Brian Altman was spotted in a hand on the turn with a board that read 6♦10♥K♥K♣ and a chunky pot of 15,000 in the middle. Altman bet 5,000 from the small blind and David Rohm called in the hijack.
The river was the 9♣. Action went check-check. Altman tabled the A♠A♦, which bested the QxQx that Rohm briefly flipped over in frustration.
Bryan Dickens raised to 600 from early position, the player in middle position called and the hijack raised to 2,500. Steven Lillehaug called in the small blind, as did Dickens and the player in middle position.
The 4♦8♣5♣ flop saw the action check to the hijack, who bet out 3,500. Lillehaug called and Dickens check-raised to 13,000. The player in middle position folded, the hijack called, and Lillehaug got out of the way.
The 3♣ turn saw Dickens fire again, this time for 15,000. The hijack tanked for several minutes before finally letting go of his hand.
Vincent Dong opened the action with a raise to 600 from middle position. The player in the hijack called before Jonathan Wong three-bet to 2,500 from the cutoff. Dong and the hijack called.
Wong continued for 3,000 on 9♠4♥3♥ but only Dong called.
Action went check-check on the 10♠ turn before Dong wagered 10,500 on the 10♦ river. Dong snap folded earning Wong the pot, increasing his stack back above the starting mark.
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Around 15,000 was in the pot as Andreas Wagner and Joshua Terebelo went heads up to a flop of A♠K♥9♦.
Terebelo had a bet of 16,000 in front of him from under the gun before Wagner raised to 45,000 in the big blind.
"If you had aces, why would you do that? I can't believe I'm thinking about folding this," Terebelo said as he spent several minutes in the tank. He eventually folded and Wagner allowed him to choose one of his cards. Terebelo flipped over the K♠.
"If the other one was a king and you just call the turn, you get it all on the river. I had a set of nines," Terebelo told him.
"Report that shit," he added as Wagner took down the big pot that could've been much larger.
Yizhak Yerushalmi opened to 600 from under the gun and was called by Daniel Hachem in the hijack before Rob Kuhn three-bet to 3,000 from the button. Both Yerushalmi and Hachem made the call.
Action checked around to Kuhn who fired a 2,500 continuation bet on the K♠8♥7♣ flop. Yerushalmi made the call while Hachem got out of the way.
Kuhn bet again when checked to on the 6♦ turn, this time for 7,000. Once again Yerushalmi called.
On the 6♣ river Yerushalmi checked, Kuhn shoved for his remaining stack of 23,300 and Yerushalmi made the call. Kuhn tabled K♦K♥ for kings full of sixes to score a full double up at Yerushalmi's expense.
Joseph Casale opened the action with a raise to 700 from under the gun. Ryan Appleberry three-bet to 1,600 from the cutoff and Casale made the call.
Casale led out for 2,000 on a connected Q♠4♠7♥ flop and Appleberry called.
Action went check-check on the 4♥ turn before Casale fired 2,000 on the 8♥ river. Appleberry bumped it up to 7,000 and Casale made the call. Appleberry showed 7♦4♦ for fours-full, earning the pot while Casale tabled K♣Q♣ before the dealer pushed the pot in Appleberry's direction.
To mark the WSOP Main Event, Faraz Jaka has given us some top tips for those playing in the most prestigious event in poker. You can always find more help and advice, as well as free poker resources and training videos on Jaka Coaching.
Faraz Jaka
Top Tip #1: Identify Weaker Players
"My first tip is to identify the weakest players at your table," Jaka told PokerNews. "And while this may be important in all tournaments, in the Main Event it's extra important because you just get so many recreational players, and maybe this is the one big tournament they play a year.
"So be sure to identify who those players are. You want to raise their big blinds a little bit wider, you want to three-bet and isolate them. And really try to get into pots versus them."
Jaka says that these weaker players tend to belong in two separate camps:
"There's going to be ones that are scared money that you could kind of run over, but then there's gonna be others that are gamblers.
"They're the ones where you actually have to kind of hold on and hit something, so be a little bit aware of who they are. They're definitely the ones you want to get into a pot heads-up with.
