‘Rampage’ Frustrates Opponent With Two Suckouts Deep in Tournament

To paraphrase Ethan “Rampage” Yau as he bagged his chips tonight on the 2026 U.S. Poker Open in Las Vegas, it is a lot extra enjoyable to be fortunate than to be good. The poker vlogger felt this fashion after being on the successful finish of main suckouts that propelled him to bag a prime stack inside PokerGO Studio on the finish of Day 1 of Occasion #3: $5,000 NLH.

Additionally among the many 5 gamers remaining is chip chief Sam Laskowitz, middling stacks Adam Hendrix and Cherish Andrews, and Michael Berk, who’s on the backside of the pack after being sufferer to each of Yau’s suckouts.

The occasion, the ultimate $5,000 buy-in match of the sequence, drew 115 runners for a prize pool of $575,000.

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Yau busted out of the occasion early however had much more luck on his subsequent bullet. He made it to the cash however was susceptible to going out in tenth place when he four-bet jammed pocket jacks into the aces of Berk. However a flopped jack stored the favored vlogger and Pokemon card collector alive, and Berk would rue the day he ever let him double up.

With six gamers remaining within the last hand of the night, Yau once more four-bet jammed, this time with ace-queen, into Berk’s ace-king. The top appeared nigh for Yau after a clean flop and switch, however a queen landed on the river to deliver a “WHEW!” from Yau and a defeated “Dude…” from Berk, who was perplexed and left the Studio earlier than bagging what remained of his stack.

Yau wasn’t the one participant who received fortunate on Day 1. The early phases belonged to Alex Foxen, who started his day with a deep dialog with Landon Tice, who has been on a religious kick and made feedback like “love fulfills all guidelines” and “the covenant is barely fulfilled with Jesus.”

The dialog about spirituality impressed Foxen to grab the souls of two opponents by hitting three-outers in massive pots.

“You do not know what it is like being me,” Foxen joked after one of many arms.

The cash bubble burst as Jesse Kertland had his king-queen dominated by the ace-queen of Berk. Those that fell within the cash embrace Justin Saliba, Jim Collopy and Dylan Linde.

Day 2 will kick off later right this moment at 11:45 a.m. native time on Stage 21 with blinds of fifty,000/100,000/100,000, who will win the trophy and first-place prize of $143,750.

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Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Exterior Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 International Poker Awards for his writing.