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POTD #154 My First Punt vs David Peters

An online poker hand from a mystery date.

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Sam Greenwood
Oct 23, 2025
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Normally I am able to do some light investigative work to learn what day an online poker hand was played on, but for today’s hand I am at a loss. This hand was saved in a folder I had titled “AJ.png”, and the last date modified is not a date where I could have played this hand. The $2,625 Blade Prime is a tournament that I’ve played hundreds of times. If there is some sort of Online Poker Rainbolt, they could probably analyze the format of the HH, the history of GGPoker rake structures, and the tournament ID number and cross-reference it in Sharkscope, but not me. [Me neither! -ed.] Today’s hand takes place in … oh, let’s say late 2020, and it is the first hand I have written about where my opponent is POTD subscriber (and husband to POTD subscriber Hayley Hanna), David Peters. I have previously written about David bluffing Martin Kabhrel and being the man in the middle of Seth Davies and Jamil Wakil and laddering in a 50k, when Mikita eliminated me, but this is the first hand I’ve written about where he’s my opponent. This is quite unusual, given that he is one of my most frequent opponents; he is someone who cut his teeth in the early days of online poker and remains one of the highest-volume live and online players around. He has a stoic table presence, but the most robotic thing about him is his ability to show up and grind live and online for what is closing in on two decades. In today’s hand, he showed up and played his hand well and extracted maximum value from me; read more below.

HH: GGPoker

High Rollers Blade Prime $2,625
(80/160/25) (SB/BB/ANTE). Registration is open.

It folds to David Peters (9,512) on the button who it makes it 400, I (9,248) make it 1600 in the SB with A♣️J♥️, David calls.

Flop (3,510) Q♥️J♠️9♠️: I check, David bets 878, I call

Turn (5,266) 2♠️: I check, David bets 1,760, I call.

River (8,786) Q♠️: I check, David checks. I lose to K♣️K♥️

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