Re: High Stakes Poker thread (10/15)
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In that K7 hand, I wonder if Farha would've done exactly the same thing if an ace flopped instead of a king. If he did, there there are a few more favorable scenarios for him, although he had to have put Hellmuth exactly on QQ or JJ to think like that.
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Sammy couldn't think that Hellmuth could have had his favourite hand - 99?
If Hellmuth raised big with 99 then Sammy calling with anything and having and 10, Jack, Queen, King or Ace as a scare card to let him bluff Hellmuth out of the pot would probably be +EV.
It could also be that Sammy didn't put Hellmuth on a strong hand because the bet was so big - Phil will often try to trap with a big hand.
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lol?
the opposite is true. Phil plays his small to mid pocket pairs very meekly and passively in these cash games (he even folded sixes preflop last week), and jams his big hands preflop. Look how much time it took him to decide to check raise Sam with his nines on the underflop. In tournaments, he might try to trap lagtards by limping into them with big pairs or more likely, by replicating plays he had made earlier where he laid his hand down to a reraise.
So basically there's no way to say Sam had any basis to believe he could run a bluff on Phil should any face card flop.
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