WSOP Day 7 Main Event Thread - Page 36

#**351** 08-08-2006, 05:15 PM

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So WSOP POY last year and possible ME champ this year? Not bad.

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That would be 2 of the 3 legs of the Daniel Negreanu's Triple Crown (and certainly the most difficult legs).

NapHead · #**352** 08-08-2006, 05:15 PM

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Gold is only two hands away from going broke. I think Cunningham can take this thing down. He is by far the most experienced and successful live tournament player still in it.

I saw something on ESPN a year or so ago about Cunningham. Apparently he, Negreanu, Juanda, and another big name pro whose names escapes me (Lindgren maybe?) played a lot together when they were just starting out. Both Negreanu and Juanda said that Cunningham is now the best player out of that group.

The guy seems to have zero personality, though. I don't think he would be nearly as good an ambassador for the game as Raymer and Hachem have been.

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The pre-action betting today had Cunningham at second choice at 6-1 to win the ME despite the fact he was sitting in 13th place. Last line I saw on Gold was 3-1.

Lawman007 · #**353** 08-08-2006, 05:16 PM

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Gold is only two hands away from going broke. I think Cunningham can take this thing down. He is by far the most experienced and successful live tournament player still in it.

I saw something on ESPN a year or so ago about Cunningham. Apparently he, Negreanu, Juanda, and another big name pro whose names escapes me (Lindgren maybe?) played a lot together when they were just starting out. Both Negreanu and Juanda said that Cunningham is now the best player out of that group.

The guy seems to have zero personality, though. I don't think he would be nearly as good an ambassador for the game as Raymer and Hachem have been.

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Cool. Thanks.

jjigglers · #**354** 08-08-2006, 05:17 PM

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Cunningham's in second place

How exactly does he play, I'm not at all familiar with him and I'm just curious

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Well.

Lawman007 · #**355** 08-08-2006, 05:17 PM

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The guy seems to have zero personality, though. I don't think he would be nearly as good an ambassador for the game as Raymer and Hachem have been.

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Raymer and Hachem aren't exactly oozing with personality.

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Maybe not, but they're Bill Clinton compared to Cunningham. LOL

RockMySocks · #**356** 08-08-2006, 05:18 PM

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Running over the table with a monster stack can be +EV fyi. Just look at Raymer in 2004

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just thought i'd add a "fair and balanced" fyp...

Quake1028 · #**357** 08-08-2006, 05:20 PM

Where else can I get updates online besides CP?

Quicksilvre · #**358** 08-08-2006, 05:21 PM

Vorhaus blog

PStars blog

You can also check out Pokerwire, but they most get ther updates from CP.

Moose747 · #**359** 08-08-2006, 05:22 PM

I think people will warm up to Allen Cunningham once he starts using his elf-magic to heal diseased children.

UATrewqaz · #**360** 08-08-2006, 05:22 PM

I don't think Rizen's play was terrible. he knew Gold is playing "big stack push around" style and knew he would raise if he sensed weakness, his reraise screams "I knew you were going to raise on a steal and I've trapped you cause I've got a big hand"

Everything worked according to plan except gold actually had a solid hand and called.

One could of course argue that this play is unnecessarily risky (aka he could run into a good hand, like he did). He also had lots of chips and can survive and hopefully find better spots, etc.

however I don't think you can consider it "terrible"

(I'm not a MTT player by any means so my strategery could of course suck ass)