One of the bonuses of being allowed inside the rail is that you can peek at poker legends’ holecards as they see them. I was standing behind the biggest legend of them all, Doyle Brunson, and saw him squeeze out a pair of Jacks. Here we go!

Then it all got a bit strange. The UTG player raised to 4k (blinds at 200/400 remember!), was called by a shortstack, and then Michael Finn re-shoved for about 10k more! So over to Doyle who is in a horrible spot. He chuckles to himself and wisely folds the Jacks as UTG calls.

The hands?

UTG: As Kd

Shortstack: Ad Qs (ouch!)

Finn: QQ

Ironically the board came down 7 8 9 10 2 so Doyle would have made the straight! As it was Finn’s hand held up and he won a healthy pot. Doyle is doing well though, even without handing out bad beats, with a 45k chip count.

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