Brown’s Game Mix-Up Causes Calamity on #64; Stavrakis Literally Flips a Coin

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Gabriel Ramos opened to 4,000 from under the gun, before Tyler Brown made it 14,500 from the hijack, and had 5,500 behind. Filippos Stavrakis four-bet to 30,000 from the cutoff. The button and small blind folded and then Christopher Vitch made potted it to 109,200.

Ramos went deep into the tank, and after a few minutes — and a clock being called — he eventually folded.

Brown put in his last few chips, with Stavrakis then finding himself in the blender. He thought for several minutes, before calling, which left him with around 98,000 behind.

Vitch jammed on the J♦J♣7♠ flop, and Stavrakis found himself again in another tough spot. He thought for several minutes more, and decided his fate rested on the flip of a coin. He asked if anyone at the table had one, and Eric Garma reached into his wallet to hand one over.

He flicked it onto the table, and then folded.

Vitch and Brown tabled their cards.

Tyler Brown: 9♣6♥4♠4♣3♠ All in
Christopher Vitch: A♠A♣8♥5♦2♥

At this point, Brown admitted he thought they were still playing Pot Limit 2-7 Triple Draw, not realizing the game plaque had changed.

The board ran out with the 3♣2♦ and Vitch scooped the massive pot to be one of the biggest stacks in the room. Vitch took the high with aces and the low with 7-5-3-2-A.

"Wow, can you believe that cost me 109K!" bemoaned Stavrakis, as the hand would've played out much differently had Brown realized what game they were playing.

"Thank God, the coin landed on a fold."

Stavrakis explained that he was taking so long because he had A-K-K, was double suited and thought that it would be hard for Vitch to have aces due to Ramos' open and Brown's three-bet.

Vitch agreed the action was sick, but it benefitted him with his stack sitting around 450,000.