Sahakian Makes Huge Fold Against Goyal

The action from the hand prior to the river was relayed to PokerNews by a player at the table not involved in the hand.

Mateos Sahakian opened from middle position and was called by a player on the button. Tarun Goyal then three-bet out of the big blind only to see Sahakian come back over the top with a four-bet. That convinced the button player to get out of the way but Goyal called to send the two players to the flop with a heap of chips already in the middle.

Goyal check-called a continuation bet of around one third of the pot following the Q♠K♠2♥ flop.

Action checked through the Q♣ turn to the 5♣ river at which point Goyal checked again. Sahakian bet 20,000 but was met by an all in raise from Goyal. Sahakian, the effective stack with 30,000 behind, seemed dismayed as he repeatedly said his opponent could not have a bluff in this spot.

Eventually he open folded K♣K♦ for the second nuts and, despite imploring Goyal to table his holding, his opponent did not oblige to leave Sahakian and everyone besides Goyal wondering if this was one of the great folds seemingly unique to the main event or a missed opportunity for a double up.