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#313
07-17-2007, 02:06 AM
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Re: aba caught bluffing against bobby baldwin in 1.8mil pot
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[ QUOTE ] I'm sure someone like Aba, who's both intelligent and distanced is better fit for a career outside of poker than 99% of the population. [/ QUOTE ] Sorry but this is about the dumbest quote of the month. Intelligence and whateverthe-f "distanced" mean does not indicate any fitness for any career outside of poker. I can understand the manlove some of you have for aba given you can identify with his roots but all of this talk either way on his bankroll is as idiotic as past threads debating whether Phil Ivey was making 30 or 40 mil a year. [/ QUOTE ] One might think that when making such ridiculous claims, you'd want to explain yourself. But perhaps you expect your reasoning to be so 100% spot on and obvious that it doesn't need explaination. How is intelligence not a huge asset? And by "distanced", I guess the "other" smart: mature, reasonable etc. 
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#314
07-17-2007, 02:18 AM
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Re: aba caught bluffing against bobby baldwin in 1.8mil pot
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A guy I know dealt the hand. He said it was plo. Turn action board is QJxx no flush yet. aba pots it for 207k, Baldwin calls with AKQJ. River is a T for no flush. Aba thinks for a while and pots 621k or whatever. Baldwin thinks for a few min, to consider running it twice or what? They both have money behind he said, like maybe 200k or more. Baldwin just calls with the stone nuts! He said it may be a high stakes etiquette since he is already winning the 1.8m pot why take another 200k off the guy?? I dunno sounds dumb, if you're playing poker shouldn't you always be going for blood? Especially in a big game like that? [/ QUOTE ] Let me be the first to say that this wasn't too far off. Aba posted the hand
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#316
07-17-2007, 02:34 AM
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Re: aba caught bluffing against bobby baldwin in 1.8mil pot
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] A guy I know dealt the hand. He said it was plo. Turn action board is QJxx no flush yet. aba pots it for 207k, Baldwin calls with AKQJ. River is a T for no flush. Aba thinks for a while and pots 621k or whatever. Baldwin thinks for a few min, to consider running it twice or what? They both have money behind he said, like maybe 200k or more. Baldwin just calls with the stone nuts! He said it may be a high stakes etiquette since he is already winning the 1.8m pot why take another 200k off the guy?? I dunno sounds dumb, if you're playing poker shouldn't you always be going for blood? Especially in a big game like that? [/ QUOTE ] If this is true, it splains a lot. Bobby is wicked smart. He "knew" that Brian was bluffing and could not pay off a raise on the end. He also calculated that if he just called, Brian would "know" that Bobby could read him so well that Bobby knew that a raise would be worthless. However, Bobby calculated that to play the hand this way would put Brian on tilt. This way Brian would know Edit:Oops, this may now be the dumbest post.
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#317
07-17-2007, 02:35 AM
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Re: aba caught bluffing against bobby baldwin in 1.8mil pot
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So in recap, IDK where sammy got his money from [/ QUOTE ] Sure you do. Sounds like maybe you know when he first got it, but like everyone else you don't have a clue where it comes from. I seriously doubt it is anything illegal. The arabs are the richest people in the world but they don't go around boasting about it because they don't want to engender any more hatred from the west. If Exxon made 17 billion in one quarter or whatever it was what do you think the countries and the families that actually control production and own the land are making? Anyone that thinks the top 25 or so richest people in the world aren't Arab families is naive. I don't care what Forbes says, no way Buffet, Microsoft and some Euro-dude selling furniture are richer than the Arab families that control the oil. I'll take millions of barrels of oil every day over an operating system, an insurance peddler and a furniture maker. It makes perfect sense that from this fountain of money a small protion would trickle into the poker economy as does an unwillingness to disclose the source. Didn't anyone read Mario Puzo's Fool's Die? "In this country you have to get rich in the Dark". There are no SEC filings or sets of books to audit when it comes to oil producing nations.
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#318
07-17-2007, 02:42 AM
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Re: aba caught bluffing against bobby baldwin in 1.8mil pot
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] A guy I know dealt the hand. He said it was plo. Turn action board is QJxx no flush yet. aba pots it for 207k, Baldwin calls with AKQJ. River is a T for no flush. Aba thinks for a while and pots 621k or whatever. Baldwin thinks for a few min, to consider running it twice or what? They both have money behind he said, like maybe 200k or more. Baldwin just calls with the stone nuts! He said it may be a high stakes etiquette since he is already winning the 1.8m pot why take another 200k off the guy?? I dunno sounds dumb, if you're playing poker shouldn't you always be going for blood? Especially in a big game like that? [/ QUOTE ] If this is true, it splains a lot. Bobby is wicked smart. He "knew" that Brian was bluffing and could not pay off a raise on the end. He also calculated that if he just called, Brian would "know" that Bobby could read him so well that Bobby knew that a raise would be worthless. However, Bobby calculated that to play the hand this way would put Brian on tilt. This way Brian would know what Bobby knew and not be able to chalk it off as just another failed bluff when he couldn't call the raise. Bobby just miscalculated the extent/reaction of said tilt. Brian lifetilted so badly that had to leave the table, bow to Bobby, get manager to rack up an unknown amount of chips for him, get homesick/leave town, and not be able to post the hand as promised two days ago. Sometimes Bobby is too smart for his own good. Bobby was definitely going for blood. Unless Bobby thought that Brian had the nuts too and was trying to save time. ie Chad Brown v Kristy Gazes lol [/ QUOTE ] possibly the dumbest post yet, and how can you people honestly sit there and rag on aba when he is a winner in the game over the past couple weeks, he had a losing session get over it, everyone has them and i'm guessing from some of the responses i have read that the majority of idiots in this thread have them more then they have winning ones. [/ QUOTE ] Nahhh...Dumbest post is "What's a doorknob box?". I'm so dumb that I didn't even realize that I was ragging on Brian/Aba!
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#319
07-17-2007, 02:49 AM
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only a moron would win a million dollars at a cash game and then turn around and give the gov't 40% of it. you keep the damn $400,000 and use it as part of your bankroll so that you can make more. you pay taxes on your tourney winnings and other earnings only because you have no choice. maybe when you hit the age of 50 do you give uncle sam "the world's biggest strong arm thief" a cut of your winnings. maybe 10% at the most. [/ QUOTE ] Huh???
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#320
07-17-2007, 03:38 AM
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Re: aba caught bluffing against bobby baldwin in 1.8mil pot
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[ QUOTE ] only a moron would win a million dollars at a cash game and then turn around and give the gov't 40% of it. you keep the damn $400,000 and use it as part of your bankroll so that you can make more. you pay taxes on your tourney winnings and other earnings only because you have no choice. maybe when you hit the age of 50 do you give uncle sam "the world's biggest strong arm thief" a cut of your winnings. maybe 10% at the most. [/ QUOTE ] Huh??? [/ QUOTE ] come on dude, i would guess that 99% of cash game players underpay their taxes.
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