On the latest PokerNews Podcast episode of 2023, Chad Holloway and Jesse Fullen discuss a controversy from the WSOP Circuit King’s Resort that was a chopped pot but accidentally resulted in the elimination of one player at the final table.
Action was heads up with a growing pot in the middle and on the board when Brock Wilson check-called a bet of 190,000 from Kayhan Mokri.
The river was and Wilson checked again before he went into the tank when Mokri shoved with more. Wilson used some of his extra time before he ultimately got away from it.
"Show the bluff," Ren Lin said.
"It's for sure a bluff, but I'm not going to show," Mokri said as he mucked face down.
You can chalk this one up in the "never seen that before" poker category. Pierre Kauert busted in sixth place in the WSOP Circuit Main Event at King's Casino on...get this...a heads-up chop pot.
Yes, that's right, he became the first player ever, at least on a live stream, to be eliminated from a tournament in a hand he didn't actually lose. No one, not even the announcers, caught the mistake, and by the time it was discovered the pot should have been chopped, it was too late.
"It does fall under player and dealer responsibility and cannot really do anything about it at this point. If it wasn’t live streamed it would never have been realized and so we just move on," World Poker Tour's Executive Tour Director Matt Savage, who was not associated with the event, explained to PokerNews when asked how he would have proceeded.
Ren Lin raised to 60,000 before Yuri Dzivielevski shoved 185,000. The rest of the table got out of the way and Lin tossed in his "No Gamble No Future" sticker to call.
Yuri Dzivielevski:
Ren Lin:
The board ran out and the nines held to secure the double for Dzivielevski.