Just finished watching the last episode of HSP season 3. There were several great hands, but one in particular had me a bit confused. Brian Townsend raises preflop to about $2400 with AQo and Patrick Antonius, who appears to have position, re-pops it to $6600 so it's about 4200 more to call. Townsend asks Antonius how much he has behind him, which turns out to be aroudn $500k, and Brian has him covered. Townsend, after much deliberation decided to fold. Now given Antonius's loose image (he had 96h in this hand), i really don't see a fold here. Now i'm assuming the reasons for this are that Brian would be OOP after the flop, if he does hit the A or Q he feels that he won't get paid and there is a chance that Antonius has him dominated with AK/QQ-AA. However, looking at it another way, it's also just as likely that he could have Antonius dominated with a hand like AJ, Ax, KQ, QJ, etc. Sure, nobody wants to play Antonius out of position, but still... your thoughts?

EdmondDantes says

What's Brian holding? Can you find the video on YouTube or PokerTube and post it?

04/11/07

lakong says

He held AQ. Sorry I didn't include this. Just added it.

04/11/07

Anonymous says

I thought it was an unusual fold too given the situation.

04/12/07

Landlord79 says

It's a reasonable laydown. AQ is a trap hand and can lose you a big pot due to kicker trouble. Due to the image of Antonius you could vote for a call here, but I personnally don't like the hand when I am calling 3 bets.

04/12/07

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