The Lodge Card Membership in Texas hosted their Tremendous September poker match over the weekend, drawing a discipline of 117 to narrowly surpass the $100,000 assure.
Ultimately, the title predictably went to one of many higher gamers within the discipline in poker professional Andrew Moreno, who scooped the ultimate pot of the match.
However though the $30,544 first-place prize is nowhere close to the career-high of $1.46 million he banked for taking down the Wynn Tens of millions in 2021 and a small fraction of his $4.7 million in profession winnings, it was how he earned the trophy that made poker followers watching on the livestream take discover.
After overcoming an preliminary 4:1 chip deficit getting into heads-up play, Moreno had battled again to nearly even stacks in opposition to opponent Collin Rountree.
Moreno raised the button to 100,000 with Q J, and Rountree referred to as from the massive blind. The flop fell 10 6 4, and Rountree checked. Moreno wager 180,000, and Rountree check-raised to 530,000.
Moreno referred to as, and each gamers checked the 4 on the flip. The river was the Okay and Rountree moved all in, having Moreno’s last 1,600,000 lined by simply 200,000.
Watch the complete hand under.
CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS HAND?!?!?!?!@Amo4sho has Queen-high and faces an overbet all-in heads up for his match life!!!
Can he make the insane name and put himself in nice place to win $30,544!?!?! pic.twitter.com/2Bpw1vQ03r
— Lodge Card Membership (@LodgePokerClub) September 8, 2024
Moreno talked by a couple of doable combos (busted straight attracts) that his hand might beat, however finally got here to a comparatively fast determination to name off his stack with simply queen excessive.
His learn was certainly right, as Rountree might solely desk J 3 for jack excessive. Rountree was left with only some large blinds, and Moreno completed out the match shortly thereafter. Rountree was awarded $19,829 because the runner up.
Moreno picked up his first win in his new yard, having moved to Austin lately after beforehand splitting time between San Diego and Las Vegas. With the livestream on a delay, he even had sufficient time to bluff his spouse, former poker journalist Kristy Arnett, as soon as he obtained residence.
I used to be cooking with the stream on the television, which was on a 30-minute delay. Andrew walked by the door. I used to be stunned, pondering he’d textual content me first. He shook his head and mentioned, “i attempted. It is all good.” I smiled, and mentioned good recreation, barely suspicious. However then he picked up… https://t.co/KPQKhTFDVB
— Kristy Arnett Moreno (@KristyArnett) September 9, 2024
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