How many poker players in the online world know what it means to run the river more than once? Older gamblers, poker players who play plenty of live cash games in the casinos, and a few of the more intense online poker players probably know, and thanks to the Game Show Network's High Stakes Poker show, more and more players are learning.
The High Stakes Poker show is a great idea - open a table for a cash game in the studio, invite all the big pros to play, and set the buy in at $100k. This is a cash game, so they are actually betting $20k of real money when they say "raise to $20k." That alone makes it exciting, but with hands like this one between Jamie Gold and Patrik Antonius, it is educational as well.
In the hand, played during a $500k buy in game, Patrik raised with As and Jd, Jamie had pocket kings and reraised and got a call. On the flop more money went in, and by the turn Gold had top set and Antonius had an ace high straight, which was the nuts at the time. All the money went into the pot this time, and there was $743,800 in the pot. The players decided to "run the river" 3 times: this meant that three river cards were dealt, resulting in three different hands, and one third of the pot was up for grabs each time. This way, even though Antonius was likely to win the whole thing without this deal, if he got unluky once or twice he still held on to some cash.
In the end Gold did get lucky twice, catching a full house each time, and he went from definitely losing all his money to only losing a third of it.
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