Aces & Kings Cracked on River in Epic Four-Way Pot in WSOP Event

They are saying aces are a hand greatest performed towards a single opponent. Christopher Jordan discovered that out the laborious means at World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Paradise as he had an opportunity to quadruple up with pocket rockets earlier than an unlucky river card despatched him packing deep within the $2,500 WSOP Circuit Championship Thriller Bounty.

The cooler happened within the sunny Bahamas on Day 2 with simply 5 tables remaining. The four-day occasion, which at the moment has 19 gamers left, will attain a winner on Wednesday.

4-Means All-In In Paradise

Throughout Degree 25 with blinds of 30,000/60,000/60,000, Christopher Jordan, Rod Ward, Mark Darner and daylong chip chief Christopher Nguyen all discovered themselves all in preflop earlier than the playing cards have been flipped.

Rod Ward: 9♦9♥Mark Darner: J♠J♣Christopher Jordan: A♦A♠Christopher Nguyen: Ok♣Ok♦

Every participant had a pocket pair and the flop of two♣5♦6♠ stored Jordan’s aces in entrance. The two♠ did not change something, however the J♥ river sucked the life out of the room as Darner improved to a set to almost quadruple as Jordan and Ward have been each despatched to the rail.

Ward was nonetheless in good spirits after collaborating within the loopy hand and even supplied PokerNews with a video of the motion.

As of publishing, the $2,500 WSOP Circuit Championship Thriller Bounty has 19 gamers remaining within the last stage of the night. These nonetheless in rivalry embrace Nenad Medic, Vera Dong, Matthew McEwan, and the ever-lucky Darner.

The highest $250,000 bounty remained elusive all through the day however finally went to Jack Germaine.

Head to the WSOP Paradise dwell reporting portal for extra PokerNews protection of the collection within the Bahamas.

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.