2022 Grosvenor Goliath X
Level: 23
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 30,000
Joseph Lawler opened to 50,000 and called off a shove for 425,000 from Daniel Small, covering his opponent by just 2,000.
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The board came ![]()
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and Small doubled, leaving Lawler with just 2,000 chips.
Lei Wang open-shoved from under-the-gun for a little over 300,000 and action folded around to E A 2 in the big blind, who made the call. The two players tabled their cards, with Wang at risk.
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The flop of ![]()
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was safe for Wang, but the turn
shifted the lead to E A 2 with his pair of kings.
However, the miracle
on the river saved Wang from elimination as he found one of two outs to make a set of eights, defeating E A 2 and scoring a double up.
Vicki Southworth opened to 37,000 and David Morris three-bet all in for 198,000.
Southworth deliberated for a while, pondering her opponent's holdings.
"You definitely don't have the same hand," she said before eventually calling.
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The pocket pair was ahead on the ![]()
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flop and turn, with Morris slamming the table and calling for an ace before the
completed the board.
Hassan Mufadhal Saleh and Sean Phillip Hopkin found themselves all in preflop for a pot of 400,000, with Hopkin at risk.
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Hassan Mufadhal Saleh: ![]()
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Although Saleh started off ahead in this flip, he was flopped pretty dead when Hopkin was delivered the nuts with ![]()
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The
on the turn left Saleh completely dead and the board completed with the
to award Hopkin the full double up.
Ryan Gibb was all in for 190,000 holding ![]()
but had run into the ![]()
of chip leader John Lynch.
However, the flop ![]()
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gave Gibb trip queens and he held on the ![]()
runout to trim his opponent's chip lead and double up.
Andy McLeod open-raised to 400,000. Kyle Jeffrey called all in for 172,000 and the remaining players folded.
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There were no worries for McLeod on the ![]()
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board and with neither playing holding a heart, Jeffrey doubled up.
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, S P checked to his heads-up opponent, Richard Milner, who bet 75,000 into a pot of around 175,000.
S P made the call, and the two players saw the turn
. S P checked again, and Milner moved all in, covering S P.
S P snap-called for his last 281,000, putting himself at risk, and the cards were tabled.
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S P was way in the lead with his flopped top set of tens, but the river was a cold dagger to the heart as the dealer flipped over the
to give Milner a bigger set.
"Unbelievable," S P groaned as he stared in disbelief as his tournament life was extinguished before his eyes. Meanwhile, Milner raked in the pot to boost his chip count to 1,500,000, one of the largest in the tournament.