Selbst Benefits from "Best Situation in Poker"
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Watch out, Main Event players. Vanessa Selbst is building a stack, and that usually means lots of trouble for her opponents. Selbst opened the pot to 1,800 from middle position and was re-raised by a late position player to 7,200. When action passed back to Selbst, she put in a third raise to 20,200. Her opponent then five-bet almost all in, for about 60,000 total. Selbst jammed, the opponent called, and we came to the reveal.
Selbst: 
Opponent: 
Selbst's opponent did pair kings on a flop of 
, but nothing further changed from there. The turn and river were uneventful 
and 
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As Selbst dragged the pot, she looked up to see a woman who had just joined the rail. "You're the luckiest," said Selbst. "I just got aces into ace-king. That's like the best situation in poker."
A third player remarked that he also had ace-king. "You had ace-king too?" said Selbst. "You have have gone all in too." She stacked up about 205,000 in chips and then went over to chat with her railbird for a few moments.