2026 World Series of Poker May 26th - July 15th

This entire industry was built on river suckouts. Ironic, because Moneymaker just had the one big one v Ivey, and that was a suck resuck reresuck cooler. He dud very little pf shove n giggling.

Kyle is 4th of 533. Caitlin in a tie for 65th. Hadn’t seen Ordet’s name all day but that’s because he was on the TV table. Foxen still in good shape. Fossilman has not quite six orbits left at the next level.

This was a wild hand. So what had happened is Foxen opened for 30k from LJ. Blinds are 10k/15k w/ 15k ante. I'm in the BB w/ 7♦4♦ and call. It is the second to last hand of the night.

Flop is J♣ 3♦ 6♥ with 85k in middle
I check
He bets 30k
I raise to 125k
He calls

Turn is J♣ 3♦ 6♥ 8♣ with 335k in middle
I bet 250k
He calls

River is J♣ 3♦ 6♥ 8♣ 5♣ with 835k in middle
I bet 200k
He calls

If I remember correctly it was a bit over 2 spr on river

Not sure if I'm supposed to go bigger for value on this river. My thinking at the time is that the club was a bit better for his range than mine, but reduces the value of my nutted combos like sets and two pair so I opted for a small size which can contain some of those hands that can get called by over pairs with a club, and sets. Also random top pairs with a a club are probably indifferent in theory, but I don't know. I also think it is possible that I induce some bluff raises, but honestly I don't even know if I want that. I was like, "I'll cross that bridge if it comes to it". Foxen was a bit upset about the hand because he ended up calling and said he had JJ. If river had been different I may have ended up blasting off a big stack and possibly all-in so I'm really really lucky that did not happen. I wasn't sure if I was gonna pull the trigger going to the river or not. Certain cards I definitely would have gone crazy, obviously not on clubs though.

Alex Foxen seemed like a pretty cool guy overall. The table had good vibes and he shook my hand and some of the other player's hands at the end of the night. He's actually at my table tomorrow 2 seats to my left which is a bit intimidating since he's a top tier player. Hopefully I'm able to hold my own tomorrow and keep sun running. Overall, I feel like I'm playing a solid game for me, but I'm also highly aware of the massive good luck streak that I've been getting and really hope it continues. This whole experience has been surreal.

Another thing, I'm struggling really bad with keeping track of the sizes of the pots and it shows. Also botched my hand chart that I memorized and ended up calling a 15bb all-in from an EP player w/ A2o. A2o is a defend against a 2x open, but not an all-in. My brain glitched and after I called I realized the mistake that I had made. Probably my second biggest blunder in this tournament apart from revealing the AKo hand in an earlier hand. I've definitely made many more mistakes, but that one was pretty big.

Nice job, get some sleep. Foxen’s a pretty big guy up close isn’t he?

And yes, you should’ve bet 400K on the river. ��

And he should’ve popped it on the turn; the 8c is a wet card.

in addition to the above list wall of text, a few more names I've seen before

two final tablists from the boom era

Ralph Perry--3rd in 2002
Scott Lazar--I'll gamble with you guy from 2005 final table.

Iachan was 17th last year
caitlin comeskey, vanessa kade

Seems to be a lot more than I remember people I've heard of than normal at this stage of things. A lot are toward the bottom half of the standings so interesting day today.

I would've just called turn too, it's only sort of a wet card. godson would've punted a good amount of chips on a bunch of different rivers.

Let's go!