Win-Win For Kanaan
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One of the good things about traveling to great poker destinations like Queenstown is that putting all of your chips in the middle becomes a win-win situation. You either double your chips in the tournament or you get to go outside and enjoy all the thrills of the town.
That’s a coinflip situation that doesn’t happen too often in poker.
It means that sometimes players are prepared to gamble in a spot that they might otherwise let go. Previous ANZPT Sydney champion Michael Kanaan just gave us the perfect example.
With a raise to 450 from the big stack of Lithuanian Laurynas Levinskas in front, Kanaan was next to speak and three-bet to 1,025. Levinskas came back with a four-bet to 2,150 to which Kanaan decided to five-bet jam all in with a wave of his arms. Levinskas didn’t wait for a count as he quickly called an opened 
.
“Is that all?” replied Kanaan as he tabled a dominated 
.
Kanaan packed up his headphones and was ready to head out into the cool air of Queenstown, but the poker Gods decided he wasn’t done just yet as the board rolled off 
to give Kanaan kings and jacks to take down the pot and more than double his stack of 16,875.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,000 |