As told by the players at the table: the under-the-gun player, Shengchao Zhu raised to 110,000 and Joseph Marchal in the hijack three-bet to 300,000. Zhu four-bet all in for 900,000 and Marchal went into the think tank for a good few minutes.
Marchal folded face up QxQx and Zhu raked the pot.
John Ciccarelli opened under the gun to 120,000 and Anthony Nowalany in middle position raised to 325,000. After some thoughts, Ciccarelli announced all in and was immediately called.
Both players held AxKx off suit and they split the pot after an uneventful board.
"Are you getting this PokerNews?", called Pat Lyons. In a battle of the blinds Dae Woong Song moved all in for 450,000 in the small blind and Pat Lyons in the big blind announced, "What if I wake up with Ax6x?" Lyons called.
Dae Woong Song: Q♠10♥
Pat Lyons: A♠6♠
The board came out 9♦3♦Q♥10♠6♦ and Song won with his two pair.
Poker Hall of Famer Jennifer Harman has seen the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in all of its iterations. Harman won two bracelets when the World Series played at Binion's Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas and made several final tables after the transition to Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in the mid-2000s.
Now, 27 years after her first WSOP final table in 1996, Harman finds herself at yet another World Series rendition at the rebranded Horseshoe Casino on the Strip. And while the golden U-shaped emblem outside the hotel is by and large the same, Harman said the modern venue doesn't compare to the WSOP's original home.
"It was such a cool atmosphere playing at Binion's; it's just nothing like that," Harman told PokerNews. "Now it's just like, you know, poker blew up and it's more ... it's still a really cool atmosphere, but it's just different. It's not a small room, musty, that kind of stuff. But it's still really cool. Poker's still really popular, so that's a pretty awesome thing." PokerNews caught up with Harman last week as she played Day 1 of Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship at the 2023 WSOP to ask about her summer schedule, pick for the Poker Hall of Fame and her memories with the late Doyle Brunson.
