One of the coolest online poker hands of all time

This week one of the coolest online poker hands ever was dealt on Full Tilt Poker. ‘Sauce1234′ and ‘AAROOKIE’ played on a $40/$80 No Limit Hold’em 6-max table and both had very deep stacks. ‘Sauce1234′ who’s real name is Ben Sulsky, started the hand with $33,739 and ‘AAROOKIE’ (real name Dylan Vensamik) had $42,479. This means the effective stacks were 421 big blinds. After a while in the session, the following hand came up:

Pre-flop action:

2 folds, KidPoker705 bets $178 from button
Sauce1234 (sb) 3-bets to $680
AAROOKIE (bb) 4-bets to $1,840
KidPoker705 folds
Sauce1234 5-bets to $5,127
AAROOKIE 6-bets to $9,055
Sauce1234 calls

Flop: (pot $18,288)

Sauce1234 checks
AAROOKIE bets $6,650
Sauce1234 calls

Turn: (pot $31,588)
(pot $31,588)

Sauce1234 checks
AAROOKIE checks

River: (pot $31,588)

Sauce1234 goes all-in $18,704
AAROOKIE calls

SHOWDOWN:

Sauce1234:

AAROOKIE:

From what I’ve read on a forum is that AAROOKIE almost snap called the river. We can try and analyse this hand, but that seems to be a useless exercision. These guys probably have a lot of history together and think on an entirely other level than your average poker player. If you would like to see the hand visualized, head over to PokerTableRatings.