The Final Table Of The Million Dollar One Drop Featured One Of The Biggest Hands In TV Poker History

Holy. Shit.

This hand is sick for any situation, nevermind the biggest tournament of the year with $10 million for first place. There is so much going on, from the ace being exposed, to the 8 million dollar difference between 5th and 1st. Fedor seeing the ace and knowing Kaverman would shove most aces preflop allowed him to be certain enough that they were blocking each other, letting him eventually call with his Tens. And then what happened?

BOOOOM.

Rick Salomon jumped to a huge lead, flopping top two and taking command of the hand. It gave him an 84% to win the hand, with Fedor and Kaverman way behind.

But since poker is poker, nothing is that easy. The turn….

Of course it’s the queen of clubs. Now Fedor had additional outs to a straight, and Byron had the nut flush draw, as long as the river wasn’t the king of clubs because that’d give Salomon the full house.

The river though…..

Unbelievable. The young prince Fedor Holz does it again. Scored the double knock out to vault to a huge chip lead.

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And that’s just where the fun got started, because it became the Justin Bonomo show from there on out. He maneuvered his way through 3 handed play, eventually facing Fedor heads up where he played this hand perfectly and later secured the win.

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Bonomo is on perhaps the sickest run in tournament poker history. Here are the results from his last 12 tournaments:

Absolutely bananas.

Ah fuck it, let’s rewind a little more and take a look at more of this ridiculous run:

What a life where a $4.8 million score isn’t even close to your biggest score of the year. Not even his 2nd biggest cash of the summer! Bonomo might be a robot, programmed to win high stakes poker tournaments, and

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And thus ends another great Summer of poker. People seem to enjoy poker blogs, so I’ll continue to cover cool shit year-round. Things like this:

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Casual $5k/10k game. Ho hum, ho hum.