Event #71: $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship Day 2 | 2024 World Series of Poker

06-29-2024 18:22 UTC-7

A Double and a Bust

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Laura Fryer

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

The cards were already face up and players were looking at a 6♠4♦10♦3♣5♣ board.

Molly Mossey:K♣10♣ All in
Irene Carey: A♥J♥

A pair of tens was good enough to double up Mossey and keep her in the tournament.

On the next table, there was another all in.

Tsz Yuet Liu had moved all in from middle position and got two calls from the hijack and Vivian Saliba in the small blind. Players went to a 3♦A♣6♣ flop and the hijack folded after Saliba raised, leaving the players to go heads-up to the turn.

Tsz Yuet Liu: A♠10♣ All in
Vivian Saliba: A♦8♦

Liu was ahead and things stayed that way on the 5♣ turn.

The river brought in the 8♠ to give Saliba two pair, taking away Liu's chances of a double. Liu left the tournament with around 100 players remaining.

Player	Chips	Progress
Irene Carey	665,000 24,000	24,000

Vivian Saliba	320,000

Molly Mossey	127,000 17,000	17,000
Tsz Yuet Liu	Busted

Tags: Irene Carey Molly Mossey Tsz Yuet Liu Vivian Saliba

06-29-2024 18:14 UTC-7

A Few More Bustouts

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Sava Krink

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Sarah Ramirez	Busted
Deb Balderas	Busted
Cara Swayze	Busted
Barbara Leonardi	Busted
Samantha Merz	Busted
Barbara Enright	Busted

Lexy Gavin-Mather	Busted
Jessica Vierling	Busted
Brittne Williams	Busted
Amanda Holmquist	Busted

06-29-2024 18:06 UTC-7

Some Updated Chips

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 16 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Melanie Kaye	360,000
Erica Lindgren	350,000 205,500	205,500
Tammy Ehrhart	170,000 70,000	70,000
Jamie Kerstetter	130,000 42,500	42,500

Lauren Bunch	107,000 38,500	38,500
Maribeth Hilliard	95,000 48,500	48,500
Samantha Gonzalez	80,000 126,500	126,500
Kristen Deardorff	70,000 31,500	31,500

Level: 16

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 6,000

06-29-2024 18:04 UTC-7

Mills Takes Big Pot

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Sava Krink

Level 15 : 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

With around 85,000 already in the pot and the board showing 2♠8♥A♣4♠, Jiexi Guo checked first to act. Ismaray Reigosa bet 60,000, and after some consideration, Kasey Mills called. Guo folded.

On the 5♦ river, Reigosa checked, and Mills bet 200,000. Reigosa took some time to decide whether to call. Eventually, she made the call, boosting the pot to over half a million. Mills showed 8♠8♦ for a set of eights, and Reigosa's cards found the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kasey Mills	710,000
Ismaray Reigosa	257,000
Jiexi Guo	228,000

Tags: Ismaray Reigosa Jiexi Guo Kasey Mills

06-29-2024 18:02 UTC-7

Kaye's Shove on River Gets Through

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Roxanne Johnson

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Melanie Kaye was in the hijack and raised to 5,000 and Katie Lindsay defended from the small blind. The flop came out with 4♣10♣5♠ and Kaye bet out 20,000 and received the call.

On the turn 2♦ Kaye continued with the aggression and bet 35,000 and Lindsay made the call.

Kaye was waiting for Lindsay to decide what to do for a few minutes and then realized she had checked. Kaye shoved her chips in with the superior stack and Lindsay thought for a bit and folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Melanie Kaye	360,000 130,000	130,000
Katie Lindsay	125,000 115,000	115,000

Tags: Katie Lindsay Melanie Kaye

06-29-2024 17:59 UTC-7

Nines Are Good

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Laura Fryer

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Shenna Staana raised from an early position to 22,000 and got a call from Janet Kanstrup on the button.

Players went heads-up to the 6♠Q♣8♦ flop. Both players checked to the 7♥ turn and again to the 4♠ river.

Staana checked, Kanstrup raised to 20,000 and Staana made the call.

Staana showed 9♣9♠ for a pair of nines and Kanstrup's hand was shown but mucked quickly by the dealer.

Player	Chips	Progress
Janet Kanstrup	294,000 106,000	106,000
Shenna Staana	285,000 105,000	105,000

Tags: Janet Kanstrup Shenna Staana

06-29-2024 17:45 UTC-7

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

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Sandra Barbour

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 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!

06-29-2024 17:41 UTC-7

Split Pot Showdown: Holmquist vs. Mills

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Sava Krink

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Amanda Holmquist called the big blind of 5,000 from the hijack. Kasey Mills then raised to 18,000, which Holmquist called. The board ran out J♣8♠10♠6♦4♣, and both players checked it down to showdown.

Holmquist revealed A♥5♦, while Mills showed A♣2♥, resulting in a split pot.