06-13-2008 21:56 UTC-7

The Best Hand Sucks Out

[user66118]

Hold'em -

Lennart Holtkamp came into the pot raising to 5,500. Action folded around to Daniel Martin in the small blind, and he reraised to 19,500. Holtkamp went into the tank for a couple minutes and asked for a count of Martin's stack. When he received the final tally, he moved all in, and Martin made the call for his tournament life.

Holtkamp tabled {Q-Diamonds}

{Q-Diamonds}

{Q-Clubs}

, and Martin was in trouble, at risk of elimination holding {6-Diamonds}

{6-Diamonds}

{6-Spades}

.

The flop was just what Doctor Martin ordered though. It came {6-Clubs}

{6-Clubs}

{7-Spades}

{K-Diamonds}

, vaulting him into the lead with a set of sixes. The turn was a harmless {8-Hearts}

{8-Hearts}

. The river, though, was disastrous once more. The {Q-Hearts}

{Q-Hearts}

fell, making Holtkamp the bigger set, and knocking Martin out on a classic suckout-resuckout.

After spiking his set on the river, Holtkamp sends a player home, and ups his chip count to a comfortable 130,000.