Farha VS. Sbrugby

[J4Frankie]

Frankie knows Farha is a really sick loser @ the big game. The fool has only played 60k hands of Omaha in his life, but b/c of sample size, his stats are inaccurate, and so everyone thinks he's kind of good (b/c he runs well in Omaha).

Frankie knows better. Frankie sold his house, car, horse stable, land, and bonds to play the fool; $300k after Ol' Uncle Sam's taxation.

Now Frankie knew what he got himself into, and told sam that they only play by his rules:

No Limit Omaha
4 cards dealt (three exposed)
Each player gets 5 blinds (60k a pop)

And it only took 1 hand for Ol' Sammy to get lucky and end the match:

Frankie had A92[2] rainbow dealt in the hole
Farha was showing TJJ

We posted our blinds and flop came down:
AKQ

I figured my pair was good so I checked, trying to induce a bluff. Sammy checked behind.

Turn came off a Ten and the board looked like this:

AKQT

I figured I'd make it look like I was bluffing (to try to get Sammy to put me all in) so I made it 1 blind to go, Sammy called.

River was a Jack giving Sammy a set.

Putting AKQTJ up on the board.

I figured only way I could take it down was bluff. Frankie led out for another two blinds, and Sammy pushed all in for his remaining three blinds. Knowing I couldn't beat his set, I said "nice play" and mucked face up, showing him my pair of aces.

Push came to shove, and Sammy got the best of it. Frankie knew he could make a comeback with his remaining blind, but in the end he felt it wasn't right; Sammy came to America searching for dreams, and taking them away was not the American thing to do.

We chatted it up instead over some waffles, and eventually struck a business deal.

So how does he get his money? He spews at every game besides Omaha (because the river always bails him out), and yet losing a million in a day to him is like nothing. Well its because he is really good at hustling ppl. He lives in Texas, and runs the oldest scam in the book; selling Lebanese property claiming it is rich in oil.

I fell for this trick back in '97. After our heads up match and waffles, I took his offer, and bought a parcel of his land. For $46 thousand I got this chunk of land:



Till this day I have seen not a drop of oil. Camels, wild boars, and occasional Arab trespassers is all it is good for.

[Bigmoney]

cliff notes

microstakes idiots say farha will win because he can see twitches on aba's face

legit good players say aba is gonna tear farha in half like a phone book because he is awful

barry g shortstacks nl so who cares what he thinks

the end

[john voight]

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cliff notes

microstakes idiots say farha will win because he can see twitches on aba's face

legit good players say aba is gonna tear farha in half like a phone book because he is awful

barry g shortstacks nl so who cares what he thinks

and no one can explain why Farha has so much money from poker (besides J4 Frankie)

the end

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[Whitewash]

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cliff notes

microstakes idiots say farha will win because he can see twitches on aba's face

legit good players say aba is gonna tear farha in half like a phone book because he is awful

barry g shortstacks nl so who cares what he thinks

the end

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POTY

[Do You See Why]

i dont have much to add. i just hope the next update i read says that brian stuck it in sammy for 5 mill.

[isapistola]

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Farha = Vegas prostitution kingpin

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my guess is that hes a drug lord. after all, lebanon is supposed to be a big hash country (or at least used to be).

[samsdmf]

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cliff notes

microstakes idiots say farha will win because he can see twitches on aba's face

legit good players say aba is gonna tear farha in half like a phone book because he is awful

barry g shortstacks nl so who cares what he thinks

the end

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POTY

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Legit good players say that the varience in this game make it as close to 50 50 as you can get, we will never know who is actually +EV and it makes very little difference to the end result- but it is so true about WPT fanboy donks thinking Farha is crushing becuase he knows that when aba bluffs his teeth grow or some other amazing tell

[GoldenIP]

I'm just cracking up at the amount of "pros" in this thread. New2NL is my new favourite 2p2 pro. He DEFINITELY knows what he's talking about people!

[GoldenIP]

In all seriousness, I just cannot fathom how you think any live player has an edge over players like ABA in the long run. Sammy Farha must hate money if he was happy playing ABA over a large quantity of live hands (if that was possible).

Someone said it in the Sklansky thread recently. They ran numbers and the point was, a successful live pro may have just ran hot for 10 years because they simply haven't played enough hands for variance to kick them in the a$$ and really illustrate how good they are.

Until a live player even comes close to the type of experience as ABA, CTS, DURRRR, PA etc. has, I wouldn't even contemplate putting them in the same sentence as the words "great player" or "better than".

In fact, I think it's retarded that anyone even overlooks the experience/no. of hands argument of online vs. live players. It's just not even close...

[Stake Monster]

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In all seriousness, I just cannot fathom how you think any live player has an edge over players like ABA in the long run. Sammy Farha must hate money if he was happy playing ABA over a large quantity of live hands (if that was possible).

Someone said it in the Sklansky thread recently. They ran numbers and the point was, a successful live pro may have just ran hot for 10 years because they simply haven't played enough hands for variance to kick them in the a$$ and really illustrate how good they are.

Until a live player even comes close to the type of experience as ABA, CTS, DURRRR, PA etc. has, I wouldn't even contemplate putting them in the same sentence as the words "great player" or "better than".

In fact, I think it's retarded that anyone even overlooks the experience/no. of hands argument of online vs. live players. It's just not even close...

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Sure, experience in the amount of hands played helps, but playing live involves a lot more than just poker knowledge and experience, and that is where the edge can be smoothened a bit.