Saw this headline at cardplayer...Pellegrini lays down pocket aces..

[ed8383]

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Courtesy of Cardplayer.com:

Ed Pellegrini Eliminated 11th ($70,000)

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for 70k i fold aces 3 times during the bubble too! why are you people so shocked at this? many poker players tend to be superstitious.

[FatalError]

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"Ed "The Cajun Squeeze" Pellegrini lays down pocket aces 3 times while on the bubble."


Is this a joke? Who does this? [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

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i'm not sure why anyone would want to discourage this type of behavior

[BenTurpen]

Man, Cardplayer's media has fallen off so far since Huff left.

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It was a good play. Aces aren't even that good of a hand anyway, aces get beat like all the time. Besides, like the experts say, never go broke with one pair.

[GTL]

the third time, he open raised. because he just couldn't fold them 3 times, even if it was the right play.

[noseeds99]

I really hope this guy satalited in for < $100 USD

[Rottersod]

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It was a good play. Aces aren't even that good of a hand anyway, aces get beat like all the time. Besides, like the experts say, never go broke with one pair.

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I wonder what JMan would say about that?

[jae686]

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Courtesy of Cardplayer.com:

Ed Pellegrini Eliminated 11th ($70,000)

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for 70k i fold aces 3 times during the bubble too! why are you people so shocked at this? many poker players tend to be superstitious.

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This must be edited commentary of the Wasicka laydown... "I'd do it for $2 million, etc."

Remember, people play aces in those spots not because they value some standard of playing them more than large sums of money...they do it because it increases expected utility in the tournament.

Show any evidence that folding aces makes him $70K richer on average and you have a point. If that's hard, try $15K richer. You'd be hard pressed to convince me he doesn't take a loss from folding aces.

[jae686]

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the third time, he open raised. because he just couldn't fold them 3 times, even if it was the right play.

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This is a testament on its own of how clueless he is. All of his reasoning for folding aces applied again, and yet he seemed to have no problem straying from "what he's supposed to do...really."

[nanoshark]

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http://www.cardplayer.com/tv/23480

2nd vid down on the right

listen to him, it's unreal

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I think he was fortunate to win as much as he did and that shouldn't be the determinination of whether he made the right play or not. Who's to say he wouldn't have placed higher had he doubled up the first time he caught AA. He might as well have walked away and come back when someone was eliminated.