This Bonkers Hand Won A Pro Player $700,000 Off Two Poker Legends


Poker is a cruel game, especially when you’re playing against a bunch of pros. You might think your cards put you in a great position before you ever see the flop, but oftentimes luck comes to some more equally than others.

This brutal hand, for example, cost two poker pros about $700,000. Daniel Negrenau, Antonio Esfandiari and Tom Dwan each had pocket pairs in this Poker After Dark hand, and they all bet big. Dwan went all-in with a pair of aces, while Esfandiari eventually called him with a pair of kings.

Negranau, meanwhile, had a big decision to make with a pair of queens.

“Oh my gosh,” Negranau said. “I was going to probably fold this anyway but now it makes it much easier to fold.”

Folding was the right call. He was thrilled when he found out KK and AA were staring back at him. The other players at the table marveled at the pocket cards everyone had. Dwan and Esfandiari decided to run the hands twice, which means they would split the pot in two and see what their cards would do with two different set of house cards.

Unfortunately for Esfandiari he couldn’t find a partner for his kings in either hand, and Dwan survived going all-in to the tune of picking up $700,000 in cash.

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