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What's the word I'm looking for to describe this? Ah, yes: EPIC. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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yes it was bad play on howard's part. phil is right, howard does play blind-induced poker, the problem is so does hellmuth. he waits around for his double up like he said, which will only happen when the blinds go high and he's covered, hoping to be 2-1+ fav.

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Lederer's re-steal would be poor against most players (Phil had put in 1/3 of his stack), but Hellmuth has certainly folded in these situations before. But Hellmuth's schtick really makes me wonder if he actually understands the re-steal. And this is by no means a "new internet concept", Doyle spelled it out in SS1 - you steal, steal, steal, and then when you get called you're a 2-1 dog but you're freerolling with all the chips you've stolen.

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QFT. Hellmuth's not folding here, but we've seen him do it on this show so many other times. Was it even $1000 more for Howard to call the shove?

Hellmuth doesn't want to play big pots, and in this format, there's no reason to play a big pot early in the game. But what he doesn't get is that you can't just give away chips if you want to outplay people post-flop. And you certainly can't tell everyone at the table you're doing it.

Also, that last hand may have been the most entertaining Ivey's ever been on TV, and he's always had more personality than a lot of people think.