Shoving Match

We just caught two hands which demonstrate the power of the three-bet shove, with Blake Bohn and George Kelly each making the move and getting through to chip up.

First, Athanasios Polychronopoulos opened for 20,000 from the cutoff, and Blake Bohn jammed over the top for his last 102,000.

Polychronopoulos took his time to think things through, cutting out the requisite calling chips to assess the potential damage should showdown a second-best hand. After two minutes or so, Polychronopoulos decided discretion was the better part of valor, and he flashed the first before showing its inferior companion in the .

"Ahh..." said Bohn when he saw the laydown. "I wanted a call." Bohn then held his up for Polychronopoulos to see, before dragging in the pot.

A moment later we caught George Kelly in the same spot, with a three-bet shove for 130,000 or so sitting in front of his cards. Keven Stammen was the one tanking this time, after he opened for 16,000 in middle position. Stammen laid down to the pressure play too, telling the table "got no heart" with a smile as he did so.