Many times in poker you don't have the best hand - but sometimes your opponent doesn't either. This results in playing the board, which means both players' pocket cards are all worse than the five cards on the board. During this round of the fourth NBC National Heads-Up Championship the feature table boasted a famous face: at least, to baseball fans. Orel Hershiser is to baseball what Doyle Brunson is to poker, and he was facing the infamous Freddy Deeb.
In this first hand between the pro baseball player and the pro poker player Orel started things off with a raise to $3,000 with:
... Freddy came along with:
... and it was time for the community cards. The flop hit:
... a nice four flusher for Orel and nothing for Freddy, who checked. Orel bet out with $5,000, continuing his bluff, and Freddy decided to show him up with a bluff raise of his own. He moved it up to $16,000, but Orel was not to be daunted, and he called. The turn hit:
... and this time both players checked. The river hit:
... and both players had nothing - they were both playing the board, which meant that if they checked it down they would chop the pot. Neither one wanted to do that. Freddy bet $18,000, representing something, and amazingly the amateur player Orel raised to $36,000. Freddy couldn't call that, and folded.
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