2017 World Series of Poker
Maxi Lehmanski started the action with a raise to 2,500 and the hijack, Chris DeMaci in the cutoff, Pierre Neuville in the small blind and the big blind all came along for a five-way flop.
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. The action checked around, and Neuville then bet the
turn for 8,000, which only Lehmanski called. After the
river, Neuville made it 28,000 to go, and Lehmanski sent his cards into the muck.
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, Mike Matusow faced an all-in bet from Bradley Hinson for 21,200 with roughly 20,000 already in the pot. Matusow was thinking about his decision, as a call represented about one-fifth of his remaining stack. Eventually, he put in the chips to call, and the hands were tabled.
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Matusow was behind but had outs to a straight, trips, or two pair. The river
was not what Matusow needed, though, and that gave Hinson the double-up with his pocket aces.
Barry Greenstein raised to 3,000 from early position, and Scott Seiver three-bet to 7,700 from the cutoff. Greenstein called, and the flop came ![]()
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. Greenstein checked, and Seiver bet 9,000, which was good enough for Greenstein to fold.
With these two pros sitting at the same table, they may well play a few pots with each other throughout the rest of the day.
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with roughly 40,000 in the pot already, Steven van Zadelhoff bet out 30,000 from the small blind. Van Zadelhoff's opponent in the cutoff called, and the river landed the
. Van Zadelhoff grabbed a stack of chips and slid them into the pot to amount to a bet of 51,000. His opponent quickly folded, and van Zadelhoff collected the pot to move to 316,000 in chips.
The board was already complete, and the player in the big blind bet 20,000 on the river of a ![]()
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board. Calvin Anderson called all in for 15,500, and a third player in the hand went into the tank. The floor staff was called over, and Anderson was throwing around some words while the clock was called on the other player. Half a minute ran down, and the hand was declared dead.
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, and the big blind wanted to muck his cards, but Anderson insisted it to be tabled as per the all-in rules. The ![]()
was exposed, and Anderson more than doubled as a result of the hand. He then complained about both of his opponents whispering to the nearby rail during the hand before the floor staff calmed the situation down, and play carried on.
In a hand that occurred on the live stream, Sam Grafton three-bet to 14,000 from the small blind (with ![]()
). Doug Polk was in the big blind, and he re-raised, making it 36,300 (with ![]()
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Action was back to Grafton, and he tanked for about a minute before announcing that he was all in with a covering stack. Polk quickly released, and that allowed Grafton to take down the pot without a showdown.
Polk is still sitting in a decent position with right around 150,000, while Grafton moved further up the leaderboard, inching closer to 500,000.
There was a raise to 2,700 from early position and call from middle position. The action was on Joseph Conor, who re-raised to 8,500. Both players called, and the flop came ![]()
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The action was checked to Conor, who bet 14,000 and got both players to fold.
Conor started the day with 88,000 and has run up his stack to over 500,000.