Busted
Table 25Seat 4
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #70: $400 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info
2024 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
Buy-in
$400
Prize Pool
$5,940,883
Entries
19,337
Level
48
Blinds
10,000,000 / 15,000,000
Ante
15,000,000
Entries
6,105
Players Left
713
Players Left 1 / 19337
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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!
246,500
Table 428Seat 7
I opened 54 hearts to 4500 he 3 bet to 12 I call on the floor I just jam he snaps with kings no heart and boom heart on the turn
158,500
41,500
Table 421Seat 1
Just benefited from a floor ruling so hard I had to freeroll the guy 3% of this tournament to even be able to sleep tonight
130,000
95,000
Table 19Seat 4
QQ 66
110,500
12,700
Table 164Seat 3
goes 30k up after KQAJ and 30k down after 3-way TT vs KK vs KJs
284,500
126,000
Table 421Seat 1
Running so hot it's fake, defend 54ss vs CO open at 2500BB, flop J32cc I check raise he calls turn 6 he has JJ I stack him by river we each started hand with 130k
191,000
Table 44Seat 9
All in on the flop he hits the 2 outer on the river
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315,000
28,000
Table 173Seat 9
MP open jams 20k at 3KBB I call HJ with AJhh he has K5ss flop KQT lol running so hot
TT < AKo