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Even the world's best poker players misread the board from time to time. Always have, always will.
Usually, though, it doesn’t happen in crucial situations. At this year’s WSOP it happened at the most crucial moment possible.
A New World of Possibility
The organizers of the WSOP have hit on a new tournament that has opened up amazing possibilities for lower buy-in players.
Now in its second year it only costs $565 to play The Colossus and the winner takes home a cool million along with the prestigious gold bracelet.
This year 21,613 entries were counted and $10.8 million collected for the prize pool. The two players who dreamt of the million the longest were Benjamin Keeline from the US and Czech player Jiri Horak.
Two Strong Hands Bound to Collide
After a long and nerve-wrecking battle the blinds were up to 1m/2m and both players had roughly 25 big blinds in front of them.
Horak raised, Keeline moved all-in and Horak called. All of this was pretty obvious to the viewer even before it happened, as we could see the hole cards.
In heads-up play these hands will almost always get it all-in. Keeline had pocket jacks and was a clear favorite but of course Horak’s A-9 still had a chance to win.
Ten Seconds a Millionaire
When a nine hits the flop Horak’s fans get pretty excited. They start to call for an ace or nine but the turn seems to be total blank.
Then, on the river, the much yearned for ace hits and Horak’s entourage explodes, hugging their friend like they never want to let go.
Unfortunately, there was a small detail that had eluded the happy bunch. The seemingly unimportant turn had brought Keeline a flush draw, thus taking away the very out that Horak found on the river. Too bad, no?
Keeline’s Cinderella Story
Ben Keeline himself needed a couple of seconds to realize that he’d just won a million dollars.
Very recently, Keeline was so broke he was hardly able to come up with the buy-in of the Colossus. Then he actually managed to win the whole thing.
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