Don't get bluffed when your name is Phil Hellmuth and you're at the same table as Shaun Deeb. He'll take pleasure in it and laugh at your expense.
On Saturday, PokerNews captured the end of an entertaining hand at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) involving two legends of the game — Hellmuth and Dan Smith.
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Action folded to Billy Baxter who raised to 18,000 from middle position. When it folded to Alex Foxen in the small blind, he announced all in for 101,000. After the big blind folded, Baxter called to put Foxen at risk.
Baxter drew one card while Foxen stayed pat.
Alex Foxen: 10x9x7x6x3x 
Billy Baxter: 8x4x3x2x
Foxen would have to fade a five, six, seven, nine or 10 to stay alive. But when Baxter flipped over 10x it gave him a 10-eight to beat the 10-nine of Foxen who was eliminated from the tournament.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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240,000
105,000
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105,000 |
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Yuri Dzivielevski in the big blind had called a raise from Galen Hall under the gun and drew one. Hall stood pat and faced a lead from Dzivielevski of 15,000 chips.
Hall weighed his options before committing a call, after which Dzivielevski tabled 10x9x7x6x4x for a ten-nine, awarding him the pot.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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600,000
121,000
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121,000 |
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480,000
150,000
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150,000 |
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315,000
35,000
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35,000 |
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Arriving after the draws, David Lin checked out of the big blind to Patrick Stacey under the gun. Stacey then bet 16,000 into a pot of roughly 60,000 chips and Dan Shak called on the button.
With the action back on Lin, he made it 116,000 to go. Stacey quickly mucked and Shak took a few minutes before folding his 9x8x6x4x2x face-up as well.
Meanwhile, Darren Elias' seat at this table was left departed.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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680,000
190,000
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190,000 |
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410,000
235,000
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235,000 |
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360,000 | |
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270,000
89,000
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89,000 |
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255,000
45,000
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45,000 |
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255,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Action folded to Christopher Vitch in the hijack who raised to 69,000, leaving 1,000 chips behind. Once it folded to Mike Matusow in the big blind, he made the call.
Both players drew one card.
Matusow put in the 1,000 chip to put Vitch all in, and he called and tabled 10x8x5x4x2x. However, it was Matusow with the best of it when he showed 9x8x7x6x3x and eliminated Vitch from the tournament.
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240,000
70,000
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70,000 |
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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.
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.
Read all about the 1982 WSOP watches here in our feature article!
Mike Matusow raised to 20,000 in the hijack and Yuri Dzivielevski made the call in the cutoff. Matusow stood pat and Dzivielevski drew one.
Matusow then checked to Dzivielevski, who fired a bet of 45,000. Matusow tanked for a while before folding.
Meanwhile, Scott Seiver was spotted at this table with several towers of chips.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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630,000
355,000
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355,000 |
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479,000
274,000
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274,000 |
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225,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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195,000
61,000
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61,000 |
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170,000
15,000
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15,000 |
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71,000
129,000
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129,000 |
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Action folded to Erik Seidel in the hijack, who raised all in for 16,000. Once it folded to Nick Schulman in the big blind, he made the call.
Both players drew two cards.
Erik Seidel: 6x4x2x
Nick Schulman: 9x5x4x
After Seidel drew two, he flipped over 3x5x to give Seidel a straight, leaving him drawing dead. Schulman showed that he drew Qx8x. Schulman took the pot and eliminated Seidel from the tournament.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
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160,000
38,000
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38,000 |
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Niveau: 15
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 12,000
