2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open

Event 14: $15,400 $5 Million Guaranteed WPT World Championship
Day: 3
Event Info

2014 Borgata Spring Poker Open

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a8
Prize
$1,350,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$15,000
Prize Pool
$4,852,400
Entries
328
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
25

The Bad Beats Still Hurt

Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Tony Dunst
Tony Dunst

"I've been doing this every day for ten years," Scott Seiver told Cathy Dever. "Anyone who says that they don't hurt is lying."

Tony Dunst chimed in.

"Oh yeah," he agreed. "Just losing in general."

The adverse affects of losing with the best hand may diminish over time, but the pain remains real, and minutes after this conversation Dunst was dealt a bad hand.

It all started when David Grandieri moved all in for 79,000 in middle position. Athanasios Polychronopoulos called on his direct left, and the action folded to Dunst, who moved all in for 674,000 out of the big blind. Polychronopoulos folded.

Dunst: {k-Clubs}{k-Hearts}
Grandieri: {k-Spades}{j-Clubs}

Dunst was in great shape to eliminate Grandieri with his dominating pair of kings, and remained ahead after the flop ({q-Spades}{9-Hearts}{8-Hearts}), and the turn ({3-Spades}), but the river was the {10-Diamonds}.

Grandieri made a straight to the king, and we're only left to wonder whether or not that bad beat hurt.

Player Chips Progress
Athanasios Polychronopoulos us
Athanasios Polychronopoulos
595,000
-210,000
-210,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Tony Dunst us
Tony Dunst
378,000
-228,000
-228,000
WSOP 3X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
David Grandieri us
David Grandieri
250,000
171,000
171,000

Tags: Athanasios PolychronopoulosCathy DeverDavid GrandieriTony Dunst