Five days after Phil Ivey moved alone into second place all-time by winning his 11th bracelet, Phil Hellmuth is on the verge of extending his record.
The "Poker Brat" has reached the final table in Event #43: $1,500 Mixed Omaha on Tuesday, meaning he could be hours away from capturing his 18th bracelet, seven more than any other player has won.
The remaining 39 players have been sent on a 60-minute dinner break.
Cards will get back in the air at approximately 8:00 p.m. local time.
Stud Hi-Lo
Clayton Mozdzen: XxXx/2♦K♥ - folded on fourth street
Daniel Strelitz: J♠J♦/9♠8♠7♠3♠/Q♣
Brad Ruben: 6♦4♦/A♠J♥3♣Q♦/9♥
Daniel Strelitz completed and was called by Brad Ruben and Clayton Mozdzen.
Strelitz bet on fourth street and only Ruben called. The remainder of Strelitz’s chips went in on fifth street and boards were run.
Strelitz drew to a flush and Ruben failed to make a low to give Strelitz the double up.
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is making a move that will change the online poker game in the US with the launch of WSOP Online, a new platform that will bring players from three states together.
Poker players in Nevada and New Jersey are already competing against each other on WSOP.com, while those in Michigan have a separate single-state site. But that is changing with the trio of states being merged together on one online poker site ahead of the 2024 WSOP. Pennsylvania's WSOP site will not be part of the shared liquidity deal.
On top of the merger news, the WSOP has announced 30 online bracelet events this summer on the new WSOP Online.
Omaha Hi-Lo
Mike Leah raised from under the gun and action folded around to Patrick Leonard in the big blind, who made the call.
Both players checked the J♦J♠A♦ flop and Leonard did the same on the 7♠ turn. Leah fired out a bet, taking down the pot as Leonard mucked.
Limit Hold'em
Eric Wasserson checked the K♠10♥2♥ flop from the small blind before Phil Ivey fired a bet. Wasserson then check-raised and Ivey found the call.
Wasserson led out on the 7♠ turn and Ivey called again to see the A♠ river. Wasserson checked and Ivey fired a bet.
After taking some time, Wasserson tossed in the call. Ivey tabled A♥Q♠ for top pair, taking down the pot as Wasserson mucked.
Stud Hi-Lo
Patrick Leonard: 6♦4♣4♦/7♣4♥3♠8♦ 
Mike Leah: K♥Q♥10♦/10♠8♠6♠2♦
Maria Ho: A♥K♣3♣/5♥10♥9♥Q♣
Patrick Leonard led out with a bet on fourth street before Mike Leah raised on his left. Maria Ho made the call, as did Leonard.
The dealer delivered fifth street, with Leonard leading out again. Leah raised again and Ho slid out a three-bet. Leonard called the rest of his short stack, with Leah calling behind.
Leonard watched as Leah and Ho both checked down sixth and seventh streets, with Leah revealing his pair of tens.
"Is that good?" Leonard asked, as he turned over a set of fours without a low. Neither Leah or Ho had made a low, allowing Leonard to triple up while Leah claimed the side pot.
Limit Hold’em
Sergey Rybachenko raised from early position and found one caller in Phil Ivey in the big blind.
Ivey check-called bets from Rybachenko on the 4♠4♣2♣ flop and 5♠ turn, but then led out for a bet after the 8♠ completed the board.
Rybachenko quickly called and Ivey turned over J♣3♣ for a busted flush draw. Rybachenko held A♣K♦ and collected the pot with his ace-high.
Earlier this year on an ordinary Monday afternoon, a bespectacled man walked into the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on Las Vegas Blvd. Tucked under his arm was an uninteresting box that only he knew contained something rather interesting – a pair of gold watches dating back more than 40 years.
These were not your run-of-the-mill wristwear, but rather evidence of a unique and often overlooked time of poker history, a year when the World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet, now the game’s highest accolade, was replaced in favor of watches.
The man holding the box was David Sklansky, who in 1978 forever changed poker by advocating a mathematical approach to the game in his groundbreaking book The Theory of Poker. Nicknamed “The Mathematician,” he proved his prowess just four years later when he won two WSOP tournaments in five days.
First, he won the 1982 WSOP Event #7: $800 Mixed Doubles Limit Seven Card Stud, a tournament that paired one man with one woman, alongside Dani Kelly, and followed that up by taking down Event #12: $1,000 Limit 5-Card Draw High. A year later, the Binions reverted back to the beloved bracelets players know today, and Sklansky captured his third piece of WSOP hardware by winning Event #11: $1,000 Limit Omaha.
It was a remarkable accomplishment, and for more than four decades he’s kept safe the evidence of his victories, both of which still worked. So, why was Sklansky carrying his 1982 WSOP gold watches, two of only 15 ever awarded, into a pawn shop? Well, he was looking to sell them of course, but not to just any of the dozens of pawn shops spread across Las Vegas. Oh no, he was walking into arguably the most famous pawn shop in the world, the home to the wildly popular television show Pawn Stars, and he was there to do it with cameras rolling.
Read all about the 1982 WSOP watches here in our feature article!
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