According to an Instagram post, Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao was on the receiving end of a $100,000 river bluff by the young cash game specialist Justin ‘Boosted J’ Smith.
There aren’t many people who manage to get one over on the Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao (5 in 64 fights to be precise), but that’s exactly what happened when poker met boxing in an undisclosed cash game venue.
According to the Instagram account of Justin ‘Boosted J’ Smith, the young cash game expert ran one ‘of the most aggressive bluffs’ ever in his career when squaring off against the Pac-Man for the very first time.
“I bet over $100k on the river, he thought for almost five minutes, and finally showed that he had folded top pair of aces.” Wrote Smith, who had posted a photo of the pair on his Instagram account, “He started to beg me to show him my hand. I had one of the most nothing possible hands I’ve ever ended up having, but I had a read on him and decided to go with it.”
So did Smith have the balls to show the eight-division world champion the bluff?
“Naturally, I don’t usually like to show my hands, and didn’t want to rub it in his face that I had outplayed or “fooled” him. So I asked him three times “are you sure you want to see my hand?” and he nodded his head energetically and saying yes. I showed him an absolute stone cold bluff and when his eyes compared my cards to the board to find the correlation that didn’t exist, his eyes darted back up to meet my eyes and his fists clenched up.”
Fortunately, for Boosted J, Pacquiao saw the funny side and gave the young starlet a big bear hug.