Slowly but surely we are seeing some Russian players enter the high stakes poker games, and over the last day and a half, NEKOTYAN has been the top dog on the leader board. He has been playing both straight PLO and the seven games, and has been winning steadily at both. It will be very interesting to see if others will follow him and players like Rospodin, and if this is the start of a wave of Russian high stakes players.
World1969 picks the wrong time to make a bluff and Brian Townsend takes off with a $255K pot.
Of course, I would have liked to present one of NEKOTYAN’s hands, but the fact is that he mainly played Cap PLO and didn’t really have any of the 100 largest pots of the period. Instead I give you the largest pot of the day.
The header here explains most of what went on in this hand. You could say that world1969 made no less than four bluffs in this hand, and that tends to get expensive when it doesn’t work. First, world1969 made a 3bet bluff before the flop. Then he made a continuation bet when he completely missed the flop, and then he floated the flop after being raised. Finally he check raised the turn when the flush draw came, though I suspect he might have tried that anyhow.
It is quite hard to judge the merits of this bluff, but Townsend would have had some problems making the call if he didn’t hold an ace. World1969 obviously felt there was a decent chance that Townsend would have slow played the hand if he held an ace, but that was apparently a miscalculation.
Townsend flops multiple straight draws but in the end it is durrrr who rivers a straight to win a $145-k pot.
Durrrr had quite a nice day winning $151K, and this was his largest pot of the day. It was a fairly typical pot with top two pairs against a big straight draw. What was a bit unusual was that it was the player without the big draw that hit a straight in the end. Obviously, durrrr’s straight was only of academic interest. As long as he avoided Townsend winners he would have been more than happy with the result.
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