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World Series of Poker winner jumps on table to celebrate near $1 million jackpot, first gold bracelet

$966,000 large ones.

Mike Jukich was so overcome with joy after his World Series of Poker win that he jumped on the table of the main stage. That’s what a jackpot of nearly $1 million will do.

Jukich earned his victory in the $1,500 Monster Stack, Event No. 21 of the 2022 World Series of Poker, after opponent Mateusz Moolhuizen went all-in on a pocket king and queen of clubs. With a high-card ace, Jukich claimed his first gold bracelet and a total of $966,577.

He was the last man standing out of a field that started with 6,501 entries.

Warning: NSFW Language 

In case you didn’t get a good look at it, here’s a freeze frame.

Jukich’s excitement comes with good reason. He’d apparently been chasing this moment since losing his chip lead and finishing 12th in 2013.

“So, what’s haunted me before was in 2013 I think I was chip leader with 12 left in a $1,500 event and $720,000 up top and I ended up getting 12th and was devastated,” Jukich said in a PokerGo press release. “So I didn’t get in the Thunderdome, didn’t mark it off the bucket list of making a WSOP final table, none of that. I was super disappointed. I just never really ran good any summer I was out here until I finally had a deep run in the Main Event after the 12th-place finish. But yeah, I was pumped this year.”

As the runner-up, Moolhuizen took home $597,362. Third-place finisher Francis Anderson won $449,912.

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See the intense, monster 2021 World Series of Poker Main Event hand that won Koray Aldemir $8 million

What a hand, what a win!

Through all the wild hands, bad beats and some very wild moments, we have a 2021 World Series of Poker Main Event winner.

Koray Aldemir beat George Holmes to win a gold bracelet and a cool $8 million.

So how did he ultimately do it? The hand that won the whole thing was intense and pretty incredible.

Aldemir was ahead of Holmes in chips with over 205M to 194M. Aldemir was dealt 10-7 of diamonds, Holmes got King-Queen offsuit. Holmes raised to 6 million and Aldemir called.

The flop was a big one for Aldemir: A 10-2-7. He flopped two pair and Holmes might have felt pretty good thinking there wasn’t much that was dangerous on the board. Aldemir checked and Holmes bet 6 million again.

So how do you play this? Show too much strength and Holmes will fold. Aldemir raised to 19 million and Holmes called.

The turn was the nail in the coffin: A King. Hooooo boy. Holmes had what he thought was the top pair there … but little did he know that his hand was weaker.

Aldemir came out firing with 36.5 million, Holmes called.

The river was a 9 of clubs. Holmes was probably relieved it wasn’t another heart that would represent a possible flush for Aldemir, but maybe he wondered if there was a straight.

Aldemir checked … and Holmes went all in. Aldemir called AND HE’S A MAIN EVENT CHAMPION!

Whew, what a hand!

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The World Series of Poker Main Event final table leader won 136.5 million chips in wild hand

Whoa what a hand!

If Koray Aldemir wins the 2021 World Series of Poker Main Event — he’s the chip leader heading into Wednesday night with three players, Jack Oliver and George Holmes are the others — he can look back on this hand as a huge reason why.

He’s currently at 264.6 million chips, far ahead of Oliver (77.3M) and Holmes (57.4). At the time of this hand, he had nearly 140 million.

Alejandro Lococo was dealt a pair of 10s and raised to 2 million. Aldemir had a pair of 9s and three-bet to 5.6 million, which Lococo called.

The flop? Two Jacks … and a 9. He flopped a full house! Lococo checked, and Aldemir decided to bet 3.9 million. Not a huge bet, but a small enough one to entice Lococo to throw in some money with two pair. Lococo called.

An 8 on the turn gave Lococo a straight draw, and he checked again. Aldemir threw in 11.4 million which got called.

The river? A harmless 3. Lococo with one more check … and Aldemir put him all in, which Lococo called. OOF.

Lococo was out and Aldemir is going into Wednesday night with a HUGE lead.

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A World Series of Poker Main Event player won the most ridiculous hand on a dangerous bluff

WOW.

We’ve seen an intense hand from the 2021 World Series of Poker Main Event, a bad beat … and now we’ve got ourselves a memorable one that involves one of the riskiest bluffs I’ve ever seen.

This involves Nicholas Rigby and Ronald Jensen. Rigby had nearly 10 million in chips and Jensen had just over 5 million.

Jensen raised to 325,000 chips with a pair of Kings … and Rigby RAISED AGAIN with a 3-2 offsuit.

Now, let’s pause. I had to look this up, because why would Rigby do that with such a weak hand?

Per Poker News, that’s a combo he loves to play because the hand known in his native Pittsburgh as the “Dirty Diaper” is a thing for him: “Rigby’s friend continued to explain that they play the 3-2 game in Pittsburgh like others play the 7-2 game, where everyone at the table must ship a chip to a player who wins a hand with 7-2. In their case, the bounty is on for when a player takes down a pot with the 3-2.”

OK, fine, but why do it in The Main Event? And he played it earlier in the tournament!! Whatever! Onward!

Jensen raises again to 2.1M and Rigby calls.

The flop? It’s close to perfect: Ace-4-4. It gives Rigby a straight draw, but Jensen must immediately wonder if Rigby is holding an Ace, which would doom his pair of Kings. Jensen checks and Rigby bets 3.01M.

After considering it, Jensen folds and Rigby triumphantly showed his absurdly bad hand!

IT WORKED! Rigby didn’t end up winning it all but he took home $136,100 for his efforts in the Main Event. And that hand helped.

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A World Series of Poker Main Event player with quads suffers a horrible bad beat … against quads

This is brutal.

OH NOOOO.

If you know what the headline is all about, you already know this is going to be one of the more painful hands you’ll ever see.

If you don’t? I’ll walk you through it.

Chang Liu and Ugur Secilmis were on the bubble of making it into the guaranteed money portion of the 2021 World Series of Poker Main Event. Liu started off with a pair of 4s and Secilmis had a pair of 6s.

Others were in the hand initially, but all you need to know is both of them called an 11,500-chip bet to see the flop … which was 6-4-4. OH MY. Liu ended up with four of a kind, or quads. Seclimis had three of a kind. Yet EVERYONE CHECKED. You can’t blame Liu for trying to slow play here.

The turn? A 6. An epic disaster to say the least — Seclimis then had a BETTER quads than Liu. Eventually, Seclimis put in Liu all-in, who called … and saw the bad beat.

Liu went home without any money, but he played it all the right way!

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A World Series of Poker player owns up to an absolutely brutal fold on Twitter

An awful, awful fold but he explained what happened.

What you’re about to see is about as brutal of a fold as you’ll ever see in a World Series of Poker tournament.

But what you’ll also see is the player who folded own up to it and explain it, and honestly, it’s a good explanation and I’m tipping my hat to him for taking to Twitter to respond.

Let’s start with the hand: It was the 2021 Poker Players Championship during Limit Hold ‘Em. With three players left, Ryan Leng had an Ace-5 offsuit and Dan Cates — known as “Jungleman” — had King of Diamonds and Queen of Clubs.

Leng raised and Cates called. The flop was Ace, 7 and Jack. Leng had top pair and checked. Cates — with a shot at a straight — bet 300,000 and Leng called.

The turn? A 9. Leng checked again and Cates checked as well.

The river was a King. Oh boy. Cates might not have thought Leng had an Ace and now he has a pair of Kings.

This is where things get interesting. Leng bets 600,000 … and Cates goes all in for 900,000.

Leng has over 10 million in chips. It’s only 300K more to call the bet with top pair, and even if he thinks Cates has a straight, it’s worth seeing if that’s the case.

But no. He folds. And Cates, who would have been out, goes on to win the bracelet.

Leng then took to Twitter with a lengthy explanation for the fold, and you can completely get it:

 

Was it a bad fold? Yeah. But for him to open up and talk about being drained after long hours during the World Series and how he’ll recover from all that should be applauded.

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A super-risky ‘World Series of Poker’ all-in move came so close to paying off in championship-losing hand

This almost worked!

There are times where you have to risk it all in poker.

And there will be times when that risk does NOT pay off, and it’s the worst.

Here, we have a hand from the 2021 World Series of Poker, in the $50,000 No Limit Hold ‘Em High Roller tournament, starring Michael Addamo and Justin Bonomo, who were heads up for the bracelet.

The key here is Bonomo was behind Addamo but not by much — 11,340,000 chips to Addamo’s 12,960,000. Bonomo raised to 450,000 with 10 of diamonds and 9 of spades. Addamo raised right back to 1.8 million with the King and Jack of hearts, a better hand for sure.

Then, things got nuts. Bonomo went all in. Was it a bluff? Did he read something on Addamo that showed weakness? Addamo had to think about it and rightfully so — King-Jack suited is a good hand in a heads-up scenario but I personally felt like Bonomo was representing at least an Ace.

Addamo called, and the flop was a 10-Jack-Queen. Addamo got a pair of Jacks and Bonomo had a pair of 10s. Then? Another 10 comes out. HOLY COW.

Addamo needed an Ace or a Jack and he had a 14 percent chance at one.

Guess what came out? An Ace for the straight. Addamo won the whole tournament on that wild hand:

The two of them went head to head earlier in the tournament with another wild hand in which Addamo bluffed with a 9-2 unsuited (!) and Bonomo ended up calling.

WOW.

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The worst hand of poker improbably took down pocket aces in a super-lucky World Series of Poker moment

This doesn’t happen very often.

The 2021 World Series of Poker is currently taking place in Las Vegas, and here’s a hand you need to see to show how lucky one player was.

As you might know, the best hand in Hold ‘Em — this was the final table at the $3,000 No Limit Hold ‘Em tourney — is pocket aces. The worst? A 2-7.

Here, we have Brandon Caputo, who has a pair of aces with 1.8 million in chips, which at this point at the final table wasn’t much. But he wanted to get as much value for his aces as possible, so he called the big blind.

Harvey Mathews (over nine million in chips) had the 2-7, except — and this is important — they were suited diamonds. He was the big blind, so he simply checked.

The flop was 10-2-3, with the 3 of diamonds showing up. Caputo bet 160,000 and Mathews called with his pair of 2s.

The turn? The 8 of diamonds. Uh-oh. The flush draw was in play. But Caputo bet 300,000 and Mathews thought about it for a while before going all in, which Caputo called.

Guess what came out on the river? Yep. A diamond, specifically the queen. Mathews hit his diamond flush and eliminated Caputo with what started out as the worst hand against the best hand.

Watch this whole thing unfold:

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A poker YouTuber won a World Series bracelet while sitting in a Whole Foods parking lot

Wow!

The 2020 World Series of Poker Online series of tournaments has, so far, given us an epic reaction from a player who won his first-ever online event.

Now, it’s given us a winner who wasn’t in his house when he won himself a bracelet and a cool $159,563. Nope, he was sitting in his car at a Whole Foods parking lot, playing until he got the victory.

Ryan Depaulo — who says in his Twitter profile that he’s makes vlogs about poker and gambling — was in Event No. 12, the Big 500, which is a $500 buy-in no-limit Hold ‘Em tourney.

Card Player reports he’s a New York native, and players must be physically in Nevada or New Jersey to play in the online events, so maybe that’s why he played from a Whole Foods parking lot in the Garden State:

His extremely NSFW reaction included him screaming in the parking lot, with someone heading into said Whole Foods giving him a look. But this is what the WSOP looks like this year — screaming in parking lots!

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