Ryan Riess
Outcome
Michigan poker player Ryan Riess - who was known as 'Riess the Beast' back in 2013 when he won the WSOP Main Event - made a valiant run at another Main Event bracelet the last few days. From a starting field of 705 entrants, Riess stubbornly hung on until he was knocked out in 47th place on Monday. Ryan Riess Pinter & Associates Ltd Enhanced Anaerobic Bioremediation –Case Studies www.vertexenvironmental.ca SMART Remediation Edmonton, AB │ March 11, 2020 Calgary, AB│ March 12, 2020 SMART is Powered.
Ryan Riess Testimony
Preflop, with eight players remaining and blinds of 175,000-350,000 and an ante of 43,750, Ryan Riess raised to 735,000 from the hijack. Joao Maureli called from the big blind. On the flop Maureli checked. Riess checked. On the turn Maureli bet 1,500,000. Riess called. On the river Maureli checked. Riess moved all-in for 4,300,000. Maureli called.
Analysis
Ryan Riess
Ryan Riess got off to a rough start at the final table of the 2020 World Poker Tour World Championship $3,200 knockout no-limit hold’em event. The 2013 World Series of Poker main event winner ran ace-king into the pocket aces of Pedro Marques to fall to the bottom of the leaderboard. He found a quick double up with pocket tens to get back to around 19 big blinds. The very next hand after doubling, Riess picked up Q-J suited in the hijack and raised. It folded to chip leader João Maureli and he defended his big blind with the lowly 9-6 offsuit. Maureli flopped top two pair and checked to Riess, who had flopped a queen-high flush draw. Riess opted not to semi-bluff his hand with a continuation bet and instead checked behind. The turn gave him top pair to go along with his flush draw. Maureli bet three-quarters of the size of the pot and Riess had an interesting decision. With a pair and a flush draw, many players would likely opt to just shove all-in and let the chips fall as they may. Riess ultimately took a different approach, though. He had a $10,031 bounty on his head, the fifth largest bounty at the table, which would likely result in opponents being more likely to call his all-ins lighter. Riess likely also considered that short stack Shyngis Satubayev had only 8 big blinds when this hand began, which might have led him to utilize a more cautious approach to limit the likelihood of busting before Satubayev. Riess just called Maureli’s bet on the turn and the river completed his flush draw. Maureli now checked to Riess, who had 4.3 million left in his stack with 5 million in the pot. He moved all-in and Maureli made the call with his nines and sixes. Riess doubled up for the second time in as many hands and chipped up to just shy of 40 big blinds, which put him in fourth chip position. Riess ended up finishing seventh in this event, earning $48,261 for his deep run.