Did Mehdi Dhouimer Have Pocket Aces or Ace-Jack?

Three players put in 9,600 each to see a flop of . The player in the hijack bets 6,800, and Benjamin Lakatos folds in the cutoff. Mehdi Dhouimer asks for a look at the hijack’s remaining stack, and the hijack has 25,200 behind his bet of 6,800.

Dhouimer raises to 21,000, and the player in the hijack tanks for a long time before he folds.

Dhouimer offers to show one of his cards to the hijack, and the hijack chooses the card next to Dhouimer’s left hand. Dhouimer flips it over and it’s the .

The hijack smiles as if he thinks he made the correct fold, and he says, “Ace-ace. Thank you.”

Mehdi Dhouimer  –  103,300  (86 bb)

After the hand, Dhouimer quietly tells us that he had ace-jack.