Evan Cutler jammed from the hijack for 705,000. Anthony Lamps also shoved for 890,000 from the small blind. The big blind also made the call covering both players.
Evan Cutler: A♣J♥
Anthony Lamps: 6♦6♠
Big Blind: 8♣8♦
The big blind was ahead and was safe up to the turn with the board reading 9♠3♣2♥4♠. However, the big blind could not believe the J♠ river giving Cutler a higher pair and the main pot. Lamps was eliminated and the big blind took a 380,000 side pot.
On a heads-up flop of 10♦Q♠K♦, Jared Jaffee and Thiago Franco got their entire stacks into the middle, with Jaffee at risk of elimination.
Jared Jaffee: A♦J♦
Thiago Franco: 10♣10♠
Jaffee had the better end of it with his flopped nut straight, but still had to fade the board pairing as Franco had a set of tens. The turn A♠ gave Franco some chop outs but the case A♣ on the river really did it as it gave him a full house to win him the pot, eliminating Jaffee.
Jaffee could do nothing but shake his head as he headed to the payout desk, while Franco is one of the chip leaders of the tournament with over 6,000,000.
Poker Hall of Famer Jennifer Harman has seen the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in all of its iterations. Harman won two bracelets when the World Series played at Binion's Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas and made several final tables after the transition to Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in the mid-2000s.
Now, 27 years after her first WSOP final table in 1996, Harman finds herself at yet another World Series rendition at the rebranded Horseshoe Casino on the Strip. And while the golden U-shaped emblem outside the hotel is by and large the same, Harman said the modern venue doesn't compare to the WSOP's original home.
"It was such a cool atmosphere playing at Binion's; it's just nothing like that," Harman told PokerNews. "Now it's just like, you know, poker blew up and it's more ... it's still a really cool atmosphere, but it's just different. It's not a small room, musty, that kind of stuff. But it's still really cool. Poker's still really popular, so that's a pretty awesome thing."
PokerNews caught up with Harman last week as she played Day 1 of Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship at the 2023 WSOP to ask about her summer schedule, pick for the Poker Hall of Fame and her memories with the late Doyle Brunson.
In the sixth episode of The Chad & Jesse Poker Show, Chad Holloway and Jesse Fullen are joined by GGPoker Ambassador Jason Koon, who took some time before jumping into the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $250,000 Super High Roller.
Koon talks about expecting his second child, and as fate would have it, the day after recording his wife went into labor and he had to pull out of the aforementioned tournament. In addition to sharing what it's like being a family man, Koon discusses integrity in poker, his personal goals, and a never-before-shared prop bet he has with Bill Perkins.
Koon, who currently sits fifth on the all-time poker money list according to The Hendon Mob with nearly $48 million, also discusses his love of poker history, shares a Doyle Brunson story, and just opens up about poker and life. Don't miss your chance to hear from one of the best.
Short-stacked Zhengxiong Zouxu moved all in preflop for around 250,000 and was called by Yulian Bogdanov to put him at risk.
Zhengxiong Zouxu: 5♥8♥
Yuian Bogdanov: A♠Q♠
Bogdanov was a big favorite to win this pot and score the knockout, but the runout did not agree with him as it came 6♦5♣K♣2♠8♠ to give Zouxu two pair to scoop the pot for a double.
What comes around will sometimes go around, especially at a poker table.
Tyler Hancock was in early position and elected to call 80,000 preflop. The button, though, raised to 160,000 in an act of aggression. Hancock called to bring the flop, which showed 5♠3♦A♣.
Hancock checked, and the player on the button bet 110,000. Hancock immediately check-raised to 250,000 in a sign of more aggression.
The player on the button immediately mucked his hand and Hancock emerged the winner in the skirmish.