Flight J – Ilyas Muradi Gets Value

Flight J Level 3 . Ante 300 . Blinds 200.300 . Entries 142.153

Yesterday, we talked about Craig Varnell winning the last tournament before Covid. Today, let’s discuss the first major tournament of the poker world in 2021. Yes, the eight-handed tables, sanitize-every-chair-and-rail-and-Plexiglas era of poker.

Walk with me back to January 2021 when the World Poker Tour went to Seminole Hard Rock for the Lucky Hearts Poker Open. Throngs of poker players came out, resulting in a 1,573-entry field with a prize pool north of $5 million.

Long story short, Muradi qualified from a satellite and parlayed it to a first-place finish, good for $620k and forever having his name on the WPT’s Mike Sexton Champions Cup.

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Now, let’s get back to today. Muradi is involved in a pot with around 12,000 in the middle on a board reading . He’s on the button against Phu Vo, UTG+2.

Vo checks to Muradi and calls a bet of 6,000, bringing the river. Vo checks again, Muradi bets 7,500, and Vo thinks for a bit before calling.

Muradi shows him a flopped set with , and Vo cedes a face-up . Muradi chips up to 65k and Vo drops to 17k.