When You Have 5 3 and ALL IN on Pre Flop

 

Pre-Flop Action

• Sim Kok Wai: Pocket Kings (Kd Kc) – a monster hand, very standard all-in spot.

• Quan Zhou: Offsuit 5♠ 3♦ – extremely weak hand, usually a fold unless you're short-stacked in the big blind and pot odds are insane. But this is a super high roller, so he likely went with a read or pure madness.

Board Runout

• Flop: 10♦ 6♦ 4♥

  • Gives Quan an open-ended straight draw (needs a 2 or a 7).

• Turn: 10♣

  • No help.

• River: 7♠

  • BOOM, Quan Zhou hits the straight (3-4-5-6-7).

Result

• Quan Zhou wins with a 7-high straight.

• Sim Kok Wai’s Kings get cracked in brutal fashion.

Analysis

• From a pure strategy/GTO standpoint:
  5-3 offsuit is an awful hand to go all-in preflop against any reasonable raise, let alone a strong hand like KK. This was likely a read-based or "I-don’t-care-anymore" kind of shove.

• Variance is savage – even when you're an 80–90% favorite like Kings are vs 5-3, the deck doesn't care.

Final Thoughts

This is one of those "poker is pain" moments if you’re holding the Kings. And if you’re Quan? You’re the chaos agent. Sometimes, that chaos gets rewarded.

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