Re: Hellmuth\'s AK hand
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Like someone else said, this hand was all about the situation/being there/playing the player. Though I still give Phil a lot of credit for laying down here.
The only thing I thought of was the corpse's bet was really big. 10k is a huge overbet there, I guess that would look a little funny, but then again a good player would use the reverse, reverse psychology there and figure out what's up.
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i totally give phil credit for figuring it out...he's just very lucky that:
A) he checked in the dark
B) the flop was such that the other guy could check behind
(i.e. it wasn't As8c9c with about 9 billion draws for both of them to 'protect')
C) the Q came on the turn to eliminate about half of the hands that phil was beating on the flop
D) this particular player got the AA, not someone who had shown more aggression vs. him
Still a very nice appraisal of the situation, but it wasn't the laydown that one would think it would be if given out of context and certainly one that an educated player would be able to figure out if they took their time.
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