Sarah Herring reveals the most interesting and important figures to come out of the 2018 Main Event so far.
2018 World Series of Poker
Govert Metaal bet 6,000 into a pot of about 16,000 on the turn of a board and heads-up opponent, Matt Berkey, made the call.
The hit the river and Berkey checked once again. Metaal fired 13,500 and Berket called. Metall tabled the making the nut-flush and Berkey mucked.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Govert Metaal |
248,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
Matt Berkey |
129,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
John Hesp bet 3,000 on a flop and opponent Daniel Colpoys called.
The river was the and both players checked. Hesp showed a .
"King any good?" asked Hesp.
Colpoys waited for Hesp to show the as well.
"Yes," said Colpoys, "But that one wasn't," pointing at the jack and indicating he had .
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Daniel Colpoys
|
245,000
-8,600
|
-8,600 |
John Hesp |
80,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Aylar Lie |
160,000
42,600
|
42,600 |
Marc MacDonnell |
151,000
24,500
|
24,500 |
David Bach |
125,000
-20,500
|
-20,500 |
|
||
Adam Friedman |
70,000
31,600
|
31,600 |
|
||
Eric Kurtzman |
62,000
-19,000
|
-19,000 |
Calvin Anderson |
54,000
-45,500
|
-45,500 |
|
||
Scott Clements |
54,000
-39,500
|
-39,500 |
|
||
Christopher Frank |
50,000
13,600
|
13,600 |
|
||
David Pham |
22,000
-28,800
|
-28,800 |
|
||
Greg Mueller |
22,000
-44,300
|
-44,300 |
|
||
Kristen Bicknell |
19,000
3,500
|
3,500 |
|
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Sean Perry |
174,000
56,000
|
56,000 |
Brian Altman |
173,000
11,800
|
11,800 |
Ben Yu |
147,300
-10,700
|
-10,700 |
|
||
Darren Elias |
132,300
-14,700
|
-14,700 |
Farah Galfond |
119,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
DJ MacKinnon |
104,000
-400
|
-400 |
Michael Marder |
66,800
22,600
|
22,600 |
John Holley |
42,000
-100
|
-100 |
Sam Cohen | Eliminado |
The action folded around to Jonathan Gray who raised it up on the button. Michael Wang was in the big blind and three-bet to 6,200. Gray called and the two went heads-up to a flop of .
Wang led out for 7,000 and Gray called to see the fall on the turn. Wang slid in a stack of T5,000 chips, enough to put Gray to the test for his remaining 31,500. Gray thought for a minute and then pushed his cards face down to the muck.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Michael Wang |
98,500
-2,500
|
-2,500 |
|
||
Jonathan Gray |
31,500
-28,500
|
-28,500 |
Alex Foxen was in the big blind, checking the flop when we arrived. A player two seats to Foxen's left fired 4,200 and a raise to 15,000 followed from middle position. Foxen called and the first bettor called off for his 13,500 total.
The side pot remained the same after the turn but Foxen led out a small 6,000-bet on the river. He earned a call and showed the for flopped top two. The all in player exposed before heading out of the room while the third player flashed what looked like .
Foxen took down the pot, scoring an elimination on the way. He's now playing 287,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Alex Foxen |
287,000
77,000
|
77,000 |
|
Steven van Zadelhoff started the day with a stack already worth more than 100,000 and he's been chipping up nicely in the first two levels so far.
In the last hand, Van Zadelhoff called from the button after a player in middle position raised to 1,800. Van Zadelhoff called another bet of 2,800 on the flop and both checked the turn. The river was the and Van Zadelhoff's opponent bet a chunky 7,100 and the Dutchman folded.
Despite losing this hand Van Zadelhoff still has been slowly growing his stack throughout the day so far.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Steven Van Zadelhoff |
176,600
16,600
|
16,600 |
There was about 27,000 in the middle already and the flop read . The player in the hijack had bet 22,000 and Jeremy Wien raised to 53,000 from the cutoff. His opponent tanked for a while, even got up from his chair. After a while, he open-folded . Wien showed .
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Jeremy Wien |
153,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
||
William Reymond |
121,000
-38,000
|
-38,000 |
Perry Friedman |
66,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
|
||
Ryan Olisar | Eliminado | |
Yuk Mui | Eliminado |
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Truyen Nguyen |
340,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
||
Chris Hunichen |
195,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
||
Jake Schindler |
182,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
||
Bart Lybaert |
136,000
54,000
|
54,000 |
Allan Le |
135,000
62,500
|
62,500 |
|
||
Jonathan Zarin |
120,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Chris Grigorian |
108,000
40,400
|
40,400 |
Frank Kassela |
105,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
||
Dylan Honeyman |
103,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
Katie Stone |
100,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Jared Bleznick |
100,000
-55,000
|
-55,000 |
|
||
Thomas Pettersson |
90,000
5,600
|
5,600 |
Tom Marchese |
80,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
||
Kevin Pollak |
70,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
David "Bakes" Baker |
21,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
|
||
Arne Ruge |
15,000
5,000
|
5,000 |