Thursday
March 11, 2010
It certainly made for an entertainment spectacle, and rarely have we seen a day like Isildur1s’ yesterday. Granted, we have seen him lose more than $1.5M in one day, but that was more of a freefall than what we witnessed last night.
If you look at the graph you can see how he first went up around $500K against Cole South, then losing a million to durrrr before getting back to even by beating up on ZeeJustin. After that, he broke even for a long time against Phill Galfond in the $200/$400 NLHE and $300/$600 PLO game before tanking $1.6M in the $500/$1000 PLO game.
With all the money in on the flop, Galfond turns a flush for a $155K pot.
As the day before, almost all of the attention was on the PLO games, but there were a lot of interesting hands in the NLHE section as well. The hand above was the largest that was played yesterday and as we have seen many times before, the players usually get all the money in on the flop in these spots. Galfond was a small underdog, but he only needed the turn to come off to decide matters in his favor.
Isildur1 makes a very dubious call on the turn to build a $140K pot for Galfond.
I know that it is difficult to lay down any kind of hand when playing heads-up, but sometimes you just have to take your medicine and give up a lost cause before it is too late. Knowing when to make continuation bets and when not to is quite a complicated topic with few correct answers. It really depends on the situation and on your opponent, but in my opinion, on this board and with his hand Isildur1 should forego the c-bet. With no hand, being out of position and without even an inkling of a draw it seems like a good a good idea to move on to the next hand. Besides, the board seems very likely to connect with Galfonds range, so if there ever is a time when you should not c-bet, surely this is it.
When Galfond decided to slowplay his top pair/good kicker he gave Isildur1 just enough rope to hang himself, and that is just what happened. Hitting a pair on the turn, Isildur1 decided to follow up with another bet, something that probably makes more sense now than on the flop. However, when Galfond moves in it really should be game over. Isildur1 is just getting 2-1 on his call, and there is no way that he has this equity against Galfond’s range. On this specific hand, Isildur1’s equity was 11% and I don’t think that is more than he could expect to have here, so in essence the call costs him about $30K on average, That really adds up in the long run.
Isildur1 shoves preflop with J7s, but Galfond and his jacks aren’t going anywhere. $120K pot.
Isildur1 turns a flush, but Galfond rivers a full house to win a $119K pot.
Another pot all in on the flop. Isildur1 rivers a flush in a $119K pot against ZeeJustin.
And finally, the results of yesterday’s heads-up action:
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