WPT Season 4: Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship (4/12)

[Fallen Hero]

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and is supposedly one the big winners in the "big game"

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he's famous for trying to hit and run at the big game, not exactly what I would call "one of the big winners"

[Mr. Orange]

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and is supposedly one the big winners in the "big game"

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he's famous for trying to hit and run at the big game, not exactly what I would call "one of the big winners"

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My info comes from Barry Greensteins website. No offense but I trust his opinion more than yours.

[Fallen Hero]

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and is supposedly one the big winners in the "big game"

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he's famous for trying to hit and run at the big game, not exactly what I would call "one of the big winners"

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My info comes from Barry Greensteins website. No offense but I trust his opinion more than yours.

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Mine comes from DN's blog, I'm sure you don't think personally know anything about this [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

EDIT, after reading barry greensteins' site: he doesn't say he's one of the biggest winners in the big game, he talks about high stakes games in general.

[emil3000]

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The guys on TV called Minh Ly "Lee", but Doyle called him "Lie". So which is it?


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I'm not sure, but I would side with the person who knows Minh very well and plays with him often as opposed to the reliability of two awful commentators' pronunciations.

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Well, I have an even more reliable source, since Minh actually said his own name in the episode, and he pronounced it as Ming Lee.

[MikeGuz]

I think they pick 30 hands for TV.

[Big Mike Watters]

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I'm guess you don't play many tournaments or SNG's at least. The blinds were insanely huge. He was playing with a push/fold strategy, fairly common in these types of situations. He was playing a correct strategy given the situation. Just because he put a few bad beats on people when everyone at the table has 10-15BB each doesn't make him a donkey.

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I actually DO play in quite a bit of tourney style games...it's my preferred game in fact...and a couple of those hands were suspect. The one that sticks out is him pushing with J2o or J3o....something ridiculously bad like that. Bad paint, no flush or straight ops...just bad. Preflop on the button. I just don't get it. You're only gonna get called by something that beats you. Sexton even said that at one point. I do understand the strategy...and employ it heads up...but with slightly better cards than that. Any Ace...any pair...suited connectors...something better than some of the weird hands he pushed with.

You could tell Harrington was thinking the same thing by the look on his face...he knew the guy was off his rocker with the aggression.

And I don't think he's a donkey...you don't cash like he does being a donkey...I personally just think that it was a situation where, like most of those big game players where it's not about the money so much as making a name or a splash on TV...or maybe he was getting bored. He doesn't need the money(I would hope). He IS in the biggest games...cashes in the WSOP and is a WPT Champion.

He just did it in a way that baffled me. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[thedarknight]

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and is supposedly one the big winners in the "big game"

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he's famous for trying to hit and run at the big game, not exactly what I would call "one of the big winners"

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yeah apparently he's a huge nit..danny also said he's too busy to play that much since he's a big celebrity after his win.
i pump my fists when i'm a dog, and then ramble something incoherently. there was thread a couple months back where steve hudak mentioned how minh ly has a horrible grasp of the english language and may have mistakenly made a wrong move.

[Photoc]

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I was under the impression that it was "minn lah". I dunno. I'm almost 100% that it's not "MinG" though.

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You're confusing this with (I believe) a WPT final table appearance by Ming La in season 1 or 2.

[PhilHelmet]

Worst episode yet.. This program is going down the toilet.. fast!

[Dark Bet]

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I'm guess you don't play many tournaments or SNG's at least. The blinds were insanely huge. He was playing with a push/fold strategy, fairly common in these types of situations. He was playing a correct strategy given the situation. Just because he put a few bad beats on people when everyone at the table has 10-15BB each doesn't make him a donkey.

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I actually DO play in quite a bit of tourney style games...it's my preferred game in fact...and a couple of those hands were suspect. The one that sticks out is him pushing with J2o or J3o....something ridiculously bad like that. Bad paint, no flush or straight ops...just bad. Preflop on the button. I just don't get it. You're only gonna get called by something that beats you. Sexton even said that at one point. I do understand the strategy...and employ it heads up...but with slightly better cards than that. Any Ace...any pair...suited connectors...something better than some of the weird hands he pushed with.

You could tell Harrington was thinking the same thing by the look on his face...he knew the guy was off his rocker with the aggression.

And I don't think he's a donkey...you don't cash like he does being a donkey...I personally just think that it was a situation where, like most of those big game players where it's not about the money so much as making a name or a splash on TV...or maybe he was getting bored. He doesn't need the money(I would hope). He IS in the biggest games...cashes in the WSOP and is a WPT Champion.

He just did it in a way that baffled me. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I don't think you understand expected value or fold equity at all,