Pre-Flop.This hand was played between online poker specialist Andrew Robl and British poker star Toby Lewis. Andrew Robl wakes up with pocket 9's. This is a very strong starting hand. In fact, it is the 6th best hand you could possibly have before the flop. However, this could not have been a worse time to have that hand. Toby has pocket queens. This is considered the third best hand you could have before the flop. Shockingly, Lewis raises the big blind up to $8,000. Robl has to put in $6,000 to call. Another player calls with pocket two's but he is not very relevant in the hand. Before the flop, Toby Lewis has about a 66% chance of winning the pot. Toble has about a 19% chance and the pocket two's guy who is irrelevant was only a 15% chance of winning With all the pre-flop action in the books, we head to the flop. The flopThis flop could not be more devastating for Robl. I'm talking gut wrenching, "I'm about to throw up" kind of flop. The flop comes queen of diamonds, nine of spades, queen of clubs. This gives Robl a full house, nines full of queens. However, this gives Toby the stone cold nuts. He flopped quad kings. This gives Robl a 0% chance to win the hand. Thinking he has the best hand, he fires out for $18,000. However he is in a world of pain. This bet forces the pocket two's to fold. Lewis being a competent poker player, raises it up to $42,000. Robl contemplates that maybe he has one of the two hands that could possibly beat him. Eventually he decides to throw in the calling chips. The TurnThe next card is a complete dud. The card is the five of spades. This changes absolutely nothing about the hand. Robl checks the turn. Most likely attempting to induce a bluff from Toby. However we all know that Lewis is not bluffing. Robl gets exactly what he wanted. Toby fires out for $63,000. This is a fairly large bet in comparison to the pot. Having a full house, Robl calls pretty quickly and now we move to one of the craziest flops I have ever seen. The RiverThe river is the 4th nine in the deck, the nine of clubs. This nine gives Robl the second nuts. That means there is only one hand that could beat him, and it just so happens that his opponent happens to have that hand. Andrew shoves all-in for $149,000 thinking he can not lose. However, we do know he can lose and he is about too. Lewis snap calls and Robl is shown the bad news. He looks to be in absolute shock as he is nocked out of the tournament with quad nines. No one can even imagine what he is going through. But im sure the millions of dollars he has in winnings will help him feel better.
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Zalan Shah
3/13/2019 06:02:43 am
Compared to your last blog, I had a much easier time reading this blog. It was genuinely interesting to me even though never play poker. Maybe that is a good thing. It looks like it is really easy to lose a lot of money from that game. For now, I will stick to reading about the game.
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Hannah Milam
3/15/2019 05:35:16 am
You are obviously very knowledgeable and passionate about poker. I enjoyed how you told a story while educating us on the different parts of the poker game. As someone who knows absolutely nothing about poker, I was pretty confused throughout this blog. Some of your terms would have a stronger meaning if you explained them. In a way, you are inferring that the only people reading this blog have played or at least understand poker. It was a very interesting and refreshing blog to read, keep it up.
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Max Cook
3/15/2019 05:56:48 am
I was really loving this hand. Did you leave a cliff hanger on the end or did you forget to publish the part about the river. Anyway, I know what happened cause I have seen this hand on social media. If I lost with quads I would probably quit poker. At real casinos, you get what they call a "bad beat" jackpot. This is when you lose with quads or better, and you get bonus money even though you lost.
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