After you have been doing this gig for many years you're thinking that you've seen all of it. But you have not. Poker never stops surprising.
Into the third level of the day on the ANZPT Sydney Main Event and we've just seen an excessively rare situation. It is so rare, that its species could be classed as endangered. It's that weird looking, wild African bird that has fourteen different colours, looks a bit weathered and is simply as more likely to fall off the branch as fly away. It is a little bit beautiful and a bit ugly on the same time.
Today, we saw the rare one-outer, triple elimination (unum exterius triplici remotione).
As a poker reporter, we adore sighting this rare species. Karam Bahi also thought it was pretty good.
Bahi was sitting with Q♠Q♦ and with 35,000 already within the middle, only needed to commit another 6,000 or with the intention to get entangled in a slightly crazy four-way all in.
Bahi was hesistant, and that is the reason probably understandable when three other players were already all in. Suddenly queens didn't look as great as they did two minutes earlier. Regardless, he was priced in to name and located himself up against A♠A♦, A♥Q♥ and J♦J♠.
Some quick math told us Bahi had only one more lady hiding within the deck.
The dealer burned a card and revealed a slightly epic flop of K♥T♣Q♣. Bahi had flopped a miracle set however the hand wasn't over yet, as incredibly all four players still had hope to win the pot. The fellow with jacks wasn't disappointed as he improved from two outs to 5 with the case ace or four nines good for a straight to scoop. The man with aces wasn't so pleased as he had gone from potentially quadrupling previously needing a jack to make a straight to stick alive. Meanwhile the short-stacked player with ace-queen was actually pretty happy. He'd gone from virtually no hope to now hold the similar straight draw.
The turn was the 4♠ to switch nothing, while the 4♣ river completed the board. Bahi had himself an entire house and 3 players had their ANZPT Sydney dreams dashed. There it was, the unum exterius triplici remotione.
Bahi was left to rake in a huge sea of chips as his stack reached somewhere within the vicinity of 200,000.
While that may be now good for a top five chip stack, Bahi continues to be well behind runaway chip leader Jazz Mathers. In a contemporary pot, Mathers made an entire house with pocket sevens on a board of J♣6♠7♠J♥4♦ against Eugene Zanozin's unlucky A♥J♦. It was enough to look Zanozin eliminated as Mathers climbed to a commanding 430,000 chips.
There are currently 85 players remaining within the ANZPT Sydney Main Event with the goal to play eight levels this evening before we call it a day, wherein stage we should always be well throughout the money.
Heath "TassieDevil" Chick is a contract Contributor for the PokerStars Blog.
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