Poker After Dark - About Three

  During the director's cut of Poker After Dark's Couples Week viewers got an inside track on how some of these poker pros think. Marco Traniello, David Benyamine, Jennifer Tilly and Jennifer Harman were left in competition for the $120k prize, and in this hand everyone wanted a shot at it.



  Harman started things off with pocket nines:






... and raised it pre flop to $2k. David came along with:






... slow playing his pocket rockets. To their surprise Tilly came along as well from the small blind, holding:






... and big blind Marco called with:






... The flop hit:







... and both blinds checked their options to the pre flop raiser. Harman moved it up to $6k and David went into the tank. He thought how best to represent a hand that Harman could beat, and settled on a min raise to $12k. Harman didn't take a big pocket pair into her calculations and moved all in. David called. After he rolled over aces she asked how many times he had gotten pocket rockets this game. "About three," he replied. The turn was:





... and the river:





... and Harman was out of the running. Her $20k investment gone, it was now up to her husband, Marco Traniello, to try and win the winner take all jack pot of $120k, and keep the family honor intact.