Mike Haven
05-14-2004, 05:56 PM
here's a fabulous article by Andy Glazer (http://www.finaltablepoker.com/show_events.php?action=view_article&event_id=26&ar ticle_id=43) on the wsop $1500 nlhe tourney of may 12th
one interesting side-comment from it:
Matters got better for Forrest on the turn, when the 10c hit; now he only had to survive one card, not two, and the outs to a nine were gone. The 4c hit the river, Nguyen was out, and Forrest was sitting on enough chips to make more than THREE WHOLE BIG BETS (were they real chips, and not no-cash-value tournament chips) in the $100,000-200,000 real money game going on over at the Bellagio right now between Dallas banker Andy Beal and an assortment of Vegas pros who are taking turns playing him one-on-one.
and a good strategy comment:
Mohler had just been fading away after the river card defeat to Pritchett, and on hand #105, he moved all-in for 25k. Pritchett missed an opportunity here, I think; she raised it to 75k, clearing everyone else out, and as Mohler turned over his Q-Q, she turned over A-A. I think a flat-call here would have been much safer than in ordinary circumstances. She couldn’t lose any money by Mohler running her down; anyone who came after her, figuring they could blow her off an attempt to knock Mohler out, would be trailing and likely facing an all-in re-raise if his raise came pre-flop.
one interesting side-comment from it:
Matters got better for Forrest on the turn, when the 10c hit; now he only had to survive one card, not two, and the outs to a nine were gone. The 4c hit the river, Nguyen was out, and Forrest was sitting on enough chips to make more than THREE WHOLE BIG BETS (were they real chips, and not no-cash-value tournament chips) in the $100,000-200,000 real money game going on over at the Bellagio right now between Dallas banker Andy Beal and an assortment of Vegas pros who are taking turns playing him one-on-one.
and a good strategy comment:
Mohler had just been fading away after the river card defeat to Pritchett, and on hand #105, he moved all-in for 25k. Pritchett missed an opportunity here, I think; she raised it to 75k, clearing everyone else out, and as Mohler turned over his Q-Q, she turned over A-A. I think a flat-call here would have been much safer than in ordinary circumstances. She couldn’t lose any money by Mohler running her down; anyone who came after her, figuring they could blow her off an attempt to knock Mohler out, would be trailing and likely facing an all-in re-raise if his raise came pre-flop.