Every year during the World Series of Poker I get the chance to witness big hands, often table side in real time. Many of these hands are demonstrative of big poker concepts. For instance, the other night I watched WSOP bracelet winners Barny Boatman and Antonio Esfandiari play a monster, one that embodied what it’s likely to suffer a truly bad beat, and perhaps more importantly, how to recover from it.
The hand happened on Day 3 of Event #42: $1,500 Extended Play No-Limit Hold’em — a tournament that originally began with 1,914 players who created a prize pool of $2,583,900.