High Stakes Poker Season 3 Episode 12
By Glenn Cole | April 3, 2007
Brad Booth sits down at the table, playing with a million dollars and will shove all of it in to the middle in one of the first pots of the episode. Phil Ivey who has $300.000 is in the hard decision to decide if he wants to jeopardizes his all buy in or not.
Under the last episode some players went out and some new sat down, players like D’agostino and Townsend.
Seat 1: Daniel Negreanu
Seat 2: David Williams
Seat 3: Brad Booth
Seat 4: David Benyamine
Seat 5: Antonio Esfandiari
Seat 6: Phil Ivey
Seat 7: John D’agostino
Seat 8: Brian Townsend
Like I told you in the last episode, Brad Booth sits down to play with $1.000.000 in front of him. And now he starts to use this money as a weapon against his opponents. In the absolute first hand David Williams raises and Booth calls with 42 of spades. Next to him Phil Ivey gets pocket kings and raises to a total of $14.000. Booth calls this bet, just because Ivey has lots of money himself in front of him, and if Booth gets the right flop, he might win a humongous pot. But the flop is 3 7 6, which only give Booth a inside straight draw. Ivey who has to act first bets out $24.000, in my opinion perfect bet to the $31.000 pot. Booth, with his 1 million goes all in, making Ivey choose if he wants to play for a $600.000 pot. Ivey can’t call, and lays this hand down. And this also a good move in the most cases, unfortunately not in this hand. Ivey plays this hand almost flawless, but looses around $40.000. But look at what he has putted in the pot, $40.000 and to call he has to move in another $260.000 in the pot. And he could easily have only 2 outs to win the pot, with the two remaining kings.
Ironically Booth gets pocket kings in the hand after and just calls the big blind and another five people at the table is in the pot pre flop. The flop gives two players the same straight draw, and no ace on the flop, which means an over pair to Booth. Booth’s kings holds up to the river, and taking home the pot worth almost $30.000. Two pots, two wins for the Canadian.
And why not make it a hat trick? He plays heads up against Brian Townsend in the third pot he is involved in. Brian turns top two pair and Booth turns the nut flush draw and a gut shot straight draw (QJ on Townsend and AT of hearts on Booth with the board QJ86 with two hearts). And what do you know; the river is a heart, giving Booth the nuts with the highest flush. This ends up in Townsend being $20.000 poorer.
Booth plays really well in this episode, but I have to say the poker God is with him at this session. Later on Booth smooth call a raise with pocket jacks and the flop shows JTT, giving him a full house on the flop. Too bad for Ivey, when he has both a straight draw and flush draw, not knowing he is drawing dead. For the record, I think Ivey is unlucky in some hands in this episode similar to the situation written above.
Later in the show, Ivey get some momentum and picks up some pots, and gets some momentum, for example a $40.00 pot against Brian Townsend when Ivey is holding the nuts with the highest flush.
A new player joins the table half way in the episode and it is Patrik Antonius, born and raised in Finland. This youngster is well known in the poker circuit, especially on the online circuit where he plays at the high stakes table against some other contestants in the show High Stakes Poker. He will get action immediately and will end up victorious in most of the hands. I like his style of play; very aggressive but not over betting weak hands, and will get a lot of action when holding the nuts.
Overall this was a very interesting episode with a lot of action and big pots. The biggest winner at this episode was for sure Brad Booth with the early wins at the show.
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