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| Victoria
Coren |
| Wed 23 February
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Folding a
full house? An astonishing play from Neil Channing
In the £1,500 high roller event at the
UKIPT Nottingham, I watched an astonishing play from Neil Channing, MD of
BlackBelt Poker. If you ever bump into one of those sceptics who still refuse
to believe that poker is a game of skill, tell them about this hand.
The blinds were 150-300, we all had around 30k. Somebody limped early
and Owen Robinson raised to 750. Channing called from the button. I called from
the big blind with 6 7. What the hell; I was priced in to play a multiway pot.
The limper folded. |
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The flop came A A 9 . No good for me, obviously, but they both checked behind so I saw
the turn card: 5 . I checked, Robinson checked and Channing bet 1,800. I folded
immediately; this was no time to be drawing to an inside straight. Robinson
called.
The river was 10. Robinson checked and Channing bet 3,300.
Robinson raised to 10,000. Channing thought. He thought and thought. He thought
some more. Then he folded . . . face up . . . A 5!
Folding a full house? The third nuts? Who does that?
Channing told me later: "I knew Owen had a lot of backers from the internet,
scrutinising his every move. He wouldn't let himself lose half his stack with a
massively funky bluff. He had a hand. When he checks the flop, I know he
doesn't have a pocket pair – he has an ace or he's missed. When he flat
calls the turn, I know he definitely has an ace, and it's not A9. He now knows
I have an ace, he'd check-raise with his own house. But suddenly he's ready to
check-raise the river? A10. It can only be A10."
People talk a lot
about putting opponents on "ranges". Sometimes it's about putting them on
hands. Robinson flashed the A10, and we all went to the break.
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