POTD #62 Probirs goes Fishing for a Piranha

At a SCOOP Bounty FT the Hunter becomes the Hunted.

On May 23rd, I did commentary on a SCOOP final table replay: SCOOP 62-H, $1,050 Bounty Builder SHR PKO. While the buyin was not the same dollar amount as some live SHRs, it was a very tough final table, with many excellent poker players who have been around high stakes tournaments (including SHRs) for a long time. It was a fun final table with a lot of action, but of all the hands I commented on, one struck me as the most interesting: a big three-bet pot between the two big stacks with three left. Probirs (Andras Nemeth) made a thin value shove in the hopes of collecting the bounty of Piranha_n1. There’s a lot of tournament, bounty, and just plain old vanilla cEV poker considerations in this hand. Given that much strategy talk around bounty tournaments revolves around how wide can a big stack call a preflop shove with, it was fun to do a deep dive on a postflop hand with bounty implications. I hope you enjoy reading about it.

The Hand: As viewed and commented by me on Twitch

SCOOP 62-H $1,050 Bounty Builder SHR PKO

Preflop: Piranha (61.9) makes it 2bbs OTB with A♣️A♦️, probirs (98.1) makes it 8bbs in the SB with A♥️9♥️, neverstandard (25.5) folds in the BB, Piranha calls.

Flop (17.4bbs) 7♣️6♠️2♦️: probirs checks: Piranha checks.

Turn (17.4bbs) 9♦️: probirs bets 12bbs, Piranha calls.

River (41.4bbs) Q♣️: probirs jams for Piranha’s final 41.9bbs, Piranha calls.