Bahram Chobineh Makes a Big Fold

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Level 20 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

A hand that left the rest of the table flabbergasted just played out between Bahram Chobineh and Carlo De Benedittis. From under-the-gun Chobineh limped, De Benedittis raised to 23,000 only for Chobineh to limp re-raise to 47,000 total. His limp re-raise was met by an instant all-in from De Benedittis.

Back on Chobineh he asjked for a count, De Benedittis was all-in for 363,000 and he covered Chobineh, who had 260,000 back. The Iranian tanked for over three minutes before folding face-up. "Wow," exclaimed the table, even more so when De Benedittis showed .

Hand Analysis

After considering De Benedittis's possible holdings after such a sequence of bets and raises, Chobineh was able to fold his pocket queens. Read more about this hand and the idea of narrowing an opponent's range on Learn.PokerNews in "Lessons from EPT10 Deauville: Using Perceived Range to Find a Fold."