The money bubble at the World Series of Poker usually bursts when the shortest remaining chip stacks go all-in and are eliminated. That’s not how it went Wednesday. Two of the biggest stacks in the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship clashed during hand-for-hand play at Horseshoe Las Vegas, and Lucas Reeves of Great Britain was sent to the rail in cruel fashion.
THE @WSOP $10,000 MAIN EVENT BUBBLE HAS BURST! 🤯 A SEVEN-BET SHOVE AND SNAP CALL!? 👀 You can watch the 2024 @WSOP all summer long on @PokerGo pic.twitter.com/ebm5NEuz0w — PokerNews (@PokerNews) July 10, 2024 Germany’s Christian Stratmeyer also was eliminated on the same hand at a different table and split the $15,000 prize for 1,517th place with Reeves.
The two drew high cards for a seat into next year’s Main Event, and Stratmeyer won by drawing a jack to Reeves’ two. Lingkun Lu of Jersey City, New Jersey, was the unofficial leader at the 8 p.m.
dinner break and the only player over 3 million chips. The tournament continues Thursday with Day 5 and under 1,000 players from the record-starting field of 10,112 still chasing the $10 million first prize. Day 4 started seven players away from the money, and Reeves was in 27th place at the start of play.
He had around 120 big blinds when he entered a raising war against Marcelo Tadeu Aziz Junior of Brazil, who opened fourth in chips and was the only player at the table capable of knocking out Reeves. While it appeared both players were trying.
