Why Hesitate?

Henrik Kjellberg - 25 Jun 2008

Game Type: No Limit Texas Hold’em
Tournament: World Poker Tour - Legends of Poker
Players in hand: Randy Holland, Kevin O’Donnell

Starting Hands
Randy Holland - A, 3
Kevin O’Donnell - A, Q

PreFlop
Randy Holland - shoves in with his final $424,000.
Kevin O’Donnell- goes into the tank, concerned with running bad.  Eventually, he calls.

The Flop - J, T 2

The Turn - 7

The River - 8

Randy is out in fifth place. After Kevin had gone into the tank and finally flipped out his hand, fellow player Frankie O'Dell admonished him, saying that it should have been an automatic call.  Kevin knew he was right -- just goes to show you the amount of pressure that is on these players at big final tables. 

Here’s Randy at the Mirage Poker Showdown in ’07. Seems like he rebounded from the experience just fine:

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