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'Something out of a fantasy, this hand.'
So said Dan 'Jungleman' Cates of a hand he played against Phil Ivey. Indeed, the hand was wild enough both Ivey and Cates had to take a picture of it at the end — something two players who have seen and experienced just about everything possible at the poker table rarely do.
Cates discussed the hand with David Lappin and Dara O'Kearney recently on a new strategy segment for the The Chip Race podcast.
You can hear the discussion with an the animated video below. Here's a quick rundown of the action and what the trio talk about in the analysis.
The Hand
It was a high-stakes no-limit hold'em cash game in Montenegro, played at HK$10,000/HK$20,000 (i.e., around $1,275/$2,550 USD) with everyone deep with around HK$3 million in their stacks.
Action began with Cates opening to HK$50,000 from the button with and Ivey calling from the small blind. The big blind then reraised to HK$200,000 and both Cates and Ivey called.
The conversation begins with Cates and O'Kearney discussing the potential profitability of his calling the raise with 5-3-suited, with all agreeing the circumstances were such that the call was recommended.
The flop came . Ivey checked, the big blind bet HK$200,000, and Cates and Ivey both called.
Assessing play on the flop, Cates talks about how he might have raised with his bottom pair and gutshot draw to a wheel. In particular, he notes how he has more A-3 and A-4 combinations in his range than does the preflop three-bettor, as well as more pocket threes or fours.
'Both me and the small blind [Ivey] have way more nuts, comparatively speaking, when we're this deep,' explains Cates, though ultimately he decides a call here is fine as well.
The turn then brought the and it checked to Cates who bet HK$800,000 or two-thirds pot, and only Ivey called.
Here in his analysis Cates focuses mostly on hands he blocks and how they give him a little extra equity.
The river was the , making the board and giving Cates a straight flush. Ivey checked, and Cates bet about one-third pot or HK$900,000 into the HK$2,800,000 pot.
At this stage they talk about Ivey's range of possible holdings and what kind of bet sizing would work best for Cates to earn value by getting Ivey to call with some hands and perhaps raise with others.
As it happened, Ivey did raise — all in (!) — and Cates of course called.
Watch and Listen
Take a look below to hear the entire analysis, as well as to see the photo Cates snapped of the hand:
The Chip Race is a weekly podcast sponsored by Unibet Poker, and can be heard on iTunes and anywhere else you listen to podcasts. Follow David Lappin on Twitter @dklappin and Dara O'Kearney @daraokearney.
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A casino in Arizona last week was home to one of the worst bad beats you’ll ever see.
At the Casino Del Sol Poker Room in Tuscon, a run-of-the-mill $1-$2 table saw some crazy fireworks with a $18,000 bad beat jackpot up for grabs. When the dust settled, one player was sitting with a straight flush, which trounced a player with quad nines and a player with quad tens, as pictured above. The photo was posted to Reddit’s poker forum.
The player with the king-high straight flush received $4,500 of the bad beat, while the player with quad tens received the lion’s share of $9,000. The player who had flopped quad nines received just $665, the same as every other player at the table uninvolved with the hand.
The payout structure is typical of bad beat jackpots, but it’s virtually unheard of for there to be three qualifying hands in a bad beat. Under bad beat jackpot rules in poker rooms across the country, you must play both of your hole cards. The absurdity of the hand apparently had the poker room a little confused. It took about 90 minutes for the payouts to occur.
The man who suffered the bad beat on the bad beat was 37-year-old recreational poker player R.J. Bergman, reported PokerNews. Bergman, a YMCA program director, lost his $165 stack in the hand, so he really only won $500 for losing with quad nines.
Bergman wasn’t happy with the result. The 10 that landed on the river was a cruel card because the player with pocket tens wasn’t live to win the hand.
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“I explained [to the casino] that the 10s were drawing dead on the turn so how is it a bad beat for him,” he wrote on Reddit. “They said it goes by the rank of the cards after the hand is done.”
However, argued Bergman, “the single card that improves his hand over mine is the case 10 and that gives the other guy the straight flush. He had 0 percent to win the hand after the turn card came out. I was a 98 percent favorite.”
What has Bergman learned from the hand?
“Never slow play flopped quads!” he wrote tongue-in-cheek. “I wake up every morning shaking my head. My friends are saying I should start a Gofundme page to cover the therapy bills I am going to need. Any supporters in that?”
Bergman added that the hand makes him feel “queasy.”