ben Tollerene Daniel Negreanu Jeremy Ausmus

Jun 22, 2024

Badziakouski Slows Plays

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Ollie Garland

Level 15 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

Jonathan Jaffe raised to 250,000 from middle position and Mikita Badziakouski defended in the big blind.

Badziakouski check-called a bet of 125,000 from Jaffe on the 5♣Q♥Q♠ flop.

The 7♠ turn saw a repeat of the action, this time Jaffe sized up to 350,000.

The 8♣ river checked to a showdown. Badziakouski tabled A♠A♣ for a slow-played premium pocket pair, earning him the pot.

Tags: Mikita Badziakouski Jonathan Jaffe

Jun 22, 2024

Badziakouski Doubles Through Hook

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Ollie Garland

Level 15 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

Charles Hook raised to 250,000 from middle position, Mikita Badziakouski three-bet jammed for 975,000 from the small blind and Hook made the call.

Mikita Badziakouski: Q♣Q♥ All in
Charles Hook: K♦10♥

The board ran out A♣5♠6♦9♥7♠; Badziakouski managed to fade the over card of his opponent to double up.

Tags: Charles Hook Mikita Badziakouski

Jun 22, 2024

Gottlieb Catches Soverel's Bluff

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Connor Richards

Level 15 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

In a blind versus blind confrontation on a board of 6♦8♥2♦K♦, Seth Gottlieb bet 300,000 and Sam Soverel called.

Gottlieb then checked on the 5♠ river and Soverel put him to the test by sliding out a stack of around 1,500,000. Gottlieb had about that and called.

Soverel showed a bluff with J♣9♦ for jack-high, while Gottlieb rolled over 8♣7♦ to win the pot with a pair of eights.

Tags: Seth Gottlieb Sam Soverel

Jun 22, 2024

Eibinger Busts [Removed:565] on Feature Table; Updated Counts

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Calum Grant

Level 15 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

Jun 22, 2024

Jaffe Takes It with a Stab

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Ollie Garland

Level 15 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

Taylor von Kriegenbergh raised to 250,000 from the hijack and Jonathan Jaffe defended in the big blind.

The A♠2♠3♥ flop checked through to the 4♣ on the river. Jaffe led out for 210,000 and Von Kriegenbergh tossed his cards into the muck.

Tags: Taylor Von Kriegenbergh Jonathan Jaffe

Jun 22, 2024

Petrangelo Eliminated By Tollerene

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Connor Richards

Level 15 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

Ben Tollerene opened to 270,000 in the hijack and Jeremy Ausmus called in the cutoff before Nick Petrangelo three-bet jammed a stack of 1,930,000 from the small blind. Tollerene called and Ausmus got out of the way.

Nick Petrangelo: 6♦6♥ All in
Ben Tollerene: J♥J♦

Petrangelo had the worse pocket pair and couldn't improve as the board ran out 9♠5♥9♦10♠3♠ to mark his elimination.

Tags: Ben Tollerene Jeremy Ausmus Nick Petrangelo

Jun 22, 2024

Ivey Hits Turn to Double

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Calum Grant

Level 15 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

On the feature table, Mikalai Vaskaboinikau opened to 250,000 from middle position and called when Phil Ivey moved all in for 1,835,000 from the hijack.

Phil Ivey: AxKx All in
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau: QxQx

The 8♠5♥3♥ flop offered no help to Ivey, but the A♠ turn saw him take the lead with a pair of aces. The 9♣ completed the board, and Ivey doubled up.

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Tags: Mikalai Vaskaboinikau Phil Ivey

Level: 15

Blinds: 60,000/120,000

Ante: 120,000

Jun 22, 2024

WSOP History: David Sklansky Looks to Sell Rare 1982 WSOP Gold Watches to Pawn Stars

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Sandra Barbour

Level 14 : Blinds 50,000/100,000, 100,000 ante

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!