2017 World Series of Poker
Both Sofia Lovgren and Natalie Hof had been nursing short stacks for quite some time today and scored double-ups just before being moved out of the Pavilion and into the Amazon room. Fellow 888poker ambassador Nicolau Villa-Lobos also bumped up his stack and will be on the move soon, as just nine tables remain.
Lovgren got into a heads-up pot against Yehuda Cohen and checked the river of a board ![]()
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from middle position. There was 24,000 in the pot and Yehuda Cohen bet 6,300 before facing the check-raise all in by Lovgren. Cohen asked for a count and the shove was for 33,400 in total.
"Sofia, Sofia. Do you have a full house?" Cohen asked and took another 20 seconds before calling. Lovgren replied, "No, quads," and rolled over ![]()
. There were some players on the table joking, "Oh, just quads," while Lovgren raked in the pot with a smile on her face.
One table over, Hof was also at risk. After a raise to 2,300 and a three-bet to 6,000 by the cutoff, Hof shoved from the button for her last 21,700. The initial raiser folded and the cutoff snap-called with ![]()
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"Teach me how to do it," Greg Mueller joked to her in German and Hof grinned back and said, "Just get it in with the worse hand."
From under the gun, Antonio Esfandiari opened with a raise to 2,500. He was called by one player on the button.
The flop came down ![]()
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and both players checked to see the
on the turn. Esfandiari led out with a bet of 4,600 and his opponent called.
The river was the
and Esfandiari checked. The player on the button made it 12,400. Esfandiari then check-raised to 38,000. After thinking for a bit, the player on the button called and showed ![]()
for two pair but it was no good. Esfandiari had out-flopped him with ![]()
for a full house, and that was good to earn him the pot.
Ryan Hughes has emerged as the current tournament chipleader, wielding a stack of nearly 500,000. Others are trending upwards as well with Than Huynh also over 400,000 and Alexander Yen and Denis Timofeev not far behind.
A player in middle position bet 6,600 into three opponents on a ![]()
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flop. James Obst called on the button, and the blinds both folded. Obst called another barrel on the
turn, this time 8,900. The river brought the
and a check from Obst's opponent. The Aussie star dropped in 21,000.
His opponent thought about two minutes before making the call, and he could only shake his head when Obst showed ![]()
for a flush.
There appears to be a new chipleader in Amazon with Charbel Azzi well up over 350,000.