Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship Day 1a | 2024 World Series of Poker

07-03-2024 12:40 UTC-8

Appleberry Turns a Full House

Michael Giacobbe

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Joseph Casale opened the action with a raise to 700 from under the gun. Ryan Appleberry three-bet to 1,600 from the cutoff and Casale made the call.

Casale led out for 2,000 on a connected Q♠4♠7♥ flop and Appleberry called.

Action went check-check on the 4♥ turn before Casale fired 2,000 on the 8♥ river. Appleberry bumped it up to 7,000 and Casale made the call. Appleberry showed 7♦4♦ for fours-full, earning the pot while Casale tabled K♣Q♣ before the dealer pushed the pot in Appleberry's direction.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Appleberry	51,200 51,200	51,200
Joseph Casale	39,200 39,200	39,200

Tags: Joseph Casale Ryan Appleberry

07-03-2024 12:42 UTC-8

Recent Counts From Horseshoe Gold

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Dan O'Hair

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Affleck	108,000 48,000	48,000
Parker Talbot	90,000 29,000	29,000

Thomas Jay Scholberg	85,000 25,000	25,000
Fernando Gonzalez	72,000 4,000	4,000

Ian Simpson	70,000 10,000	10,000

Bin Weng	70,000 8,000	8,000
David Bach	65,000 5,000	5,000

Kevin Gerhart	62,000 4,000	4,000

Junpei Shimada	60,500 500	500
Justin Young	60,000 60,000	60,000
Brian Altman	60,000 14,800	14,800
Esther Taylor	58,000 58,000	58,000
Kenneth Opsal	56,000 56,000	56,000
Xavier Kyablue	55,500 -3,000	-3,000

Paul Newey	53,000 53,000	53,000
Armond Nazarian	41,000 -19,000	-19,000

07-03-2024 12:42 UTC-8

Faraz Jaka's Main Event Tips #1: Identify the Weak Players

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Will Shillibier

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

To mark the WSOP Main Event, Faraz Jaka has given us some top tips for those playing in the most prestigious event in poker. You can always find more help and advice, as well as free poker resources and training videos on Jaka Coaching.

Top Tip #1: Identify Weaker Players

"My first tip is to identify the weakest players at your table," Jaka told PokerNews. "And while this may be important in all tournaments, in the Main Event it's extra important because you just get so many recreational players, and maybe this is the one big tournament they play a year.

"So be sure to identify who those players are. You want to raise their big blinds a little bit wider, you want to three-bet and isolate them. And really try to get into pots versus them."

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Jaka says that these weaker players tend to belong in two separate camps:

"There's going to be ones that are scared money that you could kind of run over, but then there's gonna be others that are gamblers.

"They're the ones where you actually have to kind of hold on and hit something, so be a little bit aware of who they are. They're definitely the ones you want to get into a pot heads-up with.

07-03-2024 12:42 UTC-8

Updated Counts From Horseshoe Silver

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David Salituro

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
William Anderson	83,000 -12,000	-12,000
Jeff Platt	75,000 15,000	15,000
Barny Boatman	70,000 2,000	2,000

Farah Galfond	65,000 65,000	65,000
Robbie Schiffbauer	62,000 62,000	62,000
Bob Whalen	61,000 61,000	61,000
Qui Nguyen	55,000 -16,300	-16,300

Greg Merson	51,000 -9,000	-9,000

Chad Eveslage	50,000 -13,000	-13,000

Billy Baxter	40,000 -18,000	-18,000

07-03-2024 12:47 UTC-8

Flip Your Way Into the Main Event

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Matt Warburton

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

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07-03-2024 12:48 UTC-8

Wagner Picks Off Simpson

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Jeff McMillan

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Into a pot of about 3,000, Ian Simpson bet 2,000 from the button with the board reading 8♣8♥J♦A♠. Andreas Wagner called the bet in the big blind.

The river was the 7♠. Simpson fired out 8,200. Wagner took quite a while to think about the decision as he fully assessed it for a solid couple of minutes. Eventually he called.

Simpson instantly mucked his cards and Wagner took the pot to move his stack over 100,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andreas Wagner	104,000 14,000	14,000
Ian Simpson	62,000 -8,000	-8,000

Tags: Andreas Wagner Ian Simpson

07-03-2024 12:49 UTC-8

Farber's Min-Click Does the Trick

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Ollie Garland

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

The pot stood at 4,500 with three players looking at a flop of 6♣K♠K♥.

The big blind checked and Jeffrey Stellwagon bet out 1,200, from the cutoff. David Farber, on the button, bumped it up with a small raise of 2,400. The big blind folded, as did Stellwagon.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeffrey Stellwagon	95,000 10,800	10,800
David Farber	19,000 19,000	19,000

Tags: David Farber Jeffrey Stellwagon

07-03-2024 12:49 UTC-8

Casale's Top Pair, Top Kicker is Good

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Michael Giacobbe

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Joseph Casale opened the action with a raise to 700 from early position. Rainer Sollfrank three-bet to 2,100 from the button and Casale made the call.

Sollfrank continued for 2,700 on Q♣10♠3♠ and Casale called.

The 2♦ turn hit the felt and Sollfrank bet again, this time for 5,600. Casale made the call.

Action went check-check on the 10♥ river and Casale tabled A♠Q♦ for the winner.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rainer Sollfrank	51,000 51,000	51,000
Joseph Casale	44,200 5,000	5,000

Tags: Joseph Casale Rainer Sollfrank

07-03-2024 12:56 UTC-8

Barby Turns a Flush

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Nick Becker

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Action was caught on the flop of 4♣8♣10♦ in a hand between the player in the small blind, Brent Barby in the big blind, and the player in the hijack.

With a little over 3,000 in the pot, the small blind checked, Barby bet 2,000, the hijack called and the small blind called.

On the 6♣ turn, the small blind checked again, Barby bet 6,000, the hijack got out of the way and the small blind called.

The river brought the A♣, and the small blind check-folded to Barby's bet of 9,000. Barby showed K♣10♣ for the flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brent Barby	39,500

Tags: Brent Barby

07-03-2024 12:57 UTC-8

Talbot Keeps Climbing

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Dan O'Hair

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Parker Talbot raised to 400 on the button and was called by the player in the small blind and Harlan Karnofsky in the big blind.

Action checked to Talbot on the 8♦A♦2♠ flop and he continued for 200. Only Karnofsky called.

The 3♦ fell on the turn and Kanofsky checked again — prompting a 1,300 bet from Talbot. Karnosfky sent his hand into the muck and Talbot collected the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Harlan Karnofsky	101,500 -18,000	-18,000
Parker Talbot	90,000

Maxx Coleman	60,000 60,000	60,000

Tags: Harlan Karnofsky Parker Talbot