A Tale at Table #572

Claudio Elizalde

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

This hand was relayed to PokerNews collectively by Table #572:

Five ways to a flop, in what was somehow a three-bet pot, all players saw a board of 3x4?5?. It checked to Art Peacock, who had cold-called preflop, and he went all in for about 130,000, well over betting the pot. Jesus Martinez called for less and all the players in between folded.

Martinez was ahead of Peacock's air with his pair of fives and wheel draw, but they both had a good laugh when the 6?, and 2? rolled off the deck to put a straight on the board, causing them to chop.

Two of the players who folded the flop bemoaned the situation, as one of them would have turned the second nut flush, and the other would have rivered the nut flush but they were priced out by the action.