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Sunday, August 24, 2014

The bubble has burst


The button raised to 13,000 at 3,000/6,000 blinds with a 1,000 ante, and the player in the big blind moved all in for 17,000.  The button called, and the hands were exposed:

Big Blind [Qh][9h]
Button [6s][5s]

The action was halted as there was an all in and a call on another table.  Eventually, the flop was dealt, and it was [9c][2c][5h].  The big blind was a 79% favorite to survive the all in, but that all changed when the [5d] hit the turn.  Now the big blind would need one of the two remaining nines in the deck to survive.  It was not to be as the [Ad] hit the river, eliminating the big blind on the bubble.

At the other table, the all in player had [3h][3c] against [Jd][7d] and fell behind on the [4h][Qs][Jh] flop.  The [5s] turn was no help but the magical [3s] river saved earned him half of a mincash.