Wrong Side of a Cooler for Reard
Level 19
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
After a lot of raising back-and-forth, Alexandre Reard's stack of 550,000 got into the middle from the button, with Matas Cimbolas trying to send him home from the big blind.
Alexandre Reard: K♥K♣
Matas Cimbolas: A♥A♣
It was poker's classic preflop cooler, with Reard on the wrong end of it.
The clean 4♦4♥6♠10♦2♥ runout was exactly what Cimbolas wanted for his pocket rockets, sending his stack soaring past a million and Reard to the rail.