*Official* WPT Mirage Poker Showdown thread

[Tyler Durden]

Next hand, John has A9h on the button and raises to 90k. Gabe has 65 and folds. Eli calls w/ 96c in the BB.

Flop J83r. Eli checks and John checks behind. Turn 7, giving Eli an openender and John a flush draw and bigger openender. Eli bets 100k and is called.

River 5 and Eli makes his straight and bets 100k. John thinks about, according to Mike, raising the river w/ Ace high but mucks. Eli drags a 510k pot.

*****

SN 1.81k
EE 1.4k
JJ 966k

Those are all the chip counts I caught but Lee is the short man.

Gabe opens to 110k on the button w/ 62. Eli calls w/ KJ. Lee has 99 and the short stack in the BB and moves in. Gabe folds and Eli calls for 255k.

Eli KJ
Lee 99

Flop Q44. Ppl chant Lee's name
Turn 6.
River 8 and Lee doubles through. 865k pot.

[Easy E]

After the way he limped with the other hand holding top pair, I think he played that top pair of 9's badly. Unless there were a lot of hands between the previous limp and this one, he should have been aggressive and overbet the turn if that would suck Scotty in.

Checking as he did, there was NO chance Scotty's calling with any hand besides a big pair or an 8. I didn't like his play either.

The limps on the previous hand weren't too bad, I think, though I didn't like the weak turn call with draws out there. If he thinks the opponent will keep pushing the worst hand, it might be best, but still...

[Easy E]

Unless he's putting John on a move, I'd wait for a better spot than a gutshot.

[Easy E]

Just trying to put the hands out there, or are you going to go back and comment on them later?

[Tyler Durden]

EE 1.61
JJ
SN 1.325
GK
LW

25k/50k/5k

Folds to John in the SB and he completes w/ 43. Gabe has Q6 in the BB and checks. 125k in the pot.

Flop 982 all spades, neither player has one. John bets 50k. Gabe calls.

Turn offsuit 7. John checks and Gabe checks his openender.

River is a 7, a fourth spade. John bets 100k. Gabe folds.

[3rdEye]

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Unless he's putting John on a move, I'd wait for a better spot than a gutshot.

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True. But then again, what kind of flop are you looking for with 77 when you cold call a super-aggro raiser preflop?

[3rdEye]

What the crap is Gabe Kaplan doing? He makes the delayed bluff play on Juanda, then pussies out on the turn....?

[Tyler Durden]

Gabe is first and mucks 32. Eli folds Q6. Lee has AKs and raises all in for 705k. Scotty has AQ right behind him and calls.

AKc for Lee
AQ for Scotty.
Flop A98.
Turn 3.
River 7 and Lee doubles up again. He now has nearly 1.5 million.

[ClassicBob]

Kaplan is killing me!!!!

Really interesting play by Watkinson, and it worked out for him, doubling up through Scotty.

[Easy E]

I agree- pretty much a "damned either way" hand