The remaining three players are on a 15-minute break as three-handed play started off at a slow pace.
2022 World Series of Poker

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Ron “The Carolina Express” Stanley, 70, was one of the most feared players in the game. In fact, he even went toe-to-toe with the legendary Stu Ungar at the final table of the 1997 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. It was there that Stanley donned a tuxedo while playing in the intense Las Vegas heat on Fremont Street.
Stanley, who has been playing poker for a living for “at least 50 years,” was recently spotted at the 2022 WSOP and was kind enough to chat with PokerNews.
“My dad used to play poker and he’d take me to the games when I was a kid,” he said about how he learned poker in the first place. “I was watching and it got pretty interesting. He was pretty good at it and I picked it up from him. It’s in my blood I guess.”
While he hasn’t had any major tournament scores since before the Poker Boom, Stanley is still on the grind.
“I play poker 5-6 days a week at least, mostly cash games,” he said. “In Vegas, I mostly play at South Point, but I’ve been in South Carolina for six months playing a lot of home games.”
On the very next hand after the elimination, [Removed:554] called the small blind jam from Peter Turmezey in the big blind.
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[Removed:555] was in a good spot to double and the board complied as it came ![]()
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and the three stacks eveend out with none of them being short anymore.
Adam Hendrix jammed or just over 2,000,000 from the small blind and Peter Turmezey called in the big blind.
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of Turmezey.
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and his bid to win his first bracelet was denied.
Action folded to Mo Arani in the small blind who shoved all in, covering the stack of Toby Lewis in the big blind and Lewis snap-called for his last roughly 1,600,000.
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, giving Lewis top pair but a flush draw for Arani. On the
turn it was the end of the road for Lewis as Arani hit his flush and the
completed the river sending Lewis to the rail in 5th place.
Niveau: 31
Blinds: 125,000/250,000
Ante: 250,000
Francois Pirault raised under the gun, Peter Turmezey jammed in the big blind and Pirault called off his remaining stack.
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, the turn was the
and the river the
to bring an end to Pirault's run.
Francois Pirault jammed from the hijack and Mo Arani called on the button.
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Pirault's rail called for a queen. the flop came ![]()
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, the turn brought in a straight with the
and the river was the
to give him a double up as the camera crew that has been following him rushed to get the footage.
Cliff Josephy moved all in from early position for 2,025,000 and it folded to [Removed:554] who quickly called.
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, with no help to the jack-nine of Josephy until the turn came the
giving Josephy a pair and some hope. The river came the
, which at first looked great for Josephy, until the table realized [Removed:555] made a flush with his kings and Josephy was eliminated in 7th place.