We walked over to the set of feature tables just in time to see Jacob Bazeley and Adam Kende in an all in preflop confrontation. Kende was the one all in with ![]()
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of Bazeley. The hand was all but over when the dealer put out a flop of ![]()
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, and Kende would need runner runner to survive. The
came on the turn, meaning that Kende could chop the pot with an ace or a three. However, the
came on the river, giving Bazeley the knockout, upping his stack to 270,000 in the process.
2013 World Series of Poker
Mikolaj Zawadzki and Ludovic Lacay got it all in before the flop.
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, and Lacay was forced to double Zawadzki up.
Ivan Demidov and Grayson Ramage are two of the more accomplished tournament players at Table 427, but that hasn't stopped them from waging war on each other. In their most recent duel, Ramage raised to 22,000 from early position and Demidov three-bet to 59,00 from the button. Ramage called, and the flop rolled out ![]()
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. Both players checked, and Ramage led for 56,000 on the
turn. Demidov came along, and the
landed on the river. Ramage kept up the aggression by pushing out a bet worth 155,000. Demidov through for a minute before casually tossing out a call. Ramage showed ![]()
for top pair top kicker, and Demidov mucked.
Jose Manuel Nadal opened to 23,000 in early position and Roland Israelashvili called from the big blind.
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and Israelashvili checked to Nadal who bet 27,000. Israelashvili check-raised to 75,000, Nadal called, and the
followed on the turn. Israelashvili fired 120,000, but couldn't shake Nadal who called to see the
river. A check from Israelashvili was met with an all-in shove from Nadal for 236,000, to which Israelashvili quickly folded.
Kenneth Hsiung opened to 21,000 only to have Pakinai Lisawad three-bet all in for 155,000 from the hi-jack. With the action on Bryan Pellegrino in the cutoff, he made the call and the blinds and Hsiung folded.
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and Lisawad hit the rail as Pellegrino climbed to 1,420,000 in chips.
These players earned $32,242 for their Main Event finish. Keep an eye on the payouts tab for exact-place finishes.
A huge post-dinner, preflop confrontation just took place between Sterling Savill and Robin Ylitalo which saw the pair trading bets until Savill had put in another hefty reraise, and after pausing for some time Ylitalo declared he was all in and Savill called instantly, creating a huge 1 million-plus chip pot.
Savill sprung up out of his seat as he made the call, tabling his ![]()
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"Hold, hold, hold," said Savill repeatedly as the dealer successively dealt the ![]()
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flop, the
turn, and the
river.
At the sight of the river card Savill pumped his fist hard enough to make his watch slip off of his arm and into the lap of Jeremy Druckman seated to his right. Druckman returned the watch to Savill and after some time was taken to count down stacks, the huge pot was delivered to him as well.
From the button, Steve Bartlett raised to 20,000. In the small blind was Jonathan Depa, and he reraised to 47,000. Play got back to Bartlett, and he called to see the flop come down ![]()
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behind.
On the flop, Bartlett had 238,000 behind after calling the three-bet. Depa had him well covered. Depa fired a bet of 39,000, to which Bartlett fired back with a raise to 86,000. Depa moved all in, and Bartlett tank-called.
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for top pair with a king kicker. Although Bartlett was dominated preflop by Depa's ![]()
, he was now the one dominating. The turn was the
and river the
. Bartlett kept his lead from the flop and doubled up to 589,000. Depa slipped under 400,000.
Yevgeniy Timoshenko opened from under the gun + 1 to 22,000. Action folded around to Adam Friedman in the big blind who called.
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and Friedman checked to Timoshenko who fired off a bet of 30,000. Friedman called.
On the
turn Friedman checked again. Timoshenko put out another bet, this time for 54,000. Friedman called again.
The river was the
and Friedman checked for a third time. While Timoshenko was thinking about what to do, one of the players at the table called the clock on him. About 15 seconds into his clock, Timoshenko put out a bet of 90,000. Friedman tanked for about a minute before finally tossing in the call. Timoshenko showed ![]()
for a full house and that was good to take down the pot as Friedman mucked.
Mark Newhouse opened to 20,000 from early position, and Rep Porter, located directly to Newhouse's left, three-bet to 53,000. Action folded back to Newhouse, who fired back with a four-bet to 220,000. Porter five-bet shoved for an additional 120,000, and Newhouse called.
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Newhouse was caught in a bluff, but Porter wasn't out of the woods yet. The ![]()
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flop kept Porter in front, and the
on the turn left Newhouse drawing dead even before he paired his queen on the river. Porter chipped up to about 700,000, and Newhouse sitting behind 910,000.