Dinner break is over and play has resumed. There are 23 minutes remaining in Level 9.
2019 World Series of Poker

The clock has struck the 8 p.m. hour and the remaining players have rushed out of the Amazon and Pavillion rooms for a 90-minute dinner break. When they return, there will still be roughly 20 minutes left in this level with one more level to go before the end of the night. Here is what took place leading up to the dinner break:
Rory Brown raised to 4,000 from the hijack, the player on the button reraised all in for 42,500 and Brown called with , racing with his opponent's
.
The board came down , giving Brown's opponent queens and jacks to double up.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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462,500
97,500
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97,500 |
The player on the button was all in for about 31,000 against Jonathan Depa from middle position.
Opponent:
Jonathan Depa:
The board ran out and Depa stayed ahead, sending his opponent to the rail.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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370,000
220,000
|
220,000 |
Naoya Kihara checked from under the gun on . His opponent on the button bet 7,000 into a pot of around 20,000. Kihara took some thinking time, double-checked his cards, then called.
"Ace-high," Kihara's opponent announced.
Kihara opened and took it down. A player across the table guessed that Kihara was thinking of raising and he smiled and admitted that may have been the case.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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134,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|

Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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490,000
458,500
|
458,500 |
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320,000
165,000
|
165,000 |
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250,000
108,000
|
108,000 |
|
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240,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
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210,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
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205,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
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160,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
||
|
135,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
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110,000
185,000
|
185,000 |
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105,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
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100,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
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100,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
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94,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
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85,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
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On a flop of there was roughly 22,000 already brewed in the pot, Ryan Leng check-raised his opponents' 7,100 to 35,000 and he called.
The fell on the turn and Leng wasted no time announcing he was all-in. Leng had approximately 153,000 behind and his opponent had slightly left. His opponent muttered something along the lines of "any other card," as he mucked his hand.
Leng's neighbor begged him to show, and Leng obliged and showed for ace-high.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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245,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
Vincent Newland bet 12,000 into a pot of 16,000 on a board from under the gun, and his opponent next to act went into the tank. After about ninety seconds, Newland's opponent announced a call, but his
would be sent to the muck after Newland showed his
for a rivered runner-runner flush.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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280,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Joey Weissman raised from under the gun and received two callers before the flop fell .
The player in the big blind checked, as did Weissman before the final player bet 4,000 from middle position. Only Weissman called, and they went heads-up to the turn.
Both players checked, and when the hit the river, Weissman checked for the third time. The American saw his opponent check behind to a showdown and Weissman tabled
for a set, and took down the pot.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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170,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|


Two near-identical shorter stacks clashed on the main feature table. Jordan Kaplan raised to 3,500 first to act and Sai Chiu jammed the big blind for 53,700, which Kaplan called.
Sai Chiu:
Jordan Kaplan:
Chiu picked up more outs on the flop, but the
turn and
river brought no help for Chiu.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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110,000
15,800
|
15,800 |
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Eliminé |