High Stakes Poker thread (9/10)
 

Here starts a thread for all discussion regarding the 9/10 episode of High Stakes Poker, airing at 9pm ET tonight on GSN. As usual, please try to note any spoilers for those on the West Coast, who are Tivoing the show, or watching the show later on the various other ways it can be watched (but not linked to).

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I hope Hellmuth gets stacked, and cries a lot!

I know I will be in the minority here but I can't wait to see Jamie Gold play. I take much pleasure in watching him slowly get robbed of a fortune he never deserved.

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when was shak on HSP? i dont remember that...(watching reruns)

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Season 3. You're not the only one trying not to remember it.

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What was Todd complaining about in the very beginning of tonight's episode?

He said something like, "Why are you asking? What's the rule here? There should be a rule here?"

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who are these new guys?

EDIT: realized i was watching a rerun. but who is anthony salorio, silent mike and that other guy? onliners?

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do you guys think, in general, the 7-2 game makes watching HSP better or worse? i think i like it a bit better

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do you guys think, in general, the 7-2 game makes watching HSP better or worse? i think i like it a bit better

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I'm fine with one or two 72 hands per episode, but I'm hoping they stop it there. Hopefully there won't be another one this episode.

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Back from the commercial break, and there's another 72.

Bluffing is entertaining, but so are real hands occasionally.

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Classic from Safai. Asking Hellmuth if he jacked off while looking at a picture of himself, then had to take a shower when it got all over him. Wow. Priceless

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Here starts a thread for all discussion regarding the 9/10 episode of High Stakes Poker, airing at 9pm ET tonight on GSN. As usual, please try to note any spoilers for those on the West Coast, who are Tivoing the show, or watching the show later on the various other ways it can be watched (but not linked to).

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Wow..last two hands between Hellmuth/Safai and Baxter/Mouth deliver. Despite the absence of Negreanu/Farha/Esfandiari, this has been a fun episode. If only Silent Mike would talk more. He has been in the middle of a lot of entertaining hands.

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Here starts a thread for all discussion regarding the 9/10 episode of High Stakes Poker, airing at 9pm ET tonight on GSN. As usual, please try to note any spoilers for those on the West Coast, who are Tivoing the show, or watching the show later on the various other ways it can be watched (but not linked to).

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I was wondering the same thing. I think it would suffice if people would just refrain from starting other threads that may contain spoilers, especially in the thread title. Basically, a person who doesn't want to see spoilers for this episode should be able to read any thread other than the official one (that's this one).

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Ooh, next week looks good:

Hellmuth, Harman, Gold, Safai, Negreanu, Farha ... two others too. Can't remember.

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The guy who felted Phil with a 6-high flush needs to have a shrine built to him.

"I lifted weights, ran three miles, took a shower and now I'm ready to play perfect poker."

And gets felted by an amateur on the very next hand. LOVE IT!

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Does anybody know anything about Safai? He looks familiar, but I don't recognize the name.

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Bob Safai (born in 1962) is the owner a successful real estate company in Los Angeles, CA. Safai considers poker to be a hobby and sees himself strictly as a recreational player. He has played high-stakes cash games for over 10 years, playing no-limit hold'em up as high as $500/$1000. When asked to describe his poker playing style, Safai says, "I'm the loosest guy at the table."

http://www.gsn.com/hsp/players_safai.php

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Just what I've read....in real estate.

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Classic from Safai. Asking Hellmuth if he jacked off while looking at a picture of himself, then had to take a shower when it got all over him. Wow. Priceless

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I personally found this comment distasteful and out of line even if Safai really did just repeat what the others had said when Phil was away. But I'm not a Phil hater.

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Baxter misplayed the J/10 because he didn't want to be bluffed by Hellmuth...Phil knew exactly where he was on every street, he should of kept his mouth shut and fired 35k on the river and he would have won the pot and $500 from everybody at the table...sick read, sh*tty table-talk (ie "I'm hard to read because I talk when I have big hands")

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Classic from Safai. Asking Hellmuth if he jacked off while looking at a picture of himself, then had to take a shower when it got all over him. Wow. Priceless

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I personally found this comment distasteful and out of line even if Safai really did just repeat what the others had said when Phil was away. But I'm not a Phil hater.

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This is poker not bridge!

How long until Safai gets his own thread where the Helmuth sycophants talk about what an annoying fish he is?

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The real suspense at this point is not whether Safai felts Hellmuth, or silent Mike felts Mike the Mouth. The real suspense is will Todd play a hand all season?

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"I'm hard to read because I talk when I have big hands")

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I did not TIVO this but I could have sworn the exact quote was something like "I'm hard to read because I talk when I have big hands too ". Can someone confirm the exact quote?

Like I said, I could be wrong, but I did a double-take at the quote I THINK I heard (above) because I thought that was the biggest tell he's ever let out (unless, of course, he's going third level). It just seemed very genuine and in my mind first instinct would have had him on a bluff at that comment.

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The real suspense at this point is not whether Safai felts Hellmuth, or silent Mike felts Mike the Mouth. The real suspense is will Todd play a hand all season?

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he had aces one hand

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he had aces one hand

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Yeah and he reraised big and everyone folded since he's been playing pretty tight.

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Classic from Safai. Asking Hellmuth if he jacked off while looking at a picture of himself, then had to take a shower when it got all over him. Wow. Priceless

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I personally found this comment distasteful and out of line even if Safai really did just repeat what the others had said when Phil was away. But I'm not a Phil hater.

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This is poker not bridge!

How long until Safai gets his own thread where the Helmuth sycophants talk about what an annoying fish he is?

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I actually love Hellmuth and I think Safai's comment was priceless.. this guy looks like he might be great as a HSP regular.

Also, next week I think the game is really going to take off. We have heard that season 4 gets ridiculous in the action department and it looks like next episode that will begin. First 3 episodes were a nice start.

Peace

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This was my all time favorite HSP episode. Action out the wahzoo with multiple players PF, felting, quick calls on all streets, a great line by Bob Safai (will go down as one of the best one liners on any poker show), good bluff reads (MM vs Harabalos), Hellmuth on tilt, and the game played exactly like the typical game at the bike.

The 2 new guys are excellent additions to the show and they play fast and are willing to raise and get involved in big pots. Plus they both have years' experience live so they aren't cowed by Hellmuth and his comments.

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Here starts a thread for all discussion regarding the 9/10 episode of High Stakes Poker, airing at 9pm ET tonight on GSN. As usual, please try to note any spoilers for those on the West Coast, who are Tivoing the show, or watching the show later on the various other ways it can be watched (but not linked to).

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Seems to me that once the show is over it should be fine to post whatever we want in the official threads. If I am tivo'ing and haven't watched yet then I'll make it a point to stay out of this thread. I hope others would do the same.

BTW, happy Birthday Kevin.

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What was Todd complaining about in the very beginning of tonight's episode?

He said something like, "Why are you asking? What's the rule here? There should be a rule here?"

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I think he was complaining about the 72. One of the new guys was asking about it and Todd sounded like he didn't want to keep it going and was hoping someone else would object.

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do you guys think, in general, the 7-2 game makes watching HSP better or worse? i think i like it a bit better

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Much better.

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Classic from Safai. Asking Hellmuth if he jacked off while looking at a picture of himself, then had to take a shower when it got all over him. Wow. Priceless

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I personally found this comment distasteful and out of line even if Safai really did just repeat what the others had said when Phil was away. But I'm not a Phil hater.

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LOL. Are you leveling? Nah. Doesn't sound like it. That was one of the all time greatest putdowns at a poker table - evar. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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In the 9/3 thread, someone linked to a site I could watch the episode. I'm assuming the admin doesn't want it posted any longer. Is it ok for someone to pm me a url?

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BTW, where is McCutter now?

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What a gloriously good episode.

I have to say, HSP Season 4 and the 72 prop has made cash games FAR more lucrative of late. People see it and they want to try it. I'm all for it! Talk about opening up the action.

What? You're raising 25x the BB pre-flop? Why... I may just call!

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What was Todd complaining about in the very beginning of tonight's episode?

He said something like, "Why are you asking? What's the rule here? There should be a rule here?"

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I think he was complaining about the 72. One of the new guys was asking about it and Todd sounded like he didn't want to keep it going and was hoping someone else would object.

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Yeah, then later Todd was bitching because somebody hit a pair with his 72 and bet and Todd complained that if you hit a pair (and thus betting what was the best hand) you shouldn't have to pay.

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Well? Can anyone pm me an answer?

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What was the deal with Todd telling the table "People like Shaun Sheikahn (sp) enter the poker world after being pampered and find it tough." I am paraphrasing. Found it kind of interesting and I don't know much background on Sheki other than his "rivalry" with mouth.

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I don't like the 72 stuff that much. My problem with it is that even if they only show a few hands of it per episode, it still effects every hand that is played, really messing [censored] up. I don't HATE it, the first episode I thought it was awesome...

I'm extremly excited about next weeks, looks to be a much better group.

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Classic from Safai. Asking Hellmuth if he jacked off while looking at a picture of himself, then had to take a shower when it got all over him. Wow. Priceless

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best quote in the history of HSP

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haha, that or Phil Hellmuth saying he decisive power in who gets to be in video games.