These players earned $21,495 for their Main Event finish. Keep an eye on the payouts tab for exact-place finishes.
2013 World Series of Poker
We came upon a three-way hand involving a middle position player, Dutch Boyd (button), and Alexandre Chieng (big blind), with all three having contributed preflop to create a pot of about 40,000.
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, and Cheing responded with an all-in push for 76,000 total. The player in the middle folded, then Boyd thought for a while as he counted out the calling chips, then counted what remained to see it was 39,000.
Finally Boyd let his hand go, and now he and Chieng sit with stacks of less than 150,000.
These players earned $21,495 for their Main Event finish. Keep an eye on the payouts tab for exact-place finishes.
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and the pot around 110,000, we found Ronnie Bardah betting out 84,000 into his opponent in the big blind.
Bardah's opponent went into the tank for a minute before eventually releasing his hand to see Bardah climb to 335,000 in chips.
James Alexander eliminated two opponents in a hand we didn't catch, and he's now well over a million in chips.
Dennis Stacy opened the pot from under the gun. Noah Schwartz was in the hijack, and raised it up to 32,000, which was called.
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, as Stacy checked his option. Schwartz threw out a continuation bet of 26,000, before Stacy quickly bumped it up to 57,000. Schwartz made the call.
With the
falling on the turn, Stacy instantly moved all in. Schwartz asked for a count, before making the call.
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Stacy was unable to find a king on the river, as the
completed the board. Schwartz now moves up to 595,000 in chips.
Marcel Luske called a bet from a player in middle position on a flop of ![]()
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. Rafael Caiaffa then check-raised all in from the big blind for 108,000, and Luske made the call after the initial bettor folded.
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Caiaffa had a set, but Luske had outs with his flush draw. The turn was a
, no help to Luske, and the river was a
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Bob Bright opened to 15,000 from early position and Sarah Herzali three-bet to 29,000 from the cutoff. Chris Johnson four-bet to 58,000 from the small blind, resulting in a fold from Bright. Herzali five-bet jammed for 132,000, Johnson called, and the hands were revealed.
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board, giving Herzali the double up.
We came upon a big hand between start-of-day-4 chip leader Maxx Coleman and Juan Pena just now that had reached the river with the board showing ![]()
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and about 160,000 already in the middle.
It appeared as though Pena had checked, then Coleman had set out a bet of 88,000. Pena then had raised all in for 303,000 total, and Coleman went deep into the tank for several minutes trying to decide what to do.
As Coleman thought, Pena held his shirt up over the bottom of his face and stared directly ahead. Finally Coleman set out the calling chips, and Pena dropped the shirt from his face and moved to muck his cards face downward. Coleman tabled his ![]()
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Pena congratulated Coleman on making a good call, as did others at the table afterwards. Pena is out while Coleman now sits with more than 1.3 million.