Tuesday
May 25, 2010
It is nice to have the weekends off, but Monday is workday so it is time to get back into the action. Of course, for most of us, going back to work doesn’t include the possibility of losing a quarter of a million dollars, but that goes with the territory for these guys.
You wouldn’t think it by looking at the leader board, but it was Ziigmund who was responsible for the a good part of Souths losses on this day. In a 161 hand match of $300/$600 PLO, the Finn took off with about $145K of Souths money. South got a bit of a revenge by winning $67K back in the $500/$1000 PLO Cap game, but that means that a third of Souths losses on the day went to Ziigmund. The rest went to various opponents in the seven game where he lost money in all the games except for Stud8.
Antonius flops the nut straight, but has to fade a lot of outs to win a $98K pot.
Patrik Antonius won the largest pot of the day and even though he did flop the nuts, the equity between his and Townsend’s hands are quite even both on the flop and the turn. For Townsend it is impossible not to get stacked here. Even if he suspects that he is beat, he knows that he has good enough odds to call Antonius bet on the turn, but he also knows that the river bet he will be facing is so small that he has no choice but to call that too. Therefore he might as well go all-in on the turn because then he will be paid off in case he has Antonius beat and also when he makes his hand on the river. It is a classic example of ‘I have to pay him off so I might as well get my money in right away in case I am ahead’.
Hansen makes a pretty lame attempt at a bluff to give Oppenheim a $92K pot.
Obviously if you are going to be a successful poker player you need to be making the occasional bluff, but when you do so you should feel that your bluff has some chance of winning you the pot. On this hand Oppenheim is getting better than 5-1 on a possible call, and seeing how he called Hansen’s bet on the flop, I don’t think there is any way that he will fold at this point. Oppenheim probably did not call on a flop like this with a flush draw. If he did choose to play a flush draw in this spot, he would probably make a raise trying to represent a queen, so it is more likely that he has a good hand, or at least one with decent showdown value. In any case, there are a lot of factors that should have warned Hansen against making this bluff, but he saw it differently and was punished for it.
Oppenheim flops trips and turns a full house to win an $88K pot
Hansen flops a set and dodges South’s draws to win a $53K pot.
Cole South makes a big move with a small pair but runs into Hansens’ kings. $46K pot.
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