With 33,000 in the middle on the board, Phillip Hui bet pot from the big blind before Dustin Dirksen jammed for 40,000 from the next seat over.
Scott Bohlman folded on the button after thinking about it for a few moments. Hui put in the call.
Dustin Dirksen:
Phillip Hui:
Both players flopped a ten-high straight but Dirksen had a better low. The completed the board and Dirksen took three-quarters of the pot to boost his stack.
Foxen won his first WSOP bracelet in the aforementioned super high roller, topping the 56-entry field. He beat businessman Brandon Steven in heads-up play to net his largest ever payday of $4,563,700.
The cutoff was all in preflop for around 25,000, with Jordan Siegel and and Aaron Schaff calling from the hijack and small blind respectively.
Schaff moved all in on the flop. Siegel, who was covered, called off his last 27,900 chips.
Cutoff:
Jordan Siegel:
Aaron Schaff:
The cutoff was way behind with just a pair of kings while Siegel was in a great position with a pair of aces as well as a wheel draw. Schaff too had outs to the wheel.
The turn gave Siegel "nut-nut" as he made his wheel and he scooped the entire pot after a peeled off on the river.
In the mid 1980’s, women were considered no factor in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, and other than the famous rounder and professional gambler Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston, poker players rarely made headlines in the mainstream press. That all changed when Wendeen Eolis became the first woman to cash at poker’s “Big Dance.”
In the 1986 WSOP Main Event, Eolis battled some of the best players in the world, including Amarillo Slim, in a field of 141 runners. She was on her way to a 25th-place finish for a $10,000, return on her buy-in, and permanent bragging rights as the first woman in history to cash in the WSOP Main Event.
Eolis attributes her 1986 WSOP performance to a year of poker tutoring from one of the best, a “relatively” conservative game plan, and cooperative cards. She told PokerNews, “Even today, women can win more by bluffing less than men.”