Two Coolers for O'Dea

Donnacha O'Dea has been a force in the poker world since before many participants in year's World Series were born. He's made two Main Event final tables and has a bracelet in pot-limit Omaha. Poker seems to run in the family, as in 2011 his son Eoghan made a Main Event final table as well.

Today, however, he's been flying under the radar, quietly accumulating chips. Unfortunately for O'Dea, he was recently on the wrong end of two coolers. Four limpers entered the pot preflop, and O'Dea checked his option in the big blind. The flop came . Three players checked and a player bet 6,500. Alex Kunichoff called, and then Pablo Estrada raised to 21,500 from the small blind. After tanking for a couple minutes, O'Dea raised to 50,000. Action folded around to Estrada, who thought for minute. He asked O'Dea if he held pocket fours, and then decided to call. Estrada turned over for a full house, and O'Dea held for trip fours. O'Dea was drawing to a single out, which never materialized, and the poker great lost a large chunk of his stack.