Monster Pot Shoots Misaghian Further in Front

We came running when we heard excited shouting from High Roller Shot Clock champion Peter Plater’s table and arrived in time to see three player’s stacks being counted down.

The three players in question were Rajesa Rajpopat, Peter Plater and Mazyar Misaghian, the latter two of whom were kind enough to talk us through the hand.

According to Plater and Misaghian, a player in early position had opened the action with a raise to 1,500 and Misaghian had called from middle position before Plater re-raised to 4,500 from the button.

Rajesa Rajpopat, sitting in the blinds, made the cold call, the original raiser folded and Misaghian called to bring the action three-way to a flop of .

Rajpopat checked and both Misaghian and Plater checked it back to keep the action three-way to the turn and all three players checked once more.

The river is where the fireworks happened with Rajpopat choosing to lead for a pot-sized 12,000 bet, which sent Misaghian into the tank for a minute or so before he announced he was all-in.

Plater, sitting on around 14,000 called off the last of his chips as did the player in the blinds, who had a stack of around 45,000 and the cards were turned over, which was where we picked up the hand.

Rajesa Rajpopat:
Mazyar Misaghian:
Peter Plater:

There were some questions thrown in Misaghian’s direction by Plater involving the calling of re-raises out of position with speculative hands, but being as the two know each other from Perth, Western Australia, this was mainly just friendly banter.

Plater scooped the main pot to climb to 76,000, Rajpopat left so fast he left a trail of dust on his way to the rail and Misaghian won the side pot to further extend his lead and climb to 192,000.