Friday
March 12, 2010
It is a amazing to see how one player can dictate the tempo of everything that goes on in a poker room, but that is certainly the case with Isildur1 these days. Yes, he did play 167 hands PostflopAction but apart from that we didn’t see him around. Townsend and Ziigmund still found a way to pocket $200K+ wins, so for them the day was by no means a waste.
Three-way all in on the flop. Ziigmund scoops a $146K pot.
The thing about three bet pots when the effective stacks are not very big is that the players don’t have any room to make their decisions after the flop. In one sense, it is actually an advantage to be the first to act after the flop because you will often be the only one who has the chance to make a semibluff and have any kind of fold equity.
That was exactly what Ziigmund was thinking, so he made a pot sized bet with his open ended straight draw. There is a reasonable chance that none of the others have a deuce in their hand, and if that is the case, he might get them both to fold. Durrrr, when shoving with his aces is also hoping for that scenario. If there is no deuce out there, his aces will normally be in a very good spot since no one can make a better two pair hand. Antonius, of course, does have the coveted deuce, and though he does not have the nuts, the ranges of the other players are so wide that he just have get his stack in and hope for the best.
When the cards were flipped over, Antonius was probably very happy to see that he was in a near best case scenario. He was a 65% favorite to scoop the pot, something that rarely happens in three-way PLO pots. Of course, when you are running bad, equity does not help you a whole lot, and when the six came on the river, Antonius must have felt as though he knew it was coming.
Hansen and Antonius is all-in preflop and Antonius wins a $105K pot with Quads.
PostflopAction wins a $74K pot with quads.
There was a major drop off in the heads-up actio yesterday, but here are the results:
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