Esfandiari vs Trickett
Big One for One Drop, 2012. The final hand.
Heads-up for One Drop’s top prize
The hand
Antonio Esfandiari and Sam Trickett. Blinds 400K / 800K, ante 100K.
Before the flop
- Blinds 400K and 800K. Esfandiari has the button.
- Esfandiari raises to 1.7M.
- Trickett calls.
The flop
- Trickett checks.
- Esfandiari bets 2.02M.
Trickett raises to 5.4M. Why
Trickett. A flush draw on a paired board is a good hand to raise with: it can take the pot from the button’s wide bets, and it has outs when called.
- Esfandiari raises to 10M.
- Trickett raises to 15M. The famous decision
- Esfandiari moves all in.
Trickett calls all in. Why
Trickett. With this much in the pot, the draw and the queen are enough to call, even behind trips.
Esfandiari had trip fives. No diamond came.
The turn
The river
The flop
The famous decision
Trickett. A small four-bet keeps the pressure on a bluff and keeps the draw in the hand. But a player who re-raises a check-raise on a paired board often has a five, and then every chip put in is behind until a diamond comes.
The result
Esfandiari wins at the showdown with Three of a kind, Fives.
- Esfandiari7♦5♠Wins
- TrickettQ♦6♦
Why it is famous
The final hand of the 2012 Big One for One Drop, a $1,000,000 buy-in event. Sam Trickett’s flush draw and Antonio Esfandiari’s trip fives went back and forth in a raising war on the flop until Esfandiari moved all in and Trickett called. The turn and river missed, and Esfandiari won a first prize of $18,346,673.
What to take from it
A flush draw is a good hand to raise with, but each re-raise against it makes a made hand more likely.
Sources
What the sources do not say. The stacks, 37,400,000 for Trickett and 106,570,000 for Esfandiari, are CardPlayer’s hand matchup’s; PokerNews has Trickett calling off 35.6 million, which agrees.
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