Soheb Porbandarwala Shoves the River to Bluff Balakrishna Patur Off a Better Hand

Balakrishna Patur (pbkreddy) limps from the button/small blind for 5,000,000 with , and Soheb Porbandarwala (MyCousinVinny5) checks his option in the big blind with .

The flop comes , and both players flop a pair. Porbandarwala checks, Patur bets 5.5 million, and Porbandarwala calls.

The turn card is the , and both players check.

The river card is the , and Patur’s pair of eights are ahead of Porbandarwala’s pair of sevens. Porbandarwala checks, Patur bets 11.0 million, and Porbandarwala check-raises all in for 305.4 million.

Patur thinks for about 20 seconds before he folds, and Porbandarwala takes the pot with the lower pair of sevens.

Soheb Porbandarwala  –  338.6 million  (68 bb)
Balakrishna Patur  –  56.4 million  (11 bb)

What Might Have Been: If Patur had called that shove on the river, he would have won the hand and doubled up to 99.7 million, good for 20 big blinds.