Patrick Antonius Sucks Out for Big Win
We’ve all seen Patrick Antonius in big poker tournaments and in high-stakes cash games on television, but many observers of the poker scene don’t realize that he also plays in the biggest online poker cash games .In a recent hand in a $500/$1,000 no-limit hold’em game, Antonius got as lucky as you can get against a player named “world1969”. They were playing with another online poker professional named “MR B 2 U SON” and live game legend Phil Ivey, who was sitting in the small blind position. “MR B 2 U SON” was in the big blind with Patrick Antonius sitting under the gun.
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Antonius raised the $1,000 blind to $3,500 to go from under the gun, and “world1969” promptly re-raised it to $12,000. That was enough to get Phil Ivey and “MR B 2 U SON” out of the hand, and after some thought, Antonius made the out of position call. With a pot that was already $25,500, they saw a flop of 8h-Js-Ad.
Antonius checked the action to “world1969” who quickly bet out an amount that was around half the pot; $12,750. Antonius must have figured he had the best hand because he raised it to $63,750, an over bet that easily put “world1969” all-in for the rest of his chips.
Subsequently “world1969” didn’t hesitate to call Antonius’s bet, and put in the rest of his $13,498 in chips. The pot was $78,494 once “world1969” was all-in, and the two players’ cards were revealed.
Patrick Antonius showed As-Qh, while “world1969” had the better hand of Ac-Ks. Antonius was dominated and needed a huge suck out to recover his chips. Accordingly “world1969” was an 85% favorite to win the hand, but fate had a different plan for the two high-stakes players.
The turn card was a meaningless 7d, reducing Patrick’s odds down to 6.82% to win. He needed one of only three possible cards to take the hand away from “world1969”, and that’s if none of the other players mucked a queen pre-flop.
As you’ve probably already figured out, the river card was the queen of clubs, giving Patrick Antonius two pair and the big pot. The hand busted “world1969”, while Patrick Antonius added another $78,494 to the $200,000 + he already had at the table.
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