Championship: Sean Winter Shoves the River, and Nick Schwarmann Tanks to Fold Trips

$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  12 of 809

Nick Schwarmann Folds Trips to Sean Winter
Nick Schwarmann (left) tanks for more than five minutes after Sean Winter (foreground, right) shoves the river.

After a flop of 10d2s2h, Nick Schwarmann (big blind) and Sean Winter (cutoff) put in 300,000 each.

The turn card was the 3d, Schwarmann bet 700,000, and Winter thought for a while before he called.

The river card was the Jc, Schwarmann bet 2,000,000, and Winter thought for about 30 seconds before he moved all in. Schwarmann’s poker face immediately dropped as he said, “That’s so sick. That’s so dirty. Do you have tens full every time?”

Winter’s all-in bet came just as Level 25 was ending, and the other players began their 10 minute break. But Schwarmann would be in the tank for more than five minutes.

Schwarmann repeated himself a few times. “So sick. I can’t really fold. This is so brutal. I can’t really fold.”

Schwarmann talked thru much of his tank, and at one point asked if Winter was interested in talking, but Winter said nothing.

After a few minutes, Schwarmann said, “Folding’s not possible, but there’s no way you don’t have tens full or jacks full. You’ll never shove kings, you’ll never shove aces. I don’t think you’d even shove ace-deuce.”

Most of the remaining players had stuck around thru the break to see the completion of this hand, and more than halfway thru the break, Schwarmann folded Ac2d face up — trip deuces. Winter took the pot.

Winter set aside his cards as the dealer pushed him the pot, and Schwarmann asked if he was going to show one card. Winter just smiled and said, “I had to have tens full or jacks full,” and let the dealer pull his cards into the muck to begin dealing the next hand.

Sean Winter  –  7,625,000  (153 bb)
Nick Schwarmann  –  715,000  (14 bb)