Pickering Goes All the Way with Big Slick
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Chris Ferguson is now in the game to the right of Jamie Pickering. He sat down with $200,000 and immediately found himself in a huge pot. Jamie Pickering opened with a raise to $3,500 that was called by Niki Jedlicka and small blind Tom Dwan. Ferguson then reraised to $20,300. Everyone called, putting $81,000 in the middle before the flop was out.
Dwan opened the action with a bet of $31,400. Ferguson peeked back at his cards and then mucked. That moved the action to Pickering, who asked for a count of the bet. He still seems the most nervous of all of the players at the table, but he steeled himself and called. Jedlicka folded, leaving Dwan and Pickering to battle it out on the turn
. Dwan tanked for a minute before betting $41,800."I've got no idea where I am," said Pickering. He mumbled a few other words to himself before double-checking the amount of the bet again and then calling.
The river came
. Dwan must have sensed that there was no way of moving Pickering off his hand; he checked. Pickering breathed a sigh of relief and checked behind."You've got it," said Dwan. "I have a deuce." Pickering showed down ace-king for the winner.
"I was going to have to call," said Pickering as he collected the pot. "I didn't want to. But I was going to have to." Both statements were as obvious as they were true.
It has not been a good day for Tom Dwan.