Well the WSOP has finished and 58000 players came to Vegas from 118 countries. Now that the WSOP is over most players have gone back to the internet.

 

Well man the internet players are way more aggressive than most players in the normal Vegas live games. I have never been 3 bet and 4 bet more pre-flop in a live game than when the series is going.

 

In 10 ½ months it will start all over again.  WeeeeWooo

 

 

 

 

I was playing in a live game with 60 big blinds as my standard buy-in.

 

I get play AhKh in the BB for my 1^st hand …

 

I raise 4 1 BB limpers to 10 BB’s out of the Big Blind  .. I get 1 caller and the board flops a 4 5 8   flop.  

 

I had 50 BB’s left at the start of the hand so I made a 20 BB continuation bet ... this left me 30 BB’s behind ... the opponent moved all-in meaning I had to call 30 BB’s to win 94.5 BB’s    I think an A or a K will win the hand for me and the range of hands I put him on is wide and this could be a move on my continuation bet hoping I missed. I am getting a little more than the exactly 3 to one on my call and the AK should against a under pair 24.95% of the time ... I call and no A or K  

 

Man life is tough when you can not hit a hand.

 

 

 

I played in a cash game with Dmitri Nobles tonight. You may remember that he is the tall black gentleman who amassed a huge chip stack the 1^st few days of the 2006 37^th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event. He eventually lost them playing really fast, and finished in 76^th place collecting $65,973.00 … This is his only cash list in the Cardplayer.com database. Now let me say that he is a really fun and interesting individual to have at your table and I enjoyed having him around.

 

With Dmitri Nobles at the table I thought juicy.  He played lots of hands and the board flopped to whatever he was holding. He made hand after hand, houses, quads, and his stack grew. So did mine, but not really from his stack.

 

A hand came up where he raised in early position and I flat called with 4s5s figuring he would not put me on a hand either … The flop came with 2 spade. He bet and I called. Well I made the flush on the turn. He checked and I trickily checked behind to induce him to bluff at the pot on the river. He bet a more than pot sized bet. I had 3 times more than his bet and I thought well my flush is small but he could have a Q9 for a straight or 10 J for 2 pair … Oh he could have any darn thing …  --- I ran into his Straight …  Straight Flush that is …

I could have just called his big river over bet but I pushed for over 3 times as much instead of calling ...

 

It is a mistake to assume that since you can not put a player on a hand that they are following along the statistical likelihood that

If you have 2 spades and there are 3 spades on the board then the odds they also have been dealt 2 spades is very low, I believe less than 5%. But I am not sure. I do know that if someone wanted to know the odds that they would be dealt 2 spades next deal ten handed is about 6%.

 

The truth is a big bet on the river which, is what I expected as a bluff, turned out to be the Stone Cold Nuts.

 

Why do I embarrass myself writing this? It is because if I right it down I will burn it in my brain and perhaps next time I will make a better play and just flat call the river.

 

I also will read this out loud into my computer and save this as an mp3 music file. I will then load it into my mp3 player and then while I am someday listening to random music tracks I will hear myself read this blog and thus again remind me that I can play this situation better next time against a player whose range of hands is the same as Sammy Farha … 169 hands from 23o to AA and all of them for a raise in any position.

 

 

On Friday the 13^th, Janice entered the Mega Stack series tournament at Caesar’s and drew table number 13 … The tournament had 622 players enter the tournament and Janice played 14 straight hours on Day 1 to make it down to the final 30 players.

 

She returned on Saturday as a short stack and survived and made it to the final table. She actually finished in 9^th place besting 613 players … The blinds were 20000 / 40000 with a 5000 ante … Having only 300000 in chips she found 77 in middle position and went all-in … One of the players in the blind having around 600000 called with A10 off … The blind player in my opinion risked half his stack on a called in which he could have been dominated by a bigger Ace however he found a 10 on the board and Janice was finally sent to the rail…

 

Janice played 17 hours of great poker, picking her spots and I am proud of her.

 

Today I decided to sweat the final 4 players being filmed by ESPN of the WSOP Event #1 … The chip counts

Here is a look at the chip counts at this late stage in the event:

Andy Bloch: 3,300,000

Nenad Medic: 1,700,000

Mike Sexton: 1,600,000

Kathy Liebert: 580,000

 

Liebert: 66

Bloch: 99

Medic: QQ

 

This set up a great heads up match which Andy had no chance in … congratulations Nenad Medic

 

Well that was exciting … I also noticed how Andy handled heads up at a chip disadvantage … very interesting…

 

 

 

I went to the WSOP today …

 

I decided to try a single table satellite

 

It has one winner paid … 1000 starting chips

 

I ran 3’s into A’s and lost but had 300 chips left … I came back and finally got heads up.

 

My opponent a nice young man offered an even chop, although he held a chip advantage. I nicely explained that I really wanted to play it out and that it was no disrespect to him, I just like to compete and the blinds were still 150/300 so there was still some play left.

 

I overcame a chip deficit heads up and even got a 3-1 lead (I had 7600 and he had 2400) when I had him all in. I held 22 and he held A6 … He won and now nearly even in chips and with blinds at 300-600 and 5K in chips it was now a crap shoot, so he again offered to chop and I explained why now would be the right time since we both had less than 10 times the big blind.