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WATCH: Jack-High Hero Call Goes Wrong on HCL

"Doc Hollywood" Was Bluffing With Pocket Fours, But Still Won The Pot


Hustler Casino Live is home to the biggest streamed cash games on the planet. This week, we saw one of the biggest tilt calls in history, with “Jack” making one of the lightest calls possible in a $146,500 pot.

Action

With a full ring and the players playing a $25-$50 ante game, “Doc Hollywood” limped with 4Spade Suit4Diamond Suit, as did “JBoogs” with KDiamond Suit3Heart Suit and Jack limped with JDiamond Suit6Diamond Suit. Then, “Luda Chris” raised from middle position to $900 with 8Spade Suit7Diamond Suit.

Victor called with JHeart Suit10Spade Suit from the hijack and “3Coin” called with ASpade Suit4Club Suit from the cutoff. “Doc Hollywood” called and “JBoogs” folded.

Then, Jack 3-bet to $5,500. Only “3Coin” folded and they went four ways to a massive flop with $23,050 already in the middle.

The flop came KClub Suit3Diamond Suit9Club Suit, which would have given JBoogs two pair. The board completely missed the four players involved in the pot. Victor’s jack-high gutshot straight draw was technically the favorite with a 32.4% chance to win, according to the Card Player Texas Hold’em Calculator.

Jack put out a $10,000 c-bet with nothing but double backdoors and Doc Hollywood made the call with naked pocket fours.

With $43,050 in the middle, the turn brought the 10Heart Suit and Doc Hollywood donk-jammed for $51,700. Somehow, with only a gutshot straight draw, Jack made the call.

Doc Hollywood asked if Jack wanted to run it twice but Jack insisted on running it once. The river was the 5Spade Suit, and Jack snap-mucked and exited extremely quickly.

The rest of the table was stunned and confused. They clearly thought that Jack had accidentally mucked the winner after Doc Hollywood turned over his fours.

Analysis

Tilt is the only reason “Jack” can call here.  Even if he specifically put “Doc Hollywood” on a naked flush draw, he’s still behind Doc’s ace, queen, and some jack-high draws.

He was up against a pair of fours, which is about as good as he could hope for. Even with that, “Jack” was only about 20% to win the hand with a gutshot, and two overcards.

Since “Jack” was calling $51,700 to win $146,450, he needs his equity to be more than 35.3%. But in most situations, “Jack” will be drawing to four outs most of the time, which only gives him 9.1% equity.