Henry Tran???

[UATrewqaz]

That's a very good strategy. As Sklansky has pointed out, one of the "flaws" of the no limit game is that a rank ameteur can go all in preflop, TOTALLY NEGATING every advantage the pro might have, his years of skill, his position at the table in the hand, his table image, your tilt, all mean nothing when you are all in. None of that can beat you at that point, only his cards. And considering hold em's high variance, it's very easy for a better hand to get cracked.

If I were at one of these final table's in a big event, my first strategy would be to let all the baby stacks die, ensuring me the most money possible, however once everyone got semi-equal in chips or I was the short stack I would have one move all in move.

My cards vs. Phil Ivey's cards is a better bet than me vs. Ivey.

[Smoothcall]

Not a terrible play for him. Considering if he plays lots of small pots aginst eric. eric will eventually beat him. he made strong aggressive move that could have won him the pot right there. I dont know blinds and chip stacks but not too bad an idea to gamble when your the worse player.

[UATrewqaz]

Considering Eric lookd to seriously consider folding I'd say it was teh best move.

1. Eric is better you gotta look for a spot to get lucky.

2. Possibility of taking down the pot by forcing a fold

[arod15]

I dont think it was as bad as Chad made it out to be. If Lindren has anything but the queen he mucks. If he has a weaker queen he probably mucks and he has outs. On a scale of 1-10 1 beeing worse 10 being great i give it a 5. As it was marginal and read dependent. Eric is agressive and a check raise on a ragged flop like that might be an attempt with no hand.

[xorbie]

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What do you think about his gamble with 75o?

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Would have been better if he hadn't been so loose and agressive up until that point (well obviously we can't really know given the editing, but that's defintely how Lingren seemed to be thinking about it).