David Moses became the fourth player in three days to bust at the start of a Day 1 session in the $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. And he wasn’t the only one eliminated right off the bat on Day 1c.
On Wednesday — Day 1a — two players were eliminated at separate tables on the first hand. One player lost with a full house against quads, while another flopped a set that was cracked by a straight. More of the same occurred on Day 1b when a flush beat a straight. Unfortunately, for one well-known poker pro, it’s happened again for the third straight day.
Quick Exit for Moses
Poker pro David Moses, who won a bracelet in 2021 and is a four-time World Series of Poker Circuit (WSCOP) ring winner ran into the ultimate nightmare situation on Friday.
Moses gave PokerNews details of how he was eliminated from poker’s most prestigious tournament on one of the first hand of play. He explained that action folded to the button, who raised it to 600. In the big blind with AxAx, Moses three-bet to 2,800 and then he was ecstatic when his opponent four-bet to 7,000.
Moses then decided against slow-playing his hand and went all in for 58,800, to which his opponent tank-called and turned over KxKx. Pocket aces was in a great spot to double up right off the bat in the Main Event.
The flop came out 2xJxQx, and Moses was still a huge favorite. When the Ax appeared on the turn, it gave Moses a set, but two extra outs for the player on the button. And then the river four-outer (two-outer when the money went in) would hit as the 10x completed the gut-shot straight draw.
Out the door went Moses just moments after 1987 and 1988 world champion Johnny Chan announced “shuffle up and deal.” He quickly exited Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas and headed over to Venetian to enter a separate event looking for some better luck.
Drozd Gone on the Second Hand
A similar situation occurred on the second hand of the day, but this time there would be no bad beat. As captured by PokerNews live reporter Maxime Taldir, Akif Ghani in the hijack and Ondrej Drozd on the button raised each other and ended up moving all in, with Ondrej Drozd at risk for just a little bit less than the starting stack.
Drozd had the KxKx, while Ghani had AxAx. The board would run out 10x8x9x3x10x, and the pocket aces would hold up. Drozd was out of the tournament on the first hand, and Ghani earned a quick double up.
There will be five 120-minute levels on Day 1c and then again on Day 1d (Friday). Poker fans can catch all the action with PokerNews live reporting throughout the world championship event.
