The ‘Domestic Tournament' segment of the 2020 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in main event attracted a total of 705 entries. The turnout built a final prize pool of $6,768,000, the largest ever on a regulated online poker site in the United States. Despite only a single starting day, the US-facing segment surpassed the 674 entries made in the ‘International Tournament', which featured three starting flights.
The eventual champion of the ‘Domestic Tournament' walk away with $1,553,256 and then play the winner of the ‘International Tournament' in a heads-up showdown for the bracelet and an added prize of $1,000,000 to go along with what they each won at their final tables.
With 705 entries, the top 107 finishers will cash in the ‘Domestic Tournament'. The money bubble burst when Adrian Buckley's pocket queens lost a preflop race against an opponent's A-K. Buckley's opponent's ace kicker played when four sevens ran out on the board, sending him to the rail in 108th place and guaranteeing the rest of the field at least a $14,890 payday.
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Those that make the final table of this event will earn at least $98,813, with both of the top two finishers securing seven-figure paydays. The champion will be awarded $1,553,256, while the runner-up will take home $1,002,340.
Day 1 came to an end after 12 hours of action, with three-time WSOP bracelet winner Upeshka De Silva bagging up the leading stack of 1,930,067.
De Silva will be joined by plenty of notables who survived to day 2 with big stacks, including Taylor Von Kriegenbergh (1,518,393), PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event champ and bracelet winner Galen Hall (1,271,362), Martin Zamani (964,178), poker triple-crown winner Mohsin Charania (777,260), bracelet winner Jason Somerville (692,314), four-time World Poker Tour main event winner Darren Elia (632,176), three-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman (585,012), Ryan Laplante (391,535), and 2013 WSOP main event champion Ryan Riess (288,474).
Daniel Negreanu had a few days off from his high-stakes grudge match against Doug Polk and spent one of them playing this event. The six-time bracelet winner made the money, but was ultimately eliminated in 92nd place, earning $14,890. He posted a screenshot of his final hand on Twitter, showing that he picked up a royal flush draw, but was unable to beat out the trip kings of Jason ‘haderade' Somerville.
Had my 'usual' on the turn all in preflop
Squeaked into the money but that's all she wrote. pic.twitter.com/LtPr69LgIE
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) December 14, 2020
Other big names to fall during day 1 action included all-time bracelet leader Phil Hellmuth, five-time bracelet winner Michael Mizrachi, four-time bracelet winner Mike Matusow, two-time bracelet winner and three-time WPT champion Anthony Zinno, Chris Moorman, four-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb, three-time bracelet winner Ben Yu, Faraz Jaka, three-time bracelet winner Phil Galfond, two-time bracelet winner and Card Player columnist Nathan Gamble, and 2015 WSOP main event champion Joe McKeehen.
The remaining 71 players will return to action at 3:00 p.m. eastern on Monday, Dec. 14 to play down to a final table. The last nine will then have a break until Dec. 28, when the final table will get underway live and in person at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The final nine will play for the following payouts:
1st place – $1,553,256
2nd place – $1,002,340
3rd place – $529,258
4th place – $387,130
5th place – $286,963
6th place – $215,222
7th place – $163,786
8th place – $125,885
9th place – $98,813
The final table of the ‘International Tournament' is set to play out on Tuesday, Dec. 15 at King'S Casino in Rozvadov, the site of the WSOP Europe festival in recent years. The winner at that final table will earn $1,550,969 and the opportunity to face off against the ‘Domestic Tournament' champion in a final heads-up showdown for the bracelet and $1,000,000 in added prize money.
Fedor Holz is one of the true shooting stars of poker.
The 21-year-old German played in the WSOP for the first time this year and he immediately made a deep run in the most hallowed poker tournament of all, the Main Event.
Still, not everything went the way he planned.
Holz finished in 25th place but the kid known as 'CrownUpGuy' showed some poker skills that excited not only the TV commentators, Norman Chad and Lon McEachern, but millions of viewers around the world.
In our hand of the week he tried pull off a bluff that got sniffed out and snuffed out.
Flop to River
Upeshka De Silva Poker
It's Day 5 of the 2015 WSOP Main Event and the blinds are 20,000/40,000/5000. It's folded to Holz who raises to 90,000 with 8877
Everyone folds except Upeshka de Silva in the big blind. He holds AAKK and re-raises to 265,000.
At this point Holz has his opponent covered with 2.9 million vs 1.9 million. He calls the re-raise and there's 590,000 in the pot. The flop is AAJJ88
de Silva leads with a bet of 345,000 which Holz calls after some quick deliberation. There's 1.28 million in the pot and de Silva has about 1.3 million left.
The turn is the QQ
Now de Silva checks and Holz bets 425,000. de Silva calls and there's now 2.13 million in the pot. De Silva has about 800,000 left.
The river is the 99
de Silva checks again and Holz puts him all-in. de Silva takes several minutes to make a decision but he eventually calls and wins the pot.
Hand Analysis
Sam De Silva Poker
It's an impressive call by the American, who also won a bracelet this year in Event #45. Let's try and figure out what both players were thinking during this hand.
Pre-flop Holz raises with a speculative hand and de Silva responds from the big blind. With A-K de Silva would probably like to get his chips in the middle pre-flop but Holz only has 8-7s.
There are probably not a lot of weaker hands that Holz would call the re-raise with. The only advantage of his hand is that he usually has two live cards, unless he's up against an overpair.
And, of course, Holz is in position. On the flop A♦J♦8♥, de Silva obviously c-bets as he usually has the best hand here. Holz could just fold now but instead he's figuring out a cunning plan. He has both real outs and pseudo-outs.
The real outs are (almost 100% sure) the two eights and three sevens still in the deck, but the pseudo-outs are actually a lot more interesting. These are all the diamonds, queens and nines. Maybe even the kings.
Any of these cards would give Holz the chance to steal the pot. There's also the possibility that de Silva bluffs.
Holz Goes Into Steal Mode
The Q♥ is indeed a card de Silva doesn't like to see on the turn. He now checks, which means he's narrowing his range by a lot.Play with Fedor Now!
Excepting bluffs, de Silva's range now has pretty much just A-K and K-K in it because hands like A-A, Q-Q, J-J and A-Q (which would be re-raising hands pre-flop) would probably just go all-in.
Holz realizes this immediately and goes into steal mode, using his pseudo-outs. He bets 425,000 and basically already announces an all-in on the river.
He also generates very good pot odds for himself as this bet only has to win the pot one in four times to be profitable.
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But de Silva refuses to let go as he still has an inside draw to the nuts and knows his opponent might be bluffing or semi-bluffing.
Holz Pulls the Trigger
The 9♦ on the river is the perfect card for Holz. de Silva checks again and Holz pulls the trigger.
He bets 800,000 which is enough to put his opponent all-in. From de Silva's point of view the board could have hardly developed any worse. Not only does his top pair look like it's not worth anything anymore but his tournament is also on the line.
The American took almost 10 minutes before he was finally able to make himself call with A-K, which is probably the hand Holz expected. de Silva took down the pot and doubled up.
Pot odds of 4 to 1 and Holz's aggressive game might both have been factors for this decision. But Holz's range also has a lot of legitimate hands in it that would not only crush de Silva's hand but would also still bet all the way -- like all the sets, flushes and straights.
de Silva was right to call, but Holz played the hand perfectly.
Conclusion
Fedor Holz is one of the true shooting stars of poker.
The 21-year-old German played in the WSOP for the first time this year and he immediately made a deep run in the most hallowed poker tournament of all, the Main Event.
Still, not everything went the way he planned.
Holz finished in 25th place but the kid known as 'CrownUpGuy' showed some poker skills that excited not only the TV commentators, Norman Chad and Lon McEachern, but millions of viewers around the world.
In our hand of the week he tried pull off a bluff that got sniffed out and snuffed out.
Flop to River
Upeshka De Silva Poker
It's Day 5 of the 2015 WSOP Main Event and the blinds are 20,000/40,000/5000. It's folded to Holz who raises to 90,000 with 8877
Everyone folds except Upeshka de Silva in the big blind. He holds AAKK and re-raises to 265,000.
At this point Holz has his opponent covered with 2.9 million vs 1.9 million. He calls the re-raise and there's 590,000 in the pot. The flop is AAJJ88
de Silva leads with a bet of 345,000 which Holz calls after some quick deliberation. There's 1.28 million in the pot and de Silva has about 1.3 million left.
The turn is the QQ
Now de Silva checks and Holz bets 425,000. de Silva calls and there's now 2.13 million in the pot. De Silva has about 800,000 left.
The river is the 99
de Silva checks again and Holz puts him all-in. de Silva takes several minutes to make a decision but he eventually calls and wins the pot.
Hand Analysis
Sam De Silva Poker
It's an impressive call by the American, who also won a bracelet this year in Event #45. Let's try and figure out what both players were thinking during this hand.
Pre-flop Holz raises with a speculative hand and de Silva responds from the big blind. With A-K de Silva would probably like to get his chips in the middle pre-flop but Holz only has 8-7s.
There are probably not a lot of weaker hands that Holz would call the re-raise with. The only advantage of his hand is that he usually has two live cards, unless he's up against an overpair.
And, of course, Holz is in position. On the flop A♦J♦8♥, de Silva obviously c-bets as he usually has the best hand here. Holz could just fold now but instead he's figuring out a cunning plan. He has both real outs and pseudo-outs.
The real outs are (almost 100% sure) the two eights and three sevens still in the deck, but the pseudo-outs are actually a lot more interesting. These are all the diamonds, queens and nines. Maybe even the kings.
Any of these cards would give Holz the chance to steal the pot. There's also the possibility that de Silva bluffs.
Holz Goes Into Steal Mode
The Q♥ is indeed a card de Silva doesn't like to see on the turn. He now checks, which means he's narrowing his range by a lot.Play with Fedor Now!
Excepting bluffs, de Silva's range now has pretty much just A-K and K-K in it because hands like A-A, Q-Q, J-J and A-Q (which would be re-raising hands pre-flop) would probably just go all-in.
Holz realizes this immediately and goes into steal mode, using his pseudo-outs. He bets 425,000 and basically already announces an all-in on the river.
He also generates very good pot odds for himself as this bet only has to win the pot one in four times to be profitable.
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But de Silva refuses to let go as he still has an inside draw to the nuts and knows his opponent might be bluffing or semi-bluffing.
Holz Pulls the Trigger
The 9♦ on the river is the perfect card for Holz. de Silva checks again and Holz pulls the trigger.
He bets 800,000 which is enough to put his opponent all-in. From de Silva's point of view the board could have hardly developed any worse. Not only does his top pair look like it's not worth anything anymore but his tournament is also on the line.
The American took almost 10 minutes before he was finally able to make himself call with A-K, which is probably the hand Holz expected. de Silva took down the pot and doubled up.
Pot odds of 4 to 1 and Holz's aggressive game might both have been factors for this decision. But Holz's range also has a lot of legitimate hands in it that would not only crush de Silva's hand but would also still bet all the way -- like all the sets, flushes and straights.
de Silva was right to call, but Holz played the hand perfectly.
Conclusion
Fedor Holz puts his opponent to the test and applies a high level of aggression that requires great hand analysis.
There are not a lot of players who would have called that river.
Upeshka de Silva finds a fantastic call on a gruesome board and wins a huge pot that brought him many spots deeper into the Main Event.
