Event #65: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship Jour 7 | 2018 World Series of Poker

2018-07-11 19:34 UTC-7

Martijn Gerrits Eliminated in 15th Place ($475,000)

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Niveau 34 : 200,000/400,000, 50,000 ante

Feature Table Hand #114: Alex Lynskey opened for 800,000 on the button. Gerrits made it 3.5 million. Lynskey came back with 7,250,000. Gerrits shipped for 20.1 million and Lynskey snap-called with . Gerrits had .

The board was dealt and Gerrits busted in 15th.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Alex Lynskey	58,200,000	20,900,000
Martijn Gerrits	Eliminé

Tags: Alex Lynskey Martijn Gerrits

2018-07-11 19:32 UTC-7

Feature Table Hands #111-113: Lynskey Over Bercovici

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Niveau 34 : 200,000/400,000, 50,000 ante

Hand #111: Alex Lynskey made it 850,000 under the gun and Hari Bercovici called a couple of seats over. The board read after two checks and Lynskey bet 1.6 million. Bercovici called and the river was the . Lynskey fired 3.3 million and Bercovici thought briefly before calling.

Lynskey's triumphed over .

Hand #112: Action folded to the small blind where Michael Dyer completed. Lynskey checked and they saw . Dyer bet 425,000 and Lynskey called. The checked through, bringing the . Check-check again and of Lynskey took it down.

Hand #113: Martijn Gerrits got a walk.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Alex Lynskey	37,300,000	8,000,000
Hari Bercovici	4,000,000	-7,725,000

Tags: Alex Lynskey Hari Bercovici Martijn Gerrits Michael Dyer

2018-07-11 19:24 UTC-7

Secondary Table Hands #97-101: Cynn Five-Bets Against Phan

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Niveau 34 : 200,000/400,000, 50,000 ante

Hand #97: Nicolas Manion opened to 950,000 and that won the blinds and antes on the secondary table in the first hand back from the dinner break.

Hand #98: Antoine Labat made it 925,000 to go from the cutoff and John Cynn called on the button, Tony Miles came along from the big blind. On the flop, Miles checked, and Labat did so as well. Cynn bet 1,400,000, Miles called, and Labat got out of the way. After the turn, both players checked and the river brought no betting action either. Cynn turned over and that won the pot.

Hand #99: Cynn raised from the cutoff to 900,000 and Manion defended his big blind. The flop fell and Manion checked, as did Cynn, to see the on the turn. Manion made it 1,300,000 to go and Cynn sent his cards into the muck.

Hand #100: Labat raised to 1,000,000 and the Frenchman won the blinds and antes without resistance.

Hand #101: First to act, Ryan Phan raised to 900,000 and Cynn three-bet to 2,600,000 from two seats over. The action folded back to Phan and he gave it some consideration before four-betting to 7,000,000. Cynn took an equally long time before five-betting to 13,500,000, which forced a fold from Phan.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Antoine Labat	49,100,000	-150,000
John Cynn	47,000,000	10,550,000
Nicolas Manion	44,600,000	2,075,000
Artem Metalidi	16,600,000	-875,000
Ryan Phan	16,300,000	-7,275,000
Tony Miles	12,700,000	-2,775,000
Aram Zobian	10,900,000	-900,000
Konstantin Beylin	7,100,000	-900,000

Tags: Antoine Labat John Cynn Nicolas Manion Ryan Phan Tony Miles

2018-07-11 19:21 UTC-7

Feature Table Hands #106-110: Delayed C-Bet from Zhu Takes it Down

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Niveau 34 : 200,000/400,000, 50,000 ante

Hand #106: Frederik Brink opened to 900,000 from the hijack and Martijn Gerrits called from the big blind. The flop came and Gerrits check-folded to a bet of 1,000,000 from Brinks.

Hand #107: Alex Lynskey raised to 850,000 on the button and the blinds folded.

Hand #108: Michael Dyer raised it up to 800,000 in the hijack but did not get any action.

Hand #109: Gerrits opened to 900,000 from the cutoff and Yueqi Zhu three-bet to 2,100,000 out of the small blind. Gerrits made the call and the flop fell . Both players checked and the landed on the turn. Zhu led out for 2,300,000 and Gerrits tossed his cards to the muck.

Hand #110: Gerrits made it 900,000 to go again and picked up the blinds and antes.

Tags: Alex Lynskey Frederik Brink Martijn Gerrits Michael Dyer Yueqi Zhu

2018-07-11 19:11 UTC-7

Feature Table Hands #104-105: Zhu Picks Off Lynskey

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Niveau 34 : 200,000/400,000, 50,000 ante

Hand #104: Hari Bercovici called in middle position, Joe Cada completed the blind, and Michael Dyer checked. Dyer bet 525,000 on the flop and won the pot.

Hand #105: Yueqi Zhu raised to 900,000 in middle position and Alex Lynskey defended big blind. The flop came and Lynskey check-called 1.1 million. The turn paired the board with the . Lynskey opted to lead out with 1,525,000 and Zhu called. The river was the and Lynskey fired 4.8 million. After some thought, Zhu called with and it was good against .

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Alex Lynskey	29,300,000	-8,425,000
Yueqi Zhu	21,900,000	8,825,000

Tags: Alex Lynskey Hari Bercovici Joe Cada Michael Dyer Yueqi Zhu

2018-07-11 19:05 UTC-7

John Cynn Looking to Improve on 2016 Main Event Finish with 2018 Final Table

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Niveau 34 : 200,000/400,000, 50,000 ante

While anyone watching the Main Event coverage this year has been focused on 2009 Main Event champion Joe Cada’s repeat deep run, there’s another player who has been here before, though he didn’t make it quite to the final table… yet.

John Cynn from Indianapolis made it all the way to Day 7 in 2016, but dwindled down and busted in 11th place on the unofficial final table bubble.

His 2016 Main Event run fell short when his stack dwindled to under ten big blinds and he got it in with queen-ten, but Gordon Vayo found ace-king in the big blind to look him up and send Cynn to the rail.

The bittersweet run in the Main that year earned Cynn $650,000, his previous best score being just under $20,000 for a 59th-place finish in the 2015 Millionaire Maker.

In the two years since his 2016 Main Event run, Cynn has added $200,000 in tournament winnings to his credit and is thrilled to be back under the lights of the Thunderdome.

“I’m feeling pretty great. This is definitely another surreal experience.”

His experience this time around is a bit different, having been here before.

“I’m definitely more comfortable than before, which is nice. It could be either because it’s my second time or because I have a bigger stack.

“Both experiences were incredible, but definitely having a lot of fun this time.”

Cynn’s Main Event trajectory has seen him chip up substantially on every day of the tournament besides a stagnant Day 2, as you can see below.

Day	End-of-Day Chip Count	Rank
1c	133,000	215/3,480
2c	138,900	700/1,655
3	709,000	121/1,182
4	1,931,000	58/310
5	5,155,000	26/109
6	14,750,000	13/26

On Day 6 with blinds at 100K/200K/30K ante, Cynn was sitting with just over 4 million chips on the button and saw a very active Nirath Rean open to 450,000 under the gun before Daniel Tang flat-called. Cynn shipped with ace-jack and Rean tank re-shoved.

Once Tang folded, Cynn said, “This is really bad for me,” but was relieved to see he was flipping against pocket nines. The ace came right in the window, though the three-heart flop gave his opponent a flush draw, and Cynn told the table, “I’m very nervous right now.”

He followed up with, “I’ve never run this good in flips in tournament, anything. It’s insane how good I’m running. So I can’t complain no matter what happens.”

A clean runout followed and Cynn scored a big double up that got him going. He would end the day right in the middle of the pack with 14,750,000. By the second break on Day 7, Cynn had more than doubled what he started the day with, sitting at 32,200,000 and we asked how he got all those chips.

“By getting really lucky, I mean, this has been easily the best seven-day stretch of cards I’ve had in my whole entire life. And for that to come during the Main Event is like, unreal.”

If you ask anyone in poker, they’ll agree: that’s the dream.

Tags: Joe Cada John Cynn

2018-07-11 19:03 UTC-7

Main Event Cards Back in the Air

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Niveau 34 : 200,000/400,000, 50,000 ante

All remaining 15 players are back and the action has resumed with one hour left in the current level.

2018-07-11 17:57 UTC-7

Dinner Break

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Niveau 34 : 200,000/400,000, 50,000 ante

The remaining 15 players are heading on a 65-minute dinner break.

Play will resume at 7 p.m. (PDT).

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Feature	1	-- empty —	--	--	--
Feature	2	Joe Cada	United States	15,200,000	38
Feature	3	Michael Dyer	United States	82,250,000	206
Feature	4	-- empty —	--	--	--
Feature	5	Alex Lynskey	Australia	37,725,000	94
Feature	6	Martijn Gerrits	Netherlands	22,375,000	56
Feature	7	Hari Bercovici	Israel	11,725,000	29
Feature	8	Yueqi Zhu	China	13,075,000	33
Feature	9	Frederik Brink	Denmark	6,875,000	17

Secondary	1	Ryan Phan	United States	23,575,000	59
Secondary	2	Antoine Labat	France	49,250,000	123
Secondary	3	John Cynn	United States	36,450,000	91
Secondary	4	Konstantin Beylin	United States	8,000,000	20
Secondary	5	Tony Miles	United States	15,475,000	39
Secondary	6	Nicolas Manion	United States	42,525,000	106
Secondary	7	Artem Metalidi	Ukraine	17,475,000	44
Secondary	8	Aram Zobian	United States	11,800,000	30
Secondary	9	-- empty —	--	--	--

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Michael Dyer	82,250,000	650,000
Antoine Labat	49,250,000	-850,000
Nicolas Manion	42,525,000	-2,075,000
Alex Lynskey	37,725,000	25,000
John Cynn	36,450,000	9,450,000
Ryan Phan	23,575,000	-825,000
Martijn Gerrits	22,375,000	-1,125,000
Artem Metalidi	17,475,000	-3,525,000
Tony Miles	15,475,000	975,000
Joe Cada	15,200,000	500,000
Yueqi Zhu	13,075,000	-2,225,000
Aram Zobian	11,800,000	100,000
Hari Bercovici	11,725,000	2,525,000
Konstantin Beylin	8,000,000	-3,300,000
Frederik Brink	6,875,000	-1,025,000

2018-07-11 17:56 UTC-7

Secondary Table Hands #92-96: Cynn Turns a Straight on Beylin

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Niveau 34 : 200,000/400,000, 50,000 ante

Hand #92: Tony Miles opened to 900,000 from the button and Artem Metalidi called in the big blind.

The flop landed and Metaldi checked to Miles who bet 1,300,000. Metalidi folded, and Miles collected the pot.

Hand #93: John Cynn opened to 900,000 from middle position and Nicolas Manion called on the button. Artem Metalidi called in the small blind, and the flop landed .

Metalidi checked, Cynn bet out 1,400,000, and Manion folded. Metalidi called, and the turn fell the . Metalidi checked, Cynn bet 3,100,000 and Metalidi folded.

Hand #94: John Cynn raised to 900,000 from middle position before Konstantin Beylin three-bet 2,400,000 next to act.

The action folded back to Cynn, and he flicked his cards to the muck.

Hand #95: Aram Zobian raised to 900,000 from the button, and he collected the blinds and antes.

Hand #96: Konstantin Beylin opened to 1,000,000 under the gun and Nicolas Manion called in middle position as did John Cynn in the big blind.

The flop landed and Cynn checked to Beylin who continued for 1,500,000. Manion folded, and Cynn called as the turn fell the .

Cynn checked, Beylin bet 2,500,000, and Cynn called. The river of the completed the board, and Cynn checked for a third time as Beylin checked behind.

Cynn tabled his for a straight, and Beylin mucked.

Tags: Aram Zobian Artem Metalidi John Cynn Konstantin Beylin Nicolas Manion Tony Miles

2018-07-11 17:55 UTC-7

Feature Table Hands #99-103: Dyer Stays Active, Others Start to Push Back

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Niveau 34 : 200,000/400,000, 50,000 ante

Hand #99: Michael Dyer raised to 800,000 on the button and Alex Lynskey three-bet to 3,200,000 from the small blind. Dyer thought about it for a minute and then sent his cards to the muck.

Hand #100: Dyer made it 800,000 to go from the cutoff and picked up the blinds and antes.

Hand #101: Dyer opened to 800,000 from the hijack and Lynskey called in the cutoff. Hari Bercovici called from the small blind and Yueqi Zhu came along from the big blind. The flop came and the action checked to Dyer who bet 1,325,000. Lynskey folded and Bercovici shoved all in for 7,750,000. Zhu quickly folded and Dyer's cards followed them into the muck.

Hand #102: Dyer raised to 800,000 from middle position and Bercovici called on the button. The flop fell and Dyer led out for 725,000. Bercovici sent his cards to the muck and Dyer earned himself the pot.

Hand #103: Frederik Brink limped in from the small blind and Joe Cada announced all in from the big blind. Brink was put to the test for his remaining 7,275,000 chips but quickly tossed his cards away.

Tags: Alex Lynskey Frederik Brink Hari Bercovici Joe Cada Michael Dyer Yueqi Zhu