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Preflop, with six players remaining and blinds of 80,000-160,000 with a big blind ante of 160,000, Igor Kurganov raised to 550,000 from the small blind. Lucas Reeves moved all-in for 5,735,000 from the big blind. Kurganov called.

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Analysis

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In this hand high-stakes cash game player Lucas Reeves gets entangled in a preflop blind-on-blind confrontation that ultimately led to him being eliminated on the $75,000 money bubble. When the hand began, Reeves was sitting in third chip position, with six players remaining and five players to cash. He had just less than 36 big blinds, ahead of Preben Stokkan (27 big blinds), Ben Heath (22 big blinds) and Steve O’Dwyer (14 big blinds). Given those stacks, Reeves should have likely been prioritizing avoiding a big confrontation over attempting to accumulate. Chip leader Igor Kurganov started this hand off by raising to 3.4x from the small blind with pocket queens. Reeves picked up a small pocket pair, and likely should have looked to play the vulnerable hand cautiously given the stack dynamics at play. “I don’t see any reason, whatsoever, why we would do anything other than call here,” said WSOP bracelet winner Brent Hanks, who was commentating on the live streaming broadcast of the final table. Reeves likely thought that Kurganov could be raising with an incredibly wide range from the small blind. While that is certainly true, the structural advantage Kurganov held as the chip leader over middle stacks, like Reeves, should still have dissuaded him from taking a stand with a hand like pocket fours. The problem with small pocket pairs in this situation is they will almost never have a dominant advantage against any hand that Kurganov would call a shove with. While Reeves might have reasoned that Kurganov would raise-fold with a lot of hands, that does not overcome the fact that it is an ICM disaster when Kurganov does pick up a strong hand. Reeves was a big underdog after all of the money got in. He was able to pick up a flush draw going into the river, but ultimately was unable to come from behind and was eliminated in sixth place. Kurganov went on to finish as the runner-up to Kahle Burns, earning $222,250 as the second-place finisher.