Some things are so baked into the manners of poker that it can seem hardly worth writing them down. Like the manners and customs of a foreign country, these are things that often seem obvious to anyone immersed in the culture. However, they often seem alien and easy to violate accidentally.

For newcomers to the game (and even, on occasion, oldcomers) these unwritten rules can get you in trouble. So here we’ve written down ten of them to help you avoid having to learn these unwritten rules of poker the hard way.

1. Do Not Angle Shoot

Angle shooting is a term for any number of tricky behaviors that don’t violate the exact word of the poker rulebook but do violate its spirit or take advantage of ambiguities within it.

An example of angle shooting might include positioning your larger chips where they can’t be seen by other players. Another is announcing a raise as “four” and waiting for a reaction from another player before deciding if you meant “four hundred” or “four thousand.”

From time to time, the rules of poker are updated, putting these unwritten violations into ink. For example, the “forward motion” rule exists in many poker rooms, making explicit a ban on the form of angle shooting where players would push chips forward (but not fully into the middle) to get a reaction from the other players left to act.

2. Always Respect the Dealer and Other Players

This one should be obvious. Poker is a game, it is meant to be fun and losing is no excuse for forgetting one’s manners. Treat the other players with respect and if you are the kind of person who treats service staff badly, then stick to home games. The dealer’s job is to keep the game running smoothly and to collect the rake.

If a player or dealer makes a mistake or behaves poorly, you still need to behave with respect. If things look like they might escalate, disengage and talk to the floor.

3. Don’t Waste Other People’s Time

Some decisions take time, and if you’re new to the game, you might need a minute to figure things out as you go. That is no problem. However, your goal should be to act as quickly as is reasonable.

For simple pre-flop situations and small flop bets, you should already know what you’re going to do when the action reaches you. Do it. Move on. Don’t hold the game up.

4. Calling The Clock Too Soon

On the other hand, don’t be too quick to call the clock. Especially if a player is new or hasn’t spent much time in the tank this session. For most players a few long decisions per session are inevitable and players should be allowed to take their time within reason.

Reserve the clock for players who have repeatedly tanked or who seem to be using the clock to game the system (as in the run-up pay jumps in tournaments).

As well as being good etiquette, it’s also a good way to avoid players calling the clock on you out of spite.

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5. Avoid Slow Rolling

Slow rolling is when you make a player think they’ve won, taking your time before turning over the actual winning hand. It makes losing feel worse and can put players on tilt. Plus, referring back to Unwritten Rule #3, it wastes other players’ time.

Slow rolling can be great for building tension in a movie scene and on rare occasions it can be hilarious in real life. But if you think you’re having one of those occasions, take some advice: you’re not

Don’t do it. It is always mean-spirited and makes the game less fun for your opponents.

6. Pay Attention To The Action and Stay Focused on the Game

This can be thought of as another appendix to Unwritten Rule #3. If you’re not paying attention to the game, you slow everything down. It wastes other players’ time and outsources your job of tracking the action to other players or the dealer. Pay attention. If you can’t use your phone or chat with players without losing track of when it’s your turn to act, then switch the phone off and cut the jibber-jabber.

As well as being polite, you’ll also find your game is a lot better if you are tuned into the action at your table.

7. Don’t act out of turn

The play of a poker hand moves clockwise from the dealer. This results in a key information asymmetry that is a major part of any decent player’s poker strategy. When you announce your move before your turn, you disadvantage yourself by giving away some of your information advantage.

More importantly, from a rules point of view, you can also hugely change the way a hand plays out because your opponents will adjust their strategy to account for your upcoming move.

8. Keep Your Hand To Yourself Until All The Action Is Complete

If there are still players in a hand, then don’t show anyone your cards. It can be tempting to have a friend play along with a live hand or to show off a good laydown after folding. But don’t.

Your hole cards (live or dead) affect the possible ranges of every player left in the hand. Wait until the pot has been definitively won before revealing anything about your cards.

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9. Never Give or Ask for Advice During a Hand

This one is actually often written down as “one player per hand,” but players will often still try to get away with it. If a hand is still in play, keep your thought processes and strategic considerations to yourself. You should never give or solicit advice during the action. This is mostly to ensure the fairness of everyone playing their own hand with their own abilities. However, it also reduces the ability of players to collude, and so is important to game integrity too.

Once a hand is complete, it’s fair game to go over it. However, even then, players might be a bit upset if you give away someone’s tell or plug a recreational player’s biggest leaks.

10. Save Your Bad Beat Stories For The Bar

No one wants to hear your bad beat story. We’ve all got our own to tell. While you’re at the table, no matter how rough your luck, you have until the next hand is dealt to get over the current one.

Keep your emotions in check. If a beat has you steaming, take a break. This makes the game more comfortable for everyone else and reduces the chances of you doing off your entire bankroll in a fit of tilt.

You can always whinge to your friends at the bar afterward. They won’t listen to you with any more attention or sympathy, but at least you’re not ruining the game for another player.

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Day 28 of the 2023 World Series of Poker at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas is done and dusted, and the last person out of the tournament areas has turned off the lights.

There were three bracelets awarded on the 28th day of the WSOP, and a certain Chance Kornuth continued his incredible run of form in live events by bagging big in the star-studded $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller.

Event #48: $1,000 Seniors Championship crowned its champion on Day 28, and it was Lonnie Hallett who got their hands on the $765,731 top prize and the tournament’s bracelet. All eyes were on seven-time bracelet winner Billy Baxter as the 82-year-old navigated his way to the final two, but it was Hallett who stole the show.

Mike Gorodinsky took down Event #54: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship after defeating Alex Livingston heads-up. Only seven players returned for the fourth and final day, and Gorodinsky left all six of his opponents in his wake. His reward? $422,747 and bracelet number three for the 2015 Poker Players Championship winner.

The third bracelet awarded on Day 28 came from Event #55: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better. Mike Matusow and Brian Rast started the day in the chip counts’ top ten, but it was Marcin Horecki who came away with the top honors, the bracelet, and $155,275 in prize money after defeating a devastated Matusow in the one-on-one battle.

Kornuth Leads the Race for the $2,294,756 Top Prize in the $25K PLO High Roller

Chance Kornuth is on course for his second seven-figure haul of the 2023 WSOP because he leads the way in Event #57: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller. Kornuth, who finished fifth in the $250,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller for $1,202,318, returns to the action in this $25,000 PLO High Roller with 7,245,000 chips, some 38 big blinds more than his nearest rival. Should Kornuth go all the way, he’d bank $2,294,756 and bracelet number four.

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Standing between Kornuth and that happening are 30 top-tier poker pros. Dylan Weisman (4,335,000) is Kornuth’s nearest rival. Isaac Haxton (4,320,000) and Firas Kashat (4,185,000) are just behind Weisman in the overnight chip counts.

Other luminaries, including Ka Kwan Lau (3,890,000), Andriy Lyubovetskiy (2,305,000), Jeremy Ausmus (2,290,000), Daniel Zack (2,230,000), Ben Lamb (1,795,000), Chad Eveslage (1,230,000), Yuri Dzivielevski (1,065,000), Joao Vieira (975,000), and Dash Dudley (475,000) will have a significant role in determining where this event’s bracelet ends up.

Play resumes at 1:00 p.m. local time on June 27, so return to PokerNews then for all the PLO updates you can handle.

Event #57: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller Top 10 Chip Counts

Kniep Leads the Millionaire Maker With Only 41 Players Remaining

There are only 41 players in the hunt for the title of Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker champion, and none of those players have more chips than Germany’s Andreas Kniep (19,600,000). Kniep is best known for his 18th-place finish in the 2021 WSOP Main Event, which netted him a career-best $305,000. However, he has a realistic shot of a seven-figure score in this event.

A host of stars are among the final 41 players, including Pavel Plesuv (14,175,000), Frenchman Arnaud Mattern (7,565,000), Triple Crown winner Roberto Romanello (6,700,000), David “ODB” Baker (4,650,000), and Erick Lindgren (3,825,000).

The cards are back in the air from 10:00 a.m. local time on June 27, with PokerNews providing the best live coverage from this tournament.

Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker Top 10 Chip Counts

Only 15 Players left Battling in the Salute to Warriors Event

Event #56: $500 Salute to Warriors is down to its final 15 players, and it is Ryan Stephens (28,775,000) that is the man to catch going into the third and final day’s play. This is the first time Stephens has cashed in a WSOP event, and he has locked in $9,966 but has one hand on the $217,921 top prize, plus the all-important gold bracelet.

Only one bracelet winner remains in the hunt to add to their collection on Day 2. Dejuante Alexander (20,625,000) returns to his seat third in chips, and a solid shot at banking some more WSOP hardware.

Day 3 sees seven countries represented, showing the draw this incredible game has worldwide. Tune into PokerNews from 10:00 a.m. local time on June 27 as PokerNews rides home the Salute to Warriors.

Event #56: $500 Salute to Warriors Top 10 Chip Counts

Big Names Still in the Hunt for $3k Fixed Limit Glory

Only 17 players remain in Event #58: $3,000 Limit Hold’em (6-Handed) and five of those players already have at least one WSOP bracelet to their name.

Nick Pupillo (1,040,000) captured a bracelet a couple of days ago, and is well and truly in the mix to win his second, as he returns for the final day third in chips.

Tom Koral (805,000), and David Bach (775,000) find themselves in the top ten, while Daniel Idema (200,000) and the 2015 WSOP Main Event champion Joe McKeehen (150,000) are currently at the wrong end of the chip counts.

Jason Daly (1,190,000) is the man they all must overtake if they want to become this event’s champion. They’ll start their quest to do exactly that from 1:00 p.m. local time on June 27 under the watchful eyes of the PokerNews live reporting team.

Event #58: $3,000 Limit Hold’em (6-Handed) Top 10 Chip Counts

$3,000 NL Hold’em Freezeout Attracts 1,598 Runners

The lack of re-entries in Event #59: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout resulted in the 1,598-strong starting field reducing to only 240 over the course of 17 levels.

Robert Kuhn not only weathered the Day 1 storm, but came through unscathed and with 1,410,000 chips in his stack. Kuhn is the only player to bag up more than a million chips, although second-placed Giorgii Skhulukhia (999,000) needed only one more betting token to join Kuhn in that exclusive overnight club.

Three-time WSOP champion Ryan Leng (874,000) occupies fourth place at the restart, with James Mackey (805,000) returning with a top ten stack.

Other players to look out for on Day 2 include Triple Crown winner Niall Farrell (607,000), Upeshka De Silva (570,000), Dimitar Danchev (477,000), Matt Berkey (297,000), Alex Foxen (294,000), Patrick Leonard (146,000), and Ryan Riess (67,000).

The 240 surviving players return to the action from 10:00 a.m. local time on June 27 with the aim to play ten 60-minute levels.

Event #59: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout Top 10 Chip Counts

Trivett Tops Day 1 Counts in the NL 2-7 Single Draw

Some 566 players entered on Day 1 of Event #60: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw, but only 160 of them managed to make it through to Day 2. Of those 160, only 83 will share a slice of the $731,580 prize pool.

Right now, it is Michael Trivett (401,000) who looks most likely to receive some prize money for his efforts because he is by far the overnight chip leader. Trivett’s stack has 142,000 more chips in it than any of the chasing pack!

However, among that chasing pack are the likes of Erik Seidel (259,000), Mike Watson (208,000), Nick Schulman (195,000), Michael Moncek (165,500), Maria Ho (152,500), Phillip Hui (127,000), Benny Glaser (125,000), and Koray Aldemir (121,500) among others.

Follow all of the action from this popular event from 1:00 p.m. local time on June 27 right here at PokerNews.

Event #60: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw Top 10 Chip Counts

What to Expect on Day 29 of the 2023 WSOP

It is going to be yet another action-packed day on June 27, the 29th day of the 2023 World Series of Poker. Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker will crown its worthy champion, as will Event #56: $500 Salute to Warriors.

We will discover who wins Event #58: $3,000 Limit Hold’em (6-Handed), too. Also, Online Event #11: $888 No-Limit Hold’em Crazy 8’s is a one-day affair, so that makes it four bracelets finding new homes on Day 29.

A handful of other in-play tournaments will enter their respective latter stages. It should become clearer who may win Event #57: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller, while the fields of Event #59: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout and Event #60: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw will continue thinning.

As if that was not enough to satisfy your live poker tournament update cravings, another three events get underway!

Event #61: $1,000 Super Seniors kicks things off, with Event #62: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha mixing things up. Expect a stellar turnout for Event #63: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship, too.

As ever, stay locked to PokerNews on Day 29 of the 2023 WSOP for all the poker tournament action you can handle.

After three days of play, Marcin Horecki has emerged victorious in Event $55: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better at the 2023 World Series of Poker at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. He outlasted a field of 566 entrants that generated a prize pool of $755,610 to take home $155,275 and his first-ever WSOP gold bracelet.

Horecki defeated Mike Matusow, who came just short of winning his fifth career gold bracelet, in heads-up play to secure the win.

Event #55: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Final Table Results

Winner’s Reaction

Editor’s note: Horecki claims to have won the first-ever WSOP bracelet for Poland. However, Dominik Panka captured an online bracelet in 2021; Horecki’s is the first live WSOP bracelet won by a Polish national.

Horecki, who has been retired from professional poker for five years, said the experience was a dream come true.

“As you know, it’s the first bracelet for Poland, long-awaited. And I’m kind of old school, a grandfather, let’s say, among Polish poker players. In actuality, I’ve been retired for five years, so I came back to play just for fun, and it seems I did not forget the game. The cards were going my way”,

Horecki had a lively rail of friends and fellow poker players throughout the final table and was deeply appreciative of their support.

“When I used to play regularly in Vegas, there were maybe three to five Polish players. Now the group is twenty-plus, and I really appreciate it. The atmosphere was perfect, and I couldn’t ask for more.”

When asked about facing Matusow heads up for his first bracelet Horecki credited much of his success to having a unique playing style, particularly in formats other than Texas Hold’em.

“I think he gave me too much credit. Of course, I think I played well, but I was expecting a hard time. The last hand, of course, was a bit lucky on my side, but he doubled up twice from 400,000. I made some really good plays where I bet and he folded the best hand or a chop. I think I did well. You would expect I would be rusty, but my biggest strength is playing in unorthodox games and unorthodox situations. Unlike in Texas Hold’em, in games like this, there are so many spots where you can use your imagination. I’m really happy I won a bracelet in such a game. Stud Hi-Lo is such an enjoyable game, and I enjoyed every second”.

Before he left, he spoke about what the support of other Polish poker players meant to him.

“I would like to thank once again the support of all Polish poker players. It meant a lot to me. I hope now we will start winning a lot of bracelets for Poland. The first is done. I wish all professional poker players success, to enjoy the game, and to enjoy life”.

Final Day Recap

The day started with 18 players, who were quickly reduced to an unofficial final table of nine. Early exits to start the day included Darryl Ronconi, Lonnie Heimowitz, Timothy Frazin, Ahmed Mohamed, Denny Axel, Kyle Hinnerichs, Jose Paz-Gutierrez, James Juvancic and Patricia Yannuzzi.

Kao Saechao was next to be eliminated when his two pair was bested by Day 2 chip leader James Cheung who had aces up. Saechao’s elimination marked the start of the official final table.

Chris George was the first official final table casualty. He was on the receiving end of a brutal cooler when his two pair was cracked by Scott Numoto, who made trips on seventh street to send him to the rail.

Brian Rast found himself short-stacked at several points during Day 3 but consistently found ways to spin his chip stack buck up. He finally bowed out in seventh place after losing a monster pot to Horecki, leaving him very short-stacked. He bust out not long after.

Michael Estes was next to go, losing several key pots where he failed to connect with his draws, ultimately losing the last of his chips to Cheung who managed to hit a pair and a low while Estes bricked out.

Sergio Braga was one of the shorter stacks for much of the final table but did an admirable job of fighting back in key spots and laddering up. His tournament life came to an end at the hands of Scott Numoto, who hit both a two pair and a low to secure a massive triple up.

Day 2 chip leader James Cheung quickly followed him out the door to set up three-handed play. Then, following the elimination of Scott Numoto in third place, heads up play began between Matusow and Horecki.

Heads up play lasted about two hours. Horecki started heads-up play with roughly a 3-1 chip advantage, but Matusow put in a valiant effort, reducing the gap between himself and Horecki on several occasions. At one point, Horecki got Matusow to fold a chop and left him very short-stacked.

Although Matusow did manage to double up twice from that point, he had to settle for second place after Horecki pulled ahead of his pair of eights with a pair of jacks on sixth street and he was unable to improve himself.

This concludes the PokerNews coverage for this event, but there is still plenty more action to come at the 2023 World Series of Poker at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, so be sure to stay tuned for all the live updates from each and every bracelet event.

He lost his start-of-day chip lead briefly, but after getting it back, there was no stopping Mike Gorodinsky, as he sprinted away from the field at the final table of World Series of Poker Event #54: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship to earn his third WSOP bracelet along with the $422,747 first prize.

Gorodinsky defeated Alex Livingston in a very short heads-up match to cap his triumph over the field of 185 players that built a $1,720,500 prize pool.

$10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship Final Table Results

Winner’s Reaction

Gorodinsky’s victory Monday came much more quickly than it could have, given the talent of his opponents, but aside from that early bump, everything went his way from then on.

“The cards made it kind of easy. I felt like I didn’t really need to think about it much, to be honest. The cards just kind of fell in and then the stacks got to a point where I was able to maneuver kind of easily.”

The win is especially satisfying for Gorodinsky, not just because it’s his first major tournament victory since he won the Poker Players Championship in 2015, but because as he said himself, it’s been a somewhat trying summer.

“I had kind of a rocky start to my summer, and my plan actually was if I didn’t cash or go far in this tournament, I was going to fly home for a week and a half to recharge and spend some time with my wife. So, this run was kind of like an unexpected, really cool way to wrap up an otherwise long, tough month.”

Part of that tough month was a situation at Bellagio where the contents of his private box were stolen. Gorodinsky provided an update on that situation.

“I’m still kind of waiting for quote-unquote ‘official’ word, but basically they ran a security process and according to them I’m the only person to access it, so compensation at this point is looking unlikely but I’m hoping to have further conversations with some execs at MGM.”

Getting back to his accomplishment Monday, Gorodinsky said that while wins in $10,000 and above fields are always difficult due to the quality of opponents, especially in the late stages, he started feeling that the tournament might be his late on Day 3.

“Wrapping up last night I kind of felt like I was getting momentum. I felt pretty confident going into today, and obviously today was really fast and I felt pretty comfortable and confident the whole way.”

Action of the Day

It took just two hands to thin the field to six as Christopher Claassen fell in a big three-way Stud Hi-Lo pot that also saw Ruben take the chip lead from Gorodinsky. Carol Fuchs would be eliminated shortly after in the same round of Stud Hi-Lo with Brian Yoon the beneficiary of Fuchs’ final chips.

Gorodinsky said that while the hand with Ruben didn’t get his day off to a great start, it didn’t shake his confidence going forward.

“Yah, that hand was not ideal, but no, just because everything just kind of rolled in after that. There wasn’t any kind of other setback, so it was pretty easy from that point on.”

Gorodinsky’s roll began with a big Limit Hold‘em hand between himself and Scott Seiver, where both paired their aces, but Gorodinsky had Seiver outkicked. That renewed Gorodinsky’s control of the chip lead, while Seiver was then on a short stack that he couldn’t recover from, eventually falling in fifth place.

Gorodinsky then extended his lead with a big hand in Level 24 over Ruben and never looked back, leaving Ruben, Livingston, and Yoon to jockey for position in hopes of building enough of a stack to compete with Gorodinsky in a potential heads-up match.

Following a couple more hours without an elimination and Gorodinsky pulling further away, it was Yoon falling in fourth at the hands of the champion in a hand of Stud with two pair versus Gorodinsky’s flush. Then not 20 minutes later, Ruben was taken out by Gorodinsky as well in Stud, setting up the short heads-up match versus Livingston, entering it with a nearly 10-1 chip lead.

The match lasted just a few hands, with Gorodinsky taking a quick Stud Hi-Lo hand to put himself on the brink of victory, and then finishing Livingston off just a couple of hands later to claim the title.

This wraps up Pokernews’ coverage of the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship. Stay with us though for continued coverage from the World Series of Poker here at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

The 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) iteration of Event #48: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em saw a massive turnout of 8,140 entries which created a prize pool of $7,280,200 and a first-place prize of $765,731. Only seven players returned on Monday, with one destined to be crowned the new WSOP champion.

After just over two hours of play at the PokerGO live-streamed final table, 54-year-old Canadian Lonnie Hallett ended up beating seven-time WSOP winner and Poker Hall of Famer Billy Baxter for a career-best score and his first WSOP bracelet.

“I just can’t believe it, such a huge field it’s almost impossible to do and somehow it happened. I’m grateful, can’t believe it, I’m so happy,” Hallett said.

2023 WSOP Seniors Event Final Table Results

Hallett bested a decorated final table of seven that held nine WSOP titles total. “I’ve played with Dan a few times before and he’s always so tough,” the newly crowned champion said in regards to his competition. “It was just incredible to play with Billy Baxter and to end up heads up with him, what more could you want.”

The Canadian was surrounded by a supportive rail of friends and family. “It’s good to have the rail here, keeps the energy up, keeps the focus up. They were fantastic and we also had a big group watching back home and cheering on, so it was absolutely incredible.”

Hallett had $177,693 before this win, bringing his total lifetime earnings to over $900k.

“You can make money, but you can’t buy a bracelet,” he said, leaving with his family to go celebrate.

Final Table Action

The first elimination of the day came early when Rudolf Fourie moved in his final three and a half big blinds from button with pocket fives, only for Gordon Eng to look him up in the big blind with a pair of nines. The flop brought some hope for the South African in the form of an open-ended straight draw, but no further improvement was brought to the fives, sending the pot to Eng and sending Fourie out of the tournament in seventh place for $122,130.

Hallett ended up getting in an all-in pot when he raised eight-four offsuit in the small blind and in the big blind Loren Cloninger moved all in for slightly more with ace-two and Hallett called. The flop came out with no connection to either hand, but the turn eight put Hallett in the lead and the river did not change anything. With that, Cloninger said goodbye to the field in sixth place for $158,006.

Baxter ended up all in with ace-ten against Hallett, who held ace-queen, but a ten on the flop gave Baxter the needed double up and he survived. Eng ended his run shortly after that in fifth place, the result of a brutal cooler. He and Shannon Fahey both got in their chips with pocket kings. Eng held black kings and Fahey held red kings, and the red kings proved favorable on the three-heart flop. A fourth heart rolled off on the turn to give Fahey a flush to knock out Eng who collected $205,799 for his deep run.

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Fahey would be the next to go when she four-bet jammed her queen-nine suited against Dan Heimiller’s pocket sevens, which Heimiller called. The flop contained a seven and Fahey was given no backdoor help on the turn and the last woman standing in the event finished with a career-best score of $269,841 for fourth place.

Three-handed saw Heimiller and Hallett both wielding massive stacks and Baxter on the short stack, but a massive confrontation between the two larger stacks saw a game-changing shift in the tournament dynamics. Hallett raised and called a three-bet with queen-four suited and flopped top and bottom on a queen, jack, four three hearts board, while Heimiller held ace-jack flopped a pair of jacks and the nut flush draw. Both players got their stacks in the middle with Hallett holding the larger stack. The board ran out with the two pair holding strong for Hallett and the two-time WSOP champion and former seniors champ ended his deep run in third place for $356,166.

The heads-up match was set between Hallett and seven-time WSOP champion Baxter, with Hallett holding a near 10:1 lead over Baxter. It was over relatively quickly as Baxter moved in his final chips with queen-two offsuit, only for Hallett to call him with ace-eight suited. Hallett paired his kicker on the runout and Hallett and Baxter shook hands as the poker legend found his career-best score of $473,731.

Thank you for reading along with us on PokerNews. Stay tuned for continued coverage of the 2023 WSOP by following our live updates from all tournaments here.