WSOP Day 6 Main Event Thread

[alvaroaze]

Told you CP misreported it... pot had at least 650k.

Huge pot goes to Erik Friberg; Rizen is the victim. Rizen raises 130K under-the-gun. Friberg calls from the big blind. Flop comes Qc-9s-5s and Friberg checks. Rizen bets 200,000 and Friberg calls. Turn is 4c and, after Friberg checks again, Rizen makes it 300,000. Friberg now moves all-in, for about 3 million. Rizen squeezes his cards again and I see A-A. He dwells, then calls for about 90 per cent of his stack. Friberg shows 4-5d for two pair. River is a blank and the Swede scoops a 4 million pot.

[alvaroaze]

Go Tech!!!

With the blinds at 20K/40K/5K, Doug Kim made it 120,000 to play, Jamie Gold called Lee Kort called. The flop came out TdTs5h. The players checked around. A jack of hearts fell on the turn. Gold checked, Lee Kort bet 200K, and Doug called. Gold folded. The river was a nine of hearts. Kort checks. Doug thinks for two minutes then checks behind, showing KQ for runner-runner straight win for 850,000.

[RubbishCards]

From P5slive:
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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."

For a guy who just dropped from 5th in chips to 26/30 he was in good spirits. It helps that his wife and son arrived at the break. Corbin Lynch gave his dad a much needed pep talk and scolding over his play this last level, and then proceeded to do laps around his Mom, Dad and Grandma, trying to escape Rizen's watchful eye at every opportunity.


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[BadgerPro]

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From P5slive:
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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."

For a guy who just dropped from 5th in chips to 26/30 he was in good spirits. It helps that his wife and son arrived at the break. Corbin Lynch gave his dad a much needed pep talk and scolding over his play this last level, and then proceeded to do laps around his Mom, Dad and Grandma, trying to escape Rizen's watchful eye at every opportunity.


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The little kid sounds awesome, hopefully he also brings some good luck to Rizen. Also not too suprising to hear that Rizen is still in good spirits, the guy never seems to be down or on tilt... a true pro.

[advilandy]

well seeing that even after such a big hand he can evaluate what happened, I think he's going to be alright in ninja mode. GO RIZEN

[Jeff76]

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well seeing that even after such a big hand he can evaluate what happened I think he's going to be alright in ninja mode.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, isn't the standard play here to type in "54, how can you play that trash? What a #@$%%^ joke". But I guess he can't type cause it isn't online . . .

He is a class act, and it's good that he can see his mistakes for what they are- I'm certain this one of the things that makes him such a big winner.

[Gazzbut]

http://www.gutshot.com/wsop/wsop.php

Interview with Doug Kim in the first update.

[fnurt]

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Told you CP misreported it... pot had at least 650k.

Huge pot goes to Erik Friberg; Rizen is the victim. Rizen raises 130K under-the-gun. Friberg calls from the big blind. Flop comes Qc-9s-5s and Friberg checks. Rizen bets 200,000 and Friberg calls. Turn is 4c and, after Friberg checks again, Rizen makes it 300,000. Friberg now moves all-in, for about 3 million. Rizen squeezes his cards again and I see A-A. He dwells, then calls for about 90 per cent of his stack. Friberg shows 4-5d for two pair. River is a blank and the Swede scoops a 4 million pot.

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I really don't like Friberg's line here. How often do you get paid off when you check-raise the turn for eleventy billion dollars, setting aside that he was lucky enough to get paid off in the actual hand?

If Rizen calls with QQQ or 999 we'd all be posting about how stupid the check-raise was since OBVIOUSLY only a better hand is going to call.

If this is the best plan Friberg has for the turn then I doubt his flop call is +EV. Calling a couple large bets from an UTG raiser is only going to pay off in the long run if you have a deeper bag of tricks than this.

[Rizen]

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Told you CP misreported it... pot had at least 650k.

Huge pot goes to Erik Friberg; Rizen is the victim. Rizen raises 130K under-the-gun. Friberg calls from the big blind. Flop comes Qc-9s-5s and Friberg checks. Rizen bets 200,000 and Friberg calls. Turn is 4c and, after Friberg checks again, Rizen makes it 300,000. Friberg now moves all-in, for about 3 million. Rizen squeezes his cards again and I see A-A. He dwells, then calls for about 90 per cent of his stack. Friberg shows 4-5d for two pair. River is a blank and the Swede scoops a 4 million pot.

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I really don't like Friberg's line here. How often do you get paid off when you check-raise the turn for eleventy billion dollars, setting aside that he was lucky enough to get paid off in the actual hand?

If Rizen calls with QQQ or 999 we'd all be posting about how stupid the check-raise was since OBVIOUSLY only a better hand is going to call.

If this is the best plan Friberg has for the turn then I doubt his flop call is +EV. Calling a couple large bets from an UTG raiser is only going to pay off in the long run if you have a deeper bag of tricks than this.

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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

[adanthar]

Rizen,

Relax and don't justify anything to anybody right now - focus on the guys you are playing and their weaknesses. You're among the best players left and can take any of them on. Don't waste your time thinking about what the Internet thinks, that stuff comes in a few days.

PS: pwn pls