2022 World Series of Poker
Allan Le raised to 6,500 from the big blind before Feng Zhao moved all in for 44,900. Le let out a deep sigh before calling.
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Le's instincts were correct as he had run kings into aces. The ![]()
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flop also gave Zhao a flush draw and left Le looking for one out which didn't come on the ![]()
turn and river.
2018 Main Event champ John Cynn raised to 2,200 from the button and Randy Sim defended from the big blind.
Sim check-called 2,000 from Cynn on the ![]()
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flop. The turn brought the
and Sim checked again.
The TV cameras settled in to watch the action and Cynn bet another 5,800, Sim called.
Sim led out for 11,500 on the
river and Cynn tank-folded.
Day 2 of the WSOP Main Event for most is an opportunity to continue their journey onwards to bag for Day 3, but unfortunately for some that won't even be an option.
[Removed:468] started the day with 18,000 in chips but never showed up to participate, but his chips were very much in play. After a little more than halfway through the second level, he was blinded out and eliminated from the tournament.
Another couple of players in Bally's Gold Section that have yet to show are Francis Tan and Dick Creese. Tan started the day with 49,400 chips but currently has 30,400 until he is also eliminated. Creese is currently sitting on a similar stack of 26,700 chips.
With 9,000 already in the middle on a ![]()
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board, Hyunshik Yun, from the hijack, fired for 6,000, which represented nearly a third of his remaining stack.
Brett Schroeder, in the big blind, then put Yun all in. Yun would deliberate for roughly 30 seconds before making the call.
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Schroeder's two pair were well ahead of Yun, who needed an ace, queen, king, or ten in order to remain in the Main Event.
The board would indeed pair on the river, though the
gave Schroeder fours full of jacks and eliminated Yun.

Matt Glantz drew the lucky $1 million bounty on Tuesday afternoon at Paris Las Vegas in the first ever $1,000 buy-in World Series of Poker (WSOP) Million Dollar Bounty, a no-limit hold'em tournament with 14,112 entrants.
Glantz dug through a chest full of envelopes, all with mystery cash prizes ranging from $25,000 to $1 million, most on the low end, and only one person would go home with the grand prize.
The Pennsylvania native slowly opened his envelope and initially noticed a "1" symbol followed by a comma, but as he continued peeling to further reveal, he discovered he'd hit the jackpot.
Three players saw a flop of ![]()
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, creating a pot of about 12,400.
The player first to act led out for 8,700 before Pete Males raised to 21,000. The third player who was on the button instantly folded and the original bettor was in the tank. About 30 seconds had passed before he decided to let his hand go and the dealer shipped the pot to Males.
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, there was around 42,000 in the middle and Mark Davis was heads-up with the player on his left. Davis led out with a bet of 36,500 from the big blind and his opponent shoved all in.
Davis went into the tank with his tournament life at risk but eventually called off his stack of 96,100 chips. His opponent showed ![]()
for a pair of jacks while Davis held ![]()
for a set of eights. Davis scored a full double up and quickly moved up the leaderboard.
A player opened to 2,200 from middle position and received a single call from Ryan Depaulo out of the big blind.
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flop to the
turn where Depaulo led out for 6,000. His opponent did not waste much time before mucking to send the pot the popular poker vlogger's way. Depaulo, who started today with 188,800, has struggled to re-capture his earlier momentum but has been holding pretty steady throughout the day's play thus far.