In season 5 of High Stakes Poker, you will see many new faces and some of the originals that you are used to. In this hand, two good friends do battle, Barry Greenstein and Eli Elezra. Sahamies and Main event champion Peter Eastgate are momentarily in this hand. The limits are $400/$800 with a $200 ante.
The hand is dealt and Barry is second to act.
Barry raises $3500 with 6d5d
Eli calls with Ah2s
Sahamies calls with Jh10h
Eastgate calls with 3c2c
Pot equals $16,100
**Flop comes Jd Kc Ad **
Barry continuation bets $7,000. Being first in position taking a strong lead is necessary with his flush draw.
Eli raises to $19,000. Earlier in the session, it was mentioned that Eli was making fun of Barry because he wasn’t playing any live action hands and only playing top ranked hands.
Sahamies folds.
Eastgate folds
Barry calls the $19,000.
The pot equals $54,100
At this point of the hand Barry is almost a 3/2 underdog, but being the pre-flop raiser, his image in this hand is perfect.
**Turn comes 8c **
Barry checks the flop.
Eli continues his aggression by leading out with a $54,000 bet.
Barry sits and thinks momentarily and sneakily pulls out eight $25k chips. Nonchalantly tosses them out for a 200k bet.
Eli thinks about the hand for a little bit, counting his stack, going over his hand, and mucks.
Barry wins $299,100.
