The tournament of all tournaments will crown its new champion in just a few days in Las Vegas, for whom, in addition to a beautiful diamond bracelet, 10 million dollars awaits. The battle for the most valuable poker title in the world started this year with 8,663 players, of which the best 123 made it to yesterday's sixth playing day. The players worth mentioning who made it to day 6 are Alejandro „PapoMC“ Lococo who pulled off an incredible 6-bet bluff against Karim Rebei on day 5, the remaining champions Damian Salas (2,435,000) and Koray Aldemir (3,800,000), the current number seven on the world all-time money list Dan Smith (2,030,000) and the finalist from 2018 Antoine Labat (4,790,000).
Is this the hand of the tournament???
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Like every day, five two-hour game levels awaited the players yesterday, which again brought a fair dose of great poker and emotions. As the night went by, the field of 123 players whittled down to the last 35, currently led by home player Jeffrey Farnes with a 126bb stack. It was Farnes who sent yesterday's most watched player Alejandro Lococo home, which was decided by the traditional preflop flip A Q vs T T .
The following hand, which is being talked about everywhere, caught the attention of all viewers yesterday. Everyone is aware that the game is getting tougher and tougher, and in the last hundred players, it is already necessary to choose wisely the spots to start. The trio of Haim Or Krief, Gabriel Cruz and Stanley Lee could tell you something about that, as they performed such a massive crash on the TV table!
ICYMI: Check out this wild hand from Day 6 of the Main Event with less than 100 players remaining.
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Stanley Lee has jacks and moves all in over a raise and three-bet but Haim Or Krief has queens and Gilbert Cruz has aces, creating a massive pot! pic.twitter.com/FKjgEFsBTX
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As we already mentioned, the final 35 players remain in the game at this point, and they face another tough day tonight. Everyone jumps into it with the certainty of $262,300 in cashout, but among the participants of this day, Damian Salas is worth mentioning, who became the ME WSOP champion in 2020, when the structure was changed due to the corona. Will he be able to build on this success?
