2021 World Series of Poker

The chips of Iaroslav Boiko went all-in before the flop with the and he faced one of the bigger stacks on the table in Michael Kuney with the .

One jack was not enough on the board and that spelled the end for Boiko.

Only 11 tables remain in play and a quick glance at the field reveals that the defending champion Dash Dudley won't be the repeat winner in this tournament. He last had some 40,000 in chips but is nowhere to be found in the tournament area.

On the river of a board , Tommy Le and James Tian invested another 18,000 chips each. Tian tabled the but it was no good, as Le had that beat with for a flush.

Le's stack size has increased further as he leaped well above the current average.

On a river board of , Jake Schindler put out a bet of 8,000 into a pot of almost 70,000.

Isaac Kempton raised enough to put him all-in for his last 70,000, and Schindler went into the tank.

After about a minute of thought, Schindler tossed his cards into the muck, awarding the pot to Kempton.

Daniel Fuhs and Tony Hartmann were both all-in preflop, facing the bigger stack of Shiva Dudani.

Daniel Fuhs:
Tony Hartmann:
Shiva Dudani:

Fuhs was in the lead with his pair of kings, and stayed in front after the flop gave him a flush to eliminate Hartmann. Fuhs still had outs to fade after the turn, but the river was safe to more than double up his stack.

The phone cameras were grabbing a four-way all-in over on table 427 as the action had escalated with the flop showing with three players at risk against big stack Chris Sandrock.

Ali Imsirovic:
Aaron Wallace:
John Beauprez:
Chris Sandrock:

Sandrock spiked the turn and another player at the table remarked "see, you can't lose". There was one more card to come which happened to be the river and that improved Wallace to a full house. He survived the carnage and almost quadrupled up while Ali Imsirovic and John Beauprez were eliminated.

During one of the last hands before the break, Rok Gostisa check-called all-in for the last 19,500 on the river. Anderson Ireland was his sole remaining opponent who had splashed in T-5,000 chips and announced two pair but mucked them as soon as Gostisa revealed the for the top set.

The remaining 104 players have been sent on their first 15-minute break of the day while the T-500 chips are raced off and taken out of play.