WSOP Main Event Day 1C Sweat

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Dynasty,

Two things.

1: "Great players shouldn't make a habit of putting their tournament life at risk when a 70/30 favorite. They won't survive very long." That's just a ridiculous statement.

2: "In back to back 70/30 situations, you'll be eliminated 30% the first time. In the 70% of the times survive, you'll be eliminated 30% of the time (.7 *.3). So, in two back to back 70/30 hands, you are likely to be knocked out of the tournament." Thing is, Dynasty, when you win those 70/30s, YOU GET MORE CHIPS.

Dynasty, you should stick to posting CardPlayer updates and leave the strategy discussions to others.

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i would have given my left nut for one of these 70-30 situations tonight... hell, even a 60-40 would have been good.

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New chip leader with a huge pot apparently:

1 Shannon Shorr 125,000 $115,000

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New chip leader with a huge pot apparently:

1 Shannon Shorr 125,000 $115,000

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The trend figure is BS. He has been on a heater all day (and all week at bellagio)

[DCJ311]

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Great players shouldn't make a habit of putting their tournament life at risk when a 70/30 favorite. They won't survive very long.

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If the blinds are 250/500 with a 50 ante and a guy with equal chips to me (I'm still in this tournament with about 44k) shoves with T9s and somehow shows his cards face up by mistake, I would never in my life fold AKo there, and god help me if I folded something as good as AT or 99.

GREAT players are the ones that capitalize on situations where they are fairly confident they have a 55% equity in the pot or better (including antes), and don't miss out on them. This statement you make is just wrong. One must be 'lucky' in pots where you have 55% or better equity to win tournaments, and definitely shouldn't be folding in these spots. Knowingly folding when you're 70% or so is laughable.

[fluorescenthippo]

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Thorsson Eliminates Another
William Thorsson raises to $700 from the cut off and the button re-raises to $1,200. The small blind makes a third raises to $3,500. Thorsson re-raises $7,000 more and the small blind calls. The flop comes A22 and the small blind checks and Thorsson moves all-in for $100,000. The small blind makes the call after 2 minutes of deliberation and shows K-K. Thorsson taps the table and says "Wow," and sheepishly shows his 75. The turn is a 3 and the river a 4 giving Thorsson the wheel. Thorsson now sits with $125,000.




W T F.......


This guy is like the new Tiffany Williamson. Maniac version.

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Jesus...

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i wish i had been at the table when this happened

[comic2b]

What no comments on Raymer's monster comeback. You guys are slacking. I might be the greatest lurker in history. Stop making me update.

On a side note I play tomorrow. GL to all.

Just going to bed now. Keeping same hours as the tourney.

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Day 1C has come to an end. 867 Players left.
Official chip counts will be made available later

Top chip counts
1 Adam Jones 123,000
2 William Thorsson 115,000
3 Brendan Lewis 112,000
4 Dario Minieri 103,000
5 Richard Gryko 100,000
6 Per Sjogren 98,000
6 Daniel Pelletier 98,000
8 Charlie Sewell 95,700
9 Shannon Shorr 95,000
9 Mike Petrillo 95,000

Notables:
14 Daniel Negreanu 78,500
25 Paul Sexton 63,000
35 Greg Raymer 48,900
36 Nam Le 48,000
49 Josh Arieh 35,000
56 Tom McEvoy 32,000
58 John Gale 30,000
75 Mark Gregorich 18,500
82 Aaron Kanter 16,000

[pokergrader]

I'm sitting at 33.3k

What an exhausting day of poker.

[Gator519]

I finished day 3 with 106,375. Going to bed now.. soooooo tired.

[WebGuySteve]

I finished with 31,950. Also going to bed, also soooo tired.