Level 12
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Players are on a 30-minute break to give proper time for coloring up the 100 denomination chips.
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #64: $600 No-Limit Hold'em DeepStack
Day: 1
Event Info
2024 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
Buy-in
$600
Prize Pool
$2,688,210
Entries
5,271
Level
40
Blinds
1,300,000 / 2,500,000
Ante
0
Entries
5,271
Players Left
283
Players Left 1 / 5,271
Filter
(1)
Busted
Table 402Seat 1
Level 12
: Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 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!
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Level 13
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
120,000
73,000
|
73,000 |
|
||
|
104,000
37,700
|
37,700 |
|
89,000
89,000
|
89,000 |
|
86,000
86,000
|
86,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
85,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
|
80,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
74,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
||
|
69,000
69,000
|
69,000 |
|
||
|
Busted | |
Level 13
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Alex Bligorenko was all in preflop and at risk, in search of a seven.
Alex Bligorenko: A♣7♠ 
Opponent: A♦9♦
Bligorenko pulled ahead on the 7♦2♥6♥ flop but it was short-lived when the 9♥ peeled on the turn.
He needed a seven on the river to stay alive, and he found one when the 7♥ rolled off.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
45,000 |
Level 13
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Zach Wolf called the all in of a much shorter stack and cards were on their backs.
Opponent: A♠Q♠
Zach Wolf: J♥J♠
The board was clean for Wolf as it ran out 4♦10♥8♥9♥K♠ and Wolf approached a quarter million in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
217,000
217,000
|
217,000 |
Level 13
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Tyler Crawford moved all in preflop for 16,000, putting himself at risk, and was called.
Tyler Crawford: A♠2♦
Opponent: J♥J♠
The board ran out 10♥3♠2♥5♥A♣, with the river card securing the double up for Crawford.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
39,000 |
Level 13
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Aram Ghannadzadeh had only 17,000 on his way to the last break but he had quite a bit more than that when he called the all in of the shorter stack in front of him.
Opponent: K♦Q♥
Aram Ghannadzadeh: J♦J♠
The flop improved Ghannadzadeh to a set when it fanned out J♥6♠3♦ and when the turn came the 9♣, he only had the tens working against him. He held when the 8♦ rolled off on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
115,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
Level 13
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
117,000
117,000
|
117,000 |
|
||
|
86,000
86,000
|
86,000 |
|
||
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
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50bb effective, 1k/2.5kbb, 3b JJ 20k in late vs middle position LAG big stack open of 6.5k who was playing their stack and VPIPing 100% from middle position on. He calls. Flop 367shh. Check, c-bet 30k into 40kish pot. He jams for 100k and I call. He flips over QQ and board bricks out.