2026 World Series of Poker

Day: 2
Event Info
2026 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j964
Prize
$305,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$4,192,320
Total Entries
4,764
Level Info
Level
41
Blinds
1,000,000 / 2,000,000
Ante
2,000,000
Players Info - Day 2
Entries
714
Players Left
34
Players Left 1 / 4,764

'Let's Do It'

Level 29 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

One hand after David Hochheim pushed him out of a pot with an all-in check-raise shove on the river, Erik Perez apparently wanted some action.

Hochheim brought it in for the maximum of 420,000 from the cutoff. Perez potted it to 1,300,000 from the small blind, then started coaxing Hochheim into a call.

"Let's do it," Perez said. "Let's (expletive deleted) do it. Come on, let's go. I want to do it."

He repeated the X-rated war cry so often that eventually the dealer told him to chill.

"Oh, I thought I could talk heads up," he said. "Well, he knows I want to do it. He knows I have the better hand, and I want to (expletive deleted) do it."

That last pitch did it. Hochheim reraised all in, and Perez made the call.

Erik Perez: K1085All in
David Hochheim: AQQ5

"Oh, I didn't really want to do it," Perez admitted. "This is not a nice hand."

The runout of 347K7, however, was pretty nice for Perez, as he paired his king on the turn and took a huge double-up with the better two pair.

Tags: David HochheimErik Perez