Wednesday
March 10, 2010
Isildur1’s foray over the last 24 hours have been well documented in our previous two reports (1 2 ), so it is time to make a short summary of everything that happened.
For those of you who are tired of reading about Isildur1, this report will not give you any respite. If you look at the heads-up reports below, you will see that he was involved in a whopping 83.8% of all heads up hands in the high stakes section yesterday.
The bouts with Cole South and Brian Hastings naturally got most of the attention, but it might be just as interesting to look at his match of $200/$400 NLHE against ZeeJustin. After his much publicized matches with durrrr, it seems like most people consider Isildur1 as the best HU NLHE player around. But lately ZeeJustin has been holding his own and then some against Isildur1. Granted, Isildur1 won this particular match, but overall ZeeJustin has done very well. We will look at a few hands from the match to give you an impression of what has been going on between the two.
Isildur1 finds a nice way to get paid off on the river. $112K pot
It is not always brute force that wins you the money, sometimes you need to use a little cunning too. It would not been unexpected to see isildur1 bet all the way thought to the river with his hand, but instead he realized that though the queen on the river was a scare card for him (ZeeJustin could hold AQ), it was also a card that might make his opponent think that betting the river was relatively risk free. After all, there was a good chance that if both players held an ace, the pot would be split. Particularly since, from ZeeJustin’s view Isildur1 would probably bet AK or AQ on the river in this spot.
Could Isildur1 have gotten paid off if he moved in himself on the river? Sure, it is possible, and we will never know the answer. But ZeeJustin would have realized that he would have been calling with the hope to split the pot, and I think that might have been a strong argument for folding.
ZeeJustin’s jacks hold up against Isildur1’s flush draw and overcard. $104K pot.
Isildur1’s aces beat ZeeJustin’s AK suited, all in on the flop. $98K pot.
Isildur1 makes a very brave call on the flop, but his hand does not stand up. $97K pot.
Finally, I leave you with a summary of all of yesterday’s heads-up matches, and as I said yesterday, if the result is positive, it means that the first mentioned player made a profit. If it is negative, the second mentioned player did.
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