2017 World Series of Poker
After a raise by Paul De Froment, Stephen Burgermeister moved all in for 16,000 from the button and De Froment snap-called when the action was back on him. Burgermeister had the ![]()
and was in desperate shape against De Froment's ![]()
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It was all over after the ![]()
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turn, making the
river a formality.
On the feature table, Dario Minieri raised to 1,800 from under the gun. Joseph Trezzo called from the next seat over, and Phil Hellmuth three-bet to 9,400 from middle position. Frank Bonacci four-bet to 22,200 from the small blind (with about 27,000 behind), Minieri and Trezzo folded, and Hellmuth tanked for about two minutes before he folded as well.
Niko Koop raised to 1,800 from mid-position. Timothy Odell in the hijack, Matthew Wantman on the button, and Wender Oliveira in the small blind called.
The flop came ![]()
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, Oliveira checked, and Koop lead for 3,400. Odell called, Wantman folded, and Oliveira called.
The turn brought them the
on which they all checked.
The river completed the board with the
. Oliveira and Koop checked. Odell bet 4,700 and Oliveira called. Koop looked hard at the board, then his cards. He took some more time to decide what to do. In the end, he called. Odell showed ![]()
and the others mucked.
Benjamin Pollak raised to 2,100 and received two callers including Jerry Young in the big blind. The flop came ![]()
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and Young moved all in for 16,000. Pollak was the only caller and the cards were turned over.
Young: ![]()
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The
turn was a blank, but Pollak improved to a full house thanks to the
river.
The player on the button opened, Jeremy Saderne three-bet from the small blind, and Bertrand Grospellier moved all in for 11,500 from the big blind. The button folded and Saderne put in the extra.
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The board ran out ![]()
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A full house for Grospellier continued his spin-up from a Day 2 starting stack of 5,300.
Now siting with 26,500, Grospellier announced, “I’m pretty happy.”
Cheers and claps erupted from the Miranda room as William Kassouf hit the rail.
"Can I get a thank you?!" Dany Georges asked, bowing. "We can all have peace and quiet now!"
We asked Georges to recount the hand for us. According to him, he had ![]()
against Kassouf's ![]()
. They got it all in on the turn when both of them made a straight on a ![]()
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board, but Georges had a redraw to a flush, and he made it on the diamond river.
"I had the redraw so I was trying to get him to put his money in," Georges said. "I don't really care about knocking him out, I'm just playing my game and I'm happy to make everybody else happy now that they have some peace."
Kassouf was graceful in the exit, wishing everyone good luck and quickly heading to rail.
The next three tables broke in Pavilion Black and that reduced the number of active tables in that section to just 12. Among those heading to the Amazon room were Diego Ventura, Ryan Laplante, and Ronan Monfort, while Alexandru Papazian busted in the green section next to Kristy Arnett.