Gigabet now leading Bellagio 5 Diamond Classic

[sofere]

I love how if anyone made either of these preflop moves in an $11 MTT, they are complete donks...but here they are geniuses. Its the grand ol' circle of life.

P.S. I'm not by any means saying that either of their moves were good or bad, just a poker social commentary.

[bones]

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I love how if anyone made either of these preflop moves in an $11 MTT, they are complete donks...but here they are geniuses. Its the grand ol' circle of life.

P.S. I'm not by any means saying that either of their moves were good or bad, just a poker social commentary.

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And there it is. The stock reply in any gigabet thread. "If I made this move in my game, you'd all laugh at me, but he's gigabet."

This isn't poker commentary, it's a lack of understanding.

[Degen]

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Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken raises preflop, Patrik Antonius reraises, and Dicken calls.

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Dicken ... 7c-5h

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Darrell Dicken is the new chip leader!

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classic

[TheNoodleMan]

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I love how if anyone made either of these preflop moves in an $11 MTT, they are complete donks...but here they are geniuses. Its the grand ol' circle of life.

P.S. I'm not by any means saying that either of their moves were good or bad, just a poker social commentary.

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Meh, Giga has over 100BB here, what is wrong with mixing it up?

[citanul]

any of those preflop moves would be terrible in a sng. darrel wouldn't make them there either. there's just not enough chips.

i'm sure you understand that there's differences between deep stacked poker and not.

c

[sofere]

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And there it is. The stock reply in any gigabet thread. "If I made this move in my game, you'd all laugh at me, but he's gigabet."

This isn't poker commentary, it's a lack of understanding.

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I think you missed my commentary. Its not "If I made this move in my game, you'd all laugh at me, but he's gigabet."

Its "If Gigabet made this move in an $11 MTT it'd probably be a donk move." Him making it in the WPT does have value.

Eh, I was gonna post a big expansion of my "commentary" but decided it wasn't really worth it. Do I understand all the moves Gigabet makes? By no means. But I am one of those in the Gigabet fan club and feel that his hand posts give the most insights into poker theory and touch on psychology and philosophy.

Edit: I shoulda just waited one minute before posting my original post...Degen said exactly what I wanted to say.

[brimstone1]

1 player away from itm... I loved this: as Jack McClelland said, "The next player who busts will make 100 new friends."...

[applejuicekid]

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Its "If Gigabet made this move in an $11 MTT it'd probably be a donk move."

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I haven't seen all the info on the hand such as exact stack and bet sizes, but I highly doubt this would be considered a donk move in a $11 MTT.

What part of this hand would be considered a donk move?

Preflop - there are times where raising 75 in a $11 MTT would be worthwhile, calling the reraise would make sense if the stacks are deep enough

Flop- how would you play this differently in a $11 MTT?

[sofere]

True...Hey Cit, could you do me a favor and just delete my original post. I wish it to be stricken from the record.

Did any1 else see that Steve McQueen was just eliminated? Is that THE Steve McQueen? Anybody know? 'Twould be funny.