WSOP Day 3: "Official" News, Results, and Discussion

[TheMainEvent]

[ QUOTE ]
Amir Esfandiary 38,700 Chips

[/ QUOTE ]

Is this Antonio? I thought he got knocked out already?

[meow_meow]

Amir =! Antonio

[Kevmath]

It's not Rocks and Rings Antonio, although I thought the same thing after day 1a.

Kevin...

[benfranklin]

[ QUOTE ]
It's not Rocks and Rings Antonio, although I thought the same thing after day 1a.

Kevin...

[/ QUOTE ]

I thought Antonio was knocked out on day 1.4

[TheMainEvent]

[ QUOTE ]
Amir =! Antonio

[/ QUOTE ]

It was his birth name

[belloc]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Amir =! Antonio

[/ QUOTE ]

It was his birth name

[/ QUOTE ]

As befits his mysterio-magician persona.

[swede123]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Amir Esfandiary 38,700 Chips

[/ QUOTE ]

Is this Antonio? I thought he got knocked out already?

[/ QUOTE ]

Having 38,700 chips definitely isn't 1.4.

Swede

[TheMainEvent]

[ QUOTE ]
Having 38,700 chips definitely isn't 1.4.

[/ QUOTE ]

For whoever wins, using the phrase "7.5" at Antonio's table will definately be +EV.

[pyedog]

[ QUOTE ]
These are the lowest ranked players on the chip counts. Six (or nine?) will barely miss out on $12,500.

547 James Courtney 16,800 Chips
548 Bruce Atkinson 16,800 Chips
549 Steven Brown 16,100 Chips
550 George Alex 16,000 Chips
551 Paul Zimbler 15,800 Chips
552 Patrick McCann 15,400 Chips
553 Dan Burns 15,300 Chips
554 Gang Huang 15,200 Chips
555 John Bae 14,900 Chips
556 Martin Laliberte 14,000 Chips
557 Eamon Grimes 13,500 Chips
558 Marty Foth 13,100 Chips
559 Freddie Jones 12,700 Chips
560 Angeloudis Kostas 11,800 Chips
561 Jason Seitz 11,300 Chips
562 Sarne Lightman 11,200 Chips
563 Bill Bostley 9,500 Chips
564 Larry Collins 7,600 Chips
565 Vadim Shlez 5,800 Chips
566 Michael Santoro 3,200 Chips

It'll cost $5,700 to play one orbit at a nine-handed table. Some of these folks are going to have a hard time folding their way into the money.


[/ QUOTE ]

It's interesting how most of the bottom 20 chip counts are bunched between 10K and 16K (only 5-8 times the big blind, or enough for about two orbits of the table). And I think 6 of these players are going to finish out of the money.

I am not a tournament poker player so I'm just curious what you guys think the best strategy would be if you had about 11K in chips, assuming that the $12.5K prize was very significant to you. I guess that the luck of who got assigned late position to start the day would be a huge factor when you're a short stack trying to outlast other short stacks.

Say you had 11K and happened to get assigned middle position to start the day, would you just fold every hand and hope that 6 people get eliminated before you do? Or would you push all in on Ax or any pair and hope to win the blinds and survive a bit longer? That would be a very nerve wracking spot to be in for an online qualifier who could really use that $12 grand.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

If you are in spot 555-560 you can't fold your way to the money as some of those behind you will successfully double up or steal some blinds or be folded to in bb. So you need to keep trying to gather chips. Push a lot of different hands if you still have folding equity (11k is large enough). If you get down to 6-7k it becomes mathematics (often your hand in BB will be good enough to make a push or pushcall correct).