The players have returned from break with hand for hand taking place two away from the money.
2023 World Series of Poker
On the latest The Chad & Jesse Poker Show[/I][/B] straight from the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Chad Holloway & Jesse Fullen are joined by none other than Daniel Negreanu, who took a break from his busy summer schedule to talk about a plethora of topics including what it’s been like running deep in the lower buy-in, big field events, interacting with fans, and how he feels about his performance thus far.
The GGPoker Ambassador also offers his thoughts on the Poker Hall of Fame, including who he thinks will get in and the changes he’d like to see moving forward. Finally, “Kid Poker” offers his prediction for the 2023 WSOP Main Event, which is also the first big topic discussed by the hosts.
Players have gone on a 20-minute color up break.
Action was recapped with by the table.
With two players moving all in from early position, two players called in the blinds including Akihisa Toyoshima in the big blind.
The flop came out 6x4x2x and Toyoshima moved all in which his opponent called and a pot of 1,300,000 was created.
Opponent 1: AxQx
Opponent 2: QxQx
Big blind: 10x10x
Akihisa Toyoshima: KxKx
The board ran out as no help to the hands besides the pocket kings and Toyoshima took down a massive pot.
Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
---|---|---|
Akihisa Toyoshima |
1,500,000
1,500,000
|
1,500,000 |
All the chips went into the middle preflop, with Neil Higgins at risk for 228,000 from middle position. He was covered by the button.
Neil Higgins: K♠K♥
Button: A♥J♥
Higgins dominated and there were no sweats as the board of 7♥6♣6♠5♦2♠ completed the board which gave higgins kings and sixes to take the pot down.
Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
---|---|---|
Neil Higgins | 496,000 |
Craig Chait went to the flop against one opponent, who was on the button.
The dealer fanned 4♦A♦3♦ and Chait swiftly went all in for around 300,000.
His opponent went into the tank, engaging in lots of speech play while deliberating his next move. Eventually he decided that discretion was the better part of valor, and folded his hand.
Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
---|---|---|
Craig Chait |
350,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
The button bet 32,000 and Erik Cajelais bet 80,000 from the small blind. The button made the call.
The flop came K♥8♦2♠ and Cajelais down-bet to 60,000 and was called by the button. The Q♣ landed on the turn and Cajelais continued for 150,000. This was too much for the button who folded. Cajelais showed the K♣ to show he was not fooling around.
Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
---|---|---|
Erik Cajelais |
875,000
565,000
|
565,000 |
|
Action was picked up with cards on their backs with Adrian Salter having another player all in and at risk for his last 210,000.
Opponent: A♠7♠
Adrian Salter: A♣J♦
The board ran out A♥K♣10♦Q♥Q♠ and another player at the table said "chop it up," without realizing that Salter had made a straight to scoop the whole pot.
Salter now sits with one of the biggest stacks in the tournament.
Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
---|---|---|
Adrian Salter |
1,125,000
690,000
|
690,000 |
Livello: 19
Bui: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
All the chips went into the middle preflop with Michael Majarais on the button calling the shove of the small blind for 257,000 which Majarais covered.
Small Blind: 8♠6♠
Michael Majarais: A♥Q♥
Majarais had to fade an open-ended straight draw, but managed to hold after the runout of 7♦4♦3♠9♣Q♣ to knockout the small blind on the verge of the bubble.
Meanwhile on a different table, Maria Lampropulos busted after running Ax10x into AxQx.
Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
---|---|---|
Michael Majarais |
893,000
553,000
|
553,000 |
Maria Lampropulos | Eliminato |