Gaelle Baumann

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This is Volume 5 of an ongoing series in which PokerNews looks back on some of the most memorable hands recorded in the long history of live reporting on this site. To read more about the concept and which hands make the cut, check out Volume 1.

All In But Card-Less

Everyone who has ever played more than a few hours of live poker has had 'a moment.' A moment where he or she loses track of something at the table, be it the action, their own cards, or something else. What results is usually out of turn action or a fundamental playing error, and these can be quite costly.

Having such a moment occur in the World Series of Poker Main Event is the nightmare scenario, and that's exactly what happened to Andras Koroknai deep in the 2012 Main.

With fewer than 100 players left out of 6,598, Andras Koroknai moved all in from the small blind for 2 million at 15,000/30,000/4,000. Big blind Gavin Smith mucked his holding and Koroknai flung his cards to the dealer and prepared to rake in the pot.

Only one problem: unbeknown to Koroknai, Gaelle Baumann had actually opened the pot under the gun for 60,000. Koroknai attempted to retrieve his cards, but only one could be fished out for certain. Smith chuckled at the absurd scenario after the tournament director arrived, but things were deadly serious for Koroknai as he had committed his whole stack but mucked his hand.

Fortunately for Koroknai, the TD determined he'd only have to forfeit 60,000. Baumann asked for a clarification and a phone call to Jack Effel affirmed the ruling, as the 'integrity of the tournament' took precedence over Koroknai's mistake.

Koroknai got lucky in more ways than one. Not only did he dodge what could have been an epic disaster, but he also avoided playing a pot against Baumann, who Smith said showed pocket kings.

While Gaelle Baumann would eventually bubble the final table that year ($590,442), Andras Koroknai went on to finish sixth for $1,640,902. Canada's Gavin Smith finished 96th for $62,021.

Eight-Deuce Offsuit Binks for $30K

The oldest trick in the poker player's book for passing the time, mindlessly gambling or paying out those odd dollars in home games, is running out hands and seeing who wins. PokerStars decided to take that to the next level in one of their first $30,000 Platinum Pass giveaways. They selected a random table on Day 2 of the 2018 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in which the players would participate in a blind hand, with the winner claiming a Pass.

Table 34 was drawn and the staff honed in on the lucky locale. Six of the seven players were present, with only Thai Ha still missing. Nonetheless, he was dealt a hand along with his neighbors and everyone flipped over a card after the flop was spread:

Top pair for Mike Leah, middle pair for Joseph Drory and a combo draw for Pavel Ignatov.

The turn didn't change much of anything but the river made things interesting as it paired the board.

Jahangir Nazemian revealed he missed as he had a worthless . Likewise Jonathan West with , Mei Siu with , Ignatov with , and Joseph Drory with . Leah didn't improve but still held the winner with . However, Ha's card was revealed to be the , good for trips and the Platinum Pass.

A disbelieving Ha showed up and probably needed to pinch himself. Walking into a poker room and being told you've won a Platinum Pass is the epitome of running good, and Ha has locked up positive equity for the rest of his life in flipouts. Ha will be able to redeem the pass for an entry ticket into the upcoming PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold'em Championship in January of 2019.

Balsiger Keeps the Marathon Going

The 2012 WSOP Main Event infamously lasted longer than nearly any other WSOP Main Event final table up to that point. It set a record for the longest stretch of play without an elimination, when three-handed play between Jesse Sylvia, Greg Merson, and Jake Balsiger went on for about 11 hours across 247 hands.

The journey there was a long one, requiring numerous doubles as Sylvia and Balsiger mostly chased Merson, who came in with the chip lead. However, it could have been done much sooner than it was if not for a stroke of luck saving Balsiger on the 289th hand of the final table.

At 600,000/1,200,000/200,000, Sylvia raised to 2.4 million on the button. Balsiger, on a stack of just 17 million, shoved from the small blind. Merson mucked but Sylvia called after some thought.

Sylvia:
Balsiger:

Balsiger needed help or the Main Event was about to be heads up. No waiting as the brought him a big lead on the flop and the sealed it on the turn.

Had Sylvia won the hand, he would have gone into heads-up play with Merson on very deep stacks and not far behind in chips with about 92 million against 106 million. Instead, the three-handed war lasted about four more hours, with Balsiger even moving into the chip lead at one point. However, he'd eventually bust in third (worth $3,799,073) nonetheless, leaving Merson up 117 million to 80 million at 1,000,000/2,000,000/300,000.

Would a different result here have changed the course of poker history and ended with Sylvia being crowned Main Event champion? Nobody will ever know, but everyone — players and staff — certainly had to buckle down and settle in for five more hours of grinding in what turned out to be a marathon of a final day.

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When you put thousands of competitive poker players in one convention hall, all playing for a piece of a multi-million dollar prize pool, there is bound to be some clashes and controversy.

That’s especially true for an event as pressure-packed as the World Series of Poker Main Event where there is so much on the line. If a player makes the wrong move at the wrong time their dreams of standing beside heaps of cash while brandishing the Main Event bracelet will be dashed (at least until next year.)

With so much at stake, the pressure to perform is at an all-time high. Not just for the players either, the dealers and floor staff have crucial decisions to make and if it’s a bad one the fate of those in the tournament may be at risk.

So, keep your focus, keep your cool and keep your cards protected or you might end up on a list of five of the most controversial moments from the WSOP Main Event.

Koroknai kills his hand

Deep into Day 5 of the 2012 WSOP Main Event, France’s Gaelle Baumann opened a hand with a min-raise from under the gun. It folded around to Hungary’s Andras Koroknai in the small blind and he shipped his remaining stack. Poker pro Gavin Smith, in the big blind, folded and the action was back to Baumann. It looked like, with roughly only 100 players left, that this was going to be a big moment. And it was, but for the wrong reasons.

Koroknai, not having seen that Baumann was in the hand at all, thinking he was only shipping blind on blind – tossed his cards in the muck.

Once he noticed the situation he quickly tried to retrieve his cards, but it was too late…he couldn’t positively pull the cards and so he was essentially all-in with a dead hand.

The floor was called and after some confusion the ruling came back that Koroknai would not be forced to forfeit his stack, just the chips that amounted to a call of Baumann’s initial raise. Some would argue that it was Koroknai’s responsibility to know the situation, some argued that it was clearly not an angle so elimination from the tournament was not a valid solution.

Baumann, denied the opportunity to play the hand out, was reportedly holding pocket kings. In a cruel twist, Koroknai eventually eliminated Baumann in 10th place, making her the stone bubble for the 2012 November Nine.

Watch your hands

Speaking of the accidental mucking of hands, Estelle Denis was faced with a nightmare scenario during the 2009 WSOP Main Event while sitting in the nine seat.

Two-time bracelet winner JC Tran put out a bet of 32K. When the action was on Denis, she shipped her remained 142K in chips, ready to see if she could get a much needed double up. The dealer then, inexplicably, casually reaches behind the shove and swipes Denis’ cards and pulls them into the muck. Denis, shocked, alerted the dealer who asked her if she “protected her cards?” to which she replied that she was “all in!”

Beside herself, Denis gets up and tells the floor person what her cards were. If he was able to retrieve the cards from the top of the muck, she was going to be allowed to continue. Unfortunately for Denis, the cards the floor pulled did not match her described hand.

The ruling was that she was forced to forfeit the 32K that Tran raised and her hand was dead.

“It’s a joke,” said Denis. “I had two aces!”

On the bright side, Denis still finished in 203rd place for $36,626.

Check this out

During the 2016 Main Event, William Kassouf had gotten under the skin of just about everyone in the Amazon room. His constant tanking, his non-stop “speech play” and regular rotation of one-liners had helped the London based pro become the centerpiece of ESPN’s coverage. He was one of the most controversial characters to hit the Main Event in years.

Despite having taken a penalty earlier in the Main Event, Kassouf was in full form when he got involved on the feature table with Toronto poker pro and part-time poker commentator Griffin Benger. The hand was a massive cooler for Kassouf as his pocket kings were about to run into Benger’s aces. But before the money got in the middle, Kassouf spent a good deal of time fishing for info from Benger who sat silent and motionless.

Kassouf, relentless, continued to prod, looking for Benger to crack.

Eventually Benger did crack and the pair engaged in a verbal spar for the ages. One where Benger accused Kassouf of verbally abusing him and also, likely regretfully, demanding that Kassouf to “check his privilege.”

Kassouf shoved, Benger snapped. Both parties continued to jaw at each other. The board ran out insignificant as Benger’s aces held and Kassouf hit the payout cage in 17th place for over $338,000.

Mike’s in the middle

Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, at the height of his powers, in the 2005 WSOP Main Event was in the midst of a verbal sparring match with poker pro Shawn Skeikhan. Sheikhan faced with a preflop decision decided to get out of the way and when the flop was laid out, slammed the table – indicating that he would have smashed the board.

Sheikhan, turns to talk to the rail to which Matusow, exclaimed “You know, we’re in the middle of a hand. You need to shut the **** up!”

Tilted, Shiekhan called over tournament director Jack Effel and wanted a penalty slapped on “The Mouth.” When the hand was completed Matusow leaped from his chair and started in on “The Shiek” which brought back Effel. Effel told both players they were in the wrong and handed down a 10 minute penalty to both.

The incident led to a rivalry that would last the entirety of the Main Event. With both players taking turns verbally abusing each other while taking down important pots. In the end, though, Matusow held the hand that eliminated Sheikhan, when he turned the nut flush against a drawing dead Sheikhan.

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Sheikhan finished the Main Event in 11th place for $600,000 and Matusow followed him out of the tournament two spots later in 9th place for $1,000,000, the largest cash of his career.

“I’ll take your head off!”

One of the most famous controversies comes from the 2006 WSOP Main Event when a young Prahlad “Poker Is Fun” Friedman mixed it up with six-time bracelet winner, Australian poker pro Jeffrey Lisandro.

When a 5K ante was missing preflop, Lisandro insisted he’d put his in. Friedman, on the other hand, thought he saw the player on his right, Dustin Holmes, put the ante in.

At first, it was a casual mention by Friedman, then the accusations stepped up. From simply not believing Lisandro to insinuating that because Lisandro was more insistent than Holmes, that Lisandro was basically robbing the ante.

Lisandro kept his cool…for a minute or two. The next thing you know Friedman is up talking to the floor pleading his point that “he’s been in poker long enough” to know what Lisandro was up to. Having enough, Lisandro stood, raises his voice and tells Friedman, “I’ll take your head off!”

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Showing his keen power to recall events, Friedman complains that Lisandro just threatened to “knock his teeth out.” The floorman stepped in between like a referee separating two combatants and eventually both were ordered to not speak of it again.

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Friedman was wrong, by the way; the cameras clearly saw Lisandro ante.

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