WSOP.com Event #5: No Limit Hold'em 8-Max

Daniel "DNegs" Negreanu raised to 600 from middle position. "philnaps" called on the button and the small blind Richard "Doc33" Federico, called also.

The flop came    , Negreanu bet 600, both opponents called.

The turn was the  , Negreanu bet 2,670, philnaps called and Federico folded.

The river came the  . Negreanu led shoved for 25,204 which quickly folded out philnaps to send the pot the way of DNegs.

Daniel "DNegs' Negreanu	34,684	34,684
Richard "Doc33" Federico	16,157
philnaps	13,551	13,551

Hal "Zamees" Rotholz raised to 600 under the gun and called when Zachary "Rengoku" Gruneberg three-bet to 2,100 from the cutoff.

On the     flop, Rotholz checked and Gruneberg bet 2,275. Rotholz check-raised to 5,800 and then called off for 16,698 after Gruneberg jammed.

Zachary "Rengoku" Gruneberg:   
Hal "Zamees" Rotholz:   

Both players had flopped a pair but Gruneberg's was best. Neither the   turn nor   river changed a thing and Gruneberg was pushed the pot while Rotholz re-entered the tournament.

Lanny "ThePuritz" Vaysman called from the small blind and saw a flop with the big blind Ethan "Rampunts" Yau.

The flop came    . Yau bet 325, Vaysman check-raised to 999 and was called.

The turn was the  . Both players checked.

The river came the  . Vaysman bet, Yau raised, and Vaysman three-bet all in, which was called.

Vaysman showed the    for flopped straight which bested the    of Yau.

Lanny "ThePuritz" Vaysman	37,924	37,924
Ethan "Rampunts" Yau	2,013

Last year on July 9th and 10th, the poker world witnessed New Jersey's Ryan "im.sorry" Torgersen accomplish a truly incredible feat. First, he navigated his way through a 1,026-entry field in Event #9: $1,000 NLH 6-Max only to finish runner-up to Ron "MacDaddy15" McMillen, good for $116,379 prize money.

A day later in Event #10: $600 Monster Stack, Torgersen was back at it and topped a 2,074-entry field to win that tournament for $172,362 and a gold bracelet. In a 24-hour period, he won a $288,741 in prize money.

Little was known about poker's latest breakout star, who was awarded Performance of the Week right on PokerNews.

The 30-year-old Torgersen grew up in Granby, Connecticut with his parents and younger sister.

"I do not have much work experience besides a few delivery jobs I had in my mid 20's before I got back into poker and moved to Jersey," he said. "I spent a couple years in college studying economics but was spending too much time playing poker. I did not want to go to college in the first place, right after I graduated from high school, but I did it because it was expected of me."

As it turned out, the education he'd use to capture WSOP gold came years earlier courtesy of his father, who taught him how to play poker.

"My dad taught me the rules of poker at a pretty young age before I found PokerStars during the poker boom," Torgersen explained. "I taught myself, originally by spending hours watching all the top tournament players from the PocketFives and Pokerstars TLB every day, figuring out how they would play different stack sizes, then just put it into my own game and saw good results pretty quickly."

He continued: "Back then, I thought I was the best in the game and knew all there was to know, but after years of experience and studying cash games/sims I realize there will always be so much more room to get better and I'll never know it all no matter how much I study."

Check out Torgersen's full interview here.

One WSOP Gold Bracelet. Three final tables. Fifteen cashes. That was the body of work of Ian "apokerjoker2" Steinman in last year's WSOP.com Online Bracelet Series, one that would be the envy of nearly everyone who fired in last year's version. Steinman, who already has been seeking action on some bracelet bets for this year's series, will be looking to duplicate his many deep runs and massive success this year.

Steinman's heater began last year with two final tables early in the series, with a fifth-place performance in Event #7: $800 NLH Knockout Deepstack for $24,578, followed by a sixth-place finish two days later in Event #9: $1,000 NLH 6-Max for $30,995. Steinman's bracelet would be earned late in the series, when he took down Event #27: $400 NLH Freezeout for $110,557 after beating Japan's Satoshi Tanaka in heads-up play. Steinman used these performances to take down the $100,000 Leaderboard competition of the WSOP.com portion of the series, which sent an additional $18,000 his way.

Steinman doesn't appear to be resting on his laurels in preparing for a summer of poker, however, already getting in some prep work by winning the Benny Binion Summer Shoot-Out at the South Point Poker Room for $65,000 after a three-way deal. As much as winning his first bracelet meant to Steinman, the quest for another crusher of a summer is on for the hyper-talented Steinman.

Ian "apokerjoker2" Steinman

19,840

-160

Blinds 30/60

Four players entered a raised pot and the flop came     Hal "Zameez" Rothol bet 260 into a pot of 630. Mark "Victb" Ioli called and the two others folded.

The turn was the  . Rotholz bet 750. He got raised to 2,797 which was enough to get a fold.

Mark "Victb" Ioli	21,300	21,300
Hal "Zameez" Rotholz	18,605	18,605

Through August 3rd, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) will begin hosting daily online gold bracelet events on WSOP.com. There will be 33 bracelets awarded over 32 days, and PokerNews is excited to announce we'll not only be live reporting all the action but also offering poker fans daily live streams.

Every day, viewers at home will have access to watching the biggest names hunt for bracelets. In conjunction with PokerNews, Jeff Platt will host early action from each tournament at twitch.tv/jeffplatt, starting around the money bubble each day and taking players all the way to the final table.

"I am thrilled to team up with PokerNews to present coverage of the 2021 WSOP Online," said Platt, who is a co-host of the PokerNews Podcast. "We learned last year that the prestige of bracelet events draws an incredibly passionate audience on Twitch. I can't wait to interact with that audience again as we crown poker's newest champions."

After Platt's streams, coverage will then shift to twitch.tv/pokernews where PokerNews' own Jesse Fullen will cover final table action alongside a rotating cast of co-hosts including Alec Torelli, Ryan Laplante, Jesse Sylvia, KL Cleeton, Rampage Poker, and Jaman Burton, among others. The streams will also be featured on YouTube and Facebook.

"WSOP Online will certainly be the biggest online series of the year in the USA. We're thrilled PokerNews has again stepped up to provide fans a way to follow the action," said Ty Stewart, Executive Director of the WSOP. "Jeff Platt's personal streams were a highlight of last year's online series and we have no doubt the PokerNews final table streams will be an entertaining watch."

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