2019 World Series of Poker
Ryan Dodge just won a small pot after his opponent check-called 40,000 on a ![]()
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river with Dodge tabling ![]()
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However, Dodge's stack is anything but small, as he sits on 1,450,000 in chips.
Jeff Dumas has been building a stack over the course of Day 3 so far. Just now he took down a pot after calling a 65,000 check-raise from Matthew Gardner after betting 20,000 on a ![]()
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flop.
On the
turn, the action went check-check and the last card out was the
. Gardner checked once more and Dumas put 75,000 over the line and took it down.
Photos by Antonio Abrego, Katerina Lukina, Joe Giron and Jamie Thompson.
With around 50,000 already in the middle and a board showing ![]()
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, Benjamin Ector moved all-in for 60,500 after his opponent from the big blind checked his option.
His opponent went into the tank for roughly five minutes before another player in the hand called for a clock.
Once the small blind player got to the five-second countdown, he moved his chips in the middle and made the call.
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"I was glad you called the clock, players fold like 65 percent of the time once it is," stated Ector before leaving the table.
Ector currently has four cashes this summer during the WSOP for $272,895 with his best coming from Event #50: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Monster Stack where he finished fifth for $258,516.
Jesus Espinosa had opened to 9,000 on the button and both Paul Ephremsen and Peter Traply called in the small and the big blinds respectively.
No one bet on the ![]()
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flop. The turn was the
and Ephremsen lead for 14,000, which only Traply called. The river was
and Ephremsen went all in for 129,000, which was only about 45,000 less than Traply had behind. He thought about it before making the fold.
A player in middle position opened for 9,000 and was called from the button, and Shyam Srinivasan dropped in a sizable three-bet to 49,000 out of the big blind. That induced one slow fold and then a fast one, and the online legend raked in a pot, sitting behind a very healthy stack of around 700,000.
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on the board, a player in early position bet 55,000, which looked to be around half pot. Justin Liberto put in a raise to what looked like 147,000 from the cutoff. His opponent tanked awhile then gave it up.
The bracelet winner is trending up quickly after treading water in the early levels.