Top 5 Biggest Hands on High Stakes Poker #4
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).
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