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title: 'How a Pro Plays the WSOP Main Event'
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date: 2026-08-03
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# How a Pro Plays the WSOP Main Event

> Source: [How a Pro Plays the WSOP Main Event](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OfWMYZvSyH0)

## Summary

In this vlog, professional poker player Jeremy Ausmus shares his strategy and experiences during Day 1 of the WSOP Main Event. He emphasizes the unique dynamics of the tournament, including the soft field, deep stacks, and the importance of survival, and walks through several key hands that illustrate his adaptive approach.

### Key Points

- **Main Event Uniqueness** [00:03] — The WSOP Main Event is special due to its $10 million top prize, softest fields of the year, freezeout format, and best structure. Pros adjust their strategy to be more passive and survival-oriented.
- **Strategy Based on Table Draw** [00:45] — Jeremy's strategy depends on the table draw. Against recreational players, he plans to play more hands, flat in position, raise first in, and defend the big blind often.
- **Hand 1: Ace-Five Suited** [02:09] — Jeremy raises A5s under the gun, leads on a KQ8 flop with backdoor equity, and checks down on the river after the board pairs, losing minimum to top pair.
- **Hand 2: Ace-King Offsuit** [04:09] — Jeremy three-bets AK, continuation bets on T52 flop, checks back turn, and folds to a river bet on a board with a straight possibility, avoiding a cooler.
- **Hand 3: Pocket Queens vs Aces** [05:50] — Jeremy flats a three-bet with QQ, checks back flop, bets turn, and makes a small value bet on river, losing minimum to pocket aces.
- **Hand 4: Pocket Jacks vs Queens** [08:27] — Jeremy plays JJ carefully against a tight three-bettor, checks back flop and turn, then bets small on river when he makes a set, losing to pocket queens.
- **Hand 5: Flush Draw Bluff** [10:13] — Jeremy calls with a suited connector, flops a flush draw, bets turn on a king, and makes a large river bet when the flush completes, winning the pot.
- **Hand 6: Kings vs Aggressive Player** [13:01] — Jeremy four-bets kings against an aggressive European player, continuation bets on a T-T flop, and takes the pot down.
- **Hand 7: Ace-Jack vs Ace-King** [13:54] — Jeremy three-bets AJ, flops top pair, bets turn, but checks back river on a straight-completing board, avoiding a loss to AK.
- **Hand 8: Queen-Six Offsuit** [16:27] — Jeremy calls with Q6o in the big blind, flops top pair, bets turn and river for value, and gets called by a worse hand.
- **Hand 9: Nine-Eight Suited** [17:38] — Jeremy continuation bets on 7-6-6 flop, bets turn on ace, but checks river and gives up to an ace with a king kicker.
- **Hand 10: Ten-Eight Bluff** [20:04] — Jeremy calls a small three-bet with T8s, checks down, and bluffs river, but gets called by a rivered set.
- **Hand 11: Ace-Jack Bluff** [21:10] — Jeremy calls with AJ, picks up a flush draw and gutshot on turn, and bluffs river with the ace blocker, getting a fold.
- **Hand 12: Pocket Nines vs Ace-Ten** [22:33] — Jeremy gets all-in with pocket nines against ace-ten, but loses when the river bricks.
- **Hand 13: Ten-Eight Nut Straight** [23:16] — Jeremy flops a gutshot, turns a straight, and bets big on the river, but gets no callers.
- **Hand 14: Pocket Deuces Set** [24:36] — Jeremy raises with deuces, flops a set, gets all-in against a nut flush draw, and wins when the board pairs.
- **Hand 15: Ace-King vs Tight Range** [27:02] — Jeremy calls a three-bet with AK, flops top two pair, bets river, and gets a fold from a worse ace.
- **Hand 16: Queen-Jack Bluff** [28:39] — Jeremy raises with QJ, continuation bets on 8-3-3 flop, and bets turn as a bluff, taking the pot on the last hand of the night.
- **Day 1 Summary** [30:08] — Jeremy ends Day 1 with 109,000 chips, up from 60,000 starting stack, attributing success to winning many small pots and avoiding big losses.

### Conclusion

Jeremy Ausmus demonstrates a disciplined, survival-oriented approach to the WSOP Main Event, emphasizing minimizing losses in coolers and exploiting passive players. His Day 1 success highlights the importance of adapting strategy to tournament dynamics and table reads.

## Transcript

it another tournament? Yes. But, is it special? Yes, it is very special. It's one of the few tournaments where you can win $10 million. It's one of the softest fields of the entire year. It is a freezeout. It's got
the best structure of any tournament in the world. So, there's a lot of things going on in the Main Event that makes it for someone like me who's a pro for 22 little differently. Now, if you watch a lot of my normal vlogs, I'm at Aria. I'm
the world. You know, we're trying to hit these GTO ranges and play hands so precisely. In this vlog, you're going to see a much different approach. The players are more passive. [music] They think about survival. The structure's
don't need to take [music] unnecessary risks. But, the Main Event is just such a special animal and really my strategy going in is going to be completely dependent on the table draw that I get. And I think you will see throughout
watching this [music] that I do make quite a bit of deviations that you hopefully you guys can learn something [music] from it. If you're getting any value, hit that like or subscribe button if you want to follow along my poker
if you want to follow along my poker journey. Enjoy. fairly good one. I'm looking around. I don't know anyone. Maybe one or two of
the players plays for a living. I'm not really sure. But, most of them appear to me as recreational and I know that's a little stereotypical. But, poker players stereotype people all the time and that's how they make reads on people
very quickly based on maybe what they look like, how they handle their chips. You can get a lot of insights into someone's poker background through those things. And my read on this situation is not a lot of pros. It's going to be
playing fairly loose passive. So, my strategy for that will be to play a lot of hands, flat a lot in position, raise a lot first coming in, defend the big blind a lot. And the first somewhat notable hand I get into here, I am early
position with ace five of clubs. Now, I don't know how you view suited aces, but for me, this is going to be a raise in any position in pretty much any no-limit hold'em game I'm in. So, even though I am under the gun here nine-handed, this
is a very easy raise. So, I raise it up. And I get a call from the button and the big blind. So, we see the flop three-way and see the king queen eight flop. And there are two diamonds, so not a good flop for my hand here, but there is one
club. And I want to try to realize a lot of this backdoor equity. So, instead of checking and potentially having to call the button, which is not very attractive, I choose to just lead a small amount. I think at this table I'm
C-betting lots of flops, taking pots down when everyone misses, and often times people just miss. So, I take a little stab here. I get called by the button. The big blind folds, and the turn is a jack of clubs. So, my backdoor
flush draw does come in. I also have a gutter with the ace. And I choose to just keep the pressure on, and I fire out a bet of 2,000. I don't expect a lot of folds right away, but there are some hands on the river like jack 10, jack
nine, maybe ace jack that might fold the river. And the river pairs the jack. So, I certainly have a hand that I want to debate bluffing with here. But honestly, do I expect someone to fold a king here? Probably not. Do I expect them to fold a
queen? Potentially. And a jack? There's no chance they'll be folding. Maybe I could get him off diamond draws, but I beat a lot of those hands anyways, and I'm not sure this opponent will be bluffing all of them. So, for that
reason, I decide to just check down. Hopefully, see a free showdown with my ace high. Unlikely to be good, but not impossible. He checks back. He shows me king nine, so he's got top pair. I don't think that's a hand he would have been
folding, so probably lost the minimum in that spot. And then a few hands later, the same gentleman opens. Now, he's under the gun. I'm in middle position with ace king offsuit. Now, early on in the main, especially this deep stacked,
I don't have to three-bet this hand for sure. The shallower I get, the more I want to be three-betting this, but I do decide to three-bet anyways. He makes the call, we go heads-up to the flop. The flop is 10-5 deuce. I make a
standard continuation bet. He calls. So, the turn is a six, and he checks. Now, I have to decide if there's any hands I can push him off with my ace king here. So, some hands like nines, eights, sevens, those might be folding. Those
are the exact hands I would be targeting. I don't really expect a 10 to fold. An overpair probably won't fold. And I could just be ahead of hands like So, I'm not sure he'll be bluffing hands like backdoor flush draws either. So, I
might just get a free showdown and have the best hand a quite a bit of the time. So, I do decide to check back. And the river brings a three. So, now there is one card to a straight. Any four makes a straight. And he bets 3,000 into me.
Now, certainly he could be bluffing some of those hands I mentioned like king-jack suited or queen-jack suited with backdoors, but really that's not a lot of combos, and I'm not certain he'd be doing that. So, I'm facing a bet of
3,000 here, and I just decide to give this one up. Fairly easy fold here in my opinion. >> Ace king.
so definitely a cooler type situation there, kings versus ace queen, but really I end up losing the minimum. Luckily, he didn't put in more money gotten away from this one. And a little bit later, I pick up pocket queens in
the cutoff. Pretty exciting hand to get here. And of course, I raise it up, but I'm met with a little resistance. He puts in a three-bet to 2,300. And this is still fairly early on. We're pretty deep here, over 200 big blinds deep. I
don't think I want to put in more money. I don't necessarily think this gentleman's three-betting range is necessarily wide, although it could have some hands in it that are way behind queens. I'm just going to see a flop in
position here, play it safe. So, we see the jack-ten-four flop, and he checks. I debate betting here. I think it's most likely he's going to have ace-king here. So, betting is very reasonable. So is checking. I do decide to check back. The
turn pairs the four. And once we see this gentleman check once again, now is the time I want to start putting in bets. There's only one card to come. I most certainly have the best hand at this point. So, I bet 3,500. He makes
the call. And he doesn't take all that long to call, so I'm a little worried that he doesn't have just ace-king, and he might be a little stronger than that. Certainly a hand like ace-ten or queen-ten or king-ten suited makes
that this player would be three-betting hands like that. The river is a complete brick, a deuce. And when he checks, and something in my gut tells me that I should be really careful here. Maybe I should check back. But the more I
thought about it, I'm like, it's dangerous to narrow down someone's range that precisely, right? Like he's only three-betting aces and kings, and would he check-call, check-call hands like that? And it seems a little unlikely.
So, I can't help myself. I go for the value bet, but I do make it a little on the small side. Against a lot of opponents here, I would just go full pot and try to get [music] called by a jack or a ten or ace-high, but I don't think
a player like this is going to call ace-high, and I think he's very weighted towards the big pairs here. So, I make a bit of a little scared bet in position bit of a little scared bet in position here and I'm instantly called and that's
bad news for me. He shows the pocket aces and again, much like the ace king versus kings we just saw, this is another cooler situation, queens versus aces. And honestly, I lose the absolute minimum and that's one thing you see in
would have got stacked, you [music] know, the stacks aren't quite as deep, but the players are capable of so much and in the main event it's just it's a little different. So, people really emphasize survival. They don't want to
take any unnecessary risks. So, three bet aces pre, not the scariest board in the world and just check it down um allowed me to lose the minimum there. So, I was pretty happy about that. And shortly after I get into a three bet pot
with the same gentleman once again. This time I have pocket jacks. I am in earlier position. So, he's in the cutoff this hand. I make it 800 preflop. He makes it 2800. Yes, jacks are a strong hand in this I did just three bet me,
but he just showed aces. I don't think his range is all that wide. So, I'm going to play these jacks super carefully. And the flop is king 10 nine. >> So, not the worst flop in the world. Ace king, he's going to have quite often and
but I do have a gut shot and after I check, he checks back. And the turn seems to be a brick. It's a three. Now, judging from the way I saw him play the other hand, I don't want to just start putting in money here like I have the
the flop. So, I play it a little careful. I check back again. He checks again. And on the river here, I do make a set. It completes a flush. Now, I'm not that worried about the flush
whatsoever, but pocket queens does make a straight now. So, that's something to really consider. I think a hand like pocket queens in his spot makes a lot of sense. But really at the end of the day, that's not very many combinations of
hands. And he might just have aces or ace king and not be willing to make a fold here. So, if I'm going to get value from aces or ace king, I can't bet too big of an amount given the board has a straight on it and a flush. So, I just
straight on it and a flush. So, I just bet 2,800 into 6,600. And again, I'm snap called. That's bad news. He shows me pocket queen. So, another cooler situation, but again, I'm just losing the bare minimum here. I certainly would
have called a bet on the flop and probably the turn. So, I'm really some bullets. And in this hand, we see two limps and the button raises to isolate them. And the button, I'm not sure where he's from. He's from Europe
somewhere. He's a little on the younger side. He has been raising limps quite a aggressive side and it's nice that a player like that is on my right instead of my left. So, he's one that I have my eye on. He's going to be a little more
aggressive, be capable of some more moves, I think. At least that's my read early on. So, he makes a raise on the button. The small blind calls. I have blind. I don't expect to be raised
want to see a flop with a hand like this. So, I make the call. The two players behind me make the call. We go to the flop five-way. And the flop is six-three deuce with two diamonds. So, pretty good flop. I flop a flush draw, I
after the small blind checks, I do debate leading into the field. This board is pretty good for me. However, I think some of the limpers there in early and middle position can have like some of these small pairs quite a bit. So, I
do decide to check and kind of see what develops and then make my decision based on that. And it goes checked around five-ways here. And the turn is a king. Now, this is a card that hits the button the best and then the two limpers second
think I can represent quite a bit on this board. So, I make a decent size bet here into the field. I think it looks pretty strong, especially when a king comes off on the turn. So, I only get called by the button. So, most likely he
has a king, maybe a hand like king queen, king jack, ace king. Although, he did not raise, so ace king a little less likely here. The river ace of diamonds, so I complete my flush. So, I have a couple of options here. I could check,
try to get tricky and extract a bet from him. However, as I said, I don't think ace king is a huge portion of his range. And most of his kings will just check because they're going to be a little worried about the ace and the flush
there. So, I think I just need to get some value here. I make a pretty large bet, 19,000, so a little over the pot. And the button gives it some thought here. At this point, I'm hoping he's just got ace queen or a king with a
diamond in his hand that's a good bluff catcher. I could have hands like miss barreling here. So, he gives it some thought. He lets it go. So, I pick up a decent little five-way pot though. So, how lucky is my table here? We're just a
how lucky is my table here? We're just a couple tables away from the annual Phil Hellmuth main event walk-in. Now, I don't know why he does this, but Jungleman now joins him and he dresses up as something different each year. And
one year Jungleman was like in a cage dressed up as a tiger and I don't know. hey, I guess they're having fun. Um it's a spectacle. People like to watch it, so have your fun there, Phil Hellmuth. So, in this hand, we see that aggressive
three-bet against an early position Now, some players might be a little scared here. It's an early position raise. It's a three-bet. It's the main event. You're deep stacked, but you
tough spots. Kings will just be the best hand the vast majority of the time. So, I put in a four-bet here to 6,500. And the cut-off calls. So, we go go the flop and see a 10-10 flop. Now, I don't
and see a 10-10 flop. Now, I don't necessarily have to see bet this, but I do see bet just to get a little clarity on what kind of holdings he might have here. And I just bet around a quarter pot and he lets his hand go. So,
ace high type hand, but pick up a decent little pot there. And here we see the same player in early position raise. I have ace jack. Now, this isn't the best hand and maybe it shouldn't even be three bet at a lot of tables given how
teetering on the line of getting just a little too aggressive and given I have position on him, I plan on making his life a little difficult. I'm going to flat him a lot. I don't expect to get squeezed a lot. I'm also going to three
bet a lot. I don't expect people to four bet light behind. So, if I can isolate position, that's something I definitely want to do. So, ace jack offsuit, I put in the three bet. He calls. We see the jack 10-6 flop. So, top pair for me, top
kicker. Pretty dry board here. So, when he checks, I just want to start putting some money in here. I do just that. He makes the call. So, we see the turn and it is a seven. It brings a heart flush draw. 8-9 gets there. Now, there's only
four combinations of 8-9. So, I'm not going to be fearing the nuts here. And he didn't tell me he had a really strong hand on the flop. So, I am going to proceed as if I still have the best hand. Sure, a hand like 7-6 also is
possible, but I want to bet and see what happens. So, after he checks, I do just that. He calls again. So, at this point, I'm a little less sure I have the best hand, but still a pretty good hand here. The river is an eight. So, it brings a
straight on board. A nine would make a straight. I don't foresee him having too many nines in his range, but once he checks, I think it's a little too thin to go for value here. I mean, I'd be trying to get called by a hand like king
jack or queen jack or ace 10 or queen 10. That's just a little too thin here in this spot. So, I check back. He shows Ace King of Hearts. So, I got lucky here on the flop and ended up holding on even when he turned the nut flush draw. So,
player. So, my stack is definitely moving in the right direction as I go to dinner. And what poker vlog would be complete without a little credit card roulette with my man Jason Koon. We're playing some crocodile dentist. The
crocodile bites your finger, you got to >> We're going to flip for the bill. I'm going to throw this on my vlog. So, one going to throw this on my vlog. So, one cavity, 10 10 teeth. Okay.
finger bit pays.
>> I'm not doing that back one. That back one is it, dude. >> You're welcome. >> Luckily this time I survived free dinner. Thank you, Jason. And after dinner I get into it again with my
European friend. This time he's on the button. I'm in the big blind. I look down versus his raising C Queen 6 offsuit. Now, this isn't the best hand. Would you call this one? Would you fold it? I'm going to see a flop here. I'm
ready to play some hands with this guy. Sure, it's a piece of junk, but I came to play and I think his range is quite wide here. So, I see that I flopped top pair here on a Queen Jack 3 flop. And after the flop goes check check and the
turn is a five. That is my green light to start putting some chips into this pot. So, I bet about 80% pot. I'm not worried about too much. Maybe he has pocket six and turns a set. Very unlikely. And after I bet and he calls,
I feel pretty good about him just having a Jack or Ace high. And the river pairs a three. Now, he could certainly have a hand like Ace 3, but I want to size up a little here and get maximum value from when he has ace king ace 10 ace jack
king jack jack 10 so I put out the bet of 6000 here he gives it a little thought flicks in the call I show him the queen he knocks his hand will never heavily it's one of the hands I just mentioned there so here we are in the
low Jack and look down at a pretty 98 of clubs here now the next position to our left calls and the big blind calls so we see a flop of 766 we've got open-ended there is a flush draw out there though so I'm not crazy
about this board however I do spill out a little continuation bet here the end position player folds the big blind calls and the turn is an interesting one it is an ace and it completes the flush and after he checks I think we can
and after he checks I think we can target a hand like 977574 suited King seven hands like that so I put out another little bet here not too big and he makes a call once again so
now I've changed my mind on him having a seven he could have a seven with a heart still but I think it's more likely he has trips or a flush or he hit the ace so on this river Jack sure I could continue betting but with my read on his
hand I don't see him folding really an ace unless I really put a lot of money in some players just don't like to fold so I'm unsure how likely a player like him would be folding an ace on this river but given there are some much
stronger hands in his range like full houses trips flashes >> I decide to shut this one down cut my losses I check and I'm glad that I do because I see an ace with the king of hearts so I think most bets here he's
just going to call maybe if I make a very large bet he makes some hero fold so I can see this one sometimes you got to just know when to let it go give the pot to the other player and just move on. It's good to be on your left, that's
on. It's good to be on your left, that's fun. >> It's good It's like you're never going to see this on the PG4U video, so it's >> You want You want to be on the vlog? >> We can be on the vlog?
>> Nick, where you from? >> Uh Tampa, Florida. Clearwater. >> Yeah, Hollywood. All right, you play Hollywood, I'm sure. like vacation before. >> Oh, nice.
>> How's your first day going? It's good. Look, right side. Uh yeah, no, it's I love it. >> And I've been to Seminole, Tampa, too, for the WPT once. But they don't have
>> Right? >> The Tampa room [ __ ] themselves. >> So, in early position, I pick up a similar type hand, 10-8 of clubs, raise it up, the cutoff makes a call, and we get a three-bet out of the blinds, and
honestly, it's a pretty small amount. So, I often would fold this, but I'm getting a pretty good price in position here. So, I want to try to see a flop and snap whatever big hand this gentleman might have here. So, I make
the call, and so does the cutoff, and the flop is king-nine-four. And again, and we've seen this a lot, the three-better does not bet, they pretty strong range here without any outs, so I check, and the cutoff checks.
So, the turn is a six, and again, everyone checks around, and the river is a jack. And after the three-better checks once again, I'm just going to assume they have like pocket tens, maybe pocket queens, [music] maybe ace-queen,
to have much either, so I'm just going to try to take this pot away. I make a bet, the cutoff folds, so so far, so good. But the three-better snap calls, and he rivered a set, so we'll be getting none of this pot. Very passive
the set here. The board's not that scary, but he did get a bluff out of me. folded. And a little later, we see early position raise, and I look down at
ace-jack offsuit. I make the call in position. The big blind calls, so we see this flop three-way, and we see a queen-queen flop with two clubs. Whenever the preflop raiser puts out a bet, this is multi-way, and he's betting
into two other players, but I have that backdoor club draw working for me. I decide to make the call, and we go heads-up to the turn. So, the turn is a good one for me. It's the 10 of clubs. So, I do pick up the gutshot, and I pick
up the nut flush draw, and it's likely not the best card for the preflop >> However, he does decide to bet again. His bet's a little on the weaker side. I heavily contemplate raising right here to put pressure on a hand like an
overpair or a turn pair of 10s, but ace-jack could also just be the best hand. So, I decide to call and navigate things on the river. And the river is a nine. So, now king-jack gets there. He checks, and I don't [music] think I have
a lot of choice here. I must bluff this. I have the ace of clubs blocker. I have that jack, and I don't really get here much with a worse hand. So, after he checks, I put in a pretty sizable bet here and just hope he doesn't have a
I don't think he'll fold a flush. I'm targeting more hands like a 10, pocket this bet out. He gives it a lot of thought. He ends up folding, [music] thankfully, and I get away with one here. And here we see middle position
off about 14 big blinds make [music] a very large raise here. I don't know what blind, I look down at pocket nines. And there's not really too much to do here I think I just got to put the money in,
fold. Maybe it'll be a flip. So, I put it in. He's got ace-10.
I pick up some gutshot outs. He does have a 10, but a 10 would deliver the knockout for me. So, I got five outs going to the river here. Unfortunately, the river is a four, and I will double this gentleman up. And here we pick up
yet another little middle suited gappy connector hand, 10 eight of clubs. And this time it was an under the gun raise, and I'm just two spots later. Little bit opening range is pretty wide and the table dynamics of what I think will
happen behind me, I'm okay calling here. So, I call. We see the flop three-way with the big blind. And the flop is ace seven six. So, I have a gutshot. The preflop raiser continues with the bet, and I'm certainly not going to fold.
Raising is an option. I decide to call, and the big blind also calls. And the turn is a three. That hits the big blind's range fairly well, like he can have five four for a straight. And after I see two checks in front of me, betting
certainly is a potential possibility that I debate, but it is into two players. I just decide to check again. But the river is pay dirt. It's the nine. I have the absolute nuts. And the big blind checks, under the gun checks.
Now, how much can I get paid here? People don't seem all that strong, although we have seen players play very strong hands very passively. That doesn't quite describe the under the gun player here, but still I decide to size
up and try to just get maximum value here. Unfortunately, I'm met with two folds, but I do pick up a nice little pot. This hand is pretty funny because Jeff Platt is standing beside me. He's waiting to do an interview when I'm not
in a hand. I look down at pocket deuces under the gun. Now, this is a hand normally you just fold, but at this table I thought I should definitely play interview, maybe that's a little more reason to fold, but it's very important
to stick with what I think is the best play, not be persuaded by outside factors, right? So, I do who in a raise. I get four callers. So, this is great for pocket deuces as long as I don't get set over set in when I make a set.
>> So, we go to the flop five-way and we see the jack 10 deuce flop. There's also a flush draw on board, so this is just an amazing [music] situation here. I'm just going to bet right into this field, hope to get some action from draws, top
pairs, middle pairs. And after I bet, one of the callers in middle position it's not like it's like 80 or 100 big blinds. He's getting kind of short. Nevertheless, everyone folds, it gets back to me. I stick the money in, can't
wait. And he's got the nut flush draw. Honestly, [music] the pot was pretty lot better if he had an over pair of jack in his hand, [music] but I've got some hearts to dodge here. On the turn, I do not dodge the heart. The heart
comes, but here's the board. I've got a full house, he's got the nut flush. He's drawing dead. So, we're going to send a player to the rail finally, [music] and we pick up a very nice pot here, which I almost folded pre-flop. So,
happen. >> This is your first main event as a poker vlogger. How have you enjoyed getting into the vlogging space overall? >> It's been fun, you know, and and well-received. Like a lot of people in
the halls are like mentioning the vlog and liking it and I'm throwing in it and couple people here, you know, and they they get involved in stuff. So, it's fun, fun little venture outside of poker or inside of outside of poker, you know.
>> With with a summer like this with four pretty close calls, how do you evaluate it? >> Uh, I'm still kind of venting from that 100K PLO eighth last night. Whatever, made the money, two bullets, but I still
huge pot down the stretch of the final table that that, you know, would have put me in position to to win. Um so, yeah, I've been close a few times this summer. Could be better, could be a lot worse.
know, I I I can't complain. >> And I'll shut you off to sit you down so you can get back right into the action. That's Jeremy Ausmus, the six-time World >> Now we're getting towards the end of the night. I look down at ace king offsuit
in the cutoff, very easy raise, and I'm met with a three-bet from the small blind. Now this is another one of those players I don't expect to be exceptionally wide with their three-bets. So many times I'd be putting
in a small four-bet or shoving here. I think the main event and this player all signs point to I just want to call here, play it safe. I think he's got a pretty tight range here. So great flop for us here, ace king seven. There is a flush
draw. He makes a continuation bet. Sure I could put in a raise, but I would I can pick up a lot of information by what he does on the turn. So the turn is a four of spades. That completes a flush. Given there's the ace of spades
don't think he's very likely to have a flush at all. He would need exactly queen jack of spades, queen ten of spades, jack ten of spades, maybe jack nine of spades, ten nine of spades. But again, I've got such a stranglehold in
this hand, and his range is quite tight preflop. I'm just going to kind of play it a little safe. Yes, a set of aces or a set of kings aren't all that likely, but also how likely am I to get paid by a player like this when he has a worse
hand. So maybe a hand like ace queen with a queen of spades is one of the exact hands I'll get more money from him. So I call. The river is a nine of clubs, and now he decides to slow down. He checks, and my hand definitely feels
like it's worth a bet here. So I put out 13,000 on the river here, and he lets his hand go. I've been pretty friendly with this guy all day, so I threw him my a worse ace, so we might have let him off the hook a little bit there.
Nevertheless, we pick up a nice pot. In the last hand of the night here, we pick up queen jack and make a raise. And the small blind calls, we go heads-up to the flop. The flop is 8-3-3. I make a standard continuation [music]
bet. I'm hoping I can get him to fold hands like king-queen, king-10, you know, hands that are just a little bit better than mine. He calls, and the turn is a five of diamonds. So, I do have a diamond in my hand. That plays a little
bit into my decision here as I block some of the flush draws he would call might have called the flop with ace high. Maybe he's got some middle pair. And another thing going on here, this is the last hand of day one of the main
event. People want to bag the main event. Now, I can't say for certain that he really cares that much about it, but generally no one likes to go broke that something I've observed [music] over many years. So, I think using that
logic, it makes a lot of sense to just fire another bullet here. So, I bet 3,500 on the turn, and you can tell he doesn't like it. You can tell he's got me beat, but he begrudgingly, I think, because it's the last hand, he wants to
bag up his chips, get home. I think I took him off a better hand there and got away with one [music] the last hand of the night.
And then, uh, just picked up a lot of hands there at the end. Lot of little ones just like, you know, I raise, guy defended, I see bet, he called, turns an ace, I see bet, I bet again turn, he folds. So, picked up a lot of little
ones like that, which added up. So, started with 60k, got about 110k. So, few days off now, should be nice. And back Monday
>> So, at the end of the day, I think it was a pretty successful day one of the main. I bagged up a little over 109,000 chips from 60,000 starting chips. And if you got any value from this, please hit that like or subscribe button. That will
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