| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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88,000,000 | |
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71,000,000
-10,000,000
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-10,000,000 |
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Khang Pham raised to 2,400,000 out of the small blind. Renmei Liu three-bet to 11,000,000 from the big blind with roughly 8,000,000 behind. Pham four-bet jammed to put Liu all-in and Liu made the call.
Renmei Liu: 8?8? 
Khang Pham: A?K?
The 9?4?J? flop gave Pham a flush a draw, and when the Q? came on the turn, Liu was drawing dead. An inconsequential 6? fell on the river, and Liu was the third-place finisher in the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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88,000,000
19,000,000
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19,000,000 |
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Busted | |
Renmei Liu raised from the button to 2,000,000 and Khang Pham made the call. The flop arrived with 5?10?7? and both players checked.
On the turn 4?, Pham bet out 2,800,000 and received a call.
The river 7? is where it really got heated when Pham bet 6,900,000 and Liu three-bet to 15,000,000 and Pham announced all in with the superior stack effective 13,000,000.
Liu folded and Pham took a massive pot down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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69,000,000
27,200,000
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27,200,000 |
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19,000,000
-19,200,000
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-19,200,000 |
Renmei Liu shoved all-in from the button for 18,200,000. Marc Wolpert asked the count from the dealer before making the call from the small blind to put Liu at risk.
Renmei Liu: J?J?
Marc Wolpert A?Q?
The 8?4?A? flop was great for Wolpert. The Q? turn meant only a two-outer on the river could keep Liu alive. Liu was screaming "jack of hearts, jack of hearts!" to the dealer. The dealer complied as the J? fell on the river, awarding Liu with the miracle he needed to double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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81,000,000
-19,800,000
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-19,800,000 |
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38,200,000
20,900,000
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20,900,000 |
Renmei Liu raised to 3,000,000 from the button. Marc Wolpert three-bet to 7,500,000 from the small blind and Liu made the call.
Wolpert bet 4,500,000 on the 5?J?2? flop and Liu called.
Wolpert fired out 9,500,000 on the K? turn. Liu quickly folded and Wolpert moved over the 100,000,000 chip mark.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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100,800,000
31,800,000
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31,800,000 |
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17,300,000
-11,700,000
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-11,700,000 |
Khang Pham raised on the small blind to 2,100,000 and Renmei Liu made the call in the small blind. The flop came out with 5?J?8? and both players checked.
Both players also checked the turn 2?.
On the river 10?, Pham led out for 2,200,000 and Liu called to see Pham table Q?10? for the pair on the river. Liu mucked his cards.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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41,800,000
-2,200,000
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-2,200,000 |
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29,000,000
-14,000,000
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-14,000,000 |
Earlier this year on an ordinary Monday afternoon, a bespectacled man walked into the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on Las Vegas Blvd. Tucked under his arm was an uninteresting box that only he knew contained something rather interesting – a pair of gold watches dating back more than 40 years.
These were not your run-of-the-mill wristwear, but rather evidence of a unique and often overlooked time of poker history, a year when the World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet, now the game’s highest accolade, was replaced in favor of watches.
The man holding the box was David Sklansky, who in 1978 forever changed poker by advocating a mathematical approach to the game in his groundbreaking book The Theory of Poker. Nicknamed “The Mathematician,” he proved his prowess just four years later when he won two WSOP tournaments in five days.
First, he won the 1982 WSOP Event #7: $800 Mixed Doubles Limit Seven Card Stud, a tournament that paired one man with one woman, alongside Dani Kelly, and followed that up by taking down Event #12: $1,000 Limit 5-Card Draw High. A year later, the Binions reverted back to the beloved bracelets players know today, and Sklansky captured his third piece of WSOP hardware by winning Event #11: $1,000 Limit Omaha.
It was a remarkable accomplishment, and for more than four decades he’s kept safe the evidence of his victories, both of which still worked. So, why was Sklansky carrying his 1982 WSOP gold watches, two of only 15 ever awarded, into a pawn shop? Well, he was looking to sell them of course, but not to just any of the dozens of pawn shops spread across Las Vegas. Oh no, he was walking into arguably the most famous pawn shop in the world, the home to the wildly popular television show Pawn Stars, and he was there to do it with cameras rolling.
Read all about the 1982 WSOP watches here in our feature article!
Marc Wolpert raised out of the small blind to 2,600,000 and Khang Pham called from the big blind.
Wolpert bet 2,500,000 on the 9?Q?9? flop and Pham called.
The A? turn saw Pham call a bet of 3,600,000 from Wolpert.
Wolpert opted to check the 10? river over to Pham. Pham thought long and hard, meticulously counting his chips. Eventually, he slid out a bet of 8,700,000 which prompted a quick fold from Wolpert
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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|
69,000,000
-18,000,000
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-18,000,000 |
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44,000,000
13,400,000
|
13,400,000 |
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Mark Bramley was all in and at risk preflop. Renmei Liu called Bramley's all in and was ahead.
Mark Bramley: K?6?
Renmei Liu: A?4?
The dealer ran out a board of 4?9?3?8?9? eliminating Bramley in fourth place in Event #46.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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43,000,000
8,000,000
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8,000,000 |
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Busted |
Level: 38
Blinds: 500,000/1,000,000
Ante: 0
