"Official" High Stakes Poker Season 3 (Week of 1/15)

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I think Gabe said Matasows bet with AK was too risky.

What about Alaie holding 55, calling 9k before the flop and with 346 on the flop, not calling a 15k bet. There was already 27k "plus the 15k flop bet" in the pot. Even if Chen has an overpair, Alaie is only a 3-2 dog. The money that was already in there justified some kind of play. Doesn't he have to at least call and take one off. As it turns out, Chen (who had AQ) was probably through with the pot, but results aside.

[aislephive]

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I think Gabe said Matasows bet with AK was too risky.

What about Alaie holding 55, calling 9k before the flop and with 346 on the flop, not calling a 15k bet. There was already 27k "plus the 15k flop bet" in the pot. Even if Chen has an overpair, Alaie is only a 3-2 dog. The money that was already in there justified some kind of play. Doesn't he have to at least call and take one off. As it turns out, Chen (who had AQ) was probably through with the pot, but results aside.

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Yeah IMO Alaei should have raised there and repped 33/44/66 which makes perfect sense. If Chan has an overpair, there is at least some fold equity (depending on which overpair he has). Chen has to know that with an overpair there he is not far ahead of any of Alaei's range and will be quite often crushed. Alaei will still be 35-40% to win when he walks into an overpair, and there is already quite a bit of dead money, plus some fold equity, and there are plenty of times Chen has a big ace that missed.

Maybe Alaei just didn't want to make a high variance play like that for $100k. That's all I can think of honestly.

[kflop]

Everything you say is true, but why not just call the 15k? There's already at least 42k in there. Why just give it up?

[illguitar]

What were Doyle and Daniel talking about rating players. Doyle said he had people in groups and not a number one overall. Was this a poll? PPL? Anything on this?

[TheLittle]

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Everything you say is true, but why not just call the 15k? There's already at least 42k in there. Why just give it up?

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Calling the 15k is the same as going all-in, you can't call and then muck, so you'd be commited for the rest.

[oyvindgee]

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Everything you say is true, but why not just call the 15k? There's already at least 42k in there. Why just give it up?

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Calling the 15k is the same as going all-in, you can't call and then muck, so you'd be commited for the rest.

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Unless one of them was a short stack this is so incredibly wrong.

[Jooka]

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8) High Stakes Poker: Watched the first episode of season three. For those that don't know, in the second episode Gabe will be jumping into my seat and I'll be jumping in the booth to do the commentary while he is in there.

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quote from DN's blog. should be interesting both to see gabe play and what DN will have to say about hands as they go down.

[Party]

"he could have a small pocket pair here for a set, an overpair, a couple overcards, a strai- oh wait it's right here. he has a flush, right, i was just getting to that. well i don't see how gabe can't call with all the bad hands and bluffs his opponent could be running............."
"oh he folded. how terrible, i could have played that so much better"