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At the very least, it seems fairly common knowledge that BB is known to often open all-in blind for like 50k in a mid-limit NL game(5-10 or so).
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He moves all in for $50K in an NL game with 5-10 blinds? As in open pushing with a 5000 BB stack? haha WTF. Is this in live uncapped games or what?
I'm assuming other people in those games don't have stacks anywhere near that big to have to risk so much to call him?
Anyways I've heard interviews with Brad Booth and he sounds a bit brain dead. There was an interview with him on the Rounders podcast trying to explain his huge bluff against Ivey and he basically said that he did it because he wanted to be feared and respected. Just from the way he talks you can tell that he's not very well educated though. I'm not saying that means that he's not an great poker player, but he sure doesn't sound like an articulate and smart person like Greenstein does.
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I played $25/50 with him this past summer at the Bellagio...he sat down with a ton of cash, probably about $400K or so. He went all in the first hand, some shortstack called him for about $5K or so. Brad asked him if he had a made hand, guy said "yes." Brad offered him $3K to both muck their cards, guy agreed.
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LOL, bigstackaments. Also the guy with the made hand sucks at negotiating. He couldve got $4000 had he put up a fight.
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Uh, no. Let's take a near-worst case scenario:
http://twodimes.net/h/?z=15234
pokenum -h as ad - 2c 7h
Holdem Hi: 1712304 enumerated boards
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
As Ad 1493820 87.24 212248 12.40 6236 0.36 0.874
2c 7h 212248 12.40 1493820 87.24 6236 0.36 0.126
So if he has AA vs BB's 27o, his equity is 87.4%, or $8740, so $3740 profit on average. He was more likely in the range of 75% equity or so, so I'd say he likely made a great deal with zero variance.