Gigabet now leading Bellagio 5 Diamond Classic
 

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Patrik?

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Date / Time: 2005-12-14 13:17:00
Title: New Chip Leader -- Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken Doubles Through Patrik Antonius
Log: Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken raises preflop, Patrik Antonius reraises, and Dicken calls. The flop comes Js-7d-5d, Dicken bets out, and after a long period of thought, Antonius moves all in. Dicken immediately calls with 7c-5h (two pair). Antonius shows Kd-Jd (pair of jacks, flush draw), and he has a ton of outs to win this hand. The turn card is the 9h, and the river is the As. Antonius fails to improve, and Darrell Dicken doubles up in the biggest pot of the tournament to about $885,000 in chips.


Antonius took a huge hit on that hand, but he still has an above-average stack of about $412,000 in chips. But Darrell Dicken is the new chip leader!

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Damn!

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pokerwire.com is usually pretty good too.

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Are they going to be televising this in the future?

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This makes me very happy.

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It is a WPT event, so yes.

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this is a WPT event

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This is great hope for us 2+2ers hahah.. going to waste more of my time on poker now and hurt my day job even more hahaha...

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I love how if anyone made either of these preflop moves in an $11 MTT, they are complete donks...but here they are geniuses. Its the grand ol' circle of life.

P.S. I'm not by any means saying that either of their moves were good or bad, just a poker social commentary.

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I love how if anyone made either of these preflop moves in an $11 MTT, they are complete donks...but here they are geniuses. Its the grand ol' circle of life.

P.S. I'm not by any means saying that either of their moves were good or bad, just a poker social commentary.

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And there it is. The stock reply in any gigabet thread. "If I made this move in my game, you'd all laugh at me, but he's gigabet."

This isn't poker commentary, it's a lack of understanding.

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Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken raises preflop, Patrik Antonius reraises, and Dicken calls.

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Dicken ... 7c-5h

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Darrell Dicken is the new chip leader!

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classic

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I love how if anyone made either of these preflop moves in an $11 MTT, they are complete donks...but here they are geniuses. Its the grand ol' circle of life.

P.S. I'm not by any means saying that either of their moves were good or bad, just a poker social commentary.

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Meh, Giga has over 100BB here, what is wrong with mixing it up?

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any of those preflop moves would be terrible in a sng. darrel wouldn't make them there either. there's just not enough chips.

i'm sure you understand that there's differences between deep stacked poker and not.

c

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And there it is. The stock reply in any gigabet thread. "If I made this move in my game, you'd all laugh at me, but he's gigabet."

This isn't poker commentary, it's a lack of understanding.

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I think you missed my commentary. Its not "If I made this move in my game, you'd all laugh at me, but he's gigabet."

Its "If Gigabet made this move in an $11 MTT it'd probably be a donk move." Him making it in the WPT does have value.

Eh, I was gonna post a big expansion of my "commentary" but decided it wasn't really worth it. Do I understand all the moves Gigabet makes? By no means. But I am one of those in the Gigabet fan club and feel that his hand posts give the most insights into poker theory and touch on psychology and philosophy.

Edit: I shoulda just waited one minute before posting my original post...Degen said exactly what I wanted to say.

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1 player away from itm... I loved this: as Jack McClelland said, "The next player who busts will make 100 new friends."...

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Its "If Gigabet made this move in an $11 MTT it'd probably be a donk move."

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I haven't seen all the info on the hand such as exact stack and bet sizes, but I highly doubt this would be considered a donk move in a $11 MTT.

What part of this hand would be considered a donk move?

Preflop - there are times where raising 75 in a $11 MTT would be worthwhile, calling the reraise would make sense if the stacks are deep enough

Flop- how would you play this differently in a $11 MTT?

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True...Hey Cit, could you do me a favor and just delete my original post. I wish it to be stricken from the record.

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Did any1 else see that Steve McQueen was just eliminated? Is that THE Steve McQueen? Anybody know? 'Twould be funny.

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I still want to know the amount of both preflop raises and the positions. I've found out over on the WPT board that the blinds were 1500/3000 with a 400 ante, and 47k in the pot preflop. No word on who was sitting where, what the two raises were, or Gigabet's postflop bet, or any history between the two/at the table.

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Did any1 else see that Steve McQueen was just eliminated? Is that THE Steve McQueen? Anybody know? 'Twould be funny.

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It would be more than funny, it would be otherworldly since he has been dead for over 25 years.

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No new info, but found photo
[image]http://mambo.pokerpages.com/gallery2/v/wptmain/wpt2005/wptfivediamond2005/Day2+023.jpg.html[/image]

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Gigabet probably made the right move since he's gigabet... He could call 3 all ins on one hand with 23o and he probably would win and it would be the right move [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

BTW bunny, your picture doesnt work.

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teh fotografikal goodness:

http://mambo.pokerpages.com/gallery2...3/Day2+023.jpg

that's not how i imagined giga... but hey, good stuff.

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gooooooooo raj, bring down gig. holla

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There are still some big names within striking distance like Doyle, Dewey Tomko, Greenstein, Laak, however, I would be most concerned about Harmon's husband with his T110,000.

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So is he going for the retro-mod club kid Addidas sweatsuit look here? Or the Russian gangster look? Or just guy in a comfy sweattop?

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So is he going for the retro-mod club kid Addidas sweatsuit look here? Or the Russian gangster look? Or just guy in a comfy sweattop?

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cokehead look

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Haha, touché.

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So is he going for the retro-mod club kid Addidas sweatsuit look here? Or the Russian gangster look? Or just guy in a comfy sweattop?

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Russian Bear...the original Russian gangster.

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The gold chain is a nice touch.

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The gold chain is a nice touch.

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you notice things.

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The gold chain is a nice touch.

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you notice things.

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Giga prolly didn't even buy these clothes himself. He has people who take care of that for him.

Also, he rocks the gold chain b/c he may be young but has a soul from the old school.

villainaire,

How the F is your second post a quote of agreement?! SFB still doesn't even know how to quote yet alone quote with implied meaning.

Yugoslav

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he rocks the gold chain b/c he may be young but he's takin it back to the old school, cuz he's an old fool, who's so cool. If you wanna get down, he's gonna show you the way...

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first thing that came to mind.

Call by Cassidy
 

With the board showing 9s-6d-5d-Qh-Jd on the river, Joe Cassidy bets about $100,000 into a roughly $500,000 pot, and Patrik Antonius raises to $300,000. Cassidy makes an incredible call with Ad-7c (ace high). Sure enough, Antonius shows Ah-3d, and Cassidy's kicker plays to win the entire pot.

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villainaire,

How the F is your second post a quote of agreement?! SFB still doesn't even know how to quote yet alone quote with implied meaning.

Yugoslav

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SFB gimmick account

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Date / Time: 2005-12-14 13:17:00
Title: New Chip Leader -- Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken Doubles Through Patrik Antonius
Log: Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken raises preflop, Patrik Antonius reraises, and Dicken calls. The flop comes Js-7d-5d, Dicken bets out, and after a long period of thought, Antonius moves all in. Dicken immediately calls with 7c-5h (two pair). Antonius shows Kd-Jd (pair of jacks, flush draw), and he has a ton of outs to win this hand. The turn card is the 9h, and the river is the As. Antonius fails to improve, and Darrell Dicken doubles up in the biggest pot of the tournament to about $885,000 in chips.


Antonius took a huge hit on that hand, but he still has an above-average stack of about $412,000 in chips. But Darrell Dicken is the new chip leader!

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standard move?

you raise, villian reraises, you call. you flop 2 pair. why bet out? it's most likely he's going to do a continuation bet.

why not check raise instead of betting out? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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The other side of the coin. From Pokerwire:

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Darrell Dicken raised to 40k from the cutoff, Joanne 'J. J.' Liu raised to 120k, and Dicken called. The flop came K [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Dicken checked, Liu bet 80k, and Dicken called. The turn came the 7 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Dicken bet 200k, and Liu called. The river came the 2 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Dicken pushed in, and Liu called all in for 591k. Darrell Dicken showed AQ for a pair of sixes with an ace kicker. Liu showed KK for kings full of sixes to double up.

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