Thursday, July 2, 2015 12:35 AM Local Time
Simon Gmur Wins a Pot, Gets a Bonus Cautionary Tale
With around 5,000 in the pot, four players see a flop of . The small and big blinds check. Simon Gmur in the cutoff checks and Steve Dannenmann checks on the button. The turn brings the . "That is a sick card," Dannenmann tells the dealer.
The small blind leads for 3,500 chips. The big blind folds and Gmur calls. Dannenmann throws his hand away. The river is the . The small blind checks and Gmur checks behind. "One pair," the small blind says, prompting Gmur to reveal .
As Gmur collects the pot, Dannenmann chides his neighbor. "Ace-three? Don't ever play ace-three. Ace-three cost me 3.25 million dollars." Gmur seems not to know he is sitting next to the second place finisher in the 2005 WSOP Main Event. Dannenmann presses on with his story, and recounts the last hand of the 2005 Main Event final table, and how he put all his chips in with against on the turn with the board reading . "A pair of aces and an open-ended straight draw," Dannenmann emphasizes, "Of course you're going to get it in, right?"
Gmur is taking it all in, and another player at the table points out that Gmur was probably twelve years old at the time the hand in question played out.
Simon Gmur - 37,100
Steve Dannenmann - -$3.25M