Five-Bet Shove Costs Brian Kim a Shot at WSOP Main Event Title
We've already seen a few interesting hands at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table on Tuesday, and one will certainly be talked about on podcasts and blogs in the coming days.
The hand we're referring to occurred a little over three hours into the session, and it involved one of the most successful players at the table — Brian Kim, a Los Angeles poker pro with over $7.3 million in live tournament cashes prior to the Main Event, according to The Hendon Mob. He'll be adding $1.5 million to that number, but it could have been much higher if not for one interesting hand.
That's a Bold Move, Cotton
The final table started off a bit slow in terms of action flops and monster pots, but it has since picked up. Malo Latinois was all in with A♥K♥ and ended up in a race against Jordan Griff, the chip leader, who had 3♣3♠.
When the flop came A♠10♣9♥, Latinois was feeling good about his chances of a double up, but the 3♦ on the turn sent him home in ninth place for $1,000,000. Shortly after, Joe Serock would run AxJx into the QxQx of Niklas Astedt (aka "Lena900"), and Serock was out in eighth place, a $1,250,000 payday.
Not long after Serock's bustout, the most entertaining hand of the final table, to this point, took place. And it's likely to spark some critical comments from the armchair quarterbacks on social media.
Boris Angelov raised it up to 4,600,000 from the button, and Kim three-bet to 11,800,000 with K♣6♣ in the small blind. Astedt, in the big blind with 10♠10♦, then pondered his next move and opted for a cold four-bet to 18,000,000 out of the big blind.
Angelov quickly folded before Kim then pulled the trigger and five-bet all-in for 53,900,000. Astedt was seemingly unhappy when he asked for the count but made the call.
The flop would come out Q♣10♥8♠, giving Astedt middle set and leaving Kim in desperate need of a runner-runner straight or flush. Help would arrive on the 5♣ turn, but the 6♠ river ended Kim's run in the record-setting WSOP Main Event in seventh place, which paid $1,500,000.
"Not happy to get called," Kim told PokerNews after busting. "But I think, Yeah, I had, an instinctual thing going on, That button didn't have a great hand. And also he was opening all the stuff he was supposed to, I had a feeling that Niklas actually considered folding when he looked at his cards."
"And then certain stuff happened where I kind of just feel like he didn't have aces and, Yeah, put it in. And that's how the cookie crumbles sometimes," he continued.
At the time of publishing, six players remained out of the 10,112 entrants in the $10,000 buy-in world championship event. You can follow along all the action with PokerNews live reporting coverage.
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