Hands #196-198: Konstantin Held Takes Lead; Joshua Mccully Doubles After

Jan 29, 2024

Hand #196: Joshua Mccully raises to 900,000 and Konstantin Held three-bets to 2,200,000, Mccully four-bets to 4,900,000 and Held calls. On the Heart QClub 10Club 8 flop, both players check.

Held leads the Heart 5 turn for 3,000,000 to earn a call by Mccully, who jokes “beware of some cards”. Held then jams the Spade 10 river. Mccully sigh-folds the Diamond AClub J and Held cannot stop giggling.

The German flashes his Heart ADiamond J for what would have been a chop.

Hand #197: Held raises to 2,000,000 on the button and Mccully three-bets to 4,200,000, his opponent calls. On a flop of Heart QDiamond QDiamond 2, Mccully continues for 1,600,000 and he then calls a min-raise by Held.

The Heart 4 follows on the turn and Mccully folds his Spade ADiamond K to a bet of 2,000,000, as Held exposes only the Club 4. “I actually had pocket fours,” Held says … then jokes “no, I did not”.

Hand #198: Mccully moves all-in from the button and Held calls.

Joshua Mccully: Heart KClub 5
Konstantin Held: Spade ADiamond 4

The board runs out Diamond 7Heart 2Spade 2Club KDiamond Q and Mccully doubles for 5,400,000.

Joshua Mccully – 11,200,000 (28 bb)
Konstantin Held – 26,800,000 (67 bb)

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