$750k Pot: Antonious vs Gold
If you never saw this hand between Patrick Antonious and Jamie Gold on High Stakes Poker, it’s a wild one. Supposedly the highest hand they’ve had on there (though I think there may have been another after it with Doyle that passed it), but this one’s worth $750,000 grand and contains some nastiness.
Antonious plays this pot pretty excellently. He gets lucky to hit his card on the turn, but he’s pretty much playing off of implied odds. I love his betting out on the turn when he makes his hand, which gets Jamie to feed him his whole stack (or try to). Betting out with big hands is classy.
Though in typical Gold fashion the donk stays alive. Now we know how he took down the WSOP (Though yes, yes, his table talk is pretty interesting also).
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1 opinion for $750k Pot: Antonious vs Gold
Jereme
Feb 28, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Jamie is always unbelievably lucky. I love watching Antonius play but I thought he did horrible here.
Jamie states preflop “Fells like Aces, I wish they were.”
Jamie is infamous for telling the truth about his hands. His speech is interesting to me because typically, players are weak when they act strong and strong when they act weak. Jamie’s statement was ambiguous. He wasn’t happy with what he had because they weren’t Aces. That leaves KK-22. He happened to have KK which isn’t considered a weak hand preflop.
Red Flag 1.
Jamie doesn’t like his hand yet he doesn’t call Patrik’s 4k raise, he makes a re-raise of 10k (and rather quickly) making the total preflop bet 14k.
Red Flag 2.
Patrik is holding A J unsuited.
Red Flag 3.
Patrik is out of position.
Red Flag 4.
The reason why I think Patrik played this hand badly:
Patrik was probably hoping to make a play and pick up the dead money in the pot with his troublesome AJ off suite. no problem there.
Jamie comes back over the top indicating he has a fairly big hand. Jamie is running his mouth preflop which he doesn’t normally do on a bluff. Most of his bluffs/rhetoric occurs post-flop.
Patrik knows his AJ is no good against the range of hands a person would normally make such a large raise with. He’s dominated by AA, AK, AQ. KK and QQ are pretty dominate over him also. Even AJ suited bests him and a small to medium pair is a coin flip.
Now patrik probably thought Jamie was making a play back at him (maybe with a medium to small pair).
Patrik calls.
Jamie bets somewhat weak on the flop. A sign that his hand may not be big or could be KK or QQ (something he was alluding to if Patrik was paying attention).
I was very surprised that Patrik did not raise here to get more money in the pot if his draw hit. Jamie may even think that Patrik hit a set if he played it right and fold right there.
Turn hits and he has broadway. It is OBVIOUS he has a straight. If Jamie would have looked up and payed attention (instead of counting money) he would have noticed it.
Jamie lucked out.
In my opinion, Patrik should never have been involved in this hand out of position (possibly even in position).
He made his 4k raise preflop as a play. It didn’t work. He should have thrown the hand away once Jamie re-raised (in position) to 14k.
One of my favorite hands is Brad Boothe vs Phil Ivey.
Ivey was on tilt after this hand. It is painfully patent if you watch the whole show.
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