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And Eli calling there? he and Sammy must be playing the same money.

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You say that as if Eli should have folded.

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When I first watched it I thought it was a bad call but I've thought about it and I see that it wasn't. Obviously he is calling against Farha 99.9% of the time there. And what could Baxtor have had to be pushing AI with? I also think Eli knew they'd agree to running it twice (Hadn't Baxtor agreed to that in earlier hands?). So yes, it was a good call for those stakes. Now, in my B&M 2/3 or 3/5 game I'd have to bail out there with AA.

Does anyone have the stack sizes and how much extra Baxtor's all in was? There seemed to be some confusion on the broadcast. At one point Eli said it was only 8500 more but it seemed like it should have been more than that.

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The fact that it's such an easy call vs Farha is presicely why it is still an easy call after Baxter shoves. Baxter sees Sammy shove, looks down at his KJ and just calling makes no sense with these stacks so he is forced to shove. He should be worried about Eli, but he is focused too much on what Sammy has and figures if he has Sammy beat then he should go with it. I think he'll be getting it in with top pair always and perhaps even stuff like T9. AA has a pretty easy call given the dynamics.

Also fwiw Eli didn't reraise big enough with AA, but with AQ in another hand he made that huge reraise when he got it in vs Safai's TT. Transparent much?