A huge pot just went down on Blue #30. It was raised preflop from early position by Fernando Gordo to 56,000. Bertrand Grospellier, Scott Cook and Don Tran all called the raise, creating a 4-way pot with more than 225,000 chips in it before a single community card came down. The flop was
. Gordo, the preflop raiser, had to act first. He bet 155,000 and got calls from Grospellier and Cook both. Only Tran folded. The turn 
paired the board. Gordo fired another 250,000 into the middle. Again Grospellier and Cook both called, creating a gigantic pot of almost 1.5 million chips heading into the river 
. Gordo, perhaps sensing something amiss, finally slowed down. He checked. Grospellier also checkd, bringing the action to Cook. "I can't do it," Cook said after a few moments. He also checked, taking us to showdown. Gordo: 
- two pair, aces and threes Grospellier: 
- two pair, aces and threes Cook: 
- a full house, fives ful of threes Cook dragged the pot to increase his count to about 3 million. Ummmm...to those of you who don't follow or no much about poker, there might not seem to be much wrong here. However, let me put this in perspective. This is the WSOP Main Event, the big one for poker players. Lots of amateurs enter, but at this point there are only 140 or so players left of the nearly 6500 that entered. Cook flopped a set of 5's, which turned into a full house on the turn. This is MONSTER hand. The other two guys flopped a pair of kings with top kicker (the ace). On a rainbow flop (three different suits) of 35K, those are also monster hands. I understand just calling on the flop and turn maybe, to try and slowplay the river. Seeing a turn on that board seems relatively safe, and after boating up seeing a river seems safe as well. But to just CALL on the river is absolutely ridiculous. I don't care what the situation is or who you are, 55 on a 35K38 board when no one has raised and both of the other players check to you on the river is almost ALWAYS going to be best. To those of you who aren't following: only three hands beat his 5's full of 3's: pocket 8's, pocket K's, and pocket 3's. When it's checked to him on the river, there is no chance the other two players have one of those three unless they were CERTAIN Cook was betting, which would have been foolish seeing as he showed no aggression during the hand whatsoever. So for Cook to not bet that river, even just a small bet of 300k-500k, is absolutely baffling.
I'm stunned, if this update is accurate. 6350 players are out of the richest tournament in poker and someone left doesn't have the ball to fire a bet on the river, last to act when it's checked to him, when he has a monster hand??? Just wow.
Anyway, I'm done ranting. More from me soon.
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