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12.07.2024

Adrian Mateos threw down kings, then lost with aces, what did Day 5 of the WSOP Main Event bring?

The WSOP Main Event had its fifth day of play on the schedule yesterday, and the biggest stir was made by Adrian Mateos, who first made a beautiful fold and then had a nasty bad beat. Adrian was eliminated from the game and unfortunately Day 5 proved to be fatal for both Phil Ivey.

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Adrian Mateos will clearly be the main focus of today's article from the record-breaking WSOP Main Event. He showed everyone why he is one of the best players in the world once again on the TV table.

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Adrian found K-K under the gun and after the flop his opponent Will Berry raised to 425k with aces, which Mateos called. After the turn, Berry had already bet 1,300,000 and Mateos began to have second thoughts. After a minute of deliberation, Adrian finally mucked his kings and immediately earned praise from the stream commentators. Many referred to Mateos as the "GOAT" after the fold, and Joey Ingram even called it a "god mode fold".

Following the hand, current WSOP Player of the Year runner-up Scott Seiver, who has already won 3 bracelets this summer to bring his total to 7, also commented on Mateos. He tweeted, "On the one hand none of us are good enough to truly know who amongst the best is the best NL players in these things, but on the other hand it’s just obviously Mateos no questions asked."

While the media, commentators and many players were gushing over Mateos' discard, Adrian got into another interesting hand when he found aces under his hand for a change. Adrian Garcia was now playing against Mateos, who found A-K in spades and opted to go all-in for 2.9 million. Mateos immediately called that and everyone watched the board tensely.

The board certainly didn't please Mateos, however, as his opponent hit a flush here, and the Spanish player fell to 440k. Moments after this hand, Mateos was already walking to the cashier for his $45,000 reward for 317th place. "It could be one of my worst bad beats for sure, especially in this tournament," Mateos said after the elimination.

Also among the eliminated on the night was the legendary Phil Ivey, who finished in 340th place with a $45,000 prize.

TheMain Event now moves into its sixth day

Day 5 of the record-breaking $10,000 buy-in WSOP Main Event is over, so it's time to bring you an update. Out of the 10,112 players, 464 players have made it to Day 5, and out of those, 160 players will look to Day 6. Here, they all have at least $70,000 in their pockets already, but there's an even $10 million waiting for the winner.

The chipleader going into Day 5 is Stephen Song, and it will be the same in Day 6. This time around, Song will unwrap a stack worth 12,310,000. Names like Niklas Astedt (7,900,000), Brian Rast (6,325,000), Kristen Foxen (5,400,000), Leonard Maue (5,180,000), Tony Dunst (3,190,000), Alexander Tkatschew (2,925,000), Danny Tang (2,780,000), Aliaksandr Shylko (1,415,000), and Alexey Ponakov (1,320,000) are also among the advancers.

Day 6 of the record-breaking WSOP Main Event will start at blinds of 40,000/80,000/80,000, running through the traditional 120-minute levels, and players will once again be treated to 5 levels, after which the remaining players will move on to Day 7.


Source - wsop, pokernews, twitter, pokergo

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