Hero call in a $58k pot?!

Dear gamblers and grifters...

Hey! It’s Art here. This week we saw a lot of wild hands. But this one I was sober enough to remember the details. Ok I wasn’t. But I asked someone at the table what happened and then they told me. So now I’m telling you.

Hand of the Week!

This week’s poker hand is between 1 regular in the game, and my co-host Justin Young. It's special because of the beautiful combination of:

• A $58k pot!

• Sniffing out a big semi-bluff

• And finding out why they call it a semi-bluff

Now that I have your attention, let’s see exactly what happened…

The hand:

We're playing $25/$50 with $100 big blind ante. The straddle is on this hand. I open up the action to $300 in early position and another player calls in middle position. Matt M is on the button and shoots it up to $1,600. No sooner than he drops his chips into the pot he’s followed in by Justin in the small blind. Except he doesn’t just call. He makes it $4,500! Everyone folds back to Matt who flicks in the call.

With almost $10k in the middle, the flop pops out: K♠️4♠️2♦️

Justin continues with a bet of $3,000. Matt calls relatively quickly.

The turn brings the 5♦️ and the pot grows to about $16k.

Now with 2 flush draws out there, Justin decides it’s time to go all in for $21,000!

A hush falls over the table as we all wonder what Matt might be thinking about. I’m guessing Vegas and the fucking Mirage. After a little time passes he puts in the call. The hands are revealed.

Justin has the A♦️Q♦️ for a straight draw and a flush draw. Matt reveals A♣️5♣️ for a pair of 5’s and the same straight draw.

“Nice call Matt!” a player shouts. Matt shoots him a glance. We all know it’s never easy in this game. They decide to run the river twice. Standard practice in big pots.

First river: 3♠️. They both make the same straight.

Second river: Q♠️. Uh oh.

The same straight means they chop on the first board. The queen means Justin wins the 2nd board. Since each run is for half of the pot Justin ends up getting 75% of this $58k pot!

And that’s why they call it a semi-bluff…Nice call Matt. 🫠

See you next week for another Hand of the Week!

Cheers,

Art and Justin

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