Bauer Earns a Knockout
Level 6
: Blinds 400/800, 800 ante
Xiaoqiong Liu raised to 2,000 and a short stack then jammed out of the hijack. Gregory Bauer on the button sighed and then also moved all-in with a near identical stack, all players behind including Liu folded.
Hijack: 9♣9♦
Gregory Bauer: Q♥Q♦
The superior pair held on the 8♣6♦2♣A♥A♠ runout and Bauer climbed back near the starting stack after covering his opponent by a mere 300 chips.
Bauer then explained in table chat that Lou Esposito had previously folded an overpair top him when he had a full house as he "made it a little too easy" for his opponent to get away from it before essentially losing every pot thereafter.