{"id":27777,"date":"2013-03-23T00:45:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T23:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=27777"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:54:20","slug":"antonio-esfandiari-wins-second-hu-match-sets-up-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/antonio-esfandiari-wins-second-hu-match-sets-up-decider.html","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Esfandiari wins second HU match, sets up decider"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Magician has pulled it out the hat to level this best of three heads-up battle at 1-1 and we will go to the final rubber to decide who qualifies for the final.<\/p>\n

In the red corner Antonio Esfandiari, winner of the Big One for One Drop, in the blue corner Scott Seiver, the defending Premier League champion. There can be only one.<\/p>\n

And it’s currently one-one as Esfandiari quickly took charge of this second match when he got two streets of value with pocket nines against Seiver’s on a board. That gave him a 120,000 to 80,000 lead and Seiver never regained parity.<\/p>\n

Esfandiari further stretched his lead when he flopped top pair with against Seiver’s which made bottom pair on a flop.<\/p>\n

In the final hand Seiver shoved for 43,000 (just over 10 big blinds) with and Esfandiari snapped him off with . The board came and initially Esfandiari thought it was a chop, but he won the pot and the match to take it to a decider.<\/p>\n

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The Magician has pulled it out the hat to level this best of three heads-up battle at 1-1 and we will go to the final rubber to decide who qualifies for the final. In the red corner Antonio Esfandiari, winner of the Big One for One Drop, in the blue corner Scott Seiver, the defending<\/p>\n

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