WSOP Day 6 Main Event Thread

[beaver]

They just had a little 3 minute bit on the WSOP on ESPNEWS. They featured soundbyte interviews with Phil Helmuth and ... Eric Molina.

Among the snippets of video were quick shots of Jamie Gold and Allen Cunningham.

[dlk9s]

Just to add one thing to Eric Lynch's AA vs 45 hand. I asked him after he bagged his chips about it and he told me basically what he told P5's. I also asked what he put his opponent on and he said J-10, but he admitted it was a bad move on his part and he should've folded.

Stupid brag: I gave the PokerStars blogger the update on the hand where Eric re-raised after the flop on the King high, two diamond board. I'm great.

[teddyFBI]

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[Rizen]

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Told you CP misreported it... pot had at least 650k.

Huge pot goes to Erik Friberg; Rizen is the victim. Rizen raises 130K under-the-gun. Friberg calls from the big blind. Flop comes Qc-9s-5s and Friberg checks. Rizen bets 200,000 and Friberg calls. Turn is 4c and, after Friberg checks again, Rizen makes it 300,000. Friberg now moves all-in, for about 3 million. Rizen squeezes his cards again and I see A-A. He dwells, then calls for about 90 per cent of his stack. Friberg shows 4-5d for two pair. River is a blank and the Swede scoops a 4 million pot.

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I really don't like Friberg's line here. How often do you get paid off when you check-raise the turn for eleventy billion dollars, setting aside that he was lucky enough to get paid off in the actual hand?

If Rizen calls with QQQ or 999 we'd all be posting about how stupid the check-raise was since OBVIOUSLY only a better hand is going to call.

If this is the best plan Friberg has for the turn then I doubt his flop call is +EV. Calling a couple large bets from an UTG raiser is only going to pay off in the long run if you have a deeper bag of tricks than this.

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This hand was GROSSLY mis-reported. I raised to 140k pre-flop and he called the extra 100k cold with 45s. Then I bet 175k on the flop, and 400k on the turn before he shoved. After blinds and antes there was over 1.5 million in the pot, and he told me he had 2.2 mill behind (which was my mistake for not making him count). It WAS a bad call IMO, but had the count been accurate I was getting decent odds on a drawing board and would have been left with over 1.2m if I lost, which is a playable stack. I think the call was a mistake and I talked myself into it, but I didn't slowplay at all and the pot was huge.

-Rizen

[adanthar]

Rizen,

Relax and don't justify anything to anybody right now - focus on the guys you are playing and their weaknesses. You're among the best players left and can take any of them on. Don't waste your time thinking about what the Internet thinks, that stuff comes in a few days.

PS: pwn pls

[rapidacid]

Good Luck Rizen!

[THEOSU]

rizen,

I'm calling you out on this. cardplayer - the OFFICIAL whatever of the WSOP - sez it went that other way.

GL bro. Enjoy it.

[Bigdaddydvo]

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Rizen,

Relax and don't justify anything to anybody right now - focus on the guys you are playing and their weaknesses. You're among the best players left and can take any of them on. Don't waste your time thinking about what the Internet thinks, that stuff comes in a few days.

PS: pwn pls

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All 2+2ers living WSOP ME vicariously through Rizen please raise your hand (hand in the air).

GL Sir, continue to do what you do best and the rest of the field will need some serious suckouts to stand a chance.

[pocketjesuits]

Wow, that AA call by Rizen was truly terrible.

I would also like to know what he had when he called the river on that QQ99x board? It was likely that his opponent had a boat, and I doubt he had a 9 since he checked the turn - AA/KK? JJ/TT or A-high? Possibly a bad call as well.

This guy seems like an overhyped good-but-not-great ABC donkament specialist blessed with a great deal of luckboxing.

I'm sure he's better than most of these guys, but I'll be rooting for Prahlad or Cunningham, two worldclass talents who we are fortunate enough to still have in the field.

[neverforgetlol]

you're going to regret posting that