Phil Hellmuth has finally made his arrival to the 2021 WSOP Main Event on Day 1f and he did so in grand fashion just like always. It was quite the spectacle as the 16-time bracelet winner arrived in costume, joined by 12 ladies supporting the Latinum Bitcoin.
Hellmuth was seated at Table 452 just prior to the dinner break but has already left the tournament area with a starting stack of 60,000 remaining in his seat.
Day 1A of the Main gets underway on Friday, December 3. The second starting flight takes place the day after and the survivors from both Day 1's will combine for Day 2 on Sunday, December 5.
Days 3 and 4 will play out on December 6 and 7 respectively before the final day of action will be on December 8. Each day of the Main Event will begin at 12 p.m. CET.
A player in the hijack raised to 1,000 and action folded to Barry Greenstein, who three-bet to 3,200 on the button. Action went back around to the hijack who four-bet to 8,600, which was followed by Greenstein five-betting to 26,000. The hijack thought about it for some time before calling for his entire stack and the cards were tabled.
Hijack:
Barry Greenstein:
The flop of brought the hijack additional outs in the form of a gutshot, but the turn and river bricked to give Greenstein the elimination.
There was a pot of around 20,000 with the board reading . Marc MacDonnell and Mathieu Goncalves were heads-up once again and MacDonnell threw in a bet of 15,000 from the big blind. Goncalves quickly called off his stack of just under 15,000 and the cards were on their backs.
MacDonnell showed which was dominating Goncalves' . Goncalves held a straight draw but the on the river changed nothing as he was sent to the rail.
Ole Schemion raised from the small blind to 1,500 and the big blind defended.
Schemion continued for 1,200 on the flop and the big blind called to see the turn.
The big blind called again, this time 4,500 from Schemion and they saw the river. Schemion sized up to 10,700 and that did the job as the big blind folded.