High Stakes Poker thread (9/17)
 

Tonight's show is expected to be another memorable episode, with the addition of Farha, Negreanu, Gold, Harman and Elezra to the table tonight.

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DN has really good reads on live tables.

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with the addition of Farha, Negreanu, Farha, Gold and Elezra to the table tonight.

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Farha will be taking up two seats?! Now that's just not fair! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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with the addition of Farha, Negreanu, Farha, Gold and Elezra to the table tonight.

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Farha will be taking up two seats?! Now that's just not fair! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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He's an action gambler. I'm not surprised.

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Jamie....Jesus christ man...count your own [censored] money!

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eli elezra turning and laughing after every stupid thing jamie says is golden.

god gold is so stupid

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wow Daniel is an idiot

or not

wow eli is looose

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Where's the advantage of showing a card there?

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it is amazing how much the rest of the table openly disrespects jamie.

do you think he realizes this, or is he just so much in his own world that he doesn't pick up on all the snickering everytime he does something so stupid?

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I don't think he cares. I think he is willing to play in this game knowing it is -EV for him because he sees it as buying face time through his hollyweird eyes.
I think his long term plan is to have the last laugh when he cuts a movie deal for more than most of these guys are worth.

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I don't think he cares. I think he is willing to play in this game knowing it is -EV for him because he sees it as buying face time through his hollyweird eyes.
I think his long term plan is to have the last laugh when he cuts a movie deal for more than most of these guys are worth.

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But to get a movie deal, he would have to be well liked.

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He only has to be well liked to be IN the movie. Anybody can sell a story.

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with the addition of Farha, Negreanu, Farha, Gold and Elezra to the table tonight.

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Farha will be taking up two seats?! Now that's just not fair! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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God Mode

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it is amazing how much the rest of the table openly disrespects jamie.

do you think he realizes this, or is he just so much in his own world that he doesn't pick up on all the snickering everytime he does something so stupid?

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I think he's just trying to belong and is completely clueless.

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Was I the only one who LOL'ed when Jamie blurted out "HOLY CRAP, NUT TRIPS!!!" (I'm paraphrasing) when that second king came on the turn? I think Eli's cards got in the muck before the last brick landed on the felt.

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wtf is up with mike baxter, why the hell does he raise or check raise everytime he flops top pair?

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"What do you have, Jamie?"

"I got a good hand!"

"No, he meant how much money do you have left."

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Was I the only one who LOL'ed when Jamie blurted out "HOLY CRAP, NUT TRIPS!!!" (I'm paraphrasing) when that second king came on the turn? I think Eli's cards got in the muck before the last brick landed on the felt.

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LOL at Jamie thinking Eli was gonna' fall for that crap...

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Jamie = douchey tellbox

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"What do you have, Jamie?"

"I got a good hand!"

"No, he meant how much money do you have left."

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pure Gold




see what I did there [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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with the addition of Farha, Negreanu, Gold, Harman and Elezra to the table tonight

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Farha and Elezra are two of my least favorites on the show. I'm not really sure why. Maybe it just pisses me off to watch someone who has enough money to call $16,000 with K7s. I'm sure most people would rather watch those two slop it around with garbage hands than a couple of nits fold for an hour. I guess I just like something in between...not nitty but not crazy stupid either.

For example, I really like the way Negreanu plays on the show. Esfandiari is another one of my favorites.

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Negreanu was awesome tonight with the showing the one card and minbluffing Farha out, and then later when he switched Elezra's holecards with his own, gold. <3 Negreanu.

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it is amazing how much the rest of the table openly disrespects jamie.

do you think he realizes this, or is he just so much in his own world that he just counts his 12 million dollars and doesn't give a [censored] what other poker players think of him?

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Gold is actually starting to grow on me. I like him more every time I see him. I definitely like him more than Brian Brandon or Bob Safai.

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This was fun to watch, but dont call it poker.

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When will Jennifer Harman play a hand. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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with the addition of Farha, Negreanu, Gold, Harman and Elezra to the table tonight

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Farha and Elezra are two of my least favorites on the show. I'm not really sure why. Maybe it just pisses me off to watch someone who has enough money to call $16,000 with K7s. I'm sure most people would rather watch those two slop it around with garbage hands than a couple of nits fold for an hour. I guess I just like something in between...not nitty but not crazy stupid either.

For example, I really like the way Negreanu plays on the show. Esfandiari is another one of my favorites.

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Agreed on Farha and Elezra. Both hyperaggrodonks imho.. super -EV in this game. Has farha ever CHECKED the flop in the history of the show. Elezra is a major donk preflop. Farha just raises with complete garbage preflop. I wonder how long he'll last this season.. if I recall he busted in quick fashion last time, rebought, lost more, then got up and left.

I still can't figure out where elezra and farha got their money. It sure isn't at NL holdem side games. I have a hard time believing they can be good at any kind of poker game given just how bad they are at NL holdem.

Of course maybe they just play this way on TV. Although Townsend took 2mil from farha live heads up too..

and btw, boo for high stakes not inviting townsend back. Who wants to see that nit Harman play. Get townsend back in there. Ivey too .. and bring back Brad Busto Booth. I want to see him raise bluff allin $300K with someone else's money [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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"everyone's bowing to phil and phil doesn't think its a joke"

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I thought Baxter was half decent until his shove after supernit Hellmuth's minraise with only a crappy draw

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I thought Gold played the J8cc pretty good.

I like this episode more than the previous ones (Except the first). NExt weeks looks good cant wait

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phil begging for insurance, what a fraud

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^Agreed about Baxter, he seemed to know what he was doing, somewhat, until that hand.

lol txbarbaroosa. I think it was Benyamine that let on that Sammy won something like $15 million in six months playing poker. He's considered a very good Omaha player, I guess that is where he makes his money.

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I like the hand where Baxter lost $100k. They zoom in on his face right after it happened, and you can almost hear him say, "Dammit, guess I'll have to stay at the office an extra 15 minutes tomorrow to make up that loss."

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Daniel was on the WSOP Players Committee. If he did his job he could have prevented that stupid "show one, show both" rule. And after all this time he still thinks it's a TDA rule, when it's a WSOP rule. I guess he never read either rulebook. So why is he on the Players Committee, when there are so many other players out there who make an effort to improve the poker world? Danny can't even be bothered to read his emails from the WSOP. [/rant]

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^Agreed about Baxter, he seemed to know what he was doing, somewhat, until that hand.

lol txbarbaroosa. I think it was Benyamine that let on that Sammy won something like $15 million in six months playing poker. He's considered a very good Omaha player, I guess that is where he makes his money.

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yeah that's what i've heard. it's just amazing he is so damn bad at NL holdem. He's not even competent imho. He's just a straight up donkey.

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nvm

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Farha reminds me of this crazy fish that comes to my home game. The guy is always raising and calling with every draw. But the guy almost always leaves busto.

The difference I guess is farha is throwing around chips with 3 to 4 zeros on them I guess.

He ran sick good in season 1. Now the cards are breaking even.

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Why the hell is phil taking insurance, will a 100k loss really hurt him that much???

Also the guys giving him insurance (Elezra here but Ivey on the WSOP) are giving him super bad prices, they are making soooooooo much EV off him

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Is todays episode uploaded anywhere yet? [censored] time warner is a terrible piece of [censored] DVR and it claims there was an error trying to record it.

Thanks.

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I'd say the difference between Farha and the guy at your table is that Farha is a really good reader.

Everyone remembers him getting lucky in HSP 1, what they seem to be forgetting are all the amazing bluffs he made when his opponents bet into him and weren't strong. He won a bunch of $15k pots that way.

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Daniel was on the WSOP Players Committee. If he did his job he could have prevented that stupid "show one, show both" rule. And after all this time he still thinks it's a TDA rule, when it's a WSOP rule. I guess he never read either rulebook. So why is he on the Players Committee, when there are so many other players out there who make an effort to improve the poker world? Danny can't even be bothered to read his emails from the WSOP. [/rant]

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They dropped that rule right after the WSOP started. I specifically asked a dealer about it while playing.