Tuesday
July 20, 2010
It didn’t take long for Patrik Antonius to shake off the rust after the WSOP. After dropping $225K a few days ago, he came back strongly over the weekend winning it all back with interests. jungleman12 also seems to be on a roll winning $245K, $151K of which came against durrrr in what might be a preview of the next durrrr challenge.
Riyyc225’s top pair holds up against ginette22’s flush draw and overcard. $108K pot.
riccy225 showed a lot of faith in his top pair with marginal kicker on this hand. Folding top pair while playing heads-up is difficult, but it probably also has something to do with his opponent not having shown a ton of skills so far. We have commented on ginette22’s apparent lack of experience before in these reports, and if you look at his results so far you will see that he is showing few signs of improving. Cue speculation as to which billionaire donator hides behind this screen name…
Obviously, on this hand he got unlucky since the hand was pretty much a coinflip from the flop onwards. I can’t really blame him for going with this hand even though his decision to call his opponent’s shove is probably marginal at best. When the cards were flipped over he had a 44% chance of winning he pot, but that was also clearly the best case scenario. There are many hands in riccy225’s range that would have him in a lot worse shape, so the 3-2 odds the pot was laying might not have been enough to warrant the big call.
Antonius rivers a higher flush than Oppenheim for a $74K pot.
In our last report about Antonius, we saw that he was on the wrong end of some unlucky hands, so I guess he was due to be on the receiving and sooner or later. I am actually a bit surprised that more money didn’t go into the pot here since both players had lots of incentive to try to blow the other one out of the pot before it went to showdown. The most interesting spot came when Oppenheim decided to only call Antonius’ bet on the turn. It would have been very interesting to see what Patrik would have done if his opponent had made a sizeable raise there. He might very well have decided that he didn’t have sufficient odds to chase the flush and laid down his hand.
Alas, to use a cliché, hindsight is 20/20 and when the jack of spades fell it was bound to get expensive for Oppenheim. Luckily for him he didn’t move all in, so he saved himself $12K there. Antonius’ had the chance to move himself, of course, but he probably figured but he is far from holding the nuts here, so he wanted to save some money in case he was beat.