WTF?! Down $90k or still in the game?!

Dear friends, fans, and people who think that pot limit is for poor people...

Every week we talk about one hand that made us say wow. This week we had a lot to choose from, but one hand was special.

Hand of the Week!

This week we’ve got a crazy hand where fate decides whether our friend Paul leaves the game down $90,000 or not. Here’s why this hand was crazy:

• We see a double the pot ALL IN bet on the river

• A coin flip to decide if the call is made

• A funny prop bet adds a crazy twist

• The end of the hand ON VIDEO

Now that I have your attention, meet my friend Paul. He's a great young card player and the king of getting buried early and finding a win by the end of the session. It’s gotten a bit ridiculous how often he finds a way to be down $20k and find more chips than he started with.

For those unfamiliar with our little poker game, we play the 7-2 bounty game on Table 1. The 7-2 game just means if you win the pot with a seven and a deuce in the hole, every one at the table has to pay you some money. In our game it's $200 per person, and if you're the last guy to fold, it's $400. That's right, if you cost the whole table money, you gotta pay an extra $200. Because you just couldn’t click the call button that’s why.

Anyways on to the hand:

We're playing $25/$50 with $100 big blind ante. The straddle is on for $100. But before we get to the hand, let me give you a little back story on how we got to where we’re at. There was a point in the game where Paul and his neighbor Nick were both down $30k. Nick and Paul decide to make a little side-bet. The first one of them to get unstuck in the next 5 hours would get an extra $2k from his neighbor.

A simple proposition. In fact, it shouldn’t really have any impact on the game you’d think. However both Nick and Paul took on the challenge with some serious vigor. Paul ran his stack up to the point where he was $3k from even. Nick hadn’t sniffed a pot in over an hour and was down $35k. It was all but lost for Nick. When suddenly Paul got coolered in a $60k pot. Almost immediately afterward Paul got stacked. He reloaded for $20k. Now he’s in for $90k.

For the next few hours not much went Paul’s way. He was down to $15k in front of him and Nick was steadily climbing back and fairly close to profit-town when this hand happened:

Paul raises it up in middle position to $300. Neighbor Nick makes it $1,500. One player in the blinds cold calls the $1,500 and Paul comes along as well. The flop comes 9♣️ 5♠️ A♠️. It checks to Nick who fires out $1,000 into this $4.5k pot. Paul is the only caller. The turn is the 6♥️ and both players check. The river is the J♠️. With roughly $6.5k in the pot Paul and Nick were heads up on the river.

The board is 9♣️ 5♠️ A♠️ 6♥️ J♠️

Paul checks it over to Nick who goes ALL IN for $13k. Double the pot.

Paul thinks and looks down at his hand and says he’s got a bad hand. J♣️T♠️. He says “Man it would be so sick if I flip for this call here.”

He throws his hand over to another player in the game. He says “if you pick the T♠️ from my hand I’m going to call.” The table gets excited. Paul says his decision is binding. Meaning he’ll do it even if Nick reveals his hand. Nick flips up 7♣️2♥️. Wow. Total airball. Not only does Nick have nothing, but if Paul folds, the bounty money in addition to the pot will put Nick over the edge and into positive territory for the day. So Paul would lose an extra $2k on the side bet if he folds! Paul signals the other player to flip up a card…I’ll let the video tell the rest of the story:

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See you next week for another Hand of the Week!

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Art and Justin

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