2026 World Series of Poker

Day: 1
12
Event Info
2026 World Series of Poker
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$6,789,000
Total Entries
729
Players Left
270
Average Chip Stack
162,000
Total Chips
43,740,000
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
730
Players Left
270
Players Left 270 / 729

More Pots Than a Chef's Cupboard, Casement Removes Three

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

The action was joined as a couple of players had limped in, and the action was on James Casement on the button. Casement potted it to 6,600, which Christopher Demari called in the big blind, and one of the limpers, Ravi Shankar, called in the hijack. Ryan Torgersen, another of the initial limpers, then announced pot himself, back-jamming for 30,700 from the cutoff.

Casement responded by potting it again. Queue calculators. With nobody at the table able to calculate the size of the bet, one player pulled out a calculator (on his phone), and the table worked together to figure it out.

After several minutes had passed, Casement put 104,000 into the middle. Demari responded by moving all in for roughly 107,500.

"I've made worse calls", Shankar said before putting his own 49,500 into the pot, and Casement called, covering all other players to close the preflop action.

Ryan Torgersen: QJ106 All in
Ravi Shankar: 10763 All in
Christopher Demari: KJ97 All in
James Casement: AA98

Remarkably, after the 2725Q board was laid out, Casement had held on with his aces to score a triple knockout.

Tags: Christopher DemariJames CasementRavi ShankarRyan Torgersen