Live Poker is So Rigged!

We just had an "internet" hand over at Blue #31. In late position, Daniel Buzgon opened the pot for 25,000. Keoni Schwartz made it 60,000 to go from the cutoff, a bet that Mark Vos called out of the small blind. Action folded back to Buzgon, who moved all in for 333,000. This time, Schwartz just called. With nobody else left to act in the hand, Vos open-mucked pocket queens. The table raised eyebrows as the other hands were opened:

Buzgon: {K-Clubs}

Schwartz:

The flop came down {9-Diamonds}

to make a set of kings for Buzgon and to give him the lead in the hand. The turn {Q-Hearts}

would have made a set for Vos, and also gave Schwartz the nut flush draw. Buzgon filled up when the river fell {9-Clubs}

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Vos realized after the hand that, because of the stack sizes, he could have picked up quite a few chips from Schwartz if he had gotten involved in the hand. Instead, he dropped a little bit, Buzgon moved up to 725,000, and Schwartz dropped to 631,000.

After the hand was completed, in a gesture of fraternity, Schwartz offered to do a shot with the Buzgon, the man who cracked his aces. The two settled on a vodka shot. It probably didn't hurt that the dinner break was just a few minutes away.