POKER HAND #4

HOW ERIC SEIDEL BUSTED OUT OF THE BIG ONE: PhilHellmuth.com is featuring some of bust-out stories from the WSOP 2004. Eric Seidel, a great player made semi-famous by the scene in Rounders where Matt Damon watches him lose the WSOP to Johnny Chan, went out this way:

Erik Seidel found himself down to $9,000 on day four after not picking up a hand, or a pot for a long time. Erik says, "Obviously I was looking for a hand before then." Erik had just been high-carded to the TV table, and the fourth hand he was there, Erik was on the button-and Gus had played all three previous hands. Now Gus limps, everyone else folds, and it came around to Erik with the blinds at $1,000-$2,000, and the antes at $300 a man. Erik was pretty happy with his K-8, and thought that he had Gus beat.

So Erik moved all-in for $9,000, and the big blind now made it $25,000 to go, and now Erik says, "Right then I knew I was dead, because this fellow wasn't an action player." Gus folded, and now the big blind showed Erik A-K, and in an instant it was over for Erik. I also went broke with K-8, but after the flop came down 10-8-4, and I was in the small blind with a very short stack, and the button had limped with Q-10 (yes, that #**#$ Q-10 busted me again).