"Official" ESPN Coverage of WSOP Main Event: 10/18

You'd have thought Hellmuth would have learned the dangers of AK from 2002. I mean, gosh! Against a bunch of donkeys, AK isn't the nuts!

Remember, he's gonna fold AA preflop eventually.

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Yeah, but he's only thrown KK away preflop twice in his life, so the odds of him tossing AA away are much less. I'm sure ESPN will be around when he does it though.

[TimTimSalabim]

Not to take away anything from Hellmuth's AK laydown, but if I recall the hand correctly from watching it earlier, Hellmuth opened for 1500, and the other guy made a min raise to 3000, which pretty much screams AA/KK/QQ. I'm sure that factored into it.

[MicroBob]

I just saw it for the first time.

If the re-raise didn't scream a big pair, the guy's behavior when he bet $10k on the turn sure did.
He was a total freaking tell-box.

Phil told him 'nice hand' and it really wasn't. There was little excuse for that guy to not extract SOME chips out of Phil.
His speech and mannerisms when he bet were quite bad.

[Autocratic]

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I just saw it for the first time.

If the re-raise didn't scream a big pair, the guy's behavior when he bet $10k on the turn sure did.
He was a total freaking tell-box.

Phil told him 'nice hand' and it really wasn't. There was little excuse for that guy to not extract SOME chips out of Phil.
His speech and mannerisms when he bet were quite bad.

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I thought so, too, and I suck. I'm not sure I could have called that 10k bet.

[Rushmore]

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My favorite tonight was "Marcel's doing his Travis Bickle impression". He still offers nothing in the way of decent poker analysis, but at least he's funny.

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The weird thing about that was that it was Simon who does a spot-on DeNiro impression (apparently, he used to do it for a living, that whole celebrity look-alike thing), and had done it very well several times. It really seems like ESPN just decided to portray Simon as some guy who just came over to try and steal some of Marcel's thunder (which, to a small degree, was true, with the singing).

Simon came across as really annoying, but he was actually very cool. Luske came across as really cool, and he was...uh, really cool.

Anyway, I got deep into Day 2. But we don't want to talk about that.

By "we," I mean me. By "that," I mean my deep stack KKK vs the UTG guy with QJ making a straight on the turn.

But WE don't want to talk about THAT (again, ever).

[Goodie54]

Pittman,

Who the hell is that in your avator. Maybe I'm way outta the loop, but I gotta know who that is.

Peace

Goodie

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I just saw it for the first time.

If the re-raise didn't scream a big pair, the guy's behavior when he bet $10k on the turn sure did.
He was a total freaking tell-box.

Phil told him 'nice hand' and it really wasn't. There was little excuse for that guy to not extract SOME chips out of Phil.
His speech and mannerisms when he bet were quite bad.

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I totally agree...maybe a 3k bet on the turn would have been better. He has pretty much the nuts and he bets it so strong...what do you expect Phil is going to do? Reraise? lolol

I think he played it totally wrong.

And when Phil said "See honey...I can dodge "bullits" I was wondering if he mean't in general or AA as a pun. Regardless he made the right fold only b/c he felt the other guy bet it too strong.

[McGahee]

I am not a great NL player, but I think you guys are full of crap.
That is a tough laydown any way you spin it.

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He has pretty much the nuts and he bets it so strong...what do you expect Phil is going to do? Reraise?

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Mike Sexton impression?

How do you "reraise" a bet? You can only reraise a raise I thought.