In a four-way pot that checked through on the flop of J♠Q♦A♠, Peter Sadek checked as the first player to act and James Agate bet 4,000. Both players behind him folded and Sadek called.
Sadek checked on the 7♣ river and Agate checked back. Sadek showed A♥10♥ to win the pot with a pair of aces.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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40,000 | |
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25,000 |
Around 5,500 was in the pot as four players saw a flop of K♦4♥3♦. Heather Alcorn then bet 2,100 from early position and the cutoff and big blind both called.
All three players checked the 7♣ turn and the 9♠ fell on the river. The big blind then led out for 10,000, Alcorn called, and the cutoff folded.
Alcorn turned over 9♣9♦ for a set of nines and her opponent mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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45,000 |
Shahrooz Tavakol opened to 1,100 from middle position and the hijack called before David Berger three-bet to 5,000 in the cutoff.
Tavakol responded by four-bet jamming a stack of around 50,000 and the hijack quickly folded as Berger followed suit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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58,000
13,000
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13,000 |
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12,000
-13,000
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-13,000 |
Level: 4
Blinds: 200/500
Ante: 500
Heads-up on a board of 4♦10♣3♣7♦, Eric Siegel bet 9,500 from the big blind and Matthew Lambrecht called in the hijack.
The river was the 8♣ and Siegel moved all in for 13,000. Lambrecht called with 4♥4♠ for a flopped set, but Siegel had 8♦8♠ for a rivered set to win the pot and double up.
"I put you on queen-ten. I was trying to get you off it," Siegel told Lambrecht after the hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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60,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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22,000 | |
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Margaret Rowan raised to 2,200 in early position and the cutoff three-bet to 5,500. Thanh Hoang then four-bet to 11,000 in the big blind and Rowan folded, but the cutoff moved all in and Hoang called for 30,000.
Thanh Hoang: A♦K♦ 
Opponent: A♠K♣
Rowan said she folded two sixes as the flop came 8♠6♦4♠. The rest of the board ran out J♣6♣ and Rowan let out a laugh as she would've made quads, while Hoang chopped the pot with his opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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40,000 | |
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32,000 |
Content creator Alexandra Loveless, whose surname is the title of an acclaimed 1991 album by British shoegaze pioneers My Bloody Valentine, found herself on the river in a heads-up pot with the board reading A♠2♥6♦3♠A♥.
Her heads-up opponent bet 10,000 on the river with about that already in the pot. Loveless folded as her opponent showed an ace.
The next hand, Loveless raised in late position the big blind called. Both players checked down until Loveless fired a river bet to win the small pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Kinzang Tobgay bet 3,000 from the big blind on a flop of K♦3♦9♠ and Hergi Muci called in middle position.
Tobgay checked over to Muci on the Q♣ turn, and Muci bet 6,000. Tobgay called and both players checked the 5♦ river.
Tobgay showed A♦10♥, while Muci had K♠8♠ for a pair of kings to win the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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70,000
15,000
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15,000 |
|
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32,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Shahrooz Tavakol and Drew McLaughlin went to the turn on a board of 10♠4♥4♣10♣ when Tavakol bet 3,000 from under the gun. McLaughlin called in early position.
The river was the 5♣ and Tavakol bet 12,000. McLaughlin again called and Tavakol showed A♥10♦ for a full house to win the big pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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45,000 | |
|
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10,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
PokerStars ambassador and award-winning psychology author Maria Konnikova is among the players in the Day 1A field.
Konnikova recently sat down with PokerNews with an interview on the Life Outside Poker podcast, where she discussed her writing career, being mentored by acclaimed science author Steven Pinker, meeting Erik Seidel for the first time and her research for a new book into cheating in poker and other games.
Watch the full interview on YouTube or listen on podcast platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
