"official" WPT Championship IV Thread

[DemonDeac]

nice call

[mlagoo]

bartholdi was really impressive. and seems pretty cool/chill. i hope he does not go busto again.

[Whitewash]

Pretty amazing last hand.... great semi-bluff by David Matthew, almost as if he knew what Bartholdi was holding. Bartholdi is supposed to fold the hand at that point, but makes the sickest call I've ever seen at a final table.

Honestly, does anyone here even contemplate calling $7 million there?

[THEOSU]

1) matthews was pretty aggro. an ace was unlikely due to his limp.

2) therefore, the 9 was essentially top pair. it came down to a kicker issue. the fact that matthews was also very aggro on his draws and with bottom pairs (he showed a few bottom pairs during the final table) made it more likely that just the naked 9 was good

3) matthews initially tried to bet 500k instead of 800k. remember tuan lee putting in a "call" last year with some trash like 85o, but putting too many chips in and having it serve as a raise. he then pushed over top of maxfield's reraise. it's not too often that a player underminbets with a legitimate monster.

4) despite all this, it's still an awesome call. bartholdi played really, really well.

5) i still really really feel for JVA. I know we've all been in those spots when you take a big lead to a final table, you feel good, you think you're the best player there and not only does nothing go right, but everything goes abjectly wrong. you run into the nuts, you fail to pull the trigger when they can't call another bet, and you bet once more when they will. I've been there, I've done that. I haven't been there nor done that with $3M on the line.

[LuckOfTheDraw]

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that interview with Van Alstyne was AWESOME!!

-At least you won some money, coming in fifth.
-Yea but with the money at stake, that was......insignifcant.

love it

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When he glanced at his hand at the very end of the interview, had he crushed his sunglasses or am I just seeing things?

[Stumpy]

I think Van Alstyne is actually known as a really tight player (typically.) I watched him play the final table live in Tahoe last year, and he was the short stack forever with 9 left and made it to 3rd(and went in with the best hand). Which was about 6 hours of play if I remember right. I think he seriously did mess himself up because he had the huge chiplead... Felt like he had to push people around and it isn't his style. Two of his huge bluffs would have worked if he'd been willing to bet one more time at the end...


Matthew's inverview at the end was pure class.

[JPMurph]

What was Claus thinking? Not only did he make a poor call fundamentally speaking, but isn't Roland low stacked at this point? And isn't it worth the real American cash to wait out one more spot and increase winnings by half a million?? Did anyone else notice this? I think it was a HUGE blowup, and may have cost him millions of dollars he may never make up.

[billyjex]

Claus and the black dude really sucked. At least the black dude was aggro to keep the pressure on.

joe played great. really impressed with his play. the last hand was a great call, especially with what was at stake, but the way the other guy was playing and the fact he likely didnt have an A makes it a reasonable call. if you think "omfg big 4-bet all in i only have middle pair millions on the line," then you arent playing good.

[sketchy1]

are you kidding? there was 600+ entrants. do you really expect 6 name pros to outlast 600+ fields every time?

[surfinillini]

that was actually a good episode for once

alstyne is such a nitty TAG player, he really got his $hit fuct up switching to tricky LAG style play...even in position he couldn't man up to fire bullets...

he got what he deserved b/c he played horribly

the interview was awesome, but that bitch courtney freil sucks at life and can't even do a good interview

I hate her