WSOP on ESPN thread (10/23 - $50K Horse - Parts 3 and 4)
 

This week's broadcasts, starting at 8pm, will bring us down from 21 down to the final table of 8). Gary Wise's article, which says that ESPN's coverage of the HORSE event does what the PPT didn't do can be found here.

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Yes, of course he does.

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I saw the first 2 hours on youtube and enjoyed it way more than I thought... watching tonight

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That was a sick beat Matusow took.

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That was a sick beat Matusow took.

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Screw that. Matusow was betting while way behind, luckboxed his way into trip kings and got outdrawn on seventh. Best starting hand took it.

As for the time he had (66)Q...yeah. Tough.

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Isn't ZJ a bit too young to start going bald?

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Wow..quads over quads. I love Omaha!

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Mike is officially bad at O8.

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Mike is officially bad at O8.

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And according to this last segment, he thinks he's really good at it...

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amnon is kind of annoying

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Gee Serinda, how DID "Scott" end up playing for millions? Do tell...

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Wow did Kaplan play that Razz hand terribly against Raymer. How do you fold a 10 high with Raymer showing a King and a pair?

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lol @ Raymer doing stand up comedy.

I guess he looks funny.

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he spaced out and missed the bet on 6th too

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amnon is kind of annoying

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I wish Gabe won this tourney.

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Mike is officially bad at O8.

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for what I know he's the best O8 tournament player in the world (I'm serious)

Re: WSOP on ESPN thread (10/23 - $50K Horse - Parts 3 and 4)
 

Is Freddy Deeb sitting on a booster seat?

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Is Freddy Deeb sitting on a booster seat?

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I heard he got butt implants

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what was up with Raymer wearing a bluetooth headset as he got eliminated? you can't use the phone at the table so why wear a bluetooth

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ok i saw filippi messing with a phone in between hands so whatever maybe raymer talked between hands

Re: WSOP on ESPN thread (10/23 - $50K Horse - Parts 3 and 4)
 

lol world series of chip stacking

how did Carlos Mortensen not win this??

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Mike is officially bad at O8.

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he did win a bracelet in that event a few years ago, they said.
but he admittedly was playing bad.

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he spaced out and missed the bet on 6th too

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couldn't agree more. that's exactly what it looked like.
he looked tired and a little zoned...

Re: WSOP on ESPN thread (10/23 - $50K Horse - Parts 3 and 4)
 

FWIW -- did you notice, honestly, how tight the play was?

when i play limit tourneys on stars, or just the individual
cash games, there seems to be a lot more capping, 3rd street
reraising etc... There was one razz hand when 3 guys all had
3 to an 8 low or better, and THEY ALL LIMPED IN!!

You'd never see that on pokerstars...

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Why does Gabe look so miserable in every episode so far? It seems so far from his smiling form on HSP?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQRWVWPlv7o

a link to episodes

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Wow did Kaplan play that Razz hand terribly against Raymer. How do you fold a 10 high with Raymer showing a King and a pair?

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Because he doesn't think Raymer can bet into him with a hand he beats given what's on board. This seems pretty obvious.

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amnon is kind of annoying

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If anybody watched HSP season 3, you'd know Amnon is a huge douche. Really shocked to find out he was 37.

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FWIW -- did you notice, honestly, how tight the play was?

when i play limit tourneys on stars, or just the individual
cash games, there seems to be a lot more capping, 3rd street
reraising etc... There was one razz hand when 3 guys all had
3 to an 8 low or better, and THEY ALL LIMPED IN!!

You'd never see that on pokerstars...

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Yeah the play looks uniformly awful. Everyone is trying to preserve their stacks, there's no aggression, it seems like they have a rule to never go more than one bet postflop, it's always check-bet-call or bet-call , no raises without the nuts. Nobody's bluffing and they all seem to chase really badly early in the hand and just instafold if someone bets the river. So so bad.

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Yeah the play looks uniformly awful. Everyone is trying to preserve their stacks, there's no aggression, it seems like they have a rule to never go more than one bet postflop, it's always check-bet-call or bet-call , no raises without the nuts. Nobody's bluffing and they all seem to chase really badly early in the hand and just instafold if someone bets the river. So so bad.

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This could be WAY off, but its just a theory I had while watching the episode. I think everyone wants to win this tournament SO bad that its skewing their play a little toward the passive side. They try to preserve as much of their stack as possible waiting for that big hand so they can fuel back up. Negraneu seemed REALLY distraught when he busted out, much more than in the ME it seemed. A bit of an apples to oranges comparison but I think its a little valid.

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I think its more the blinds were so high that it really effected the game play, in that people didn't want to get tied to a hand.

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FWIW -- did you notice, honestly, how tight the play was?

when i play limit tourneys on stars, or just the individual
cash games, there seems to be a lot more capping, 3rd street
reraising etc... There was one razz hand when 3 guys all had
3 to an 8 low or better, and THEY ALL LIMPED IN!!

You'd never see that on pokerstars...

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Yeah the play looks uniformly awful. Everyone is trying to preserve their stacks, there's no aggression, it seems like they have a rule to never go more than one bet postflop, it's always check-bet-call or bet-call , no raises without the nuts. Nobody's bluffing and they all seem to chase really badly early in the hand and just instafold if someone bets the river. So so bad.

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Or the way they played is closer to optimal strategy. Those capping every street are overplaying their hands.

Re: WSOP on ESPN thread (10/23 - $50K Horse - Parts 3 and 4)
 

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Wow did Kaplan play that Razz hand terribly against Raymer. How do you fold a 10 high with Raymer showing a King and a pair?

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It's a 10 low , and yes he butchered that hand.

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Wow did Kaplan play that Razz hand terribly against Raymer. How do you fold a 10 high with Raymer showing a King and a pair?

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Because he doesn't think Raymer can bet into him with a hand he beats given what's on board. This seems pretty obvious.

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Apparently Fossilman didn't get the memo.

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And according to this last segment, he thinks he's really good at it...

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According to guys like Doyle and Greenstein, Matusow is one of the best O/8 players in the world.

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lol world series of chip stacking

how did Carlos Mortensen not win this??

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Does Adam Schoenfeld have a real job or what? He seems to pop up on ESPN when they need a smarta^s opinion on something related to poker but he never seems to be anywhere close to a final table.

From CP's db he hasn't cashed in anything since 2004 and the only tourney (that made it in the db) that he won was the Linda Johnson Celebrity Challenge.

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Wow did Kaplan play that Razz hand terribly against Raymer. How do you fold a 10 high with Raymer showing a King and a pair?

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Because he doesn't think Raymer can bet into him with a hand he beats given what's on board. This seems pretty obvious.

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Apparently Fossilman didn't get the memo.

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It's like a 2nd level meta bluff. This shouldn't be confusing.

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I love Gabe but he did look tired. And he was calling so much in O/8 and Stud/8 that it was kinda shocking the he folded to Fossilman there.