Seth Gottlieb raised in the small blind and Scott Seiver defended in the big blind.
Gottlieb took one to Seiver's two on the first draw before betting. Seiver called to send action to the second draw.
On the second draw Gottlieb stood pat while Seiver again drew one. The same betting pattern was then repeated.
Gottlieb declined to take a card on the final draw. Seiver opted to swap out one of his cards but then folded after Gottlieb bet. "I have the super nuts...almost" Gottlieb remarked as he showed the table 7x6x4x3x2x.
Iraj Parvizi was unable to run up his short stack on table 122 and has become the first casualty of the tournament. In the meanwhile, the same table now features Eric Wasserson while Alex Livingston has also entered the competition.
According to the tournament info screens, there are 24 players out of 25 entries remaining.
Earlier this year on an ordinary Monday afternoon, a bespectacled man walked into the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on Las Vegas Blvd. Tucked under his arm was an uninteresting box that only he knew contained something rather interesting – a pair of gold watches dating back more than 40 years.
These were not your run-of-the-mill wristwear, but rather evidence of a unique and often overlooked time of poker history, a year when the World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet, now the game’s highest accolade, was replaced in favor of watches.
1982 WSOP watches
The man holding the box was David Sklansky, who in 1978 forever changed poker by advocating a mathematical approach to the game in his groundbreaking book The Theory of Poker. Nicknamed “The Mathematician,” he proved his prowess just four years later when he won two WSOP tournaments in five days.
First, he won the 1982 WSOP Event #7: $800 Mixed Doubles Limit Seven Card Stud, a tournament that paired one man with one woman, alongside Dani Kelly, and followed that up by taking down Event #12: $1,000 Limit 5-Card Draw High. A year later, the Binions reverted back to the beloved bracelets players know today, and Sklansky captured his third piece of WSOP hardware by winning Event #11: $1,000 Limit Omaha.
It was a remarkable accomplishment, and for more than four decades he’s kept safe the evidence of his victories, both of which still worked. So, why was Sklansky carrying his 1982 WSOP gold watches, two of only 15 ever awarded, into a pawn shop? Well, he was looking to sell them of course, but not to just any of the dozens of pawn shops spread across Las Vegas. Oh no, he was walking into arguably the most famous pawn shop in the world, the home to the wildly popular television show Pawn Stars, and he was there to do it with cameras rolling.
Andres Korn: XxXx / J♦6♠J♥
Chris Vitch: XxXx / 6♥10♠9♥folded on fifth street
Andres Korn completed with a jack and Chris Vitch completed for Korn to call. Korn then bet fourth street to see Vitch call before betting fifth and forcing a fold.
In the next hand, Vitch took the low and chopped with Eli Elezra.
Iraj Parvizi: XxXx/Q♥10♦4♠6♥
Nick Guagenti: XxXx/2♣2♥J♠K♦folded sixth street
Nick Guagenti completed and Iraj Parvizi called.
Parvizi bet on fourth street, then called a raise from Guagenti.
Fifth street saw Parvizi, undeterred by his opponent's earlier call, bet again. Guagenti was not going anywhere just yet and flatted.
Parvizi bet again on sixth street. This time Guagenti's poor runout would not allow him to continue in the hand as he mucked his holding to take a small hit to his stack.
Scott Seiver: A♠6♠3♥ / A♦8♦6♦A♣
Iraj Parvizi: XxXx / 8♣5♠J♣J♦ / Xx
On the rail end of a heads-up pot between Scott Seiver and Iraj Parvizi, the former bet fifth and sixth street with Iraj Parvizi calling. Seiver then bet seventh, Parvizi raised and Seiver made it three bets to get a call from the Brit.
Seiver announced aces full and won the pot, while Parvizi could all but smile and briefly showed his cards to Erick Lindgren before sending them into the muck.
John David Rogers opened to 4,000 from middle position and David Benyamine called in the small blind.
Both players took one card after which Benyamine checked to Rogers. He thought for a moment before counting out a bet of 4,000. That was enough to convince Benyamine to get out of the way as he sent a small pot over to Rogers.
Dressed in a plain black dress and without any costume, two-time Poker Player's Championship winner Dan Cates has entered the field. He is joined by John David Rogers, Roman Yitzhaki and Nacho Barbero who all sat down recently as well.
