On Episode 81 of the Thinking Poker Podcast, Nate and Andrew discuss strategies for the World Series of Poker that will assist you both on and off of the felt, and they also break down a hand from Nitcast favorite Gareth Chantler and another from the Sunday Million.
We saw the turn and a short stack was all in with only to discover the bad news in person of Christopher Keller, who snapped him off with .
One hand later he three-bet to 55,000 on the button and the hijack called. On the flop, the hijack led for 60,000 and Keller raised to 125,000. The hijack folded with about 500,000 behind and in table chat, Keller said he had pocket kings before both headed into the break.
Athanasios Polychronopoulos has been eliminated. He raised to 25,000, the cutoff called, then from the button Stephen Graner made it 71,000 to go. Polychronopoulos moved all in for 390,000 with and the tennis starlet Anna Kournikova was unable to win the flip versus as another jack showed up right in the window. The US boy was crippled after that hand and could not spin it up anymore.
So we were just told by the Belgian himself how he got that massive stack.
Early on he raised with and spiked bottom pair with one club on the flop, turned the for the open-ender and flush draw, and binked the on the river for the flush. The opponent in the big blind triple-barrel-bluffed with and hit the bottom end of the straight with the final community card to empty the clip for another 180,000. Can you hear the jingle bells?
It was folded to a short-stacked Chris Klodnicki in the small blind and he moved all in for his last 135,000. Gennady Shimelfarb looked at his cards and made the easy call with . Klodnicki was drawing thin with and would be eliminated when the board did not help him.
Wenlin Wang lost the big pot early on with jacks versus kings and never recovered from that. Just now he was all in for his last few big blinds with and Christopher Keller looked him up with . Both hit a queen but the board delivered four diamonds to complete the flush for Keller.
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turn and a short stack was all in with 
only to discover the bad news in person of Christopher Keller, who snapped him off with 
.
and the tennis starlet Anna Kournikova was unable to win the flip versus 
and spiked bottom pair with one club on the flop, turned the 
for the open-ender and flush draw, and binked the 
on the river for the flush. The opponent in the big blind triple-barrel-bluffed with 
and hit the bottom end of the straight with the final community card to empty the clip for another 180,000. Can you hear the jingle bells?
. Klodnicki was drawing thin with 
and would be eliminated when the board did not help him.
and Christopher Keller looked him up with 
. Both hit a queen but the board delivered four diamonds to complete the flush for Keller.
