Poker Hand of the Week: 6/5/14You Decide What's The Best Play |
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Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they’ll come up with dozens of different opinions. That’s just the nature of the game.
Each week, Card Player will select a hand from the high-stakes, big buy-in poker world, break it down and show that there’s more than one way to get the job done.
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The Scenario
After entering the final table as a huge chip leader, you are now in the middle of the pack with six players remaining. You are already guaranteed a huge pay day, but your day has so far been a disaster in terms of your chip count.
With the blinds at 60,000-120,000 with a 20,000 ante, you have 5,525,000, giving you 46 big blinds. The chip leader, with 10,450,000, or 87 big blinds, raises to 250,000 and you look down at 5
5
in the small blind.
You decide to call and the flop comes down 10 7
4
. You check and your opponent bets 260,000. You call and the turn is the 6, giving you an open-ended straight draw.
You check once again, and your opponent bets 485,000. You call and the river is the 3, completing your straight. You check and your opponent bets 1,150,000.
You have a total of 4,510,000 remaining in your stack.
The Questions
Do you raise, call or fold? If raising, how much? Do you just move all in? If calling, what is your reasoning? Can you get a worse hand to call a raise?
What Actually Happened
In the 2014 World Series of Poker Millionaire Maker event, facing a bet of 1,150,000 on a board reading 107463, Stephen Graner opted to raise to 2,635,000 with his 55.
His opponent, Jonathan Dimmig, took his time before raising all in. Graner didn’t like it, but eventually called off the rest of his stack. Dimmig revealed 98 for the nut straight and Graner was eliminated in sixth place, earning $273,854.
Dimmig used the momentum from the hand to win the tournament, his first bracelet and the $1,319,587 first-place prize.
What would you have done and why? Let us know in the comments section below and try not to be results oriented. The best answer will receive a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription.
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