Monster Pot Has Leo Margets on Verge of Making WSOP Main Event History

A 30-year drought may finish late Sunday as Leo Margets is closing in on changing into the primary girl since Barbara Enright to achieve the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Primary Occasion remaining desk.

Enright, a Poker Corridor of Famer, is the one girl ever to make the ultimate 9 in poker’s most prestigious occasion, which she did in 1995 with a fifth-place end for $114,180. She may quickly now not be a part of a one-woman membership.

Margets Making Historical past

Margets entered Day 8 sitting in fifteenth place out of 24 remaining gamers in what’s the third-largest WSOP Primary Occasion in historical past (9,735 entries). She’d hover across the 17.8 million chips she started the session with for fairly a while. However she’d slowly construct her stack as much as round 35 large blinds with the blinds at 500,000/1,000,000.

The Spaniard would then lastly discover a chance to make a transfer, simply after the dinner break. Margets raised to 2,000,000 from the hijack with J♦J♣. Sergio Veloso, holding A♦Okay♥ within the small blind, moved all in for 32,700,000, just below Margets’ stack. The unique raiser made the decision, and each gamers turned over their playing cards to find they have been about to race for a ton of cash.

The flop got here out Q♣A♣9♠, unhealthy information for Margets, who entered the event with simply over $2 million in dwell event cashes. However she did decide up some assistance on the three♣ flip, giving her a flush draw to associate with her two set outs. Margets would spike the two♣ to hit the flush on the river, which despatched Veloso dwelling in sixteenth place for $450,000.

Margets, alternatively, was as much as 71,000,000 chips after Degree 37. Braxton Dunaway (101,900,000) was the one participant with a bigger stack. Michael Mizrachi and Kenny Hallaert, each searching for a second WSOP Primary Occasion remaining desk look, have been nonetheless standing on the time of publishing.

Margets may make poker historical past earlier than the session concludes. Annie Duke (2000) and Gaelle Baumann (2012) every bubbled the ultimate desk. Kristen Foxen went on a memorable run final 12 months earlier than bowing out in thirteenth place.

The Primary Occasion will play all the way down to the ultimate 9 earlier than Day 8 concludes, after which will return to motion with the primary of two remaining desk days on Tuesday. Margets is assured at the very least $450,000, and the subsequent pay bounce to $560,250 happens at thirteenth place. The winner, to be topped on Wednesday, will take dwelling $10 million.

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