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Poker Stars Sunday Million Cooler Hand - 07-16-07
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Author: Marc Weinberg
 July 16 - South African poker players that I know and like, men I've played against successfully, are rising to the top of the international scene in Las Vegas. I couldn't be happier and more pissed off at the same time.
Ryan Brauer won a Bellagio Cup event and now Raymond Rahme (now delightfully referred to as "Ray" by the WSOP bloggers) is one of the final 15 players left in the 2007 WSOP Main Event. It would be a wonderful achievement if he could win, or at least make it to the final table so that the world could hear the SA chanting from the crowd.
Meanwhile, I was getting the cooler hand of a lifetime in the phenomenal online poker tournament held every Sunday on Poker Stars. The Sunday Million was oversubscribed as usual so that 7050+ players were playing for more than $1.4 million. Everything was going well as I had made it to the final 1000 players with no fuss and many chips in hand.
Then came the following hand:
I was on the button and dealt AA. There were three limpers and I put in a pretty big raise, about 4.5x the big blind. Two of the limpers called and three of us saw the flop.
Flop comes A - 3 - J rainbow.
They both checked to me and I decided to check as well. Turn was a 2, and now there were two spades on the board.
First player bets out, second player raises. I re-raise. First player goes all-in, second player also goes all-in and naturally I call.
First player has 3-3 for middle set (is that even a term???) and he was slow playing as well, how clever. Second player has 2-2 for bottom set. He caught up on the turn, in his mind anyway, and is still running a distant third. And I have AA for top set, hoorah!
The river is a 3.
So the first player made quad 3s to knock out TWO full houses, including my Aces full. That, my friends, is a cooler hand.
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