Why is that bad? He can use it to his advantage in the future. Tomorrow he lets people try to get him off of hands and he snaps them and laughs with 18 million in his pocket. Kinda rooting for this guy now.

No money in $1,000,000 tourneys -- everyone's solid.

Hmmm, so a stone cold bluff here is strictly out of the question? I think it is quite possible the villian had 56 here. Possibly 5s6s, so catching the flush on the turn, or just a busted straight draw.

Couldn't dissagree more with this. Its completely the opposite. With T9s or nuts on the flop it is never a snap call, it has to be a decision time whether to slowroll or to raise, a snap call is most indicative of a strong hand but not the nuts where amateur is scared to raise but is very confident in calling , meaning JJ.
This is why i am very much confident that he had JJ, because a snap call on the flop with T9s would have to be an extremely tricky play which i don't think this older amateur is capable of.

Very much a bad judgement by Smirnov and horrible fold without a single doubt.

The guy is my new favourite. He can fold quads to a straight flush and nobody else can do it, even Dwan and Galfond

stevedoro; reasonable fold or horrible fold?

disgusting fold

It could be JJ: "wtf Smirnov overbets river?"

Do you know this "older amateur"? Have you played with him?
Or are you just pulling all this out of your ass?

Anyone know if the cameras for ESPN caught this hand?

Lmao. Ya they are playing at a higher level. You do realize the business men are rich from business not poker ?

What would Kessler do?

I think the point most of the nits are missing is, if you run quads into a straight flush it's a cooler. If you are making folds like this in tourneys then you aren't going to be winning tournaments plain and simple.

Smirnov played himself in the end too being on a much higher level of thinking when he thought that Morgan was unhappy because he had straight flush, instead Morgan was unhappy he wasn't called with Jacks full

I love how everyone thinks he has to have a hand here. It is still poker right? The businessman probably knows that a million dollars might mean more to a pro than a businessman, and is going to exploit that. I love the shove with nothing, and I hate the fold.

I never played with him i am making an assumption which is most probable scenario, i could be wrong, the man could be an unknown online beast lol.

Neither one of them was a pro

I don't think so, it was still quite early on (level 4) in a 5 table tourney, so it's unlikely that there were hole card cameras.

People keep talking about him being priced in as if it was a cash game. Obviously, in a cash game you only need your quads to hold up 1 in 3 times for it go be a call and you can always top up again, but in a tournament that one wrong decision would cost him his tournament life, and in this case he could still fold and be decent enough stacked to have a tournament life. Without seeing Morgan play it's hard to say for sure, but if he really is as nitty as the articles say, it doesn't seem like he could really have too much more than the straight flush. Shoving with jacks full is only gonna get him called by hands that were beating him, because it would be hard to justify calling a shove on a paired bored with the nut flush. Unless he took the overbet on the river as a sign of weakness and made a gutsy bluff shove, Smirnov had shown too much strength the whole way through to expect a fold on the river, so he certainly seemed to expect a call. Ultimately, most likely a good fold.

Showing the massive fold was obviously a bad move, tempting though it may have been. If he is a really good player I suppose it has the benefit of inducing huge bluffs, making it easier for you to get stacked against players with lesser holdings. Still not a situation you'd probably want to play your tournament in, though...

How are you assuming he was shoving with nothing? The only thing that might imply that was his snap calls, but if the other people in the hand's tells are at all accurate, his body language both before and afterwards suggest that he actually had a hand, coupled with the fact that he'd been playing quite tight...

You don't bluff your whole stack when there is no chips in the pot on a paired board.

You cant slowroll on flop dude.

Except the Russian.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA this picture has so much win in it