2017 World Series of Poker
The tables in Pavilion are breaking fast, down to nine tables. Players are being sent to both Brasilia and Amazon.
Scott Seiver raised to 5,500 and was called by a player in middle position. Andy Frankenberger re-raised to 25,000 from the big blind and both players folded.
Frankenberger get a 'Welcome to the table" from a fellow player while collected the pot as he was just moved to Amazon Tan with Barry Greenstein and Scott Seiver.
Seyed Tabib limped in from the small blind and Loni Harwood raised to 52,400, leaving herself with just 2,700 behind. Tabib announced "I call" and was about to turn over his cards before he was reminded that Harwood was not all in yet. "Okay, I just call," Tabib confirmed and the flop fell ![]()
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"I am sorry for you, I got the nuts," Tabib said right after betting 15,000 and Harwood called a few seconds later.
Loni Harwood: ![]()
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While Harwood was not drawing dead yet, she needed running fours for quads to avoid elimination. It was all over after the
turn, making the
river a formality. Alan Cutler then reminded Tabib that his verbal announcement was on the edge and that he should be more careful.
From early position, Grant Hinkle limped in for 2,400 as the action folded to Adam Darkazalli in the small blind who completed. Fatima Nanji checked her option in the big blind as the dealer spread a ![]()
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flop.
Darkazalli bet out 5,500 and Nanji called before Hinkle raised to 15,000.
Darkazalli and Nanji both folded, and Hinkle collected the pot to move to over 200,000 in chips.
In a hand that occurred on the steam on the secondary feature table, Konstantin Puchkov opened to 5,500 and Kenny Hallaert called, as did Luiz Duarte on the button and Benoit Jean called from the big blind.
The flop landed ![]()
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and the action checked to Duarte who bet 6,500. Only Hallaert called before both players checked the
on the turn.
The river landed the
and Hallaert pushed out a stack of orange 5,000-denomination chips to put Duarte all in. Duarte re-checked his hole cards and called all in for 43,600.
Hallaert tabled his ![]()
for just queen-high before Duarte tabled his ![]()
for the nut flush, and the double to 127,000 in chips. Hallaert now drops down to 411,300.
While Brian Pinkus is dominating the table chat, the spotlight of the TV cameras is on Mickey Craft as one of the chip leaders of the tournament right now. In the Amazon Orange section, further big stacks emerged with Vivian Saliba, Michael Krasienko and Scott Anderson. Marcin Chmielewski started as one of the bigger stacks and hasn't done much as of yet.
Nick Petrangelo bet 8,000 from early position on an ![]()
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flop, getting one call. Mike Gao popped it up slightly to 18,000 on the button. One player in between folded, Petrangelo called, and the first caller folded to leave it heads up. Both checked the
, and the river was a
. Petrangelo moved all in, and Gao immediately called off his last 46,800.
The high roller turned over ![]()
for top set on the flop, but Gao had gotten lucky on the river with ![]()
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Thomas Waters moved all in under the gun for 47,900. Juha Helppi called in the next seat, and Miltiadis Kyriakides shoved all in from the very next seat for about 270,000. Action folded back to Helppi, who thought for a moment.
"Yes!" Kyriakides said, pleased he faded the snap-call. "Yes!"
Helppi smiled and folded.
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The dealer rapidly fired a board of ![]()
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, and Kyriakides collected the pot. Helppi assured him his own hand wouldn't have beaten the kings either.