Related to our post yesterday, you can see an example of a resteal attempt gone wrong @ the final table of the 2007 WSOP. This hand featured a battle in the blinds with SB – Jerry Yang and BB-Lee Watkinson:
Yang raised to 1.5mil with A/9o. He had been the most active player at the table by far, and had a dominating chip lead. Watkinson with A/7o decided he wasn’t going to get run over by the chip leader and thought this was a good spot to steal so he reraised allin for about 8.5mil more.
Under the discussion of restealing from yesterday a good point was made about attempting resteals against very large/very small stacks as they have a higher likelihood of calling because ‘they can/need to gamble’. Read the rest of this entry »
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. Obrestad bets 250,000, Tabatabai raises to 750,000, Obrestad moves all in and Tabatabai calls. Tabatabai shows 
for two pair, but Obrestad has top set with 
. The turn is the 
, and Tabatabai is drawing dead. The river is the 
. Jack Effel pauses play to count down the stacks to see if Tabatabai is covered by Obrestad. She does, and Annette Obrestad wins the 2007 WSOPE Main Event, earning £ 1,000,000! John Tabatabai is our runner-up and will take home £ 570,150.
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