NBC National Heads-Up Championship - Taping at Caesar's 3/4 - 3/6

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Who replaced Harman? (her father passed away yesterday, so she had to leave the tournament).

[Jourdain]

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Who replaced Harman? (her father passed away yesterday, so she had to leave the tournament).

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Bobby Baldwin.

[Beavis68]

Raymer vs Negreanu will be fun to watch.

I hope Paul P does well.

[Beavis68]

Tuan Le beat out Hasan Habib.

They chip dumped to each other for 3 hours (Hasan "accidently" folded his BB once when Tuan was limped in the SB" until Hasab was allin in SB with AA and lost to Tuan's 72o on the board of A 7 2 7 7.

After the match they hugged and Hasan was overheard saying "we did it buddy" to Tuan.

[Joe_d72]

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Wow

Date / Time: 2006-03-04 13:38:00
Title: Sean Sheikan Hits Quads
Log: Gus Hansen and Sean Sheikan are all in with the board reading 10-10-8-8-8. Hansen flips over 10-6 for tens full of eights but Sheikan shows 9-8 for quad eights. Sheikan doubles up.

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WOW. Sheik had 3% on the flop, and 2% on the turn to win. Thats so cold. Then Gus busts on top pair + nut flush draw. Sad. 95 times out of 100 Gus would pwn sheik.

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Cardplayer got the hand wrong the flop came 10-8-8 then the case 8 on the turn.

and if u think gus would beat shawn 95 out of 100 times you are an idiot.

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Here we go, second round action:

The following matches are set to begin from the Clubs bracket:
Chris Ferguson vs Chip Reese (Feature Table)
Dan Harrington vs David Chesnoff
James McManus vs Mike Sexton
Eli Elezra vs Josh Arieh

The following matches are set to begin from the Spades bracket:

Erick Lindgren vs Huck Seed
Scott Fischman vs Dee Luong
Mike Caro vs Amir Vahedi
Barry Greenstein vs Tuan Le

[UATrewqaz]

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and if u think gus would beat shawn 95 out of 100 times you are an idiot.


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This is true (gus would not win this much) not because Shawn is great, but due to the very nature of heads up.

Example.

I'm playing Phil Ivey heads up. I know he's way better than me so the last thing I wanna do is play real poker. My solution? I could go all in every hand.

We start with even chip stacks so either I'm going to pick up the blinds a few times and get the lead, or he's gonna call.

When I have the lead or we are even I simply have to win the hand.

The majority of the time he'll have 2 higher cards to my 2 lower cards (AK vs 74 for example) and be about 65-35 underdog.

Even if he has a higher pair I'd still "only" be a 85-15 underdog.

Thus you figure a player using a "move all in every hand" strategy is STILL going to win ~ 20% of the heads up matches, no matter how good or bad the plyaers involved are.

[TomHimself]

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and if u think gus would beat shawn 95 out of 100 times you are an idiot.


[/ QUOTE ] yea not with this structure

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Barry Greenstein raises to $1,200 on the button. Tuan Le reraises to $3,200 and Greenstein calls. The flop comes 10d-7h-5d, and Le bets out $3,000. Greenstein moves all in, and Le calls. Greestein has Le covered. Greenstein shows the Jd-8d and Le shows the 7d-6d. Le has the lead with a pair of sevens, but Greenstein has two overcards, and the bigger flush draw. The turn brings the 9d giving Greenstein the flush, and leaves Le drawing dead. As you can see from their hole cards Le can not make the straight flush as Barry has the 8d in his hand. The river is the meaningless Kh, and Tuan Le is eliminated by his mentor, Barry Greenstein.

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Josh Arieh makes it $1,200 from the button and Eli Elezra reraises to $4,200. Arieh calls. The flop is 7-6-5, Elezra moves all in and Arieh calls. Elezra shows pocket queens but Arieh has flopped the nut straight with 9-8. The turn is a jack and Josh Arieh has won a monster pot.

Eli Elezra moves all in for his last few chips with 10d-9d. Josh Arieh calls with Kc-Qh and the board comes Ac-Qd-4c-2d-7h. Eli Elezra has been eliminated from the tournament.