Robert Geith in the big blind and Stephen Austin in cutoff have grown a 30,000 pot as they waited for the dealer to fan out 2♠3♣A♥ flop. Geith fired 11,000 and Austin called.
Both players checked a J♦ turn leading them to the river 8♣.
Geith took sometime to consider his action then placed in 12,000 sending Austin to the tank. He took considerable time to mull things over but ultimately folded his hand.
Mario Lopez raised to 8,000 from under the gun and action folded around to Stephen Austin in the small blind who made the call. Ruslan Prydryk sat in the big blind then three-bet to 34,000.
Lopez made the call. and Austin folded.
On the A♠2♥8♥ flop Prydryk continued for 20,000 and Lopez flat-called once more.
The players checked down the 7♣ turn and 5♥ river with Lopez tabling A♦Q♦ for top pair which had Prydryk's K♠8x crushed and Lopez was pushed the pot.
David Ha joked, "Seats five and two are the sneakiest players in the tournament." Who happened to battle it out in the following hand.
Giuseppe Puccio raised from under the gun to 9,000, and Stan Sinclair called from the button. The flop arrived with 5♥10♥5♣, and Puccio bet 6,000. Sinclair called to see the turn.
On the turn 7♦, Puccio bet again for 7,000, and Sinclair called again.
Both players checked the river 2♣, and Puccio turned over A♣J♣, while Sinclair turned over A♥7♠. Sinclair's two pair won the pot.
Anselmo Villarreal fired 10,000. Mark Pett, immediately to his left, shoved all-in for 28,000. When action went to him, Robert Lofaso asked for what Villareal had behind, then called.
The flop came 4♥K♠6♣ and both remaining players checked. On the turn 2♠, after he receied the action, Lofaso fired 14,000 which was enough to push Villareal out of the hand.
Mark Pett: A♠J♠ 
Robert Lofaso: 8♣8♦
Pett caught a pair on the river A♦ securing his triple up.
Action folded to Michael Kinney on the button who raised to 10,000, only for Quoc Le sat in the small blind to three-bet to 102,000.
Action came back to Kinney who moved all in for not much more, Le snap-called.
Michael Kinney: 9♣9♠
Quoc Le: A♦Q♣
A safe flop for Kinney of 8♠4♣4♠ but when the Q♥ flipped over on the turn he was in trouble. No nine to save Kinney on the 4♥ river and he was sent to the rail.
In a special 974th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which is sponsored by FanDuel Poker, Mike Holtz and Ben Ludlow come to you from the floor of the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and are joined by a special guest in 2006 WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Madsen.
With co-host Chad Holloway away for the week, the three discuss Holtz winning his second bracelet in Event #31: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em. The two-time WSOP.com POY topped a field of 2,103 entries and defeated heads-up opponent Mei Seow to win a career-best $238,097 and his first live bracelet.
Holtz, who had a rowdy rail that included Ludlow and Madsen, also delivered one of the most epic bracelet win celebrations in recent memory.
Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
The players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day.
Late registration will close at the end of this break.
Paul Degiulio limped from the small blind, and Robert Geith checked from the big blind. The flop arrived with 2♥2♣K♠, and Degiulio bet 6,000; Geith called.
On the turn 4♦, Degiulio took a back seat and checked, and Geith bet 11,000.
The river 3♦ was checked by both players.
Degiulio flipped over 5♥5♦, and Geith turned over 9♥2♦ for trip twos and the win.
Richard Kaplan in cutoff fired 6,000 and got Pluria Marshall on the button to call. Kyle Moore in the big blind joined them to see the flop.
The flop came 2♦3♠9♣ and all players checked.
On the 7♦ turn, Moore fired 12,000. Kaplan called but Marshall got out of the way.
Moore checked the river 8♦ prompting Kaplan to fatten the pot further with a 22,000 bet. Moore called leading them to a showdown.
Moore showed 5♥4♥ for a busted straight draw while Kaplan turned over 9♠9♦ for a set on the flop.
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