The perfect poker hand?

What do you think? Let us know in the comment section!

This is what our coach KTU thinks about the hand:

"This is one of the most impressive hands I've ever seen. Of course I do not know Dwan's thought process in detail, but here are the points that make this hand so impressive to me:

Dwan perfectly reads his opponents' hands

Greenstein raises from UTG and since he is a classic TAG at a table full of crazy action junkies, his range will be very tight. His continuation bet in a multiway pot further strenghtens this assumption. We can expect him to play like this with overpairs and a flopped full house with TT.

Dwan realises that it is rather unlikely that Greenstein flopped the full house with TT because Dwan himself has the in his hand while the is on the board.

Therefore we have one combination for the full house as opposed to 21 combinations of overpairs in Greenstein's range - and these overpairs will be very difficult to play against deep stacks and facing a lot of action.

Eastgate will have called preflop with nearly any two cards in the blinds due to the great odds he's getting. By cold calling the flop raise he signals he has a 2. Calling weaker hands than that would have been overly optimistic, while any stronger hands are not very likely to be in his range: quads and TT for the nut full house are only one combination each.

As we can see, Dwan perfectly reads the hand ranges of his opponents on the flop and realises that his own perceived range is the most likely to contain nut hands.

Dwan expects hero folds and is rewarded

Both his opponents show great strength by calling the flop. Bluffing Greenstein off his overpair is probably something many players would try, but trying to get Eastgate to fold a 2 is a very ambitious thing to do.

Dwan takes advantage of the fact that Eastgate knows that Dwan will put him on a very narrow range.

"I know you have it and nevertheless I'm going to bet" is what Dwan's actions communicate on the turn.

Both Eastgate and Greenstein are too intimidated to call down with their bluff catchers and Dwan wins the hand without a showdown.

Dwan's perfect assessment

"I'll make a sidebet that Peter had the best hand"

The situation is always easier to assess from our position as observers. Even if the hand can be logically explained afterwards, it is a completely different thing to actually play like this at the table.

To be honest, I probably wouldn't even have recognised the possibility of bluffing Greenstein. My line would have been "call flop, call club or ten on the turn, otherwise fold". Even if I had seen the chance to bluff on the flop and had been called by Eastgate, I would have never been courageous enough to think about continuing my bluff.

This is why I think that Gabe Kaplan is right to say that Dwan had "the weakest hand, but the biggest heart".
//