IMO Yang clearly outplayed FT

[W brad]

A couple months ago I was listening to David Sklansky on Dr. Al Schoonmaker's radio show.

The thing that I remember most from that conversation was David's emphasis on the idea that when a bad or mediocre player is aggressive, he is getting as close to optimum profitable play possible.

With a donk who is insanely aggressive against good players who are too passive, I'd take the donk to win more than his fair share.

Yang did get lucky in many hands, but he also won many hands by being properly aggressive. He did outplay most of the table.

[fees]

LOL at a donkament player outplaying other donkament players
also nice sample size

good post

[jsmith5]

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...when Yang was showing down he more often than not seemed to have a reasonable hand (barring the odd J8.) He did make a pretty sick call with A-9 but that was a chance to take out a dangerous pro who had position on him and it doesn't cripple him if he's wrong there

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Great post by OP.

As far as the J8 push it was actually quite a smart play as Childs had already shown he could lay down QQ. I think it was a great resteal and even if he lost would continue to set the tone that he was table boss. I also agree with analysis on the A9 call vs Watkinson.

It appeared to a few of us in the media that Yang had been coached in the Navarro/Hellmuth style of table posture (leaning forward, covering mouth, etc). Maybe someone else has given this some verbage on here already, but would like to hear any one else's thoughts.

[Ace-Ex]

I'm not sure how you can say he got "way better hands." We hardly ever saw what he was holding, particularly during the first hour when he was absolutely running over the table. Seemed to me to be a strategic play on his part. Maybe he had AA every time and we just didn't see it yet.