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Poker After Dark - Antonius Wins $120,000

By launchpoker, Jun 26, 2008

  The director's cut of Poker After Dark is always interesting, because they cut out the slow hands and leave in the instrumental ones. During International Week players like Daniel Negreanu, Marco Traniello, and Gus Hansen from Canada, Italy, and Holland had all busted out leaving just two players. At the table there were Brad "Yukon" Booth and Patrik Antonius, both vying for the $120,000 cash prize that goes to the first-place player. Second-place pays nothing.



  This was the hand right after Brad passed Patrik the chip lead by making a bad call on the river. In this hand Brad limped in with a great hand of:






... and Patrik checked holding:






... The flop came down:







... and it looked like that would be all for Patrik. He checked and Brad bet $1200. Patrik, thinking Brad had a Queen, raised it to $4500. Brad wasn't about to fold and he raised it again, this time making it $10500. This only pushed Patrick to move all in, which Brad quickly called. When the turn came:





... it made Brad nervous, but for the most part he felt like he was going to at the very least chop the pot, and hopefully win and double up. Instead the worst card possible hit on the river:





... This gave Patrik the full boat and the win, and the $120,000.