How does Alex Jacob do it you ask??

[jaroot]

From Paul Wasicka's blog..
http://www.kwickfish.com/Site/blog/D...27A4BC01C.html
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Blinds 300/600/75
After only playing one hand in the last hour, I raise the cutoff to $1,800 with A, K. Alex makes it $3,800 in the small blind. I make it $8,800, leaving myself with less than $8k behind. He goes all-in and I obviously call. He shows T, T!!! Tens? I said, “Alex, what did you think I had? Nines?” I flopped a K but he rivered a 10 and he had me covered.

I really think this was one of the best tournaments I’ve ever played. I only marginally misplayed one hand if that. To go out the way I did both infuriates me and motivates me. Congrats to Alex for getting third.

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LOL.. JEWFROAMENTS...

[underoath73]

he could be gobbo and just say the deck hit him instead of congratulating him but nah wasicka even with his millions is humble

[kylephilly]

I don't see the point of your title, he does it with pocket tens? Is that what you're saying?

[jaroot]

It's more in response to the threads popping up lately talking about how sick-good AJ is and how he never loses a coinflip.

[stephenNUTS]

It does seem that Alex run's quite good in race/coinflip situations,but he is one sick poker player,and super nice guy as well.

~stephen feraca

[chicken10der]

Are you serious?

[NYWalker]

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It's more in response to the threads popping up lately talking about how sick-good AJ is and how he never loses a coinflip.

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But it still doesn't answer the question - is playing TT good here? how many times such play is profitable?

[MJBuddy]

About 50% of the time, apparently.

I typically don't like to imply that after hours of two people playing live that I could understand their reads better by simply reading a summarized hand history. If it wasn't read based, it was simply luck. If it was simply luck, then he runs hotter than any man in poker. So I'm going to assume he had a reason to believe this to be a good play.

[jaroot]

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But it still doesn't answer the question - is playing TT good here? how many times such play is profitable?

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IMO it's a very very marginal play by Alex. The re-raise to 3800 is fine, but once Paul puts in 1/2 his stack on the 3rd bet, Alex has to know Paul is not messing around. Paul hadn't played a hand in an hour so best case scenario for Alex is that he's racing vs. AK, or he's dominated w/ a higher pair. Alex's fold equity is exactly 0, so I'm not quite sure what he was thinking.

I'm not sure exaclty how deep Alex was a the time, if he had 60k or more then it's a bit less marginal. Still not a good play vs. someone who hasn't played a hand in over an hour.

[HorridSludgyBits]

Sounds like he was whining a bit, though. But I see his point: 28xBB with TT seems a bit much. Would you believe he had a read??