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#102 – The Greatest Poker Game, Part VIII (Andy Beal’s gold rush)

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ANDY BEAL’S GOLD RUSH

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Ted +$6.4M

4:02 PM

Deck & dealer change

4:05 PM back from deck & dealer change

Andy -$6.3M

That double dribble of Andy’s must be a tell.

$6.4M at 4:10 PM

It’s about 6.6 or 6.7

And looked at me, shrugged

4:10 PM

Andy looked like he almost folded –
Then raised
3c-Js-6h-2s
Checks
9s
Checks
K-8 Ted
A-7 Andy Andy $200k

Too bad I wasn’t tracking. It seems like 20 minutes since Andy won ANY pot.

Andy raised out of positionPAGE 673

4:12 PM

NOW IT’S $7M

In a narrow sense, Andy looks fine – solid, still, unemotional.

But up close, he’s a mess. Ragged in motions with his hands, his chips. And Ted’s probably picking up on it, betting along with Andy, or betting him out of hand after hand.

6s-8c-8h-8s
Andy bets – wins $200k

Ted button – raise, call
6s-Ks-Js
Ted bet, Andy double-clutch call
3h
Andy raise
Ted folds
Geez, he finally put a stop to Forest speeding mercilessly over him.

Andy raises, not even trying to go through the motions of neat, orderly, slow.

Andy’s button

4:19 PM – 7+ hours

Andy – raise, fold.

Andy -$6.5M today.

Conclude – why we root for Andy Beal.

Jh-9c-5s-4h-As
$1.2M pot
Ted – 9-5
Andy – A-9
Lucky river.
Andy -$5.8M

Ted’s still steamed. When Andy folds the next hand, Ted spikes his cards into the muck.

4:25 PM

Ted raises, Andy x3
Kc-5d-Jc
Check-raise Andy
8h
Andy bet, Ted call
3d
Andy bets, call
K-9/K-9
Split $900k

Ted +$6.25M at 4:26 PM

Andy’s bouncing his chips up and down between hands. He’s not right. It’s not a close question.

4:31 PM – Andy’s down about $5.8M. Won a decent-sized pot.

He’s looking at his cards with 3 clubs after the turn to see if he has one.

Andy picks up chips – looks at them sideways. I thought that meant weakness but he had a straight when he did that. $600k pot.

4:34 PM – Dealer change
-$5.7M for Andy
(Still up for the 3 days.)

He’s picking up some cards, some flops. Ted’s not giving him huge pots but he’s slowly reduced the deficit … a little.

Andy – $5.5M

-$5.8 or 5.9 at 4:38 PM

4:40 PM

Another bagel run (2) for Ted

Back at 4:46 PM

Andy’s down about $6.2M, about even for the 3 days.

Andy’s just double clutching
A lot of ragged

Qs-Jc-9c
6c – $600k total
7c
Andy bet, fold
Andy $600k

Now $5.7-5.8M

Andy won a few pots but Ted pulled in a pretty big one. Andy -$6M at 4:51 PM.

Andy -$6M at 4:55 PM

Ted’s button – Andy x3
Qs-7d-9h
Andy bet, call
5s
Andy bet, call
6c
Andy bet – bite of bagel, looking
Ted – call
Andy Q-T
Ted mucks
Andy $800k

Andy – raise, fold
Andy -$5M now, first move down in awhile. 4:59 PM

Ted – call, check
5d-2d-9h
Andy bet, fold
Andy $100k

Andy – raise, fold
Andy $75k

Ted – call, check
Qd-4s-Jd
Check, Ted bets, fold
Ted $100k

Andy – call
4s-2d-Th
Check, Andy bet
Raise, call
6c
Ted bets, sloppy
Fold

5:02 PM – dealer and deck change

During the break, Andy tells Deborah [Giardina, Director of Poker Operations for Wynn Las Vegas], “I’m stupid. I’m so stupid. I am the most stupid person in the world and you can quote me on that.”

5:24 PM – Andy’s still -$5M.

Andy said during the last break that he was on an adrenaline rush and he’d play until it ended.

Just won a big pot.
A-9 with A-A-9 flop, then 5-5

Ted looked flabbergasted when Andy turned it over.

Andy -$4.6M at 5:26 PM

There couldn’t possibly be another miracle in Andy Beal’s Burberry bag, could there?

[I used up the pen I’d been using all day and had to switch to another.]

I’ve been gone getting Ted a Valentine’s Day card for Roxana. [I wrote about this in the February 2007 issue of BLUFF.]

Back at 5:38 PM

Andy -$4.6M.

Ted raises – Andy x3
Kc-Ts-4s
Andy bets, fold
Andy $300k

NOW -$4.6M

Ted was very appreciative – blushing when Andy asked him if I did that [the Valentine’s card] for him. I said, “I take and I take and I take. But sometimes I give. You told me about the Mangler [an opponent of Ted’s in several private games whose identity and exploits I have, for the time being, been asked not to write about], I got you a card for Roxana.”

Ted is betting Ted out of these threatening boards, winning $500-600k pots without a showdown. [I’m sure one of those “Ted”s should be “Andy” but I’m not sure which.]

Andy -$4.25M
5:40 PM

4h-Qs-Qc-8h-5
Andy check-raise
Ted check-raise the turn
Check-check river
Andy 7-8 – straight
Ted A-4, shrug, incredulous
Andy $900k pot

He’s down less than $4M

-$3.6M at 5:44 PM

Ted call button, Andy raises
Jd-Ah-Qh

Andy bets, called
9h
Andy check-raise
Ted folds
Andy $300k

5:45 PM

Andy – raise, call
6c-2c-7c
Check, check
7h
Check, check
9s
Check, check
Ted Qh-5h – wins
Ted $200k

Andy has been relentlessly aggressive in getting the goods, the luck, or the fold. He’s been accelerating.
(At 4:12 PM, it was $7M)

Now it’s $3.6M at 5:48 PM

At 3.6M what are we talking?
-3.2M last week
+6.2M last 2 days
-3.6M today
=-600k for entire 2 trips

Has Andy stalled or is he still on a rush?