Every once in a while at the tables both players see a card on the river and are privately overjoyed. Each player thinks they’ve just struck gold, but one is always wrong. That was the case just now on table 81, in a battle between Michael Wang and Andrew Noce.
We joined this table late in the action, with the board showing the following cards:
The pot had approximately 35K chips in it, and Andrew was utg. With the bb at 1K, he bet 16K. Michael studied the board for a solid minute, and raised all in. Andrew called.
Andrew: 
Michael: 
So while Andrew had an open-ended straight draw since the turn, the 8 on the river was a poison pill, giving him trip 8s. Unfortunately for Andrew, the river card made Michael’s gut-shot straight, giving him the nuts. Michael doubled up his (approximately) 90K chips, leaving Andrew with precious little to work with for the rest of the night.
