WPT CHAMPIONSHIP DAY 1

[surfinillini]

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With blinds 100/200-25, Lance made it 400 from the one-hole, the first time he’d made less than a 3x the blind raise since the hand with Varkoni. I had queens in late position. I raised, curious as to what he would do. If he had a big pair, I wanted to know now. Sure enough, he put in a blue 5k chip, but he forgot to say raise! With some players these days, you need to be careful of them taking a shot with this play. But I knew Lance had meant to raise. Had he made the raise correctly, I would have called because I could break him if I flopped a set, but instead I got a free look. The flop came three babies, and he bet 5k into a 3200 pot. I quickly made an easy fold, and he showed two kings.

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this was the best part

...easy fold [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Rianna]

Blair is truly a Class person and a tremendous tournament player IMHO.

For those of you that don't have his "Kill Phil" book and play tournaments, your really missing something important IMHO.

Blair and Lee Nelson have a site for those interested in the Kill Phil methodology (altho I don't have the site name handy, sorry...maybe type in kill phil) and they ALWAYS respond to questions that have to do with their book, that's rare IMO..I have learned a lot from them.

Finally, both Blair and Lee have many tournament 'blogs' (?) that I too enjoy reading like the one Blair has done above.

Both fine people and excellent players, IMHO were lucky that they both are willing to share this kind of info with us.

Thanks Blair.

[dlk9s]

Lance Funston is awesome. I saw him play at the USPC in October - he did quite well. I remember the highlight of the tournament:

At his table, the flop produced three spades, one of which was the Ace. The first player to act bet out hard Funston re-raised. His opponent then moved all-in.

After that bet, Funston looked around the table and said, “Can I ask a question,” to which most of the table said, “No,” fearing that it might be against the rules, depending on what he was about to ask.

Funston continued, “All I want to ask is what hand beats what.”

Everyone was shocked.

He then said, “I’m dead serious. I was up late last night and my head is fuzzy. Does a flush beat three-of-a-kind?”

At this point, the floor was called over and Funston asked the question again. The floor manager looked at him like he was crazy and responded, “Yes, I believe it does.”

After that was over, Funston called the all-in, showing a Queen high flush, knocking out the other dude, who had an eight high flush.

Bizarre.

[LotsOfOuts69]

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Lance Funston is awesome. I saw him play at the USPC in October - he did quite well. I remember the highlight of the tournament:

At his table, the flop produced three spades, one of which was the Ace. The first player to act bet out hard Funston re-raised. His opponent then moved all-in.

After that bet, Funston looked around the table and said, “Can I ask a question,” to which most of the table said, “No,” fearing that it might be against the rules, depending on what he was about to ask.

Funston continued, “All I want to ask is what hand beats what.”

Everyone was shocked.

He then said, “I’m dead serious. I was up late last night and my head is fuzzy. Does a flush beat three-of-a-kind?”

At this point, the floor was called over and Funston asked the question again. The floor manager looked at him like he was crazy and responded, “Yes, I believe it does.”

After that was over, Funston called the all-in, showing a Queen high flush, knocking out the other dude, who had an eight high flush.

Bizarre.

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This is why i spend my days trying to qualify for these big events.

[EvilSmurf]

Blair. Your tourney reports are always a great read, thanks for taking the time to post them.