From PokerStars blog.
2.56pm: Oh my! That Lemaire bust out in full
Hold on to your seats, people, this one is pretty nasty. Hugo Lemaire started off proceedings with a 70,000 raise before Jake Cody three-bet to 193,000. Lemaire seemed interested as he quickly slipped of his headphones to hear the total raise. He then raised again to a total of 410,000. "How much do you have?" asked Cody.
"One point three million behind, so one point seven total," was the reply.
Cody sat in silence for a minute then announced he was all in - and the call was instant. Both had similar sized stacks so this pot was worth around 3.5million. Cody calmly opened the huge T♠4♣ and saw he was in great trouble against his opponent's K♠K♥.
This game can be so cruel, though, and so it proved on the 6♦5♠3♦A♦7♣. An all action flop brought an open-ended straight draw for the young Brit and it duly came in on the river to take the monster pot. A quick countdown of the chips also confirmed the elimination in 18th place of the unlucky Hugo Lemaire.
Talk us through this hand please, what was the history between the two of you, and the dynamics that led to you playing it as you did?
I went into day4 around 7/24 and i was looking at the payout structure the night before and noticed how ridiculously top heavy it was. The jump from 24th-10th was relatively meaningless compared to the jump from 9th+ so i wanted to go for it and put myself in a position to win it rather than grind to a relatively small payjump. Villain was at my table from the start of the day but id not played with him previously, i didn't know much about him besides that he was some sort of Euro player (not French) kinda scandi looking and that he has had some good scores online. He played a pot prior to this where he flatted a raise in position, floated the QTT flop and then minraised a turn barrel with air so i knew he wasn't just playing ABC. Id been opening/3betting fairly often but id yet to 3bet the villain prior to this hand, we had played a few pots postflop and id won them all with no showdown, i felt he was starting to get agitated by me.
So anyway playing 1.7m he makes it 72k in the hijack at 15k/30k/3k and i 3bet to 193 in the sb with T4o, id already decided i was likely 3b/5betting here vs this villain, bb folds and he doesn't snap click it back but he ponders for a short time and then makes it 410k, he looked SO nervous, he was breathing really heavily and this made up my mind for sure that i was jamming so i did, and you know the rest… It was set up kinda perfectly for him and don't regret the jam at all though I do regret doing it with that hand tbh because it has such terrible equity vs his calling range but w/e i felt it gets through loads and its a hilarious story/hand to get there with if i was wrong
I also felt this hand helped me win so many pots with two tables left and at the final table. A lot of the guys didn't want anything to do with me because i obviously appeared really reckless/fearless about getting knocked out. And they knew i could put them in super awkward/tough spots they literally just let me run them over even more easily.