High Stakes Poker thread (11/26 - 500k buyin pt 4 - Spoilers all over)

[EWS87]

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what happened??? PA won a big pot?

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he won 3/4 of a $1 million pot.

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yesss...so he bought in for a mil...hes up over a mil now assuming he won the 750K plus what he had left??? whod he stack

[spivey]

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I love 25NL players complaining about people negotiating how many times to run it in million dollar pots.

I don't negotiate in my 60 dollar pots and I'll be damned if they will!!!

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just cause i play 25nl doesn't mean i'm not good at watching tv. And that's what we're talking about. Running hands 4 times is lame to watch.

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These guys are playing with huge portions of their br, it's one thing to not enjoy it - I really don't either. But I can't say it's out of hand, it's entirely understandable.

[UATrewqaz]

I have no problem with them running it as many times at they want. As others have pointed out, it's alot of money and it's theirs so they can do what they want. It doesn't make for quite as good TV, but the world doesn't revolve around making good TV.

Also, I don't care what stakes you play, pointing out Jamie Gold is terrible is perfectly valid. Maybe his bad play results more from "I don't care about the money" than it does from incompetence, but it's laughably bad by anyone's standards.

Guy is also terrible, but since he's mostly quiet and nice nobody bothers to rag on him as much. If Gold wants to make himself the center of attention then so be it.

People who berate fish could learn alot from these episodes. I was cracking up as everyone at the table was trying to soothe Gold's ego to keep him in the game.

[spivey]

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what happened??? PA won a big pot?

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he won 3/4 of a $1 million pot.

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yesss...so he bought in for a mil...hes up over a mil now assuming he won the 750K plus what he had left??? whod he stack

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He had 500k, half of the pot wasn't his.

PA: J9hh
Farha: KQdd

Farha raised preflop, PA reraised IP, Farha called and checked blind

Flop:
9d 6d 3c

PA bets 2/3 pot, Farha c/r's pot, PA goes all in, Farha snap calls.

[EWS87]

haha thats the sickest shove...i dont get it though if pa only ended the hand with 500K he is still down 500K

[jjshabado]

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I don't understand why they made such a big deal out of Doyle's call there. With the nut flush draw, and the fact that Guy has shown himself to be kind of out of control, that was a trivially easy call getting around ~4:1.

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He wasn't getting 4:1. I think it was 2.5:1 or 3:1. In general, top-pair-medium-kicker won't be good that often against a big raise like that. Its a pretty tough call to make.

[spivey]

Yeah, I miscalculated, not thinking. I think Guy has been playing terribly in this game though, so I would have expected him to call like he did.

[seat_empty]

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I have no problem with them running it as many times at they want. As others have pointed out, it's alot of money and it's theirs so they can do what they want. It doesn't make for quite as good TV, but the world doesn't revolve around making good TV.

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but... it's a TV SHOW.

i'm pretty sure that when it comes to tv shows, the world does, in fact, revolve around making good tv.

[cmillard]

I do not claim to be an expert...and everyone on this show is a lot better than me (even JG). But someone explain to me why you would re-raise with a straight flush...

It obviously worked, because Sammy called the reraise by DB...but it would never cross my mind to reraise on the turn here. Someone help me with this one!

Thanks.

[spivey]

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haha thats the sickest shove...i dont get it though if pa only ended the hand with 500K he is still down 500K

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He won 750k of the 1mill in the pot.