Patrick Chan: World Series Of Poker Main Event 'Has The Best Value Ever'

New York poker pro Patrick Chan added some chips to his stack on day 7 of the 2015 WSOP main event in a hand that was pretty strange for this deep in poker’s most prestigious event.

Chan busted James Magner after the latter decided to move all in out of turn. The main event “has the best value ever” Chan later told Card Player during a break.

According to the WSOP live updates, a player opened from early position to 350,000, and Magner (hijack) and Anton Morgenstern (button) called. Chan three-bet to 1.2 million from the blinds. The original raiser folded, Magner called and Morgenstern folded.

The flop fell Q J 4, and Magner says “all in” despite being last to act. According to the WSOP, Chan checked to his opponent who was forced to go all-in because the move was binding. Chan called with A 10, while Magner exposed the K 10 for an open-ended straight draw.

The board bricked out for Magner and he was out in 27th.

Chan remembers the action a bit differently.

“It was pretty standard,” he said. “It was a three-bet squeeze from the big blind with an ace. He had like 1.5 million left. He probably got excited that he saw the flop and knew he was getting his chips in. I still have to shove my chips in on that flop.”

Regardless of whether Chan moved all in or called the all-in on the flop, the hand was still strange. The day before, Magner had folded pocket queens face-up preflop after facing just a single raise from an opponent. The hyper-nitty play raised some eyebrows.

“This is probably the only $10,000 buy-in I’d play,” Chan said. “It has the best value ever. You can never miss it if you are a professional poker player. If you ever make the deep run like this it might be the most memorable thing you’ll accomplish as a poker pro.”

Chan said he first began his poker career playing multi-table tournaments in the pre-Black Friday era, but transitioned to live after the major offshore sites left American cyberspace.

“Live tournaments have been treating me pretty well lately,” said Chan, who does occasionally leave the US to play on PokerStars. “So, I am sticking to live right now.”

For more coverage from the summer series, visit the 2015 WSOP landing page, complete with a full schedule, news, player interviews and event recaps.

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