Re: High Stakes Poker thread (10/8) (possible spoliers in thread to co
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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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You guys are forgetting how shallow it was effectively playing after Eli's re-raise and 3 calls:
4-way pot, 53K in preflop.
Farha goes all-in for 67k (only a little more than a pot bet), Gold folds out of turn, Baxter thinks and goes all-in for 75.5K (a raise of only $8500).
Eli needs to call $75,500 into what is already a $195,500 pot. He only needs 28% equity against their ranges to make this call.
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