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A Hand Matchup From The 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event |
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Eric Buchman |
Win Pre-Flop | Win Post-Flop | Win Post-Turn | |
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Starting Stack: 23,800,000 
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54.92 % |
64.14 % |
6.82 % |
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Darvin Moon |
Win Pre-Flop | Win Post-Flop | Win Post-Turn | |
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Starting Stack: 50,825,000 
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44.56 % |
35.86 % |
93.18 % |
Winner! |
Posted On: Nov 11, 2009
Final table, four-handed, with the blinds at 500,000-1,000,000 with a 150,000 ante, Moon raised to 3,000,000 form the button, Buchman reraised all in from the small blind, Moon called.
Buchman was in last chip position at the start of this hand, with 23 big blinds to his stack. Although his kicker was marginal, he could reasonably expect his ace high to play well against Moon’s button raise in this short-handed game. Rather than play his weak ace out of position post-flop by smooth-calling, Buchman used his stack and fold equity to end the hand preflop by moving all in. His raise involved approximately 40 percent of Moon’s remaining stack. Moon made a curious, gambling call, unnecessarily risking his comfortable chip position in second place (Antoine Saout held the lead with 80 million at this point). Moon picked up an ominous gutshot-straight draw to accompany his outs to holecards on the flop. Buchman could only watch in dismay as Moon caught his king on the turn, leaving Buchman drawing thin heading to the river. Buchman missed his ace, but earned $2,502,787 for his fourth-place finish.
