$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Day 1B Entries:  585

There are times in a tournament when a poker reporter simply can’t find a reportable hand, and you’re ready to report just about anything.

Came across a short-stacked player who got it all in from the big blind for about 7,000 with , and he managed to double up thru the button’s on a board of , making trip fours.

But the player didn’t want to share his name, saying that the hand wasn’t worth reporting.

That’s when things got interesting.

As the dealer was dealing the next hand, Wagner Wysotchanski (in seat 1) promised that the next hand would be worthy of reporting. And sure enough, when action folded to him in the cutoff, he confidently raised to 10,000.

Then, as the button and the small blind folded, somebody said the hand should be reported even if nothing else were to happen.

But then Scott Watson, in the big blind, slowly slid out his stack of about 200,000 to move all in, and the table got excited.

Except for Wysotchanski, who wasn’t too happy to see the reraise.

Another player looked up at me (the reporter) and said, “You induced this.”

After some thought, Wysotchanski folded face up. And then Watson let him off the hook by showing as he took the pot.

Another player said, “Of course it was ace-king.”

Wysotchanski said, “It was ace-king or a bluff.”

Watson said, “That was just for the blog.”

Scott Watson  –  113,000  (94 bb)
Wagner Wysotchanski  –  85,000  (71 bb)

The tournament clock shows 585 entries here on Day 1B for a two-day total of 1,158, which means the prizepool is up to $5.61 million. Registration remains open with a single re-entry option per starting flight until the start of Level 9 (9:15 pm).

Action is scheduled to continue until the end of Level 10 (around 11:15 pm).