WATCH: Nick Schulman Bluffs With Aces At Poker Masters

Sometimes your aces get cracked, but you win anyway.

That was the case for Nick Schulman this week at the Poker Masters, with the action playing out on the PokerGO live stream.

In event no. 6, a $15,100 no-limit hold’em tournament, the blinds were 15,000-25,000 with a 25,000 big blind ante. Schulman on 28 big blinds and picked up A A and raised to 50,000, sitting on a stack of about 28 big blinds. With 24 big blinds remaining, Jim Collopy called with K Q from the small blind.

According to the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator, Schulman was an 82% favorite to win the hand, but an interesting flop of Q J 9 helped Collopy pick up top pair and an inside-straight draw although a club would give Schulman the nut flush.

Collopy checked, and Schulman bet 30,000. Collopy called and the 10 hit on the turn, giving him his straight. The odds flipped, giving him a 75% chance to take down the pot.

After checking again, Schulman thought a bit before putting out a bet of 105,000. Collopy only called, and the pot grew to 420,000. The Q then came on the river and Collopy checked again. Schulman thought for a while and then announced that he was all in.

“The leader in the race for the purple jacket is a call away from a very big stack,” PokerGO commentator Remko Rinkema noted on the broadcast.

Watch the outcome of the hand below.

With the queen in his hand, Collopy blocked some full house combinations, but was still in an extremely tough spot and that showed on his face as he considered his options. Not only was he losing to a full house, but also to any flopped straights, and A-K. He eventually folded and Schulman’s river bluff with his aces scored a nice pot.

Isaac Haxton ultimately won the tournament for $352,800. Schulman took seventh for $50,400 for his second cash of the series.

Collopy may have lost that hand, but he went on to a nice finish – taking runner-up for $226,800. This marked his fourth final table in a row, which was enough to clinch the Poker Masters leaderboard and the race for the purple jacket once his closest competitors busted from the finale.

*Photos by Miguel Cortes – PokerGO

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