Ensan wins $10M at 2019 WSOP Main Event By: Cody Benjamin The German contender dominated a near-historic field to earn his first Main Event bracelet. By Julio Rodriguez over 1 year ago. After two weeks of action in poker’s most prestigious tournament, the $10,000 buy-in main event of the 2019 World Series of.
There was some controversy as the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event over the weekend, and it had the card-playing world buzzing about the ruling.
On Day 7, with 11 players remaining, Dario Sammartino raised to 1.7 million chips with his pocket 10s. Nick Marchington then went all in for 22.2 million with his pocket Queens.
But when Sammartino asked for the dealer to count Marchington’s chips to see if he wanted to call the bet, she mistakenly announced it was 17.2 million. Sammartino had called that bet and put in the chips to match it.
When the dealer realized the error, she called over officials to discuss what happened and the hand moved ahead. Sammartino began arguing that it wasn’t fair and that he might have acted differently if he knew it was five million chips more in the pot.
Eventually, WSOP VP Jack Effel came over and pointed to a rule that Poker News cited which forced Sammartino to match the 22.3 million chips:
Poker is a game of alert, continuous observation. It is the caller’s responsibility to determine the correct amount of an opponent’s bet before calling, regardless of what is stated by the dealer or participants. If a caller requests a count but receives incorrect information from the dealer or participants, then places that amount in the pot, the caller is assumed to accept the full correct action & is subject to the correct wager or all-in amount.
Fellow pro Alex Livingston — who’s still in at the final table — tweeted his thoughts. He understood the ruling, sympathized with the dealer, but took issue with one of Effel’s comments, in which he said, “If you’re calling 17, you’re calling 22.”
Watch the entire hand and ruling unfold here:
Wsop 2019 Game
Despite losing the hand, Sammartino will start action on Monday in 5th (23.1 million) with just five players remaining.