Greg Raymer interview

[Greg J]

Day 3 -- and he is the chip leader.

Here is a pretty cool video of an interview (http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tournaments/event.php?id=1269&screen=video&video_id=451) done by cardplayer today (I think).

Class guy. I hope he takes it again.

[Bradyams]

Greg Raymer is by far one of the classiest poker players there is. I would love to see him do well again this year.

[MEbenhoe]

There's something refreshing about a guy who looks almost embarassed when the guy interviewing him calls him one of the best poker players in the world. GO RAYMER BACK TO BACK!

[Greg J]

I don't know how he does it without the green, yellow, blue and red numbers floating over everyone's head. One day, I will be able to do this with a PDA, with inputting hand histories manually, with my VR glasses.

[boose_bagina]

he seemed like a dick at last years WSOP, but thats before I saw any interviews with him....really really humble guy, I love how he attributes a lot of his success to just getting the right cards, despite the fact we know thats just not true...sort of.

[Baulucky]

This Raymer guy shows ambitious tendencies...

I hope he wins again.

[LondonBroil]

Date / Time: 2005-07-12 17:25:00
Title: Raymer Cannot Be Stopped
Log:

Gen Wattanabe goes all-in for his last . Greg mentions that he knows he's behind, but decides to call. Wattanabe shows J-J with one spade. Raymer turns over 8-6 - no spades. The flop comes 7s-3s-2s. Raymer has no pair, and no solid draw, while Wattanabe still has an overpair and a flush draw. The turn is a non-spade 5, giving Raymer an open ended straight draw, but he's still behind. The river brings a non-spade 9. Raymer hits his runner-runner straight, busts Wattanabe, and is now sitting atop a stack of $1,600,000.

[Homer]

[ QUOTE ]
Date / Time: 2005-07-12 17:25:00
Title: Raymer Cannot Be Stopped
Log:

Gen Wattanabe goes all-in for his last . Greg mentions that he knows he's behind, but decides to call. Wattanabe shows J-J with one spade. Raymer turns over 8-6 - no spades. The flop comes 7s-3s-2s. Raymer has no pair, and no solid draw, while Wattanabe still has an overpair and a flush draw. The turn is a non-spade 5, giving Raymer an open ended straight draw, but he's still behind. The river brings a non-spade 9. Raymer hits his runner-runner straight, busts Wattanabe, and is now sitting atop a stack of $1,600,000.

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Went in for his last...how much? I assume this was preflop, he was short-stacked and Greg was the BB?

[bkholdem]

Like someone else said, Greg Raymer is a class act. He's a great player and great for poker in general. He's bright, articulate, humble, and a gentleman. A great representative of poker for the general public.

[IggyWH]

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Like someone else said, Greg Raymer is a class act. He's a great player and great for poker in general. He's bright, articulate, humble, and a gentleman. A great representative of poker for the general public.

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Add to that the freakin dude is a beast. We all saw what he did last year with the clip lead and with 102 players currently left, he's the 2nd biggest stack.

Too early to talk repeat?

[LondonBroil]

Not sure, this was copied directly from CardPlayer's updates.

[smartalecc5]

[ QUOTE ]
Date / Time: 2005-07-12 17:25:00
Title: Raymer Cannot Be Stopped
Log:

Gen Wattanabe goes all-in for his last . Greg mentions that he knows he's behind, but decides to call. Wattanabe shows J-J with one spade. Raymer turns over 8-6 - no spades. The flop comes 7s-3s-2s. Raymer has no pair, and no solid draw, while Wattanabe still has an overpair and a flush draw. The turn is a non-spade 5, giving Raymer an open ended straight draw, but he's still behind. The river brings a non-spade 9. Raymer hits his runner-runner straight, busts Wattanabe, and is now sitting atop a stack of $1,600,000.

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Everyone should just forfeit and bow down to Greg.

[theredwave]

It was 70K that the short stack pushed all-in with.

[dealer_toe]

Date / Time: 2005-07-12 20:08:00
Title: Raymer Takes a Hit
Log: With the board showing 7-5-3-K Greg Raymer bets $80,000 and Tex Barch calls. The river brings a 6. Barch bets out $400,000 and Raymer calls. Barch shows 9-8, for a rivered gutshot. Raymer ships over $500,000 to Barch on the hand and is down to $700,000 in chips.


damn chasers, raymer needs to play a limit where they respect your raises.

[IggyWH]

Still not too bad off... looks like he's sitting 19th now.

With 91 players left and 3 days left of playing, won't they want to get to final 2 tables tomorrow? Won't that make for a long ass day?