Beam(an) Me Up Scotty

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Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

We just watched a massive hand go down involving four players who each held pocket pairs. Here's the postmortem:

Acting from UTG+1, Terry Beaman made his stand with an open-shove for 21,000, and when the action moved to Izzet Temel in middle position, he made it 45,000 to go for the isolation play.

The action then moved to the blinds, which is where the fireworks really began. The small blind player held about 165,000 and he decided to shove all in as well. Undeterred, the big blind made the same move, and his last 67,000 went into the pot as well.

These reraises from the blinds meant Temel would now have to commit a large chunk of his 410,000 stack to continue, and after tanking for about one minute, he elected to muck his face up.

That left the other three players to showdown, with Beaman producing the , the small blind big stack shover tabling , and the big blind revealing .

The flop rained down - much to Temel's dismay, as he would have flopped a set of nines to bust all three opponents and claim the chip lead. Nonetheless, Beaman's kings had held through the flop, but the turn came to make things even more interesting. The small blind's pair of sevens had just added a slew of outs to the heart flush, and he pleaded for a heart to drop on the river.

Fifth street came though, leaving the short-stack shover with a pure quadruple up, and the big blind's tens prevailing for a double through his neighbor to the right.

Temel, for his part, was a good sport and he commented on the fact that his laydown was correct. Although, his rueful grin suggested he would be thinking about that flop for a little while longer.