The initial schedule — US and international — is out for the 2024-2025 World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) season, and it should create some excitement within the poker community.
Action for the 20th Circuit season kicks off at a familiar spot — Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma — on July 17, the same day as the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event concludes. There will also be a return to the same casino in October.
There are 18 stops — 13 in the US and five in other countries — on the 2024 portion of the WSOPC schedule. That includes five different countries and eight US states.
Just before the end of the last level, Stephan Kribben in the small blind tangled with Gustavo Kamei in an early position and the latter was the player at risk for 517,000 in a seven-figure pot.
Gustavo Kamei: A♥K♥
Stephan Kribben: K♠K♣
Kribben had a massive sweat to endure after the Q♥J♦8♥ flop and while he remained ahead on the 5♣ turn, the 10♣ river improved Kamei to broadway.
Ambrose Brooks raised to 21,000 in the cutoff before Ihar Soika moved all in for 85,000 on the button. Brooks called to put Soika at risk.
Ihar Soika: K♥Q♥
Ambrose Brooks: Q♣6♣
Soika had Brooks dominated and was poised for a double up as the A♣Q♠4♥ flop gave both players a pair of queens. Soika was still ahead with his king kicker and remained in the lead on the 3♣ turn, but the 8♣ river gave Brooks a flush and sent Soika to the rail.
Ami Barer had opened from under the gun and was called by the player on the button and Kevin Butler in the big blind. The flop came A♠4♠3♠ and was checked to the button.
The button then jammed all in for his final ten blinds or so. Butler folded but Barer snap-called.
Button: A♥Q♣
Ami Barer: Q♠J♠
Barer had flopped a flush and left the button drawing dead on the K♦ turn. The K♣ river did not matter as another yell for payouts could be heard across the room.
Beka Iordanishvili open-jammed a stack of 112,000 on the button and Shyngis Satubayev re-shoved a bigger stack in the small blind to get things heads-up.
Beka Iordanishvili: K♣Q♠
Shyngis Satubayev: 7♠7♦
Iordanishvili took a big lead on the A♦J♠Q♣ flop, but it was short-lived as the 7♣ turn gave Satubayev a set before the 9♥ river confirmed Iordanishvili's elimination.