Strategy Lessons
Level 21
: 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante
Robert Heidorn was in the small blind and check-called 100,000 from cutoff Valery Yantsevich on a board of 
. On the 
river, Heidorn jammed.
"He's all in?" Yantsevich asked excitedly. "I call, I have nuts."
Heidorn, though, also had the nuts. As the dealer chopped up the pot, Yantsevich wondered aloud about Heidorn's play.
"How do you check-call this?" he asked. "You lose to every ace-high. Unless you are just always donk-betting."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,290,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
652,000
162,000
|
162,000 |