Posts Tagged ‘great call’

Eli takes the amateur down

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

I was watching some Poker After DarkĀ  (season 4) yesterday and I saw a great call from my hero Eli Elezra which I want to show you. The hand starts at around 2′20″ in the fragment below:

The hand becomes a family pot preflop and Elezra and the amateur Dee Tiller are the only players who really catch something on the flop, with Elezra catching middle pair and Tiller with the OESD. Elezra bets his pair on the flop as well as on the turn and both times Tiller just calls, not raising on his draw. Turn as well as river appear to be blanks and Tiller suddenly leads out with a massive overbet on the river: $25k in a $14k pot! The instincts of a lot of players will tell them here that Tiller missed his draw, but you got to have the guts nevertheless to call such enormous bets. Tiller had to know this play couldn’t succeed against Elezra.



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