Black should have won

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I can't find much at falt with Hachem's play in the WSOP, but I really think that out of the final table Andy Black played the best poker. He made one or two mistakes, but that is inevitable after playing for seven days straight. He showed some real genius to get where he did. His re raise on Phil Ivey with A2 was the best pre flop play I have EVER seen in poker, let alone the first hand of the last 27 of the world series. I've seen this play criticised on here, and I really can't believe that. The simple fact of the matter is that Dannenman hit a 5 outer against him with two cards to come, after Black had made an unbelievable call with merely top pair weak kicker on a straight board. If he'd won this pot he would have had a resounding chip lead with four players left. His reads of the other players were absolutely phenomenal, and there is no doubt in my mind that the best player at this year's world series came fifth.


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In that case Phil Ivey whould have won every tournament he ever played in.

Here, meet my friend tournament poker and his very good friend variance.

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Andy should have won, beecause of his chipstack, not because of how he played the final table.

He shouhld have stacked kanter on that set of 5's hand, and he made a few other questionable plays. I didnt think he played an especially good final table.