High Stakes No Limit Holdem $109 at PokerStars

October 17, 2006

I’ve been following a game at PokerStars tonight, and it’s the final table now. In this hand, Martine23 is last in chips and is looking for a way to double up and get back into the game. He is dealt a hand that he particularily likes so he makes an aggressive play and moves all-in. AceFromSpace is second in chips, and calls him hoping to take the lead. Both players show their cards and Martine23 reveals 88 while AceFromSpace shows AJo, basically a coin toss situation. See the results below.

PokerStars Game #6670297675: Tournament #33698260, $100+$9 Hold’em No Limit - Level XVII (4000/8000) - 2006/10/17 - 18:52:30 (ET)
Table ‘33698260 19′ 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Bammboozll (156076 in chips)
Seat 3: El Goosey! (317030 in chips)
Seat 4: AceFromSpace (303243 in chips)
Seat 5: Martine23 (133159 in chips)
Seat 8: Drewfus81 (219992 in chips)
Bammboozll: posts the ante 400
El Goosey!: posts the ante 400
AceFromSpace: posts the ante 400
Martine23: posts the ante 400
Drewfus81: posts the ante 400
El Goosey!: posts small blind 4000
AceFromSpace: posts big blind 8000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Martine23: raises 124759 to 132759 and is all-in
Drewfus81: folds
Bammboozll: folds
El Goosey!: folds
AceFromSpace: calls 124759
*** FLOP *** 4♣ 6♥ T♣
*** TURN *** 4♣ 6♥ T♣ 4♥
*** RIVER *** 4♣ 6♥ T♣ 4♥ 9♠
*** SHOW DOWN ***
AceFromSpace: shows A♦ J♥ (a pair of Fours)
Martine23: shows 8♦ 8♥ (two pair, Eights and Fours)
Martine23 collected 271518 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 271518 | Rake 0
Board 4♣ 6♥ T♣ 4♥ 9♠
Seat 1: Bammboozll (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: El Goosey! (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: AceFromSpace (big blind) showed A♦ J♥ and lost with a pair of Fours
Seat 5: Martine23 showed 8♦ 8♥ and won (271518) with two pair, Eights and Fours
Seat 8: Drewfus81 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

After looking into the hand more, I think both players made a great play. The luck just wasn’t in AceFromSpace’s corner. Martine23 was trying to get back in the game and knew that a pair in hand has a high chance of winning against only several other random hands. On the other hand, AceFromSpace knew that even if he lost the hand, he would still be sitting good because there are only 133159 chips at stake. If AceFromSpace won, he would have a large chiplead and much better chance to take the 1st place prize of $21,300, which is considerably more than 5th place’s $4,650.

Either way, Martine23 was knocked out later holding KQo by Drewfus81. The game ended shortly afterwards with the final three players (Drewfus81, AceFromSpace, and El Goosey!) making a final table deal.

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