Antonio Esfandiari made his presence felt in a long-awaited return to Hustler On line casino Reside Friday evening.
“The Magician,” who’s now extra centered on elevating a household than enjoying poker, hadn’t appeared on the present since April 2022. It took little time for the poker legend to spin up his stack within the $100/$200 with a $200 massive blind ante no-limit maintain’em money recreation. However regardless of successful virtually $300,000, he was on the dropping finish of the most important hand of the six-hour session.
Poker Legend Flops Two Pair
Esfandiari, together with Hustler On line casino Reside proprietor Ryan Feldman, purchased in for $50,000. Solely Peter, identified for bringing the motion, began the sport with a bigger stack ($100,000).
4 hours into play, with Esfandiari up heaps, he performed a wild hand in opposition to Kennen, a leisure participant. The hand started with Feldman calling from the lowjack with 6♠3♠for $400 after which Francisco doing the identical on the button with 4♦3♥. Esfandiari then known as with A♠8♠within the massive blind earlier than Kennen, the straddle, raised to $5,000 with 5♦5♣.
No one apart from the Magician known as to see a flop of J♠8♥A♣. Esfandiari checked his aces-up earlier than calling a continuation guess of $3,000. The pot would escalate on the 5♥ flip, which gave Kennen a two-outer set.
Esfandiari would once more verify after which face a guess of $12,000. He wasn’t going to proceed slowplaying his two pair, so he went for a increase to $39,000. Kennen, sitting on $141,300 behind, made what gave the impression to be a min-raise earlier than Esfandiari snap-jammed all in having his opponent lined.
Kennen did not snap-call, which gave the three-time World Collection of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner a false sense of hope.
“That is a superb signal. How do you say, ‘good signal’ in Chinese language?” Esfandiari requested his opponent who did not snap-call with a set.
Kennen would finally make the decision and shocked Esfandiari upon turning over his playing cards. Each gamers agreed to run the river twice, neither of which modified the end result. Kennen scooped all the $323,700 pot.
Esfandiari had no purpose to imagine his two pair wasn’t good regardless of dealing with a three-bet. These identical gamers performed a monster pot lower than an hour earlier the place Kennen check-raised on the flip after which known as an all in shove with simply prime pair in opposition to Esfandiari’s flopped nut flush. It is probably Esfandiari recalled that hand when confidently jamming two pair in opposition to a re-raise.
The sport got here to an finish after 10 p.m. PT Friday evening with Esfandiari, who received a number of six-figure pots and dominated the desk, up $298,500 regardless of dropping the biggest pot of the evening. Feldman additionally crushed it with a $138,100 rating. Kennen used that massive pot to assist him e-book a $195,500 revenue, whereas Peter was ended the stream down just below $500,000.
