Action folded to Phil Ivey who raised to 800,000 from the button. Ben Tollerene called from the big blind and players went heads-up to the flop.
The 10♠5♠5♥ was dealt and Tollerene checked to Ivey who bet 600,000. Tollerene raised to 1,600,000 and Ivey moved all-in for 4,175,000. Tollerene made the call and the cards were flipped.
Phil Ivey: Q♥Q♦
Ben Tollerene: K♦10♣
Ivey was looking strong and held on the 3♠ turn.
Things took a turn for Ivey on the K♠ river as Tollerene had hit a king out, which sent Ivey home in 11th place.
In the last hand of the previous level, In a limped pot between the blinds. Matthias Eibinger and Santhosh Suvarna checked to the river for the final board to read Q♣10♠7♦4♣10♥. Eibinger bet 300,000 and folded out Suvarna.
With the blinds at 200,000/400,000, Eibinger opened to 800,000 from the button and quickly folded when Mikita Badziakouski moved all in for 5,650,000 from the big blinds.
Sean Winter received a walk in the big blind on the next deal.
Eibinger raised to 800,000 again, and this time he stole the blinds.
Suvarna made it 800,000 from the hijack and Taylor von Kriegenbergh defended his big blind. The latter check-folded to a bet of 700,000 on the Q♦7♦6♣ flop.
Badziakouski opened to 800,000 from the hijack and Eibinger called from the big blind. Badziakouski's continuation bet of 400,000 on the 8♣5♦2♣ flop got the job done.
Charles Hook raised to 1,000,000 from the button and Ben Tollerene three-bet to 7,170,0000 from the small blind. Jonathan Jaffe moved all-in for 1,250,000 from the big blind and Hook got out of the way.
Jonathan Jaffe:9♠8♦
Ben Tollerene:A♣5♣
Jaffe needed some help to stay in the game, as the A♠10♠3♣ flop went Tollerene's way.
The 4♣ turn left Jaffe drawing dead. As the 6♥ river was placed, Jaffe stood from the table as he was eliminated in 12th place.
Earlier this year on an ordinary Monday afternoon, a bespectacled man walked into the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on Las Vegas Blvd. Tucked under his arm was an uninteresting box that only he knew contained something rather interesting – a pair of gold watches dating back more than 40 years.
These were not your run-of-the-mill wristwear, but rather evidence of a unique and often overlooked time of poker history, a year when the World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet, now the game’s highest accolade, was replaced in favor of watches.
1982 WSOP watches
The man holding the box was David Sklansky, who in 1978 forever changed poker by advocating a mathematical approach to the game in his groundbreaking book The Theory of Poker. Nicknamed “The Mathematician,” he proved his prowess just four years later when he won two WSOP tournaments in five days.
First, he won the 1982 WSOP Event #7: $800 Mixed Doubles Limit Seven Card Stud, a tournament that paired one man with one woman, alongside Dani Kelly, and followed that up by taking down Event #12: $1,000 Limit 5-Card Draw High. A year later, the Binions reverted back to the beloved bracelets players know today, and Sklansky captured his third piece of WSOP hardware by winning Event #11: $1,000 Limit Omaha.
It was a remarkable accomplishment, and for more than four decades he’s kept safe the evidence of his victories, both of which still worked. So, why was Sklansky carrying his 1982 WSOP gold watches, two of only 15 ever awarded, into a pawn shop? Well, he was looking to sell them of course, but not to just any of the dozens of pawn shops spread across Las Vegas. Oh no, he was walking into arguably the most famous pawn shop in the world, the home to the wildly popular television show Pawn Stars, and he was there to do it with cameras rolling.
Charles Hook raised from the hijack to 650,000 and Jonathan Jaffe three-bet to 1,800,000 from the button. Jeremy Ausmus moved all-in for 6,200,000 from the big blind, which got a fold from hook who threw his pocket fives into the muck, and a snap-call from Jaffe.
Jeremy Ausmus: A♠Q♦
Jonathan Jaffe: Q♠Q♥
Ausmus was looking to improve against Jaffe's queens. Luckily, the flop came his way as the dealer brought A♥K♥J♣.
The 7♥ turn brought in a possible flush draw for Jaffe, but the 3♦ river didn't help, and Ausmus got the double.
