In the first hand we saw a short stack move all in and Christopher Dimmig called on the button, Stephen Graner in the small blind tanked for a while and checked his cards. He ended up folding, admitting to his opponents he'd folded pocket queens.
Shortie:
Dimmig:
The board ran out and Dimmig scooped a nice pot.
The very next hand would see a bigger pot develop, starting with a Filip Vanherck raise and Dimmig jumping into the action again. By the turn the board showed , Vanherck bet 167,000 and Dimmig raised to 335,000. The Belgian then tanked for minutes before announcing all in.
Dimmig snap-called and tabled and Vanherck appeared a little shell-shocked when turning over his . The completed the board, and when all was done and dusted, the Belgian had about 250,000 left and a new chip leader was crowned.
Well, that escalated quickly… and heavily in favor of Andrew Teng.
He started the hand with 800,000 in chips and raised, then Matt Salsberg moved all in with . From one seat over, Joseph Salvaggi then reshoved for more than 600,000 with , and Teng snapped them both off with his . The second-best starting hand in no-limit hold'em held up, and Teng now has 1.75 million as two more players hit the rail.
On Episode 81 of the Thinking Poker Podcast, Nate and Andrew discuss strategies for the World Series of Poker that will assist you both on and off of the felt, and they also break down a hand from Nitcast favorite Gareth Chantler and another from the Sunday Million.
Two of the more talkative players in the game find themselves seated next to one another at Table 440. Maurice Hawkins is sitting in Seat 1 and Dwyte Pilgrim is to his left in Seat 2. Hawkins found himself with a near triple-up early on, then would add a few more chips to his stack shortly thereafter.
Hawkins opened the action to 17,000 then called an all-in reraise of a short stack. Hawkins had and his opponent held , but Hawkins took the lead when the flop came . The on the turn would give Hawkins's opponent more outs, but the river was the to give Hawkins a full house.
The hand before that saw Scott O'Reilly open the action for 17,000 and Hawkins call. Pilgrim raised it to 73,000 and O'Reilly moved all in. Hawkins joked "am I even here. Do these two see me here?" before folding. Pilgrim quickly called tabling . O'Reilly held . The board ran out and Hawkins gave Pilgrim a congratulatory high-five as Pilgrim let out a deep breath and said "they musta forgot! they musta forgot!"
Pilgrim was down to just 3,000 late last night and now has moved over the half-million mark in chips.
and Dimmig scooped a nice pot.
, Vanherck bet 167,000 and Dimmig raised to 335,000. The Belgian then tanked for minutes before announcing all in.
and Vanherck appeared a little shell-shocked when turning over his 
. The 
completed the board, and when all was done and dusted, the Belgian had about 250,000 left and a new chip leader was crowned.
, and Teng snapped them both off with his 
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and his opponent held 
on the turn would give Hawkins's opponent more outs, but the river was the 
and Hawkins gave Pilgrim a congratulatory high-five as Pilgrim let out a deep breath and said "they musta forgot! they musta forgot!"
