Poker content material creator extraordinaire Joey Ingram is rebuilding a stack after shedding a cooler monster pot on Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship at Wynn.
The $10,400 buy-in match attracted 2,392 gamers and is scheduled to play 5 90-minute ranges on Tuesday. It is unlikely the match will hit the cash earlier than the session concludes. However on the time of publishing there have been almost 700 gamers remaining, all dreaming of profitable the $3,138,900 first place prize.
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Ingram is likely one of the gamers nonetheless hoping to get a chunk of the $23.4 million prize pool and one of many 299 entrants who’re looking for a money in a serious poker match. Nevertheless it appeared as if he wasn’t going to final lengthy on Day 2, not after shedding a three-way cooler pot for an enormous chunk of his chips.
The “nice sport of pot-limit Omaha” specialist, as he informed PokerNews on a break, raised two massive blinds from underneath the gun with pocket kings. The participant on to his left known as with, as he’d later be taught, pocket queens. Motion then heated up when the cutoff opted to flat name with aces.
“Papi” then jammed for 25 massive blinds and acquired calls from the larger-stacked queens and smaller-stacked aces. The board would offer no enchancment to any of the three fingers, that means pocket aces scooped the principle pot. Ingram acquired a little bit of a rebate from the facet pot in opposition to pocket queens, however he nonetheless misplaced a piece within the hand.
The excellent news for the PLO fanatic is that he grinded his method again to round 25 massive blinds on break, when this text was revealed. He check-raised all in on the flop within the hand earlier than break and took down the preflop three-way raised pot with out receiving a name.
Ingram mentioned it was the primary time he’d picked up pocket kings within the match. He could also be identified extra for taking part in PLO, however this no-limit maintain’em occasion is an enormous deal to him.
“That is principally one of many massive $10Ks I play each single 12 months, and I’m excited,” Ingram mentioned in a current interview with PokerNews. “I’ve been visualizing, meditating, working with solvers—you understand, solvers, meditation, and studying Twitter. Everybody at all times has good issues to say on Twitter.”
The Las Vegas resident continued to clarify that he is competing in a serious NLH occasion as a result of “I am an enormous supporter of the World Poker Tour” and Wynn Las Vegas.
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