Outcome
Dario Sammartino Age
Preflop, with two players remaining and blinds of 1,200,000-2,400,000 with a big-blind ante of 2,400,000, Dario Sammartino limped in from the button. Hossein Ensan checked from the big blind. On the flop Ensan checked. Sammartino bet 2,400,000. Ensan called. On the turn Ensan checked. Sammartino checked. On the river Ensan bet 2,500,000. Sammartino raised to 32,000,000. Ensan folded.
Analysis
Dario Sammartino had pulled essentially even with Hossein Ensan during heads-up play after rivering aces up to beat out jacks up. The two each sat with more than 100 big blinds in their stacks, which meant that there was plenty of room for creative play during their final showdown. In this hand Sammartino demonstrated the killer instincts that had helped him accumulate more than $7.7 million in live tournament earnings prior to making the main event final table. Sammartino had limped in with the less than stellar 6-2 offsuit, and took a stab at the flop after Ensan checked to him. Ensan had flopped bottom pair, and he elected to call. Both players checked after the 10® hit the turn. The J© on the river saw Ensan now break from his pattern of checking with his bottom pair, making essentially a min-bet on the river. Sammartino saw the bet for what it was: an attempt to get a small amount of thin value out of Ensan’s bottom pair. Sammartino hammered the pot with a massive raise to 32 million and Ensan released his hand almost instantly. Did Sammartino need to size up his raise so dramatically? Probably not, but his play shows a good sense for game flow that has helped him to be a successful player at the highest levels of the game. Sammartino took down the small pot with a piece of cheese for a hand by correctly interpreting what Ensan’s bets meant about his hand strength. With that, Sammartino took the lead.
Dario Sammartino Pokerstars
There was some controversy as the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event over the weekend, and it had the card-playing world buzzing about the ruling.
On Day 7, with 11 players remaining, Dario Sammartino raised to 1.7 million chips with his pocket 10s. Nick Marchington then went all in for 22.2 million with his pocket Queens.
But when Sammartino asked for the dealer to count Marchington’s chips to see if he wanted to call the bet, she mistakenly announced it was 17.2 million. Sammartino had called that bet and put in the chips to match it.
When the dealer realized the error, she called over officials to discuss what happened and the hand moved ahead. Sammartino began arguing that it wasn’t fair and that he might have acted differently if he knew it was five million chips more in the pot.
Eventually, WSOP VP Jack Effel came over and pointed to a rule that Poker News cited which forced Sammartino to match the 22.3 million chips:
Poker is a game of alert, continuous observation. It is the caller’s responsibility to determine the correct amount of an opponent’s bet before calling, regardless of what is stated by the dealer or participants. If a caller requests a count but receives incorrect information from the dealer or participants, then places that amount in the pot, the caller is assumed to accept the full correct action & is subject to the correct wager or all-in amount.
Fellow pro Alex Livingston — who’s still in at the final table — tweeted his thoughts. He understood the ruling, sympathized with the dealer, but took issue with one of Effel’s comments, in which he said, “If you’re calling 17, you’re calling 22.”
Watch the entire hand and ruling unfold here:
Despite losing the hand, Sammartino will start action on Monday in 5th (23.1 million) with just five players remaining.
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