Tuesday
February 02, 2010
The action is certainly picking up these days, and we see a lot of the familiar names putting their chips and bankrolls on the line in the hope of something bigger and better. PostflopAction was back winning another $236K, but the big winner of the day was Brian Hastings who cashed in almost $428K. The interesting part of his day was that he beat a number of players, among others Ziigmund and Gus Hansen, out of significant money, but more or less single handedly made sure that Cole South ended up in second place on the leader board.
Cole South’s two pairs holds up over Antonius draws. $194K pot.
Speaking of Cole South, he was the winner of the largest pot of the day, and it was a bit of a strange one. On the flop, South raises Antonius’ continuation bet and seeing Antonius hand, you would think that would be the end of the hand. He has only middle pair and no draws, and in addition he is out of position. I am sure that Antonius was under no illusions that his hand was good at this point, but he was probably calling just to make a play at the pot on the turn. If an overcard falls and he bets out, it might be very difficult for South to make the call.
As it was, the turn brought the five of clubs, something that gave Antonius a number of draws. At that point there was no reason to ditch the line he started on the flop, so he moved in. However, South now had top three pairs, so he really had to make the call. From his point of view it seems quite likely that Antonius picked up some kind of a draw, and getting about 2-1 odds on the call, he probably didn’t spend much deciding. As it was, South was a 52% favorite to won the hand, and when Antonius missed the river, he had won himself a nice pot.
PostflopAction flops a big draw and turns a straight to win a $96K hand.
As mention at the top, PostflopAction had another great day, and he also won the largest pot in terms of the number of big blinds. And when you look at what the two players flopped, it is hardly surprising to see the money go in. When the cards were flipped over , it was the PostflopAction’s drawing hand that was a 54% favorite, and he went into the lead when he spiked the straight on the turn. Still it was not over, but now PostflopAction was a 3-1 favorite, and when FakeSky didn’t find anything good on the river, PostflopAction’s good run continued.
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