This year's main event is rolling, tons of coverage on ESPN. Last year was a blast. Thank goodness they got rid of the silly November 9 format!
Negreanu part of the featured table tonight.
Negreanu part of the featured table tonight.
OT: 2019 World Series of Poker - Main Event Thread
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Not sure if he is still playing. They mentioned him attending a recent top 50 WSOP players of all time event. That was only a few days ago, so he is still around.
He announced he was retiring from tournament play last summer.
Now this is a real athletic event, not like that lame hotdog eating contest.
Don't know.how to link.. But I just saw an article where a guy was just DQ'd today for stealing someone else's chips.... Pretty blatantly... Definitely candidate for dumbass of the year award...
Numbers is correct he said he can't handle
Maybe drunk, maybe lanquage barrier. From the pokernews article:
Also another guy DQ'd for pulling out his junk and throwing a shoe at the dealer.
Maybe drunk, maybe lanquage barrier. From the pokernews article:
Also another guy DQ'd for pulling out his junk and throwing a shoe at the dealer.
Will ESPN show that tonight, lol? Wouldn't mind seeing Kid Poker (Negreanu) finally win the Main Event. Guy's got incredible reading skills and he's fun to watch with his table talk. Did you see his laydown the other day, where he had Ks-Qc, the flop came with 3 spades, and the turn was the 4th spade, giving him the 2nd nut flush and he folded to an 8000 chip bet when he had 70K in chips, because he figured out the woman against him had aces with the A of spades for the nut flush (she was the pre-flop raiser and continued betting on the flop)? I can see laying it down against a huge bet, but for just 8000, I'm sure I'd call. Thought that was pretty awesome.
Planning on playing next year, as I'll be retiring this year, and always wanted to try the Main Event at least once, and just because you never know. Get hot, build a chip stack and maybe you'll see me on TV, lol. A guy I know from a local game finished in the top 70 last year.
https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-ne...soul-read-in-world-series-of-poker-main-event
I’m a big fan of Daniel, but that was a fairly easy lay down. She had been playing very tight and then made a big oversized preflop raise - 5 times the BB - and was very relaxed and led out on the flop and turn. He held the Ks, and the Js and Qs were on the board. There’s really no way she’s not holding the As there.
Understood that the aces were a decent possibility, but she should know that he would think that and could easily make the same 8000 chip bet with A-K and no flush (but representing the nut flush), so I don't think it's as easy as a laydown as you do, but that's why they make poker message boards, lol.
They did just mention the guy who exposed himself and got DQ-ed and also mentioned that Phil Ivey busted out in under an hour. Damn.
Daniel said to another player that he would have put his chips in against him in that spot. I think he felt that a “granny” who took his course wasn’t going to be trying a three barrel bluff against HIM in that spot.
Ivey really blew up on that hand. All in on the flop with just the nut flush draw. But for him a $10k tournament buying is small. He’s not interested in spending a week trying to min-cash when there are big cash games going on. Either build a stack and get to the high payouts, or get out and into the cash games.
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Fair point if you don't think the other player is capable of that play (another possible hand, though, was 10's with the 10 of spades) - I just don't think I could've folded 2nd nut for a smallish bet, but maybe that's why he's on TV and I'm not, lol. With regard to Ivey, are you watching poker go or did you just read about it? Don't think they showed it on ESPN. The Grinder just hit the rail...
I read about Ivey’s hand here
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2019/07/phil-ivey-strikes-out-of-2019-wsop-main-event-34753.htm
Very hard to lay down the 3rd nuts (10s8s makes Straight flush), but with the actions showed Daniel played her more exploitatively there and folded where I'm betting he wouldn't have done so against a pro with less tells. She showed extreme strength with her big pf bet and part of poker is trying to figure out the range of hands your opponents could have. With each action she narrowed the rage further and further until it was pretty obvious what she had. She didn't hesitate on the flop an turn, had a genuine smile, continued .with large sizing relative to the pot, etc..
The fact that you have a pulse and can type puts you has a favorite on the random opening day draws you get in the WSOP main. Plus from your interactions on the board I know that you are smarter than the average bear. When I played 3 years ago, there was wide range of players, a rich European who didn't seem interested in playing and dusted off his stack in 30 min, a redneck from Tennessee who played any 2 cards every hand, an old man coffee who didn't play any hands until he go AK in against an obvious set plus a cast of others. The key is the table draw though as people got eliminated it gets tougher. This year there was a day 1 table with Igor Kurganov, Liv Boree, and Dan Smith 3 top pros you don't want to mess with. Kurganov actually ended up busting Boree, his girlfriend early in the day.
And now poker Twitter going crazy with Earthquake that just hit and rocked the Rio poker room. Looks like a 7.1 near the epicenter of the other quake.
TV coverage isn't there yet - can't wait to see the reactions. I was at the Taj playing poker the day in 2011 when a 5.8 hit in VA, but was significantly felt in AC. Those huge chandeliers started swaying and I quickly walked outside, as I figured being under a 1000 pounds of glass was probably not a good idea in what I figured was an earthquake. Called my wife and she confirmed the earthquake reports.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local...tles-las-vegas-halts-sporting-events-1704662/
Live, I recall thinking she should check the turn, representing aces (without the spade) now being afraid of the flush, which would be a reasonable hand for DN to have there and possibly inducing DN to bet the river and then betting big.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, but as you know, luck is so critical early on in a large tournament - easy to play correctly and lose all your chips on a 2-outer to one of those maniacs. How did you do 3 years ago? I used to play a ton on-line when it was legal everywhere, but rarely play on line now and just play in the casino every couple of weeks (mostly play 10-20 omaha/stud or 10-20 hold-em, if I can find those games and some 2-5 no limit if not - no limit has killed poker for me in some ways, as it's almost the only game you can find and it's not my favorite).
Got up to 150k chips on day 1 ended the day with about 130k from a staring stack of 50k. Except for Johnnie Chan sitting at my table late on day 1, I had a super soft table and was able to chip up all throughout that day. Busted late day 2 not long after I lost most of my chips trying to bluff a young European pro when there was a flush on board and I had the ace of the suit, he tank called with 2 pair. Day 2 was way different as more people started getting eliminated, better players replaced them and it got harder. I probably could have played a bit more conservative but felt I had a good spot. Anyone that can play the games that you do should be able to get through day 1 with chips, after that it gets more challenging but it is not impossible.
150K is a nice start on day 1. Did you tangle with Chan at all? I'll always remember the famous scene in Rounders when Matt Damon's character takes Chan down with a 4-bet at 300-600 hold-em. That scene actually was shot at the Taj with one of the regular dealers, which I always thought was cool.
Tough to lose so much on an all-in that is really still a draw, although most players probably fold the 2-pair against an all-in with the flush on the board. Gotta make some plays like that (and win some flips) to advance, though. The flip side is you also have to avoid the suck out when you get it all in with the best hand. Will never forget probably my worst beat at no-limit. I had aces at 2-5 and I was in late position at a live table and player 1, under the gun raised to $50, pre-flop, player 2, to my right, then raised to $100, and I raised all-in for about $500 (covering the other two). At that point, I figured the all-in was the better bet, as I didn't really want 2 callers, which increases my chance of losing, but they both called a few hundred more each, which surprised me and everyone else. Flop hit Q-10-5 and it turns out player 1 had tens and player 2 had queens. Don't think I could've done anything differently - sometimes you just lose, lol.
Played in more than a few of those, lol. Used to play almost exclusively (once or twice a month) at the Taj from the day poker was legalized in AC in '93 until PARX opened up a few years back and gave me a much shorter drive to play (45 min one-way vs. 90 min one-way). As the linked article says, poker changed a lot over that time. For many years, I mostly played limit Omaha, Stud or hold-em, until Moneymaker changed the poker world in 2003 with his win in the Main Event. No limit hold-em quickly became king, much to my chagrin - don't get me wrong, I enjoy it, but it's now much harder to find any limit games, sadly.
https://www.nolandalla.com/early-years-atlantic-city-poker-scene/
I was a 7 stud high / low player before holdem took over. I keep moving further south to cut down on my drive. Wife has not figured that out yet.
You might like the 6-12, two-way (half hour of high/low Omaha, followed by a half hour of high/low stud, with kill pots going to 10-20) game I mostly play at PARX. Usually 2 tables are playing (3 on Friday/Saturday) and more than a few bad players, so it's not hard to win some money.
He wasn't at my table long, only for the last 2 or so hours of the night,even so I tried to stay away from him. While he doesn't play a ton anymore in the spotlight, it was clear from his actions that he was still at the top of his game and better than everyone at the table, so I tried to pick on the other players. I did play one hand with him where I had medium pocket pair and was thinking about calling him on the flop where I could have had the best hand and while I was thinking about calling he stared into my soul and he said something like I got it buddy, so I laid it down. This update from that year is from my table, I think the blurry arm at the bottom left of the photo is mine, lol.
Funny story from the table. A young guy, had to be barely 21 moved to my table during the last hour of the night. He sits down and seems to be a bit tipsy. The guy is talking his buddy on the rail between hands about going to the Rhino, and a one point says sorry for holding up the action, I'm trying to get someone to go to the Rhino with me. Johnny Chan says to the guy no problem buddy I'll go with you. The guys says are you serious? Johhny says yea, as soon as we finish lets go. The guy calls his buddy says we are going to the Rhino with Johnny f'n chan.
I talked it over with a couple of friends and think it was the right move, only slight mistake is maybe because he was a young European pro and more likely to call than a random guy. We have all had those beats, as I'm sure you know we can't be results oriented. In poker as in life if we continue to make the best decisions we'll be better off in the long run.
On a side note if you guys are interested there are several RU alumni who play in the WSOP every year. Two that I know of and post a buch on Twitter are Michael Gagliano(https://twitter.com/Gags30poker) and T.J. Jurkiewicz ( https://twitter.com/tjurk44 ). Gags is probably the best poker player currently based in NJ, but I don't think is a huge sports fan. Jurkiewicz is also very good, is a huge RU fan from his posts, but lives in Vegas now. He used to post here and write the capping the big 10 betting column on Onthebanks.
I have heard good things about Parx as well as Sugar House. I need to check them out. Problem is Omaha is definitely not my game. Need to put some time in on that before sitting down live.
I never knew Gagliano is an RU grad - thanks for that info.
Randal7 still posts here but hasn’t in a month.
FYI - Borgata has a $200 HOSE tournament on Sunday 6/14 at 3:00. It should make for some good action in the 10/20 O8 games Sat and Sunday. It might even cause the 10/20 OE game to run somewhere in town.
Never played in a HOSE tournament, but I play all of those games, so that sounds pretty cool, thanks. Unfortunately, there's no way I get clearance to go to AC next Sunday, lol (assuming you meant 7/14).
Money bubble burst last night with 1,286 players left, 31 from NJ. A ton of excellent players still in, currently rooting for #2 in chips Andrew Brokos, he is the host of a pretty good poker podcast and just released an excellent game theory based book.
Interesting hand on the live feed last night where someone opened with A9o, a younger Asian guy calls with 77 and then an 60ish white guy calls with TT in the big blind. The flop is AT7. Tens check, A9 bets 1/3 pot, both sets call. The turn is a 4, no flushes on board. Tens check, A9 check, sevens bets 3/5 pot, tens call, A9 folds. The river is another 4. Tens full leads 1/3 pot, sevens full raises. Tens then takes forever and instead of raising just calls for the nitroll. Guy with sevens looks shocked thinking before seeing the cards that he had won, talked to himself for a while after the hand. He was lucky that he lost the minimum, if at any point the tens raise he gets it all in.
Interesting hand on the live feed last night where someone opened with A9o, a younger Asian guy calls with 77 and then an 60ish white guy calls with TT in the big blind. The flop is AT7. Tens check, A9 bets 1/3 pot, both sets call. The turn is a 4, no flushes on board. Tens check, A9 check, sevens bets 3/5 pot, tens call, A9 folds. The river is another 4. Tens full leads 1/3 pot, sevens full raises. Tens then takes forever and instead of raising just calls for the nitroll. Guy with sevens looks shocked thinking before seeing the cards that he had won, talked to himself for a while after the hand. He was lucky that he lost the minimum, if at any point the tens raise he gets it all in.
I agree with you about getting it all in on the river but I don't know about the table dynamics. If the 60ish guy had been playing with the kid for a while and noticed he slow played or cold called pre with big pairs, the decision to call the river raise might have some merit as he only has 3rd nuts and loses to AA and 44. In a vacuum, not knowing anything about how the kid plays I am getting it all in on the river. Curious, what were the stacks of the players? Would the kid with the 7's moving all in been too much of an over bet?
Was an awesome hand - fell asleep soon after it. One item to add: the old guy still had about 100K in chips left to go all in with, so the Asian kid could've been down to about 200K instead of 300K, but he did have the old guy covered - he still lost about 350K in the hand though, losing his chip lead at that table. I guess with the bubble so close, the amateur old guy didn't want to put the rest of it in, even though he should've known there was almost no way the guy with 7's could've had aces as pros rarely slow play aces with more players possibly calling behind them. And yeah, the kid looked absolutely stunned.
I was rooting for Nick Schulman before he went out (love his TV commentary style/content). Wouldn't mind seeing Gus Hansen win. Long way to go still...
Kid with 7s had about 200K more in chips. Kid wouldn't have slowplayed aces before the flop and I don't think one can worry about quads that much (the 4s likely fold after that flop for a decent bet with someone behind), so old guy should've shoved all in, IMHO.
Fair point. Like I said above I probably would shove as well unless I saw something esrlier from that player to give me pause. I wonder if the kid shoving the river would have got the older guy to fold. Was this on or near the bubble?
I haven’t gotten to that hand yet but, as written, that is a bad play by the old guy. And the type of scared play I see all time by guys my age.
Great event so far. Final entry stats and top 9 payouts:
Players remaining: 1,286 (8,569 entries)
First place: $10 million
Prize pool: $80,548,600
Guaranteed payout (in the money): $15,000
Final table payouts:
1. $10 million
2. $6 million
3. $4 million
4. $3 million
5. $2.2 million
6. $1.85 million
7. $1.525 million
8. $1.25 million
9. $1 million
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