Everybody who enters this 12 months’s WSOP Principal Occasion has an opportunity at profitable. From rank amateurs and circuit grinders, high-stakes professionals — even defending champions.
There hasn’t been a repeat winner within the Principal Occasion since Stu Ungar in 1997, however there’s one much less likelihood of that taking place this 12 months after the elimination of 2003 champion Chris Moneymaker early on Day 1a.
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The Hand
Early within the second degree of Day 1a, with the blinds at 200/300/300, David Brown raised to 600 from the cutoff and Moneymaker known as within the small blind.
The flop got here J♠J♣6♥ and Moneymaker check-called a guess of 500. Each gamers then checked the ten♠ and the Q♥ accomplished the board.
Moneymaker guess 2,500. Brown then raised to 10,000, prompting Moneymaker to lift to twenty,000. Brown moved all in for 47,000 efficient and Moneymaker went into the tank.
“Do you actually have pocket queens?” mentioned Moneymaker. In response to the PokerNews reporter, Moneymaker talked by way of a couple of extra elements of the hand. “In case you’ve obtained queens, you’ve got obtained queens,” he mentioned earlier than calling.
Moneymaker tabled Q♠J♦ for a full home whereas Brown did in actual fact maintain pocket queens Q♦Q♣ for a greater full home, sending Moneymaker to the rail.
Moneymaker within the Principal
Since his win in 2003, Moneymaker went over a dozen years with out cashing within the occasion, earlier than lastly recording a 687th-place end in 2019, ok for $20,200.
Nevertheless, after the pandemic, he went on a streak cashing in 2021, 2022 and 2023. The perfect of those got here in 2021 when he completed 260th for $38,600. Now he’ll have to attend till 2026 for an opportunity at including a sixth WSOP Principal Occasion money.
In the meantime, former champions Joe Cada, Bobby Baldwin and Scott Blumstein are all nonetheless within the Day 1a subject. You’ll be able to comply with the protection proper right here on PokerNews!
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