Part4: The best calls of the WSOP

• Author: Andrew
• Filed under: Allen Cunningham, High Stakes News, Jamie Gold, Kenny Tran, Poker, WSOP Articles
• Date: Jul 14,2008

Kenny is extraordinary!

It’s the fifth day of the main event in 2007, there are only around 60 players that remain, all playing to win the most important tournament of the year, amongst them Roy Winston (3,200,000 chips) and Kenny Tran (1,800,000 chips).

The blinds are at 15,000/30,000 and Roy Winston raises to 100,000 from the small blind with As10c, Kenny calls the raise with Ad8s.

The flop comes 783, all hearts, giving a possible flush draw, but neither player has a heart in their hand.

Winston fires a 150,000 continuation bet, called by Kenny Tran with top pair top kicker. The turn is the 2 of hearts, putting 4 hearts on the board, Roy fires another bet of 350,000. Sure that his opponent is bluffing Kenny calls again. The river brings the meaningless 2 of diamonds and Roy fires a 3rd bullet of 700,000.

Tran listens to his instinct and puts half of his stack into the pot with only his pair of 8s on a board containing 4 hearts!!!

His opponent shows his bluff and Kenny Tran gets up from his seat and declares that the call was without doubt the best in the history of poker.

Play the player and not the cards…

It’s the final table of the WSOP main event in 2007, the richest tournament in poker history, with the winner taking home a cool $12,000,000. Ever since Jamie Gold took the chip lead he had been completely dominating the tournament holding the chip lead throughout all the later stages of the tournament.

Despite the great pressure Allen Cunningham showed us his fantastic reading skills in calling down a massive bluff from Jamie Gold.

Under the gun, with the blinds at 120,000/240,000 Jamie raises to 800,000, Allen calls him with Ah9d. The flop comes 8h3d8d and Cunningham check/calls a 1,000,000 bet from Jamie. The turn is the 2 of clubs and, surprisingly, Jamie checks and Allen also checks behind him.

The river card was the Qs and Jamie fires a final bullet of 2,000,000 chips, Allen thinks for a while before calling with ace high! Jamie throws his cards in the muck and felicitated his opponent on his good read.