Paschalidis Doubles Through Juanda

A massive pot recently played out between John Juanda and Antonios Paschalidis that saw the latter double up at the former’s expense.

Pre-flop it was Juanda who was the initial raiser, making it 9,500 to go from the cutoff, with Liang Yu making the call on the button before Paschalidis, sitting in the big blind, squeezed to 40,000 in total.

Juanda thought it over before choosing to three-bet to 125,000 and while that was enough to get Yu to bow out Paschalidis threw in the extras to take play heads-up to a flop of .

The Greek player checked the flop over to Juanda, who elected to bet 116,000 and the action was back on Paschalidis, who looked to the heavens like this was the worst thing in the world, ever, before quickly moving all-in for 290,000.

Juanda made the call and discovered the bad news – his was trailing to Paschalidis’ with the Greek player having the same suits covered as well.

The gave both players a flush draw, though this was no good for Juanda, and the hit the river to give Paschalidis the double and he climbed to 830,000 while Juanda dropped to 218,000.