Buckle Up! Event #2: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em Plays to a Winner Today
On the first day of the 2018 World Series of Poker, a WSOP gold bracelet will be up for grabs right away! At 3 p.m. local time, cards go in the air in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino for the first open tournament of the series, Event #2: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em.
This is one of the new events on the 2018 WSOP calendar. With levels of just 20 minutes, action is expected to move quickly throughout, with players encouraged to gamble it up even further with a spicy $3,000 bounty awarded for each takedown. All players will receive 50,000 in chips to start, blinds will kick off at 100/200 and late registration is open for 12 levels, which is until about 7:40 p.m. local time.
While it's up in the air what the field size will be, with the Super High Roller Bowl attracting the high rollers already and the 25K WSOP Draft being held last night, plenty of players in town are capable of ponying up the requisite five figures to play. An elusive gold WSOP bracelet and the honor of calling themselves the first 2018 WSOP bracelet winner at the end of the night should no doubt lure many of them in to try and start off their summer with a bang.
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. It checked to Hellmuth who bet 1,400 and Foxen was the only caller. The turn was the 
. Foxen took the lead this time, betting 3,100 and Hellmuth raised in position to 9,600. Foxen called.
. Foxen checked and Hellmuth bet 7,000. Foxen asked to see Hellmuth's stack, before calling. Hellmuth picked up his cards, looked at them, and then flung the 
face up on the table.
, and Foxen quickly turned over 
for trip fives, and took down the pot.
and the pot already contained over 40,000 in it. Anthony Zinno had checked from the under-the-gun position and Jonathan Duhamel shoved for around 30,000 from mid-position. Zinno considered his options, glimpsed at the board once more and then put some yellow 1,000-value chips in to call. 
and WSOP bracelet winner Mel Weiner was already all in and at risk.
, Samuel Higgs tried to get Bertani out on the river with a big bet, but Bertani was having none of it and called with 
. Weiner mucked 
and Bertani collected his first $3,000 bounty.
. Nguyen bet 15,500 and Kenney moved all in, with his opponent calling all in for his last 47,000.
off-suit, and by the time the dust settled he had run into the 
meant that Farrell sent Ha to the rail, picking up a $3,000 bounty in the process.