Diaz vs Farnes
World Series of Poker, Main Event, 2022
Fourteen players left in the 2022 Main Event
The Hand
David Diaz and Jeffrey Farnes. Blinds 400K / 800K.
Before the Flop
- Blinds 400K and 800K. Another player has the button.
- Farnes raises to 2.3M.
- Another player folds.
- Diaz calls.
- Another player folds.
The Flop
- Diaz checks.
- Farnes bets 2.7M.
- Diaz calls.
The Turn
Diaz bets 4M. Why
Diaz. Diaz has trips, and leading builds the pot against kings, top pair or draws.
- Farnes calls.
The River
Diaz bets 7M. Why
Diaz. Queens full is near the top of the deck. Betting gets paid by any king and by two pair.
Farnes raises to 18.8M. Why
Farnes. He holds the second-best hand possible: only four deuces beat kings full. With the chip lead, raising for everything charges Diaz for calling.
- Diaz folds. The famous decision
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The river
The Famous Decision
Diaz. Farnes only called on the flop and the turn, then raised the river for everything with fourteen players left. That fits kings full, king-queen or four deuces, and all three beat queens full of deuces. Any weaker hand would just call.
Diaz folded, and Farnes showed kings full, one of the hands Diaz had feared.
The Result
Farnes wins the pot.
Why It Is Famous
David Diaz thought for about six minutes and folded queens full of deuces to a river raise from the chip leader. PokerNews called it "a fold for the ages". The fold was worth $115,000 in prize money: he went out soon after in 13th place instead of 14th.
What to Take from It
List the hands that raise. If they all beat you, fold, even a full house.
Sources
What the sources do not say. The sizes before the river come from one outlet. The river bets are confirmed by two. The ante is not documented, so the pot is not shown and prices are given in words. The table size is not documented. Only the players in the hand are drawn.
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