Hands #49-51: They Build a Pot Worth 29 Million, Only to Chop It

Dec 20, 2022

Benny Glaser vs. Eliot Hudon
Photo:  Benny Glaser (left) and Eliot Hudon (right)

HAND #49  –  Eliot Hudon completes the small blind to 2,000,000 with Diamond 6Heart 4, and Benny Glaser checks his option with Club JDiamond 8. The flop comes Spade KSpade 5Heart 2, Glaser checks, Hudon bets 2,000,000, and Glaser folds. Hudon takes the pot.


HAND #50  –  Benny Glaser raises from the small blind to 4,000,000 with Diamond KClub 10, and Eliot Hudon calls from the big blind with Heart JDiamond 5. The flop comes Spade AHeart 8Club 2, Hudon checks, Glaser bets 2,000,000, and Hudon folds. Glaser takes the pot.


HAND #51  –  Eliot Hudon Eliot Hudon completes the small blind to 2,000,000 with Club AClub 2, and Benny Glaser checks his option with Heart ADiamond 7. The flop comes Diamond AHeart JSpade 9, Glaser checks, Hudon bets 2,000,000, and Glaser check-raises to 6,500,000. Hudon thinks for a while before he calls.

The turn card is the Club Q, Glaser checks, Hudon bets 5,000,000, and Glaser calls.

The river card is the Club J, and both players check. Glaser shows his Club AClub 2 and Hudon turns over his Heart ADiamond 7, and both players make two pair, aces and jacks with a queen kicker.

It’s a chopped pot.

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