Into a pot of about 3,000, Ian Simpson bet 2,000 from the button with the board reading 8♣8♥J♦A♠. Andreas Wagner called the bet in the big blind.
The river was the 7♠. Simpson fired out 8,200. Wagner took quite a while to think about the decision as he fully assessed it for a solid couple of minutes. Eventually he called.
Simpson instantly mucked his cards and Wagner took the pot to move his stack over 100,000.
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Top Tip #1: Identify Weaker Players
"My first tip is to identify the weakest players at your table," Jaka told PokerNews. "And while this may be important in all tournaments, in the Main Event it's extra important because you just get so many recreational players, and maybe this is the one big tournament they play a year.
"So be sure to identify who those players are. You want to raise their big blinds a little bit wider, you want to three-bet and isolate them. And really try to get into pots versus them."
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Jaka says that these weaker players tend to belong in two separate camps:
"There's going to be ones that are scared money that you could kind of run over, but then there's gonna be others that are gamblers.
"They're the ones where you actually have to kind of hold on and hit something, so be a little bit aware of who they are. They're definitely the ones you want to get into a pot heads-up with.
Joseph Casale opened the action with a raise to 700 from under the gun. Ryan Appleberry three-bet to 1,600 from the cutoff and Casale made the call.
Casale led out for 2,000 on a connected Q♠4♠7♥ flop and Appleberry called.
Action went check-check on the 4♥ turn before Casale fired 2,000 on the 8♥ river. Appleberry bumped it up to 7,000 and Casale made the call. Appleberry showed 7♦4♦ for fours-full, earning the pot while Casale tabled K♣Q♣ before the dealer pushed the pot in Appleberry's direction.
Yizhak Yerushalmi opened to 600 from under the gun and was called by Daniel Hachem in the hijack before Rob Kuhn three-bet to 3,000 from the button. Both Yerushalmi and Hachem made the call.
Action checked around to Kuhn who fired a 2,500 continuation bet on the K♠8♥7♣ flop. Yerushalmi made the call while Hachem got out of the way.
Kuhn bet again when checked to on the 6♦ turn, this time for 7,000. Once again Yerushalmi called.
On the 6♣ river Yerushalmi checked, Kuhn shoved for his remaining stack of 23,300 and Yerushalmi made the call. Kuhn tabled K♦K♥ for kings full of sixes to score a full double up at Yerushalmi's expense.
Action picked up on the turn in a hand between the under the gun player, Fabiano Kovalski in the cutoff, and the player on the button.
With about 7,000 in the pot and the board reading K♣3♥6♣8♥, under the gun checked, Kovalski checked and the button bet 4,000.
Under the gun called and Kovalski put in a raise to 15,000. The button thought for a moment before folding, as did under the gun.
Around 15,000 was in the pot as Andreas Wagner and Joshua Terebelo went heads up to a flop of A♠K♥9♦.
Terebelo had a bet of 16,000 in front of him from under the gun before Wagner raised to 45,000 in the big blind.
"If you had aces, why would you do that? I can't believe I'm thinking about folding this," Terebelo said as he spent several minutes in the tank. He eventually folded and Wagner allowed him to choose one of his cards. Terebelo flipped over the K♠.
"If the other one was a king and you just call the turn, you get it all on the river. I had a set of nines," Terebelo told him.
"Report that shit," he added as Wagner took down the big pot that could've been much larger.
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