Re: 3/19 Poker Superstars III
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I had higher hopes for III than II, but after watching tonight's episode, those hopes are dashed. Ivey, Ferguson, Greenstein, Brunson, Shulman, and Elezra, and all we get is all-in and more all-ins. Ferguson goes all in with 5-5 very early. There might have been 2 hands where we saw any post flop play.
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With 250,000 in starting chips and the first level of blinds at 10,000/20,000, this event was clearly structured to be a Pre-Flop tournament, since you only get 12.5 BBs to start. I'm pretty sure the players all knew this before they signed up. But then again, how is this any different than a late level WPT final table with $1 billion/$2 billion blinds? At least with this tourney we get to see the big names instead of some 18 year old kids.
Plus think about how this will teach the future donkeynoobs to play? Once they see this all-in all-in crap they'll be that much more inclined to insta-shove-in in a live game, and that can only be +EV for the rest of us.
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