Tempting Jungleman, Keating Gives Therapy a Chance & Galfond Goes For It

When it comes to the WSOP Main Event, everyone has a different strategy. For some, it’s all or nothing. For others, just the idea of a min-cash is their poker paradise.

For these stars of the felt, however, there are plenty more questions to answer.

SALE OR NO SALE

Should you play for yourself or sell pieces to the Main Attraction? Would you feel bad hand 10% of your winnings away if you took it down?

You don’t get rich by selling pieces folks

— KingChard (@Wretchy) July 4, 2019

KEATING IN A SPIN

Alex Keating’s physical therapist asks all the right questions, and Keating gives them all the right answers. Well, kind of…

Physical therapist : did you stretch your arm this week?

Me : *thinking back to making change at the feature table*

Yup

— Alex Keating (@HeadsUpGoalie) July 4, 2019

HOW NOT TO GET DNEGS ON YOUR SIDE

Here’s how to avoid annoying Daniel Negreanu.

• Don’t request a handshake at break-times
• Don’t question his marriage
• Don’t bet him on said marriage
• Don’t tank with pocket aces.

I don’t know Whiteman or Myers but I was SO HAPPY to see Whiteman hit a K with KK vs Myers AA.

Whitman put in 24k and you have 34k total with AA.

Tanking there will get you on my anti-root list instantly.

— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) July 4, 2019

YOCKEY GETS ‘THE CALL’

Bryce Yockey’s insane 99.84% bad beat may have become the talk of poker, but there was one player he wanted to hear from, and that was Connor ‘Aces under aces in the One Drop’ Drinan, as he shall forever be known. Welcome to the club, Bryce.

So @ConnorDrinan just congratulated me on join the poker bad beat hall of fame

— Bryce Yockey (@SuddenlyBryce) July 1, 2019

GALFOND UNSURE WHETHER TO REG FOR THE MAIN

The Galfonds becoming parents is a heart-warming story everyone in poker can love…except perhaps a poker-guilt-ridden mom. The replies won the day.

Stay home with baby, play the main event.. stay home with baby, play the main event… stay home with baby, play the main event pic.twitter.com/LcEPFVFTV6

— Farah Galfond (@Farah_Galfond) July 4, 2019

Ok so my very supportive followers helped wash my mom guilt away and I just bought in for the main 1c with my credit card bc no lines and airline #points ..already winning!!

— Farah Galfond (@Farah_Galfond) July 5, 2019

HOW TO TRAP IN THE JUNGLE

How can you guarantee that Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates turns up at the cash game? It is summer, after all.

⁦@junglemandan⁩ the trap has been set. Proceed with caution! pic.twitter.com/t4yzATnUqM

— Chris Kruk (@KrukPoker) July 4, 2019

4TH JULY PROBLEMS

Independence Day has it’s issues. Cash us out early.

As it turns out today is July 4 and banks are closed. Anyone at Rio/Aria have cash for BoA transfer?

— Nate Blogg (@BarstoolNate) July 4, 2019

WOOF, WOOF! (THAT’S ‘ALL-IN’ TO YOU AND ME)

We’ve all seen that painting of dogs playing poker. How does the real thing work? Well, there’s a lot more barking and patting the table.

Dog playing poker. pic.twitter.com/2akNb0ntxe

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 4, 2019

A WORD OF WARNING

Day 1c of the WSOP Main Event is going to be crazy. If it tops 5,700 entries, it’ll be a new record. Could it? Surely not. But it could though, couldn’t it?

All players planning to play Flight C of Main Event are encouraged to register early and/or use online reg. We expect to reach capacity for tomorrow's flight. 519 tables in play. Other options are reg & play today's flight, or reg for 11am start Sat. or Sun starting Level 6

— WSOP (@WSOP) July 5, 2019

TEAM BAKER STILL ON TOP IN $25K FANTASY LEAGUE

While Poker Central are well placed in second spot, it’s Team Baker that remain out in front in the $25k Fantasy League’s full standings. With the Main Event a huge gauge to a team’s chances, are we looking at over 1,000 points for the winning score?

Who’ll become the latest player to win a WSOP gold bracelet at the 2019 World Series of Poker? You can watch the WSOP Main Event action unfold on ESPN throughout, and check out additional coverage on PokerGO.