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Poker players often talk about being dealt a "cooler". We think the term gets over-applied, but surely kings into aces is a cooler. That's what happened to Dixon Ruecker. He raised from early position to 17,000. Action passed to Barny Boatman in the cutoff seat, who added another 30,000 chips on top. Boatman had 143,000 left behind, so when it was again Ruecker's turn to act he shoved for more than half a million with his . Boatman snap-called with . He spiked an unnecessary ace on the river of a board that came out .
Ruecker was on a massive upswing, but that loss moved him back to 432,000. Boatman is now on 279,000.
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. Boatman snap-called with 
. He spiked an unnecessary ace on the river of a board that came out 
.