Clements Doubles, Morgan Takes A Hit
by Court on 04.19.09, 9:42 pm
Taking aces to the flop along with 3 other people usually isn’t ideal. Doing so with super deep blinds can open a player up to even more trouble if they get married to their hand. Scott “BigRiskky” Clements called a raise with aces and had two players come in behind him. That was bad enough, but what really got him in trouble was when he made a set of aces on the river.
The final board showed K-9-8-5-A with no flush possibilities and Clements and Dan Heimiller went back and forth with a few bets until all the chips were in the middle for a pot of around 180k. Scott’s set of aces was no good against Dan’s 7
6 and after the huge pot Clements was left with only about a quarter of the starting stack.
The 25k left was still plenty relative to the blinds though, even if it did make him one of the shorter stacks in the tournament. It wasn’t long before Scott was able to double up. On a board of T
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a player led out for 3k and Scott make it 8,500. The other player then bet enough to put Scott all in and Clements quickly called. The 6
6 in Scott’s hand was well ahead of the other players JT and the board ran out with the A5 to double Scott to over 50k.
Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan (left) wasn’t so lucky in a recent hand. On the Q43 flop Morgan bet 3,100 and was raised to 10,100. He called and both players checked the K turn. On the 2 river Jordan led out for 15,500 and the other player moved all in for a total of 36,700. Jordan quietly said call after a brief pause and the other player showed the 65 for a rivered straight. Morgan mucked his hand and counted out the chips to match the all in bet, leaving himself with around 30k chips.
A discussion over poker terminoligy took over 2 tables for a few moments. The topic was the use and logic of the terms 3-betting, 4-betting and 5-betting. The hand that started the discussion had Ted Forrest opening a pot from the cutoff for 1,125 (blinds at 200 / 400) and Peter “Nordberg” Feldman raising to 3,300 from the button. Brent “bhanks11″ Hanks (right) then put in another raise from the big blind making it 14,400. Forrest folded and Feldman then raised to 30,000. Hanks went into the tanks for a long time before finally and very reluctantly folding his hand.
After Hanks folded Forrest commented that it was a 4-bet and Mohsin “ChicagoCards1″ Charania corrected him saying it was a 5-bet. Antonio Esfandiari from a table over couldn’t resist getting in the conversation, commenting that “the internet kids call opening bet a 2-bet even though it is the first raise.” Charania pointed out that the term wasn’t raise, but bet and that in limit hold em the big blind would count as the first bet. Using the “Internet Kids” terminoligy Forrest’s opening raise was the 2-bet, Feldman’s raise to 3,300 was the 3-bet, Hanks raise to 14,400 was the 4-bet and Feldman’s raise to 30k was the 5-bet. With around 60k left in his stack it is very possible that Hanks decided being 5-bet by Feldman was worth folding pocket kings, or at least that is the hand he acted like he was folding.
