Hellmuth opted to check-raise to 7,000 and Negreanu called. For this reason, Negreanu should often continuation-bet on this flop using a small size.
Why so small? Isn’t that suspicious? Not really as this is a board that favors the preflop raiser’s range as they are more likely to have overpairs as they raised preflop and the big blind did not opt to three-bet. Hellmuth checked and Negreanu continued for 1,600. The hand took place with the blinds at 800/1,600 when Negreanu (117,000 / 73 BBs) raised to 3,500 from the button and Hellmuth (83,000 / 51 BBs) defended his big blind with the 2 ♦ 2 ♣, which led to an all-four flop of 4 ♦ 4 ♣ 4 ♠. Following a lot of pressure by Negreanu, will Hellmuth see a showdown, or is was his boat destined to sink?
In one, Hellmuth got out of line after flopping a full house when he check-raised on the flop. That included a 3-0 record against Daniel Negreanu, against whom he played a number of interesting hands.
Phil Hellmuth’s 7-0 run in the High Stakes Duel may have come to an end at the hands of Tom Dwan, but his run was impressive nonetheless.
