All I have to say about the WPT in Arubu show, 2004 version is...

[Easy E]

It must be nice, or at least make life a LOT easier, to keep getting big hands and having a majority of them stand up or catch up.....

Right, EDog "Big Slick" Eric L?

[astroglide]

he caught ridiculous cards

[Daliman]

I havent seen it, but i was there, and it seems to me the first hand once they went Heads up Was Erik going allin with Q2h, Other guy calling AK, flop q, turn 2...

So yeah, you could say he caught

Also, the hand that knocked out the irishman in 3rd, like he's not gonna get called? Wasn't sure if the blinds/stacks situation at the time but jeez, isn't there a better spot for your $$$ than J6h, i mean, it's barely even average...

[TheArtist]

The Irish didn't get any hands at all the whole tournament and still manage to win chips. I think J6h was another move he was trying to make but unfortunately ran into AK.

TheArtist

[chaos]

If you keep putting all your chips in with trash (35, 57, etc) sooner or later you are going to get called and eliminated.

[Daliman]

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The Irish didn't get any hands at all the whole tournament and still manage to win chips. I think J6h was another move he was trying to make but unfortunately ran into AK.

TheArtist

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Well, not any hands that you SAW. For all we know, he had AA 6 times and only got the blinds each time. The final table went on for about 6 or so hours, so of course its not like you see every hand. I'm not sure how I feel about the irishman's play though; was he just lucky that when he pressed his opponent didn't have much, or did he have great reads in those instances. Given his KJo early play vs EL's aces and his horrendous play of KT vs EL's JT late, i'd say the former. Actually a very astute comment by VVP that he plays crap hands much better than good ones.
That said, MAN was EL a card rack....

[boedeker]

i play live prolly about 15 hours a week and havent seen AA in 3 weeks...

[TimTimSalabim]

I thought he played well early on by making some tough laydowns that enabled him to preserve a decent size stack and not just fritter it away on a bunch of bad chases like I've seen other WPT players do. Then when he did start catching cards later on, he made the most of it. And yes, caught some luck along the way. But isn't that how you usually win a tournament?

[unfrgvn]

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I thought he played well early on by making some tough laydowns that enabled him to preserve a decent size stack and not just fritter it away on a bunch of bad chases like I've seen other WPT players do.

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Like Barry Schulman. What was he thinking on that Q 5 hand?
Surely he had to think he was at least outkicked at some point.

[Easy E]

I agree- however
Then when he did start catching cards later on, he made the most of it. And yes, caught some luck along the way"

Sure makes it a lot easier when you get THAT many cards.