Re: Hellmuth\'s AK hand
Interesting explanation. I couldn't figure out why he would check in the dark as much as he did. It seemed like he was giving up massive amounts of "Phil FE" (9 bracelet holder betting--look out), and putting himself in positions where he had to make really good reads, like in that AT hand where he made a bit of a mistake.
As for the TPTK vs. set read, I think it looked pretty easy, but I think a lot of 2+2er's go broke there. That is entirely read dependant, (Corpse (heh) did seem extremely tight, or at least had big hands in both hands we saw) and online there's very little chance of most of us getting away from that AK hand. I guess I shouldn't speak for the zoo, but I went broke there with AA on a K high board against an opponent who I thought could only reasonably have KK, but who I decided possibly could have AK and called anyway. I don't think I'm significantly worse than the average 2+2er.
If the octagenarian leads the flop, I think Phil goes broke if he has less than 25K. If the octagenarian is a little quieter, I think Phil goes broke.
-D,
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