Dwan Bluffs Ivey in High Stakes PokerFour Players Get Felted This Week |
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Daniel Negreanu bemoaned his bad luck as his hand couldn’t hold up either time after he decided to run it twice.
Dario Minieri sheepishly grinned and sped to the exit after his all-in bluff was quickly picked off by Tom Dwan.
Jason Mercier let out a deflated sigh when Phil Ivey made a difficult, correct call to send the High Stakes Poker newcomer to the rail.
Gus Hansen rattled off a series of expletives when he slow-played his pocket queens and lost most of his stack as a result.
Four players went broke in this week’s episode of High Stakes Poker, but the show will probably be most remembered for one thing — Dwan’s bluff versus Ivey.
The two heavyweights at the table, with approximately $1.8 million on the table between them (Ivey with more than $1 million, Dwan with roughly $800,000), got into a massive hand at the end of the episode that almost saw Ivey making what would have been an incredible call with just fourth pair to rake in what would have been a $945,100 pot.
But instead, after tanking over the decision and even leading the audience to believe that he might indeed call by saying, “This is going to be the sickest call of all time,” Ivey begrudgingly threw his hand into the muck, handing over the pot to the bluffing Dwan, whose 9-8 had completely whiffed on the board.
Watch the hand below:
While Dwan put himself into a sticky situation, he was eventually able to get out of it with a brazen bluff of more than a quarter-million dollars on the river. However, many of his other competitors were not as fortunate as Dwan when they get into their troublesome spots.
With Negreanu, Minieri, Mercier, and Hansen all losing their initial buy-ins in this episode, an astonishing six players (including Phil Hellmuth and Andreas Hoivold in past episodes) have now gone broke this year, despite being only five episodes into the season.
Negreanu and Hansen elected to rebuy, while Mercier and Minieri decided to cut their losses and run.
Mercier’s bustout hand was perhaps the most interesting, as the tournament pro was trying to use his tight image in the cash game to his advantage to fool Ivey in a big pot. The man who is regarded as the best in the game what made what could be considered a crying call, though, even tossing the money in Mercier’s direction, before seeing that he indeed had the best hand.
It all started with an adventurous preflop raise to $4,200 by Hansen with Q
6
. Eli Elezra called with 9 5, as did Ivey with 9
9. The young Mercier decided to try to a squeeze-play from the small blind with his modest A
4, raising to $22,100. The raise was enough to shake off Hansen and Elezra, but Ivey made the call.
Mercier then fired a continuation-bet of $28,700 into the $55,000 pot after a flop of 7 3 2, prompting Ivey to raise to $78,700 with his overpair.
That’s when things got interesting. Instead of throwing his hand away, Mercier decided to represent a monster by pushing all in for $185,100 total. It was a bold move by a pro, who had played pretty close to the vest in the game up until this point, and he was clearly hoping his table image would encourage Ivey to lay down the better hand.
However, with $106,400 more to call and $318,800 already in the middle, Ivey decided to call. But he clearly wasn’t thrilled with his decision until he saw Mercier’s cards, even saying, “All right, I guess you got me here,” before cursing and placing the calling chips in front of Mercier.
Mercier let out a couple defeated sighs, and Elezra responded, “Welcome to the Ivey world, Jason.”
It was the Ivey world at that point, but after durrrr’s triple-barrel bluff against him a few minutes later, it had just as much become the Dwan world.
Check back to CardPlayer.com next Monday for another recap from this season of High Stakes Poker.
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