WSOP.com Event #25: No Limit Hold'em Lucky 7's High Roller

No stage in poker stood as a bigger goal for a tournament player than the final table of the WSOP Main Event. For years, that meant going to sleep knowing you had the chance of a lifetime, to go down in poker history in the next few days as the cameras captured your every bet, raise and fold.

All of that changed in 2008.

The year after Jerry Yang's Main Event victory was broadcast to all on ESPN's standard tape delay, organizers made a decision to try to increase the excitement and anticipation around the final table: after the final nine was reached, play would be paused. At that point, everyone left would go home with 9th-place money and the players would reconvene a few months later to play out the final table on a short tape delay.

That lasted until 2016, and this is the history of the November (and October) Nines.

Click here to read the article about the history of the WSOP November Nine

Thomas "HavanaClub" Boivin opened from under the gun to 660. Action folded to Ali "SasukeUchiha" Imsirovic in the cutoff position, who three bet to 2,250.

Boivin re-raised to 6,000 and Imsirovic made the call to see a flop of    .

Boivin flop bet of 4,444 was called by Imsirovic and the turn   led to a check from both players.

After a   on the river, Boivin thought through part of his time bank and jammed all in. Imsirovic folded and Boivin scooped the 21,578 pot.

Thomas "HavanaClub" Boivin	76,311	7,864
Ali "SasukeUchiha" Imsirovic	20,835	-22,464

Chris "Robotbob47" Moorman raised to 600 and then called the 1,900 three-bet Brandon "DrOctagon" Adams made directly to his left.

The flop came     and Moorman check-called the 1,800 continuation bet bringing the   turn. This time, Moorman check-jammed for 11,630 after Adams fired out 4,200 and Adams snap-called.

Brandon "DrOctagon" Adams:   
Chris "Robotbob47" Moorman:   

Adams was ahead with his pocket aces but the   appeared on the river, completing Moorman's flush and secured his double-up.

Felix "madenspauwke" Vandeput raised to 625 from middle position and was called by Daniel "centrfieldr" Lupo from the cutoff, along with Jesse "Patient0" Yaginuma from the big blind.

The     flop was checked to Lupo who fired out 1,031 and was called by Yaginuma before Vandeput raised to 3,450.

Action was back on Lupo who three-bet jammed for 17,581 and Yaginuma quickly folded while Vandeput called.

Daniel "centrfieldr" Lupo:   
Felix "madenspauwke" Vandeput:   

Lupo was ahead after flopping a set of sixes and the   paired the board on the turn so he no longer needed to sweat Vandeput's flush draw.

Lupo was looking good to score the double but the   appeared on the river, giving Vandepu a better full house and eliminating Lupo from the tournament.

Felix "madenspauwke" Vandeput	45,087
Jesse "Patient0" Yaginuma	22,502	-325
Daniel "centrfieldr" Lupo	0	-25,000

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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One of the most consistent crushers of the last fifteen years has been Shannon "Aulophobia" Shorr, who tops the Alabama all-time earnings list on Hendon Mob, with nearly $8.6 million in recording earnings. Shorr, who recently announced that he and his wife Joy are expecting their first child, is in action today and will be looking for more success on the virtual felt after some early success on the live felt this year.

Shorr, who had six cashes in last year's WSOP.com Online Bracelet series, but has yet to win a WSOP Gold Bracelet, found his first victory of the year in Event #28: $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Deep Stack, and for besting a 287-entrant field, Shorr added a healthy $296,535 to his bankroll. Shorr has also found a quartet of cashes in PokerGO branded events, including a fourth-place performance at the $10,000 NLH High Roller at The Venetian, good for $77,000.

With another full summer of bracelet events on the docket, will this be the year that Shorr breaks through for a WSOP Gold Bracelet to add another accolade to an already illustrious career? We'll be watching his status all summer long as "Aulophobia" shoots for the stars.