There were two all-in and calls during the second hand on the money bubble. With one elimination, the other hand was checked down on a board of and Vivian Saliba nearly quadrupled up with her .
The action with 104 players remaining will recommence at 9.50 pm local time and another four levels are scheduled for tonight.
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In this column, we will bring you some of the biggest hands as reported in the PokerNews Live Updates from the last couple of weeks in the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Some crazy hands occurred last week, including an Ace from Space for Phil Ivey and one of the worst bad beats you'll ever see in Pot-Limit Omaha.
Three ways to the turn, Sterling Savill got out of the way when Quirin Zech and Tommy Le both invested 15,000 each. They headed to the river on which Le checked behind. Zech tabled the for a straight and won the pot.
After defending the big blind versus the button raise by Iakov Onuchin, Keith Ferrera check-called a bet worth 45,000 on the flop. He then checked again the turn on which Onuchin fired 115,000 and received a call.
They checked the on the river and Ferrera checked and Onuchin checked it back. Ferrera tabled the for a full house and Onuchin mucked the face-up.
Jan-Peter Jachtmann raised to 18,000 in early position from his short stack and was met with a pot-sized three-bet from Shiva Dudani in the big blind. Jachtmann called off for his tournament life.
Jan-Peter Jachtmann:
Shiva Dudani:
The board came bringing no help to Jachtmann as he busts just a couple of spots from the money.
Elsewhere, Melad Marji has also been eliminated as the tournament is now just two eliminations from bursting the bubble.
Christopher Kruk raised to 28,000 from under the gun and was called by Austin Morin in the cutoff. Kazuhiko Yotsushika potted on the button and received two calls. On a flop of , it checked to Yotsushika and he bet 35,000 for his two opponents to call.
After the turn, Kruk and Morin checked again and Yotsushika made it 65,000 to go. This time, only Kruk called and the then fell on the river. Kruk bet 502,000 with some 30,000 behind and Yotsushika eventually let go.
Kruk then also won the next far smaller pot against Yotsushika when he bested naked kings with a straight on a low board. All this happend while the tournament was supposed to go on hand-for-hand mode two away from the money as some tables were playing slow.
On the turn, Yuval Bronshtein got his shorter stack in against Aden Salazar and the following cards were revealed.
Yuval Bronshtein:
Aden Salazar:
Bronshtein was ahead with two pair but needed to several cards including hearts and aces. Unfortunately, he was unable to do so when the struck on the river as Salazar improved to superior two pair.
"I am coming for those now," Salazar joked towards Jeff Madsen and pointed towards his green T-25,000 chips.
At the dinner break on Day 1a of the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, Josh Arieh was already out thanks to some rough luck, while four previous winners are working on building stacks.
The first session of poker's world championship event kicked off at 11 a.m. PST with the defending champion, Koray Aldemir, announcing "shuffle up and deal." Last year's world champion didn't take his seat to play as he intends to enter the Day 1c flight on Tuesday.