John Juanda ($20,300) was playing heads up against DaEvils($38,717.50) at a $100/$200 NL Hold-em table. They had just started playing and after about 10 hands Juanda bets $600 and DaEvils raises to $2000. Juanda calls the hand and the flop comes down [5s 4d Kc], DaEvils is first to act and bets $3100 and Juanda raises to $6800….DaEvils then re-raises all-in. Juanda calls with his stack of $11,200 which DaEvils easily covers.

They flip over the cards and DaEvils shows [7d 8d] and Juanda is holding [Kh Js]. At this point in the hand Juanda is favored to win 77.88% of the time. The turn card is a [5c] which gives Juanda a 90.91% chance of winning the hand. The river comes a [6c] and DaEvils gets his gut shot straight draw and sucks out Juanda and rakes in a pot of $39,999.50!

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