*Official* Root for Rizen thread

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From p5's live:

After losing a 6.5 million dollar pot Eric had this to say:

"I made a bad call. He check called the flop and then check raised the turn. I raised UTG and continued with it post flop, what could he put me on there other than AA, and he wouldn't play it that way unless he could beat Aces. I almost mucked it face up, but I talked myself into it. It was 2.6 million more and I could have left myself with 3.8 million and been in fine shape. Instead I'm down to 800k and it's back to short stack ninja mode."

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I have been listening to his podcasts and following the action and that call just seemed so out of character. The pot was about $600k and the guy puts in another 2.5million. The only hand Eric could beat was the flush draw, or another over pair but would the guy really risk so much on those type of hands? A two pair type hand that was vulnerable seemed so likely. A set also seemed like a strong candidate. I didn't see a call being even remotely correct unless he had some really good tell or past history with the guy and even then... Curious to hear more about the hand.

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Rizen posted this in the WSOP Day 6 thread:

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This hand was GROSSLY mis-reported. I raised to 140k pre-flop and he called the extra 100k cold with 45s. Then I bet 175k on the flop, and 400k on the turn before he shoved. After blinds and antes there was over 1.5 million in the pot, and he told me he had 2.2 mill behind (which was my mistake for not making him count). It WAS a bad call IMO, but had the count been accurate I was getting decent odds on a drawing board and would have been left with over 1.2m if I lost, which is a playable stack. I think the call was a mistake and I talked myself into it, but I didn't slowplay at all and the pot was huge.

-Rizen

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Considering this action the call isn't as bad as the CP reporting made it (P5lives quoted from there too). Like Rizen said, it still wasn't a good call though.

Gotta look ahead to tomorrow though. Rizen still has a nice stack and we know he'll be dangerous.

GL going into the final 3 tables Rizen... we'll be waiting to start ANOTHER (WSOP) sweat thread after tomorrow.