The Official Fuji @ the ME Thread

[Bilgefisher]

Just thought I would point out some notables on 2a that he has beat out.


Mike Caro
Andrew Black (5th place finisher last year)
John Juanda
Men Nguyen
Mike Sexton

[Buzz-cp]

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In the first hand of the day, Fuji was sittin on 55 from the sb. UTG+1 (has fuji covered) made it 1,200 to go, player immediately to his left (fuji has him covered)just calls, folded to Fuji who shoves. BB folds, original raiser folds, last remaining player also folds.

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Uhhhhh... didn't he have over 20k at the start of the day? This seems highly non-standard.

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I think what he said is he's sitting on POCKET FIVES not 55,000

Brother just called him and conferenced me in on the call.

"I'm in a hand, gotta go."

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I think non-standard part was not a misread. It's surprsing that Fuji would push 20k more into a pot that's only about 3-4k in size with just 55. Even if he was planning a squeeze play, a smaller raise would get the job done.

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I thought about this for a bit.

1) If he has some read that UTG+1 is a light raiser / weak player, he mostly has big cards, then he's putting him to the test for half of his stack. Raising is a good option here.

2) I don't know exactly, but I think the day started with 100/200 blinds. With 20K in chips, 55 is a good hand after this action, and worth a raise.

3) Any raise will effectively make him pot committed and he will have to call the other guy's push, getting good odds. He may as well just push here.

Buzz

[MrWookie]

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Just thought I would point out some notables on 2a that he has beat out.


Mike Caro
Andrew Black (5th place finisher last year)
John Juanda
Men Nguyen
Mike Sexton

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Also Mason Malmuth.

[Buzz-cp]

fwiw, I would probably see a flop, spike a set & double-through the guy.

[nomadtla]

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Just thought I would point out some notables on 2a that he has beat out.


Mike Caro
Andrew Black (5th place finisher last year)
John Juanda
Men Nguyen
Mike Sexton

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Also Mason Malmuth.

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And now Sklansky is Butso
chip count on CP

[tiltaholic]

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48K in chips.

Nothing major to report but he has about an average stack.

Will keep posted on next break.

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scbrian you are my favorite poster. much appreciated!!!!!

go fuji!

[nomadtla]

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48K in chips.

Nothing major to report but he has about an average stack.

Will keep posted on next break.

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scbrian you are my favorite poster. much appreciated!!!!!

go fuji!

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Agreed keep the updates comming since our boy is not shown on the Cardplayer chip counts

[scbrian]

Thanks.

I will be out for a couple hours playing basketball but will call someone to update if Fuji calls me. Currently they were about 2/3 of the way through level 10 and he was sitting around 50k in chips.

Will post for sure when I get back.

[nomadtla]

An interesting turn of events from the WSOP day 2A sweat thread

CP says they are about 140 players left before the goal of 700 is reached for day 2A (currently 840 of the 1637 who started the day remain). The problem is they are only 3 levels in to what they planned to be a 6 level day.

[Buckmulligan]

so how close if fuji to making a cash finish?