A player opened to 1,200 and Cosmin Joldis decided to three-bet to 5,200 in the small blind. The initial raiser made the call and both went to see a flop . Joldis continued for 3,200 and his opponent let it go.
With a board showing and 1,500 in the middle, Landon Tice bet out 1,000. Taylor Pollard was the opponent in the hand and he put in a raise to 3,500 which was enough for Tice to give the pot up.
Christian Ly raised in the hijack to 1,200 and faced a three-bet from Ivan Galinec next to him for 3,800. After some thinking, Ly made the call. A flop of appeared and Ly didn't take long to check-fold after Galinec's continuation-bet for 2,500.
The hand after, Ly raised to 1,200 again and only Galinec called. The flop brought and Ly continued for 3,200. Galinec quickly folded.
Andy Talbot, a long-time poker fan battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), entered Day 1d of the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Sunday. He wasn't alone as his home game friends surprised him by showing up to watch him compete.
Talbot, 57, is a former general aviation pilot who would fly from his home in Northern Nevada to compete in a home game in San Jose, California, hosted by his friend Mark Atherton, who is also in attendance at the WSOP.
In March 2020, his fiance Melanie Enman told PokerNews, Andy began slurring his speech, which was concerning to his friends and family. It wasn't until June 2021, however, before he was officially diagnosed with ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. There is currently no cure for ALS, but that didn't stop Talbot from living out a dream of playing in poker's most prestigious annual tournament.
Robert Kuhn opened to 1,200 in the cutoff and the button three-bet to 3,200. Yingzheng Shi called in the small blind and so did Kuhn.
The flop came and the button bet 6,000. Shi jammed for his remaining stack of about 24,000, and Kuhn thought about it for a second before laying down his hand. The cutoff also folded to send the pot to Shi without a sweat.
"If I knew you were folding, I'd have called," Kuhn said to the cutoff. "I had ten-nine suited."
David Eldridge called a bet on the heads-up flop of and then faced another bet worth 2,500 on the turn. He opted for a raise to 6,500 and that did the trick to shut down his table neighborrr. Eldridge claimed the pot without resistance and moved up to two times the starting stack.