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Article: I lit a cigarette and hid the chips in my pocket: the world series crossed the equator

14.11.2026

Sean Deb lost heads-up and did not shake hands with his opponent, Calvin Anderson won two bracelets in four days, Max Lykov scored on the final table and other news from Las Vegas.

Sean Deb lost to Heads-up in a 9-game tournament of $3,000. The winner was Joey Kuden and his hat. Couden noisily celebrated success along with his support group and beer.

After the defeat, Sean refused to shake the opponent’s hand.

“Dib is a very arrogant type,” Kuden said after the victory. – constantly calling players on the heads-ups, considers himself the strongest. It was very pleasant to beat him, especially given the two-fold lag at the beginning.

During the final table, Joey also spoke quite aggressively about the opponent several times. Diba’s behavior was amazing.

“Joi and I have known each other for a thousand years, we have always had a normal relationship,” he said on the air of one of the WSOP streams. He always said he respected me. And when the finale began, for some reason he began to communicate with me, as if I were some kind of villain. He said everyone hated me. In Heads-up, both of us were very strongly supported by the fans. He shortened the big gap and, apparently, due to an excess of adrenaline, he simply could not cope with emotions. Still, this is the biggest drive in his career (ed. – this phrase said Sean with noticeable sarcasm). He behaved like a complete asshole. It’s a pity our heads-up didn’t get on the air, then the audience wouldn’t have any questions why I didn’t shake his hand. Even after the victory, he did not calm down and continued to say something about my ego. It is unlikely that we will become friends again. I doubt that with his level of play, he will someday end up with me in the heads-up, but if this suddenly happens, I will easily beat him.

Calvin Anderson won a second four-day horse bracelet in Horse for $10K.

At the beginning of the series, Naoya Kihara won two “ten-thousanders” in a row, now his success was repeated by Calvin.

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“I’m not very interested in bracelets, I just play and enjoy the moment,” Calvin said after winning.

If he wanted to, he would already have 20! one of his friends shouted.

– In mixes, it is very important to adapt to your opponents, and this is great for me. Everyone has strong and weak games, I try to avoid collision in strong opponents’ games and put pressure on them where they are weaker. I also do everything to avoid everything that can negatively affect the game. I take vitamins, eat right, do not drink alcohol. All this helps to keep the focus. Just don’t do anything that requires a lot of enzymes that break down food and cause fatigue. For example, the guy who flew out the third went a little, which affected both his behavior and the game.

In one of the hands in 3-Max, John Veltree counted call instead of raising, and this suddenly provoked a real storm.

– This is the basic rule, you threw one chip. Calvin tried to calmly explain the situation.

But after these words, Veltree decided that Anderson was to blame for everything, and he conspired with the organizers against him.

– Well, everything ***, now you are destined to lose. Don’t talk to me at all until the end of the tournament. I would never do this to an opponent.

But I didn’t do anything…

– Fuck! Josh Arya jumped up from his chair and shouted, who also remained in the game. – Let’s all swear and swear so that everyone gives a penalty. Or is it better to get back to poker?

At the end of the video, Veltree still realized that he had gone too far and with the words “sorry for this breakdown” gave Anderson a fist. Calvin did not pretend to be Sean Dib and recaptured.

The organizers ignore the mix games, but the rare moments that still get into the broadcast immediately attract attention.

– Here, from yesterday’s Horse tournament, – Nick Shulman posted a video on Twitter. – Look what a cool check and an instant poppy. It would seem that a simple wave of the wrist, but what power. This technique cannot be learned in one day. For a moment, it was one of the main contenders for the best poppy of summer, but this title has already secured Brewer. I’ll add a video in the comments.

For me, this is comparable to what some people feel when they see Mona Lisa live. Sistine Chapel. At first he rejoices, and then slowly throws the cards into the poppy one by one. I almost burst into tears when I saw this for the first time. captivating perfection.

The winner of the 6-max Hold’em with a buy-in $3,000 was an amateur from Canada Abhishek Mhatre.

At the final table, he beat a colorful company – Max Lykov, Chris Vitch’s regular mix games, Leliger’s regular member of the streams Paulina “Poker Bunny” (has no relationship to Linus), businessman Nashima Salem (he won the $10K GGMillions bracelet on this series) and 2014 world champion Martin Jacobson.

Max’s chances of a bracelet were killed by just a distribution against Jacobson – in the triple all-ine of Dike , Martin’s And the shorty . They opened three clubs with a jack, Lykov had a club king, but, unfortunately, Turn and River did not strengthen him.

“Kristen Foxen has a credit for my success,” the champion said. “At the beginning of the tournament, I won a big bank from her, and she said: “I hope you will find a worthy use for these chips.” This is just my second world series, I have a permanent job, I have never worked on the game and do not prepare for tournaments in any way.

At the beginning of the tournament, one of the participants was disqualified because he decided to smoke right at the table.

The man in the jacket of the Brazilian national team clearly went over and for a long time could not understand why the guard had gathered at the table, and what everyone wanted from him. He put out his cigarette, throwing it into a bottle of water. Then he was nevertheless convinced to get up from his seat, he got up and put the tournament chips in his pocket. But they explained to him that they would no longer be useful to him.

“Hahahaha,” Chris Hunichen cheered up. – It is not even clear what is more absurd – a lit cigarette or the fact that he put the chips in his pocket 😂😂😂

“As many years ago, Bellagio played VIP from Macau every day,” Len Ashby recalled. – Throughout all the sessions, a personal assistant stood near him. Once this VIP took out a cigarette and started smoking right at the table. Amy, who was then working with Flora, saw this, walked over to the table and looked at me. I answered her with a look “Let’s pretend that nothing happened.” She threw up her hands and with the words “spit” left 😀

Finnish top reg Omahi Eelis “Eee27” Pärssinen won a PLO with a buy-in $25K. Participants made 451 entrances.

In 2021, Pärssinen won the $5K PLO/NLHE tournament, after which he said in an interview with PokerNews that he was not particularly fond of offline, and this was only his fifth WSOP tournament in life.

For five years, Eelis’s approach to poker has changed a lot. He used to play expensive cash online, but now he switched to high roller offline tournaments:

– Everything has changed a lot. I don’t play online at all, but I enjoy live game, especially from tournaments. That’s why I came here.

The final day of Eelis started as a chipleader and was a clear favorite to win.

– Yes, with my experience and skill, somewhere on the subcortex it seemed that I was obliged to win. But everyone understands perfectly well what can happen in tournaments, anything. So I was lucky that I managed to bring the matter to victory.

In PLO for $50K, the participants made 110 inputs. The Brazilian Joao Simao became the champion.

This is the third seven-figure Simao win in the last 8 months. Last December, with a difference of 10 days, he won Triton for $150K ($3,067,000) and Super High Roller Bowl X with $100K Buy-in ($1,110,000).

Joao won his father’s day and dedicated the victory to the pope who recently died.

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In the comments on the sensational sale of his son, Phil Helmut was asked how he assesses his expectation in the main tournament.

Phil replied that he would sell shares with a coefficient of 4.

– Helmut believes that his expectation in the main tournament corresponds to coefficient 4.0. This is 330% ROI, – Tombos21 began to calculate. – He invests $9,300 in the prize fund, and his expectation is $40,000. Suppose all participants are equal in skill. What starting stack is needed to justify such a coefficient?

Given ICM to play zero, it will need a 4.74x start stack, that is, about 285K chips.

Patrick Leonard wrote a large article on this topic, which we will translate in the coming days.

A brief summary can be found in the channel “What’s on the River?”.

– Each reg for some reason believes that in Maine he has a ROI of 50%. This is nonsense, Pads summed up. – In general, buying shares is a fun, wonderful way to gamble, you can cheer for people you like. If you want to have fun! But keep in mind that 95% of the offers you see are most likely negative.

“Many forget that the organizers take nine million even before they handed out the first distribution,” Patrick developed the idea in new posts. – That is, before the plus players start winning money that they can put in their pockets, first they need to win nine million $$$$$ together.

Rake is a very important factor, and many evaluate Edge simply by comparing the level of plus and minus players. In fact, there is a triple confrontation – regulars against the rake and against minus players. Moreover, rake will almost always be in the first place in terms of money.

“According to my observations, all the players who think that their expectation of 30-50% actually has 3-5%,” Scott Siver wrote. – It is due to this error that Foxenes and Lonis have such a colossal advantage. Yes, players with sky-high ROI exist, but the vast majority of the ROI field is in the range of -5% to +5%.

“It will be useful for everyone to read Pads’ article,” says Chris Brewer. – I have an incredible upstrik to buy shares, but I also have something to say. Do business as honestly as possible, invest in top regs, do not chase mass. Try to immediately solve all financial issues, it is best to pay shares before the start of the tournament. Carefully study the compositions, keep in mind that you could overestimate the winrates and always be prepared for the worst manifestations of dispersion. Never buy shares more than 1.1 in high roller tournaments. You may be lucky, but the excess there is too small to withstand the streaks.

In our poker forum draft after Joao Simao’s victory, vladik_sarov was catapulted to the first place. A mandatory factor – the captaincy of Alex Foxen – he also observed.

For the first time in a long time, Diesel left the top three, but Imbafer retains second place.