2024 World Series of Poker

Day: 3
Event Info

2024 World Series of Poker

Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$815,685
Entries
611
Players Left
5
Average Chip Stack
3,055,000
Total Chips
15,275,000
Next Payout
Place 5
$35,006
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0
Players Info - Day 3
Entries
17
Players Left
5

Roberts Takes One From Hertzog

Level 31

Christian Roberts: 54/6986/10
Joseph Hertzog: A5/28105/J

Christian Roberts completed and Joseph Hertzog made the call.

Roberts bet on fourth and fifth streets, both times receiving a call from Hertzog.

Neither player chose to inflate the pot any more on sixth street or the river with Roberts winning the hand at showdown holding a pair of sixes.

Player Chips Progress
Christian Roberts ve
Christian Roberts
3,700,000
Day 2 Chip Leader
WSOP 1X Winner
Joseph Hertzog us
Joseph Hertzog
2,350,000
100,000
100,000

Tags: Joseph HertzogChristian Roberts

Fal Vaults Into The Lead

Level 31

Nikolay Fal completed with a 6 and Christian Roberts called with a 4.

Nikolay Fal: XxXx/6A34/Xx
Christian Roberts: XxXx/4335/Xx

Fal bet on fourth street and Roberts called.

On fifth street, Roberts checked over to Fal who bet and Roberts called. The same action repeated on sixth and seventh street.

Fal turned over 653 for sixes and threes with a six-five low. Roberts flashed A75 for inferior fives and threes with a seven-five low and he relinquished the chip lead to Fal.

Player Chips Progress
Nikolay Fal ru
Nikolay Fal
5,100,000
1,300,000
1,300,000
Christian Roberts ve
Christian Roberts
3,700,000
-1,000,000
-1,000,000
Day 2 Chip Leader
WSOP 1X Winner

Tags: Christian RobertsNikolay Fal

Level: 31

Ante: 30,000
Bring-In: 50,000
Completion: 150,000
Limits: 150,000-300,000

Nikolay Faling in the Counts

Level 30

Dekel Balas: XxXx/535K
Nikolay Fal: XxXx/21087 folded sixth street

Dekel Balas completed and received a call from Nikolay Fal.

Balas bet on fourth, fifth and sixth streets. The first two times, Fal made the call but the bet on sixth street proved to be too much for him as he mucked his holding to ship the pot over to Balas while sending his own stack falling down the chip counts.

Player Chips Progress
Nikolay Fal ru
Nikolay Fal
2,900,000
-1,300,000
-1,300,000
Dekel Balas us
Dekel Balas
2,200,000
300,000
300,000

Tags: Dekel BalasNikolay Fal

Fal With At Least Three Fives

Level 30

Dekel Balas completed his 4 in full which saw Kenneth Kemple call with a Q and Nikolay Fal call with a 6.

Nikolay Fal: XxXx/6525
Kenneth Kemple: XxXx/Q8610
Dekel Balas: XxXx/410 (Folded on fourth street)

Action checked to Fal on fourth street who bet and only Kemple called.

Kemple checked to Fal on fifth street and called the bet from Fal.

On sixth street, Kemple folded to Fal's bet with open fives. Fal flashed a 5 as he raked in the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Nikolay Fal ru
Nikolay Fal
4,200,000
545,000
545,000
Dekel Balas us
Dekel Balas
1,900,000
-420,000
-420,000
Kenneth Kemple us
Kenneth Kemple
1,800,000
-800,000
-800,000

Tags: Dekel BalasKenneth KempleNikolay Fal

Yuval Bronshtein Eliminated in 6th Place ($25,442)

Level 30
Yuval Bronshtein
Yuval Bronshtein

Yuval Bronshtein: 22/539Q/3 All in
Kenneth Kemple: Q10/Q106K/3

Yuval Bronshtein completed and then called a raise from Kenneth Kemple.

Bronshtein called bets from Kemple on fourth and fifth streets before committing his remaining chips to the pot on sixth street.

Kemple had Bronshtein in rough shape and no help came on the river to send the two-time bracelet winner to the rail in sixth place.

Player Chips Progress
Christian Roberts ve
Christian Roberts
4,850,000
-850,000
-850,000
Day 2 Chip Leader
WSOP 1X Winner
Nikolay Fal ru
Nikolay Fal
3,655,000
1,555,000
1,555,000
Kenneth Kemple us
Kenneth Kemple
2,600,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
Dekel Balas us
Dekel Balas
2,320,000
-580,000
-580,000
Joseph Hertzog us
Joseph Hertzog
2,250,000
300,000
300,000
Yuval Bronshtein il
Yuval Bronshtein
Busted
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 2X Winner

Tags: Kenneth KempleYuval Bronshtein

WSOP History: David Sklansky Looks to Sell Rare 1982 WSOP Gold Watches to Pawn Stars

Level 30
David Sklansky

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
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.

Read all about the 1982 WSOP watches here in our feature article!

Level: 30

Ante: 30,000
Bring-In: 30,000
Completion: 120,000
Limits: 120,000-240,000