Irish Poker Open Final Table Player Busted After Slowrolling The NutsWas It Intentional Or A Very Inexperienced Player's Honest Mistake? |
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Andreas Gann finished in eighth place in the 2015 Irish Poker Open, which was quite the accomplishment, but the way he exited the tournament has the poker world talking.
Irish poker legend Donnacha O’Dea (1.3 million in chips) began the hand by raising to 100,000 with the A
6 (blinds 25,000-50,000 and a 5,000 ante) and it was folded to German poker player Andreas Gann in the small blind with K
Q, who thought about it for a bit before calling the additional 75,000. The call left him with under 180,000 behind.
The two players saw a flop of A 8 6, and Gann checked his nut-flush. O’Dea fired 300,000 with his two pair, which was more than enough to put Gann all in.
According to the Paddy Power Poker Blog, Gann thought about it for a full minute before finally calling. He turned over his flush and was criticized by some at the table and the broadcast’s commentators. “This is absolutely disgraceful,” one of the commentators said. They also said he “deserved” to lose the hand as he was pondering his tournament life.
Gann doesn’t have any prior live tournament results, according to multiple poker tournament databases, and is assumed to be an inexperienced player. We don’t know if he plays online and/or cash games.
To his credit, O’Dea took the slowroll in stride and gave little reaction to his opponent’s hand and behavior. O’Dea has seen it all in the game of poker, having final tabled the WSOP main event twice, even winning a bracelet of his own back in 1998. His son Eoghan O’Dea made the WSOP main event final table in 2011.
Back to the action. The turn was the 7, which didn’t change anything. Before the river card the commentators were calling for one of O’Dea’s four outs.
The 6
hit on the river, which gave O’Dea a full house, and resulted in the table laughing and cheering as Gann hitting the rail. Even Gann clapped for some reason. Did he know right away that he had just lost? Or was he embarrassed by his slowroll and thought to himself that “justice” had been served? It’s really hard to know for sure.
Was Gann having trouble reading hands and just an inexperienced player? Or was he totally conscious of what was going on and did it intentionally for whatever reason? The commentators and the players condemned him, but we’ll let you decide for yourself.
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