Iraj Parvizi: XxXx/Q♥10♦4♠6♥
Nick Guagenti: XxXx/2♣2♥J♠K♦folded sixth street
Nick Guagenti completed and Iraj Parvizi called.
Parvizi bet on fourth street, then called a raise from Guagenti.
Fifth street saw Parvizi, undeterred by his opponent's earlier call, bet again. Guagenti was not going anywhere just yet and flatted.
Parvizi bet again on sixth street. This time Guagenti's poor runout would not allow him to continue in the hand as he mucked his holding to take a small hit to his stack.
Andres Korn: XxXx / J♦6♠J♥
Chris Vitch: XxXx / 6♥10♠9♥folded on fifth street
Andres Korn completed with a jack and Chris Vitch completed for Korn to call. Korn then bet fourth street to see Vitch call before betting fifth and forcing a fold.
In the next hand, Vitch took the low and chopped with Eli Elezra.
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.
Iraj Parvizi was unable to run up his short stack on table 122 and has become the first casualty of the tournament. In the meanwhile, the same table now features Eric Wasserson while Alex Livingston has also entered the competition.
According to the tournament info screens, there are 24 players out of 25 entries remaining.
Seth Gottlieb raised in the small blind and Scott Seiver defended in the big blind.
Gottlieb took one to Seiver's two on the first draw before betting. Seiver called to send action to the second draw.
On the second draw Gottlieb stood pat while Seiver again drew one. The same betting pattern was then repeated.
Gottlieb declined to take a card on the final draw. Seiver opted to swap out one of his cards but then folded after Gottlieb bet. "I have the super nuts...almost" Gottlieb remarked as he showed the table 7x6x4x3x2x.
Eli Elezra raised to 4,000 on the button and Alex Livingston called from the big blind.
Livingston checked to Elezra, who bet 3,000 on the 4♣K♥3♠ flop. Livingston check-raised to 12,000 and, without missing a beat, Elezra made it 38,500 to go.
Livingston went into the tank, but eventually decided to let his hand go and Elezra was awarded the pot.
Seth Gottlieb limped in and Felipe Ramos checked his option from the big blind. Ramos discarded all five cards against the two of Gottlieb and grinned at Daniel Negreanu, who had walked over to the table. "Daniel, do you want to play this hand?"
Ramos check-called a bet and discarded three, Gottlieb took two. Ramos check-called another bet before both discard one and checked. Ramos showed the 8x7x4x3x2x and won the pot.
Andres Korn led for 6,000 in the big blind with the turn showing 10♣6♥2♣2♥. Chris Vitch raised to 26,000 in the hijack and Korn called. That led them to the 5♥ river on which Korn bet 45,000. Vitch gave it brief consideration and folded.
