Funny how many all in hands end up happening between a monster like two pair or a set and a flush draw. Guys, even pros like David Benyamine, can’t help but to raise with the 4 flush even though it is a dog against any pair without overcards.
Still though I can’t blame him for the first raise here, when Farha comes out betting, as Sammy is so aggressive that you pretty much have to pin him to the wall when you can.
I’m not sure I love the all in over the top play to Laliberte’s reraise of his raise, though, it seems obvious that a player like that, especially one with billions of dollars coming out of his eyes, isn’t going to go anywhere after he puts in the third raise, and you are looking to get all in with just a flush draw.
I also really hate that Guy does the nice guy move and lets them take the money back. It kind of completely negates the drama of the hand, but at the same time, if I were David, I would be thankful that Guy is there for the thrill and not to break people with his massive stacks.
The audio on the video is insanely bad, all clipping and too loud, but Mike is a pretty decent Omaha player they say, so this video might be worth your time if you are interested in learning more about Omaha 8.
I prefer straight Omaha to its variants, but there is a lot of money to be made in these games online I think by newer people who overvalue their hands.
Only with two players like Sammy Farha and Patrik Antonius could you get a $1 pot with these two hands.
The play with both of these is completely based on aiming your bet at your opponent.
For instance, obviously, if Antonius was playing in a hand against Doyle or Phil Laak, say, he definitely would not have put in $500k with just top pair J kicker.
This is why players like Sammy are so dangerous, when you get a hand against them you have to nail them to the board and hope they don’t have you crushed. You see this kind of movie a lot in really wild games when a tighter player is up against a real nut.
Hence you end up in a pot that is almost a coin flip for all your money. Not the greatest spot, but good TV.
Watching the first televised event of the 2008 WSOP, the pot limit hold em event, it’s probably one of the most boring of all of the ESPN broadcasts I’ve seen.
Even for the two hours they stretch it out to, they somehow whittle it down to all in hands almost every other minute. Why do they think people want to see all in races every single hand? We’d like to see good poker. If we want to watch races we’ll take turns throwing coins. It’s really not exciting, ESPN. Please get an editor who knows more about poker and less about Michael Bay.
On another tip, what is wrong with Kathy Liebert? I can’t figure it out, she’s either one of the most literal people ever with a really bad fashion sense, or she has some kind of warped gene.
I mean, I know poker players aren’t models, but Kathy just seems like she has no idea anyone can see her. She’s a little peculiar.
You wouldn’t have seen this hand go down like this, obviously, if Guy Laliberte weren’t an amateur in the field of sharks, but there’s a good lesson to be learned here for newer players, and a reminder for the more advanced.
Playing weak aces, even suited, is probably one of the biggest money losers in the game. You call a raise with that weak ace hoping against the odds that you’ll flop a flush, or a flush draw (when even with 4 to the nuts, you’re still a dog against a bigger hand), and then you flop the ace and end up stuck in a pot where you are probably beat by a bigger ace but too stubborn to fold it.
With suited aces, in raised pots, if you aren’t making the flush or aces up, you are often beat. With the odds of making those hands, that makes them unprofitable.
Against a lot of others players, also, though, Guy would have won this pot, esp. if Doyle hadn’t picked up the flush draw on the turn. It was definitely a loose call on Doyle’s part, calling where he most likely had to hit a diamond or maybe his kicker.
A weird hand, to have all of it in there, but a good note to notch.
Bodog.com has now released their odds for the 2008 WSOP Main Event final table, allowing interested parties to place bets on who they think will take the crown.
Since all the players are relative unknowns, the odds are based primarily on chip counts. Seems like it would be a fun bet to put some money on the midsize stacks, as seeing the chip leader win is less likely than the numbers would warrant.
Still, it’s basically a crapshoot, but could make it more fun to watch for sure.
For all those like myself who had wondered about the fate of GSN’s High Stakes Poker, which seems to have been up in the air since the end of last season, GSN has now announced that they will indeed be releasing at least a 6th season of their highest rated program on the channel, despite the fact that the demographic of its audience turned out in a higher age range than they’d expected.
They haven’t released info as to when the new season will begin, but as for now we know filming will begin in September and will include some players that we haven’t seen on the show yet.
In the same breath, GSN has announced they won’t be renewing their World Poker Tour contract after the show’s first season with them. The WPT has already found its new home though on Fox Sports Net, which seems like a better fit anyway.
Enjoy the weekend!! Hope you have better luck than Daniel…
Another very famous pot from High Stakes Poker, which teaches several lessons at once:
1. Even when you make the nuts on the turn, like Antonius does here, you can get drawn out. Gambling in his spot as he did with the gut shot was risky, and though he was the favorite when the money went in, it seems like why gamble when you can just easily turn around and lose the hand?
Hellmuth on the Poker After Dark cash game last week said something good I agreed with, among the rest of the time being a primadonna. Essentially it was this: That to be successful in long term big money games, you need to minimize the gamble. Albeit Antonius clearly plays a different breed of poker than Hellmuth, and here gets unlucky to lose money on the hand, it still seems like a spot he didn’t need to get in. You don’t have to gamble a lot to win a lot, though it does put you in a lot more situations to Potentially get there: You just have to hope you hold up.
2. It’s especially dangerous to gamble against luck boxes like Jamie Gold. Dude can’t miss it seems, though on later episodes he doesn’t fair so well.
3. I should shave my head.
4. Running multiple boards in big pots is a pretty great policy, I think. Had Antonius not done that, he would have lost the whole pot when he had the nuts when it went in. It’s less reasonable to want to do this at lower stakes games, but still something I think should be more prevalent. Again, minimizing the gamble. Unless the main reason you’re in poker is for the gamble, in which case, swing for the fences (but I hope you have other money).
Eva Longoria Parker and her husband, San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker, are hosting the First Annual Tony & Eva Parker Celebrity Casino Night to take place on Saturday, August 9, 2008 at Pedrotti’s North Wind Ranch in San Antonio.
Hollywood and sports celebrities will be participating in this charity event, which benefits Eva’s Heroes, the actresses’ non-profit organization.
Spurs superstar Tim Duncan, House star, Jennifer Morrison, Sean Elliott and Willie Garson, also known as “Stanford” in the recent box office hit, Sex in the City. Also Adam Rodriguez, CSI:Miami, David Zayas of Dexter and World Series of Poker star, Phil Hellmuth will be participating.
The event will include dinner, a silent charity auction, roulette and blackjack tables and a Texas Hold’em poker tournament.
Tickets for the Tony and Eva Parker Celebrity Casino Night are available for purchase by visiting www.evasheroes.org or by calling 210-694-9090.
Cost:
$100 for Casino
$300 for Casino and Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament
When:
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Doors Open - 5:30 p.m.
Cocktails and Dinner - 6:00 p.m.
Poker Tournament - 6:30 p.m.
Where:
Pedrotti’s North Wind Ranch
13715 FM 1560N
San Antonio, TX 78023
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