Welcome to Day 1 of Event #38: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em
Event #38: $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em features the highest buy-in to date of the 2021 World Series of Poker and is set to begin at 3 p.m. local time.
Ben Heath won the event back in 2019 for $1.48 million and his first WSOP gold bracelet after besting a 110-entry field and a stacked final table that included Chance Kornuth, Andrew Lichtenberger, Sam Soverel, and Nick Petrangelo. The event is sure to attract a bevy of poker talent wanting to showcase their skills and claim of piece of the substantial prize pool.
Players will begin with 300,000 in chips and blind will start at 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante. Levels will last 60 minutes and players will get 15-minute breaks at the end of every two levels. Day 1 will end at the end of level 10, at which point the remaining players will bag and tag their chips for Day 2.
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flop, Jake Daniels bet 4,000 from early position into a pot of around 20,000. Frank Funaro raised to 14,000 in the cutoff and Sergi Reixach flat-called from the big blind. Daniels re-raised to 63,000 and both Funaro and Reixach called.
and Reixach led out with a bet of 55,000. Daniels and Funaro both called to see the 
pair the board on the river.
for a full house but it was no match for the 
of Funaro who rivered quads.
, pairing the jack for Ball. The turn was the 
and the river was the 
, no help to Daniels, as he exited the tournament area.
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and Aido moved all in for 133,500. Kade wasted little time before calling and Aido flipped over 
before her cards went into the muck.
turn and Linde called after a bit of thought. 
river kept Linde out in front and Imsirovic was eliminated.
on the turn meant Sammartino was drawing dead to the 
on the river sent Katz to the rail.
turn. There was already about 200,000 in the middle and Chris Brewer put out a pot-sized bet of 200,000. Michael Addamo called and the river was the 
