An Observation About Hellmuth From The $1500 w/Rebuys

[Howard Treesong]

In the $1500 NLH with rebuys, I was on Phil's immediate left for three or four hours. I lost two races and made a bad call shortly before the dinner break, so when we came back, I had about $6000 playing 200-400-50. On the first orbit, the action is folded to me one off the the hijack. I look at one ace and push my stack without looking at the second card.

It's folded to the big blind, Mickey Mills, who calls with QQ. I luckbox a straight and double up.

An hour later, we've moved up to 300-600-75. I have $14000. Hellmuth is UTG +2 on $22,000. He raises $2000. For some reason, I decide to make a play with 8s7s and push.

Some guy a couple of seats to my left (I don't remember if he was one seat to Joe Pelton's right or two seats -- I'm in the four and can't easily see down the line) wakes up with AA and of course calls after a minute-long dwell. Phil thinks for a bit, shows me AQ and dumps his hand.

For some reason, the dealer takes an age to get the chips right, and Phil says to me "Well, I was calling you anyway. I remember your move with A4."

From this I conclude that Phil believes the two plays are similar. WTF?

[curtains]

Cmon he just made a harmless comment, it doesn't really mean anything.

[Howard Treesong]

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Cmon he just made a harmless comment, it doesn't really mean anything.

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He was perfectly genial; it's not that at all. Rather, I would think that a player of his caliber would not see those two situations as being similar.

[mikeJ]

WTF is right. WTF @ this post. Are you serious? Mods, regulate.

[Mingdu]

[s33w33d]

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I had about $6000 playing 200-400-50. On the first orbit, the action is folded to me one off the the hijack. I look at one ace and push my stack without looking at the second card.

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WHY do people do this?!??!?!?!? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[curtains]

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Cmon he just made a harmless comment, it doesn't really mean anything.

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He was perfectly genial; it's not that at all. Rather, I would think that a player of his caliber would not see those two situations as being similar.

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I'm sure he doesn't, he was just needling you or whatever. He just made a comment, it doesn't mean that he sees these situations as being the same.

[registrar]

And I guess he's telling the rest of the table that he's not raising light from EP and intends to defend his raises unless he's dodging bullets.

[Howard Treesong]

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I had about $6000 playing 200-400-50. On the first orbit, the action is folded to me one off the the hijack. I look at one ace and push my stack without looking at the second card.

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WHY do people do this?!??!?!?!? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Because my push range includes any A. And I'm pushing with any hand with which I'm putting a single chip in the pot; thus, the second card is simply irrelevant.

[betgo]

Seems like a reasonable comment. He knows you are willing to resteal. He had a good read.