Action Seems Inevitable in This Historic Tournament

Monika Kostanjevec

Level 1 : Blinds 100/100, 100 ante

Players have played their first bombs ever at the WSOP and action in the first hands has not disappointed. While the first round of bomb pots did not seem to cause too many casualties, we caught quite some action on the second hand.

Table #67 was playing their first hand of Pot Limit Omaha. Benjamin Fisher opened the action under the gun six-handed. He raised pot and Brian Brunner called in the cutoff. Arman Tyfekchyan then raised pot on the button, which was to 1,800. Fisher and Brunner both called.

The flop came 9?10?5?. Fisher checked, as did Brunner. Tyfekchyan continued for a pot-sized bet of 5,700. Fisher decided to call, at which point Brunner decided to come over the top and raise all in. Tyfekchyan put all his chips in as well, but Fisher, after some thinking, decided to get out of the way.

Brian Brunner: Q?10?10?2? All in
Arman Tyfekchyan: A?A?4?5?

Brunner was at risk and ahead with top set, while Tyfekchyan still had a lot of equity with the aces and the nut flush draw.

The turn was the K? and Brunner asked for a black card on the river. However, the river came the 8?, completing Tyfekchyan‘s flush and sending Brunner to the rail after he had barely sat down.