High Stakes Poker thread (9/3)

[NicksDad1970]

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almost forgot...

by the way, i vote McCutter gets a custom title

either "hellmuth fanboy" or "hellmuthian"

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hellmuth's mole.

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"In Hellmuth's grid"

[LGs0pHT]

A good poker player should consider an OOP river bet smaller than 1/4 * Potsize as zero information and do what he would do if it was checked to him.

If I were BB I would have raised to 1/3 or 12 * Potsize and fold to push of course. You don't save value by just calling in this spot, unless you have a super read on Hellmuth.

[luvinlife]

Thank you!#$%#^&*%^$#@$$$$$$!!!!!@@@!!!!!!!!Your intellectual capacity for observation is astounding...................extremely important one at that....and soooooooooooooooo astute.

[Suigin406]

just saw the episode, wow, i just really hope someone felts that guy brandon

[luvinlife]

Agreed. I just really like Mikey! He seems like such a nice all-around dude. I don't know why he's ever nice to PH as he always seems to want to put him down and make him feel beneath him. Sad that the egos are so large that the top goofs have to act so goofy!

[luvinlife]

ooooohhhhhh-ahhhhhhhhhh!
Finally...yesssss!

[bustedromo]

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A good poker player should consider an OOP river bet smaller than 1/4 * Potsize as zero information and do what he would do if it was checked to him.

If I were BB I would have raised to 1/3 or 12 * Potsize and fold to push of course. You don't save value by just calling in this spot, unless you have a super read on Hellmuth.

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I don't think it's this simple.

Let's say you have a marginal hand, think you're probably ahead, but you also have villain on a marginal hand, thinking he's probably behind, and if you check to him he thinks he must bluff 1/2 pot or better to take it down.

It's a marginal situation and above all you want to keep the pot size down, so you don't want to make a semi-bluff with your hand, and you don't want to put to a big decision on whether to call a substantial bet by villain. But you also don't want to give up your hand to a bluff.

You have villain on thinking that his chances of a successful bluff are marginal. Only if you check to him would he attempt the bluff.

In the above case, where the both your hand and the hand you put villain on are marginal, and your not really sure you're ahead, a blocking bet can really work to keep the pot size down. Just adding that little bit of extra doubt in villain's mind about the chances of his bluff succeeding can get him to opt in favor keeping the pot size small and just calling.

[petp_the_greek]

all the talk is starting to get annoying....laak, PH, esfandiari are all just hamming it up for the camera....looks like their agents told them to blab to get more airtime.

kudos to haralabob and todd for keeping quiet....their little one-liners are hilarious!!!!

this bob baxter guy seems like he's gonna mean business.

[Dima2000123]

I agree about the table talk, there is nothing interesting about 3-4 douches trying to outscream each other. You can't make out anything they scream, it's distracting from actual poker, and it gives you a headache.

[pricedin]

gotta love Hellmuth calling out Phil Laak's AJ