Morgan Loses "Stone-Cold Minimum" in Potential Disaster Hand
It’s clear that all that experience has helped improve Morgan’s game as he played an astonishing hand against Bill Perkins that had all the poker pros in the room buzzing.
In the hand Morgan opened for $11,000 and Perkins called from the mandatory straddle.
The flop came Q♦ T♥ 5♣ and Perkins checked but Morgan fired a $25,000 bet. Perkins flatted.
Both players checked the 2♠ turn and the 2♣ river.
Perkins flipped over 5-5 for the flopped set and Morgan revealed A-Q.
“Oh my god!” exploded Jean-Robert Bellande. “He lost the stone-cold minimum. That was awesome.”
“I thought you were gonna take me for a ride,” said Perkins.
“What would you call with?” said Morgan, explaining his thought process.
The hand was enough to earn a fist bump from Antonio Esfandiari who was watching the game, waiting to get a seat.
“Nice hand John!” said Esfandiari. “I would have lost a lot of money on that hand.”
Esfandiari said he would have put Perkins on a variety of hands including K-Q and K-J but Morgan seemed like he never even questioned checking the river.
Used to be Known as Bong Hog
Poker isn’t the only thing on the John Morgan Show though.
Perkins asked Morgan about his single best business decision over the years.
Morgan couldn’t really think of anything but said that quitting drinking 43 years ago was his best life decision.
“You’re wild enough as it is,” laughed Bellande. “I couldn’t imagine you drinking.”
“You’d be surprised,” said the 70+ year old Morgan. “They used to call me ‘Bong Hog’ in college.”
One again Morgan, who's been the life of the party, made the entire room explode in laughter.
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