[Scooterdoo]

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Esfandiari may be the real fish in this game. Too bad cuz I like his style but he's playing against some real high stakes players here who won't just fold to his raises.


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Yeah, he needs to move back down to where they respect his raises.

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I don't agree. Many of his bluffs worked just fine and the 88 hand where he got stacked was not terrible. He had a winning draw and probably felt that his semi-bluff had a strong chance of succeeding (Harmon could have had lots of hands that she would have folded in that situation). As it turned out he had to call and had about a 40% chance of winning the pot so it wasn't like he got outplayed there. That was just one of those hands... he got aggressive and needed a bit of luck on his side.

Now I do agree that he was smarting on the 2nd hand where Harmon bluffed him off of his QQ. He just didn't want to get stacked again and wasn't playing his best poker at the time.

I really didn't like Brunson's all-in. As Daniel correctly called it, he's not doing that with AA/KK so he's probably trying to represent AQ, but does he bet $97k with TPTK when what he really wants to do is get the other guy to play along if he has that hand. Just not sure what he was thinking there.

Of course MM's quick call of $40k on the river with top pair horrible kicker when both the flush and straight draws get there will go down in the HSP hall of shame. Now if he thinks it through and gets some kind of read on DN and makes the call then fine. But he didn't even think about it. Not sure what that was all about. For him to win that pot DN would have had to be calling the turn with nothing at all just so that he could represent the flush and straight on the river if they get there. Now that's certainly possible, but I just don't buy it that MM even thought it through enough to make that kind of decision.