Who played well or badly at the 2007 WSOP ME FT

[betgo]

I have my opinion. Someone in HSMTT said no one played well.

[Dima2000123]

Yang is the only one who played well (or, more correctly, to the best of his rather limited abilities). Most everyone else played poorly, and I'll even include Kravchenko. It doesn't take much skill to pushbot, which he did well. However, when deep he played weakly, and that ultimately doomed him.

[Hollywade]

It is difficult to judge simply based on the ESPN coverage. Some people only got one or two hands televised. I really can't see how people would think Yang played badly. I don't recall seeing him get the money in bad very often.

Hilm made mistakes in every hand they showed of his. Watkinson made a huge mistake in his one hand. Childs made a very bad mistake and another lesser mistake.

I think the biggest blunder I saw was Lee Childs folding queens.

[gobboboy]

Kravchenko played really well from what I saw. Khan played well too but probably too passively judging by the table. His bustout hand had a few flaws but getting the money in effectively preflop is by no means bad at ALL.

Yang played like [censored], end of story. He played ridiculously exploitably.

[automat]

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Kravchenko played really well from what I saw. Khan played well too but probably too passively judging by the table. His bustout hand had a few flaws but getting the money in effectively preflop is by no means bad at ALL.

Yang played like [censored], end of story. He played ridiculously exploitably.

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agree 100 %.

btw, i heard that every 1st or 2nd place finisher in a major tournament has to be a huge donk who got very lucky ...

[nhWPjstUnLKy]

kravchenko played well.. getting his money in on the right times
I'm sick that Yang won this, worst player..

[Dima2000123]

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Kravchenko played really well from what I saw. Khan played well too but probably too passively judging by the table. His bustout hand had a few flaws but getting the money in effectively preflop is by no means bad at ALL.

Yang played like [censored], end of story. He played ridiculously exploitably.

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I guess it's another testament to how bad everyone else was playing if no one got around to exploiting Yang's play. As for Kravchenko, did you watch on PPV the period when he went from 35 mil chips to 20 mil chips, before he busted on a coin flip? There wasn't a big hand where he lost it all, he did it in little chunks at a time, often without even seeing the flop.

[Bonified]

This is the thing. Anyone who only saw the ESPN show (and that includes me) really doesn't have enough info to make a judgement.

[betgo]

If Kravchenko had one the hand with AK versus 88 against Yang, he would have been in first and Yang in last 4-way, and the outcome would probably have been different.

On ESPN, it shows Kravchenko owning Yang. However, Kravchenko kept completing in the SB (which might not be bad against Yang) and often folding to a preflop raise or having Yang take the pot postflop without a showdown.

Yang was making very large preflop raises. He also was calling allins very loosely, with 2nd pair on the flop, calling open pushes preflop loosely, and calling reraises preflop loosely. His style did put pressure on his opponents.

Seeing the hole cards, he seemed to have some big hands when he took control of the table early as well as winning the coinflip with TPTK versus pair and flush draw. However, he also played aggressively.

I think you have to credit Yang for going from nowhere to chip leader and table captain. He did play an effective big stack game, but in an amaterish style.

[betgo]

Watkinson just made a standard resteal, pushing A7o, BvB. He knew Yang was raising loose, but probably not that Yang wouldn't fold a better hand. Still Watkinson often takes the pot or gets called by KQ or 55 or something.