In our Poker Hand of the Week we analyze a huge pot from the 24-hour Hustler Casino Live high stakes cash game stream, where Alan Keating gets maximum value with Pocket Aces from Santosh.
Poker Hand of the Week Setup
This hand was played on the first-ever 24-hour Hustler Casino Live high stakes cash game stream, which featured Alan Keating, Nik Airball Santosh Suvarna, Charles and Andy Stacks among others.
The blinds are $1,000/$,1000 with a $1,000 big blinds ante. They are pretty deep with effective stack size being 239 big blinds and Santsh got Alan Keating covered.
Poker Hand of the Week Action
Preflop:
It folds around to Santhosh Suvarna in the big blinds, who calls with 9♦7♥. Alan Keating wakes up with A♥A♦ in the straddle and makes a large raise to $12,000. Santosh calls. Pot Size: $24,900
Flop:
Heads-up to an interesting flop of 8♦7♦3♥ giving Santosh middle pair and a backdoor straight and flush draw. He checks, Keating bets $15,000 and Suvarna calls. Pot Size: $54,900
Turn:
On the 10♠ turn Santosh picks up an Open-Ended Straight Draw to go alongside his pair. He checks again and Alan bets $35,000, which Santosh check-calls. Pot Size: $124,900
River:
The board pairs on the 8♥ river and Suvarna checks for a third time. Keating bets a sizeable $95,000 and Santosh makes the call to see the bad news.
Alan Keating gets maximum value with his Pocket Aces and wins a huge $314,900 pot.
Poker Hand of the Week Analysis
Very interesting hand. Let’s go through it step by step.
Preflop Santosh decides to limp 9d7h big blind vs straddle, which is the same as blind vs blind. Keating then makes a very large 6.66x raise.
Out of position against an aggressive player like Keating, who barrels a lot, this is an easy fold, but Santosh makes the call.
The flop comes 8d7d3h and Suvarna flops middle pair with several backdoor opportunities and now can’t fold to a cbet, so he check-calls the $15,000 continuation bet.
The 10s on the turn is a very interesting card as the board gets even more dangerous by completig some straight draws with 96 or J9 and also brings a potential Two Pair with 108 or 107.
Suvarna checks and Alan now has two options: Controlling the size of the pot by checking behind and going for value.
Keating wouldn’t be Keating with a check. and he fires a second barrel of 64% pot.
Santosh has picked up an OESD and a lot of equity and understandably check-calls.
The board pairs on the 8h river and Suvarna checks for a third time. Alan Keating decides to go for max value with a sizeable value bet of 76% pot size.
As played Santosh Suvarna now actually has a very easy fold as he can’t beat nowhere near enough value hands Keating has in this spot such as an Eight, any overpair plus 88,99 and 1010.
However, all obvious draws such as a flush draw and an open-ender with a nine busted and Santosh knows that Keating is capable of bluffing here, so he levels himself into a bad call.
Poker Hand of the Week Conclusion
This hand is a great example, why loose-aggressive opponents often get paid off when they have the goods.
Alan Keating’s loose image perceives him and he has been caught bluffing before, so even tough Santosh only beats a busted flush draw and a hand like A9 or K9, while losing to Alan’s entire value range, he ends up making the call.
The biggest mistake Santosh made in this hand was however calling a huge 6.66x 3-bet preflop out of position against a very aggressive opponent.
Simply by folding he would have lost only $1,800 instead of the maximum, in this case a whopping $157,450.
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