2019 World Series of Poker
Mobile phone cameras were out at Table 453 for poker's rarest spectacle - a Royal Flush.
According to Sandra Postelwait, she called a raise pre-flop in position and both she and her opponent checked the ![]()
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flop. She called another bet on the
turn and the river was the
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Her opponent bet 60,000 and Postelwait raised to 150,000. Her opponent open-folded a
and Postelwait turned over ![]()
for a rivered Royal Flush.
Each of these players pocketed $18,535 for their Main Event performances.
Jason James raised on the button and Mihai Manole defended his big blind to see a ![]()
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flop, which brought a check by Manole, a continuation bet of James and a call.
Both checked the
turn and Manole also checked the
on the river. James now bet 75,000 and Manole jammed to send James into the think tank. He had around 300,000 behind and called it off after two minutes of consideration.
Manole turned over ![]()
for the straight and James ended up second-best with ![]()
for two pair.
William Romaine was just seen with a chip stack of 1.4 million. According to him, he recently won a large pot when he had a higher three of a kind than an opponent.
After starting the day with just over 300,000, Romaine now finds himself with more than double the average stack in the tournament.
On a flop of ![]()
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, Dapeng Mu bet and Michael Tomeny raised, then called the shove of Mu for the following showdown.
Michael Tomeny: ![]()
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The
turn and
river brought no upset and Tomeny doubled.
A reraise to 125,000 was in front of Kathy Liebert and David Lindquist then pushed all in for 421,000 on the button as the ESPN camera crew rushed by. Liebert checked her stack carefully and eventually made the call for most of her stack.
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"Hold one time!" Lindquist demanded and flopped top set on ![]()
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"No ten please," Lindquist added as Liebert had a gutshot. Both the
turn and the
river were blanks and Lindquist doubled.
Bradley Hinson moved all in for 37,000 from under the gun. The small blind raised to 85,000 before Jeff Madsen four-bet to 184,000. The small blind folded.
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The flop came ![]()
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giving Hinson trips.
"Eight of clubs-ball?" said Madsen, but the turn was the
.
"Ten-ball?" said Madsen, but the river was the
.
"Side-pot ball," said Madsen finally, taking down the side pot.
Meanwhile at this table, Jay Farber is up to the 600,000 or so chips that he started the day with after winning with ![]()
against ![]()
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The action folded around to Ryan Leng in the cutoff who raised to 22,000, Andy Tsai three-bet to 60,000 from the small blind, the big blind folded and Leng made the call.
The dealer fanned a flop of ![]()
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and Tsai fired out 60,000 which Leng called.
The turn was the
Tsai broke his stacks down to count his total chips remaining and fired out a bet of 150,000 which Leng called once again.
The
landed on the river and Tsai tossed in four 25,000 chips for a total of a bet of 100,000, Leng thought it over for a few seconds and put in a stack of 5,000 chips to make the call. Tsai tabled ![]()
for a pair of aces and Leng mucked his hand.
Pretty much everyone looked surprise when David Kim jammed the turn of a board ![]()
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board for 250,000 and received a call by Todd Vincent, who held ![]()
for the flush. Kim turned over ![]()
for a bluff gone wrong and there were several gasps during the showdown.
Apparently, more than half of the table had previously been knocked out with Vincent on a hot streak, having started the day among the shorter stacks.
He was also involved in the all in of Justin Liberto, who jammed for 87,000 on the ![]()
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flop. Michael Pearson and Vincent called and checked the
turn. On the
river, Pearson bet 101,000 and Vincent called.
Liberto tabled ![]()
, Pearson had ![]()
and Vincent revealed ![]()
to take a small hit.