Duhamel vs Affleck
World Series of Poker, Main Event, 2010. Fifteen players left.
Two of the last fifteen in 2010
The hand
Jonathan Duhamel and Matt Affleck. Blinds 120K / 240K, ante 30K.
Before the flop
- Blinds 120K and 240K. Affleck has the button.
- Duhamel raises to 550K.
- Affleck raises to 1.55M.
- Two other players fold.
Duhamel raises to 3.92M. Why
Duhamel. A button re-raise is often wide, and jacks are ahead of most of it. A four-bet takes the pot from the bluffs and builds it against the hands that call.
- Affleck calls.
The flop
- Duhamel checks.
- Affleck bets 5M.
Duhamel calls. Why
Duhamel. An overpair with a straight draw is too strong to fold to one bet, and calling keeps the pot from growing against aces, kings or queens.
The turn
- Duhamel checks.
- Affleck bets 11.6M and is all in.
- Duhamel calls. The famous decision
The river
The turn
The famous decision
Duhamel. After a four-bet and two bets, Affleck looks like aces, kings or queens, and jacks are behind all of them. But the pot is already huge, and the jacks have outs: an eight or a king makes a straight, and a jack makes a set.
Affleck had aces. The river eight made Duhamel a straight.
The result
Duhamel wins at the showdown with Straight, Queen high.
- DuhamelJ♥J♣Wins
- AffleckA♣A♠
Why it is famous
With 15 players left in the 2010 Main Event, Matt Affleck’s aces met Jonathan Duhamel’s jacks in a four-bet pot. Affleck moved all in on the turn, Duhamel called after a long think, and the river eight made him a straight. The pot made Duhamel the chip leader, and he went on to win the Main Event; Affleck went out in 15th for $500,165.
What to take from it
Behind or not, count your outs and the price: jacks with an open-ended straight draw still had a real chance against aces.
Sources
What the sources do not say. How many players sat at the table is not documented, so the antes in the pot are not either, and the pot is not shown. PokerNews puts the final pot at about 42 million. Only the two players in the hand are drawn; the others folded before the flop.
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