Preben Stokkan Leads Tuesday WSOP Main Event Field After Dropping Down to One Chip
Preben Stokkan will come into Tuesday's World Series of Poker Main Event leading the pack with 2,184,000. Amazingly, he had dropped down to just a single chip ahead of the first break of the day Monday.
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"I started the day with 93,000, I had a pretty good start, I was up to like 180,000 pretty early in the first level. But I blew it all on a huge bluff, but I saved myself one chip. I almost went all-in but he over shoved, and I folded. So, I had 5,000 left on the first break and spun it up from there," Stokkan said at the end of the night.
Preben Stokkan went from short stack to chip leader on Day 3 of the 2019 WSOP Main Event.https://t.co/ipgiekSzTa
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He added: "I had a pretty crazy hand against a French guy on my table where I opened from under the gun and he had 600,000 behind. I had him covered, it was right before the bubble. He three-bet me to 40,000, I four-bet to 100,000 with aces. He called. The flop came ace-nine-deuce rainbow. He check-called 40,000. The turn was a four, rainbow board still. He checks, I bet 120,000, he jams! I had top set and he had pocket sevens. Yeah, that was a crazy hand."
Stokkan has won $1,733,939 in live tournaments to date and is guaranteed at least $15,000 moving forward, though he most certainly has his eye on the $10 million top prize.
- Ace King, Gambling911.com