Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
The remaining 275 players are now heading to a 15-minute break.
In a five-way pot and with already more than 14,000 in the middle, the flop read ![]()
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when Hoang Vinh Pham and Tirza Wichelhaus checked in the blinds. Mihai Niste bet 3,500 and Petr Segl raised it to 11,200, called by Husam Qumseya. Pham decided to shove for a stack worth 59,900 and it folded to Segl who reshoved. Qumseya tanked before folding and the cards were tabled:
Hoang Pham: ![]()
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Petr Segl: ![]()
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Segl had the dominated hand and found no help on the
turn and
river and Pham took down the pot and the big double up.
All the chips went in the middle preflop between Elena Litvinyuk, who was at risk for a stack worth 20,500 with ![]()
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The board brought no surprise with ![]()
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and Litvinyuk found the double up she needed.
The 2017 WSOP Player of the Year just took a seat in this event to try to catch his seventh WSOP bracelet.
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
The leader of the actual race for the WSOP Player of the Year made his way to the exit while Erik Cajelais, who won a gold bracelet in the £2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha WSOPE in 2009 took a seat.
Marcin Sikora opened to 1,500 in early position and Sofia Lovgren three-bet to 3,800 one seat over. It folded back to Sikora who called.
The flop revealed ![]()
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and Sikora check-folded after Lovgren continued for 4,000.