Pickering Goes All the Way with Big Slick
Chris Ferguson is now in the game to the right of Jamie Pickering. He sat down with $200,000 and immediately found himself in a huge pot. Jamie Pickering opened with a raise to $3,500 that was called by Niki [Removed:552] and small blind Tom Dwan. Ferguson then reraised to $20,300. Everyone called, putting $81,000 in the middle before the flop was out.
Dwan opened the action with a bet of $31,400. Ferguson peeked back at his cards and then mucked. That moved the action to Pickering, who asked for a count of the bet. He still seems the most nervous of all of the players at the table, but he steeled himself and called. [Removed:552] folded, leaving Dwan and Pickering to battle it out on the turn
. Dwan tanked for a minute before betting $41,800."I've got no idea where I am," said Pickering. He mumbled a few other words to himself before double-checking the amount of the bet again and then calling.
The river came
. Dwan must have sensed that there was no way of moving Pickering off his hand; he checked. Pickering breathed a sigh of relief and checked behind."You've got it," said Dwan. "I have a deuce." Pickering showed down ace-king for the winner.
"I was going to have to call," said Pickering as he collected the pot. "I didn't want to. But I was going to have to." Both statements were as obvious as they were true.
It has not been a good day for Tom Dwan.