2025 World Series of Poker
The action was joined as Bradley Jansen and Hajime Watanabe were competing for a pot that had ballooned to roughly 210,000.
The five community cards were already on their backs, reading 7♠6♥Q♣10♠9♠, and the action was on Jansen in middle position.
Jansen elected to check, leading Watanabe to place a bet of 84,000. After some time to consider his options, Jansen moved all in for 285,000.
Watanabe responded by going into the tank. After thinking through the hand for a few minutes, he decided to fold, returning his cards to the dealer and surrendering the pot to his opponent.
Thomas Boivin opened under the gun, and action folded around to Preston Green in the cutoff, who three-bet to 55,000.
Rohit Mariwalla then four-bet to 125,000. Boivin got out of the way quickly, putting the action back on Green, who then shoved all-in, prompting a quick call from Mariwalla.
Preston Green: A♣K♥
Rohit Mariwalla: A♠Q♦
The board ran out 6♠8♥5♥9♥K♣, keeping Green in the lead and allowing him to double up and stay in the tournament.
With around 250,000 in the pot on a board of 5♣4♣3♦7♣, Humberto Lopes Galindo bet 120,000 from the button and Carlos Loving called in the big blind.
The river was the 10♠ and Lopes Galindo moved all in. Loving had around 300,000 remaining and took a few minutes before folding.
At the same time at another table, Damian Salas and Linglin Zeng had built a pot of around 300,000 as they went heads-up to the 6♣7♦3♥ flop. Salas then bet 50,000 from the hijack and Zeng called in middle position.
Salas bet another 90,000 on the J♠ turn, putting each chip in one at a time. Zeng played with her stack for a few minutes but eventually surrendered the pot to the 2020 Main Event champion.
Colin Robinson opened to 20,000 in early position and Esther Taylor just flat-called from a couple of seats over. They went heads-up to a flop of K♣7♦5♦ where both players checked through to the 5♣ on the turn and the 10♦ on the river.
Robinson finally made a bet of 27,000 and Taylor snapped him off. Robinson turned over J♥10♥ confidently but Taylor tabled her Q♣Q♦ for a better two pair to scoop the pot.
Jacob Frank got his stack of 229,000 in preflop, being looked up by Kotaro Shoda.
Jacob Frank: A♠A♥
Kotaro Shoda: Q♦Q♣
"Please hold," Frank repeated a few times, and his pleas were heard as the J♠7♠10♥K♥2♣ runout saw his aces hold up to double him up.
Shoda, meanwhile, was left with six big blinds to try and spin up.
Thomas Eychenne raised to 23,000 from early position and only Jordan Dumas called out of the big blind.
After Dumas checked the 9♦2♠6♣ flop, Eychenne bet 12,000. Dumas stuck around with a call.
The Q♠ turn and 5♣ river checked through, and Dumas turned over a pair of fives with 5♥4♥. Eychenne mucked, allowing the pot to be sent to Dumas.
Safiya Umerova opened to 22,000 from early position and Michael Mizrachi defended from the big blind.
Both players checked the 7♦6♠3♣ flop leading to the K♥ turn. Mizrachi checked, Umerova bet 25,000 and Mizrachi check-raised to 69,000. Umerova called.
Mizrachi bet 55,000 on the 5♦ river and Umerova called again. Umerova had top pair with A♠K♠ but Mizrachi had two pair with 7♥6♦ to win the pot.
Kevin Mcgee fired 35,000 on a flop of 7♦J♣8♠ with a pot of 75,000 and Nicholas Grippo, on the button and the only player in the hand, called to see the next street.
Mcgee kept the pressure up with 62,000 on the 3♣ turn and got called once again.
Mcgee slowed down on the river J♦. Grippo took control by betting 150,000, which was enough to make Mcgee fold.
Safiya Umerova opened to 22,000 from early position and Leonard Sande three-bet to 60,000 from the button, leaving 234,000 behind. Umerova four-bet shoved with a covering stack and Sande called, putting himself at risk.
Leonard Sande: K♠K♥
Safiya Umerova: 10♥10♣
Sande was a big favorite with the higher pocket pair and he remained ahead on the A♥6♣6♠J♥5♣ runout to double up through Umerova.