POTD #49 Triton Montenegro Main Event: Stuck in the Middle of a Squeezed Pot

A Wakil, Davies, Peters sandwich

When I was doing commentary on the SCOOP stream last Friday, someone in the Twitch chat asked me a question about what’s the best way for intermediate poker players to improve. I have a couple of stock answers to that question, but one answer I gave was to get as good as possible at playing single raised pots vs. the big blind, since those are the most common pots you’ll play. There’s an irony to this: At high stakes, those are the most common pots you play; at low stakes, those pots are very rare. In your local $2/$5 game, how many pots are there where it folds to the HJ who raises to $11 and they’re called by the BB? There are a lot of family pots, limped pots, 5x open raises called by four people, etc. If you’ve mastered playing HJ vs. BB 50 blinds deep vs. the solver, you might get to test that specific skill set out once a week at low stakes.

There’s an alternative effect: Sometimes, in the highest-stakes tournaments, you will play spots that not only have you never studied, you haven’t really played since you started climbing the ladder to high stakes. In today’s hand, Seth Davies enters the Triton Montenegro Main Event red hot after winning his first Triton, the $50k NLHE, and coming second in the biggest tournament of the stop, the $200k Invitational. Here, he gets tricky in a three-bet pot vs. the subject of POTD #40, Jamil Wakil, and POTD subscriber David Peters. Can he avoid punting in an unusual spot? Keep reading to find out.

Triton Montenegro 2025 $100K NLH Main Event – Event #10
(2.5k/5k/5k) (SB/BB/BBA)

It folds to Seth Davies (247k) in the LJ who raises K♠️K♦️ t11k, David Peters(382k) T♠️T♦️ calls on the button, Jamil Wakil(405k) has A♠️K♣️ in the BB and squeezes to 57k, Seth calls, DPeters calls

Flop (178.5k) J♣️5♦️7♠️: Jamil bets 37k, Seth calls, DPeters folds

Turn (252.5k) J♠️: Jamil bets 45k, Seth calls.

River (342.5k) Q♠️ | Jamil goes all-in for Seth’s final 108k, Seth folds.