2026 World Series of Poker
Chip Counts
Chunyu Yang in early position saw his 320,000-chip stack being called by Yannick Capocetti to his left.
Chunyu Yang: K♦Q♦
Yannick Capocetti: A♥10♥
After a flop of 8♣9♥8♥, the J♥ turn completed the nut flop for Capocetti. The 9♦ river completed the board and Yang was eliminated.
In some blind on blind action Cary Christensen made it 120,000 to play from the small blind and was looked up by Anzhela Vasylenko in the big blind.
The flop came 2♣3♠J♠ and Christensen continued for 105,000 only to face a raise from Vasylenko to 300,000. Christensen then re-raised all in and Vasylenko snap-called.
Cary Christensen: K♣J♦
Anzhela Vasylenko: 3♥3♣
Vasylenko had flopped a set and Christensen was in deep trouble and needed runner-runner to stay alive. The 5♠ on the turn left Christensen drawing dead with the irrelevant Q♥ on the river sealing the deal to send Christensen to the cage.
Dragos Anton min-raised in middle position. Benjamin Hamnett three-bet all in on the button with his stack of 250,000 chips.
Jeffrey Nowling, who was in the big blind, studied the board for quite a while, before choosing to go over the top all in.
Anton got out of the way.
Benjamin Hamnett: 3♦3♣
Jeffrey Nowling: K♥Q♥
The hand shifter even more in Hamnett's direction with the door card giving him a set of treys to take the hand in a runout of Q♦5♦3♠A♠8♦.
Bill Klein under the gun jammed for 215,000 and received a call by Vitalii Li on the button.
Bill Klein: K♣7♦
Vitalii Li: A♦8♦
"Not like that," a player said as Klein flopped a pair on 4♥7♣5♥. The A♣ turn however put Li back in the lead and the 3♣ river landed on the river to send Klein to the rail.
Victor Fryda opened from early position. Eli Frenkel in the hijack moved all-in for 250,000 and Fryda called.
Eli Frenkel: A♠K♦
Victor Fryda: A♦5♦
The board ran out Q♣2♥4♠K♣2♦ and Frenkel doubled up.
Level: 24
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 40,000
Minjoo Cho raised to 60,000 from the hijack.
Richard Seymour, the Pro Football Hall of Famer who was an all-pro defensive lineman for the New England Patriots, defended his big blind with a call.
When the flop hit 6♠5♣3♦, both players checked.
Seymour bet 80,000 on the 9♥ turn. Cho hesitated for a bit, but made the call.
The 2♦ landed on the river, bringing with it a bet of 175,000 from Seymour.
Cho again went into the tank for a bit on a bet that was about half his stack. This time when he came out, he folded.