2014 World Series of Poker
All these players started today with 120,000 or more in chips. Here's how they look after 2 1/2 hours of play:
In one of the first hands back from break, WSOP bracelet winner Eric "basebadly" Baldwin got involved in a big hand with Avinash Kataria.
When we arrived at the table, Kataria had 6,600 laid out in front of him in the big blind and Baldwin had popped it to 14,200 from the cutoff. Kataria, who had the bigger stack, thought for a few moments before announcing that he was all in, and Baldwin sort of shrugged before calling off for right around 50,000.
Baldwin: ![]()
Kataria: ![]()
Baldwin was in a dominating spot and primed to double to 100,000. The ![]()
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flop was safe enough for Baldwin, and so was the
turn. All Baldwin had to do was dodge a queen on the river, but then the dealer delivered a dagger through his heart by burning and putting out the
. Baldwin seemed a bit shell-shocked, but eventually tossed forward his chips, wished the table luck, and then took his leave from the 2014 WSOP Main Event.
Steven McNally checked on a flop of ![]()
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, Christopher Sensoli tossed out 1,500 on his direct left, and James Obst raised to 5,100. McNally folded, and Sensoli tank-called.
The turn was the
and both players checked, then the
completed the board. Sensoli casually flipped out an orange T5,000 chip, Obst quickly called, and Sensoli announced that he had two pair: ![]()
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Obst mucked.
Dutch Boyd opened with a raise to 1,300, and John Juanda reraised to 3,750 in position. Action folded back to Boyd, and he called to see the flop come down ![]()
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. After Boyd checked, Juanda bet 2,200. Boyd check-raised to put Juanda all in, and Juanda folded.