The most critical hand of the FT

[jogsxyz]

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Hand #9 - Jerry Yang Takes an 11.63 Million Pot

Hand #9 - Hevad 'Rain' Khan has the button in seat 9, Lee Childs raises under the gun to 720,000, Jerry Yang reraises from early position to 2.5 million, and Childs calls. There is already 5.63 million in the pot.

The flop comes {7-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}, Childs bets 3 million, and Yang immediately moves all in. Childs stands up and turns around with his back to the table while he thinks. He clearly wasn't expecting Yang to push.

Jerry Yang has about 770,000 more in chips than Childs, so Childs would be calling with his tournament life at stake. Childs sits back down to the table as he thinks for about three minutes.

Childs eventually folds, showing pocket queens. Jerry Yang takes the pot worth 11.63 million.

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Would you fold the queens? This is hand #9. Childs doesn't know how Yang is playing. If Childs calls and Yang doesn't have aces, kings or a set, Yang would probably be crippled. There would be a different champion.

[DrewDevil]

I would call with the QQ and that board, but I'm not very good at poker.

[jogsxyz]

Last year ESPN started showing the Main Event as soon as it ended. With luck we will see Yang's hole cards in 3 or 4 weeks.

[Bill Murphy]

Ugly spot for Childs; he obvo put Yang on AKo (which I guess he still could have, based on what we found out about him later on).

There wasn't a huge diff btwn 7th & 9th payouts; you've committed almost a third of your stack; but God it's looks bad.

I'll give Yang credit for A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] & cry-gambool w/the 2-1 pot odds. Always put 'em on something you can beat and then call, like they said back in the RGP days. But, IPB.

I can't blame anyone who folds, but f'crissakes don't fold faceup.

[gisb0rne]

I wouldn't be surprised if Childs is crushed. I don't think Yang ever bluff raised.

[GotQuads]

Was it a good idea though to call the reraise OOP and then fold a pretty good flop?

[FireStorm]

When this comes on the holecard televised version, be prepared for a possible uproar. If Yang overplayed 99/TT/AcJc here, you can conceivably entertain the notion that the entire order of finish would be upside down from what it was. Yang finishes 8th or 9th and same for Kravchenko as he would not have Yang to double him up three times.

[GotQuads]

It's close, against JJ+,AcKc we're 63/37 postflop. Whether JJ is in his 3-bet range I don't know of course. If we put him on a wider range, obv it becomes an instacall.

[Berlino]

I expected to open this thread and find out what he had based on a post-tournament interview.

Did no one directly ask Yang what he had versus Childs' QQ after the tournament?

[elliot]

this is such an easy fold oop its not even funny.