Saw Gus Hansen and Doyle at the Bellagio today! - Page 5 - Poker News

Summertime there usually seems to be so much more news, views, and gossip coming out of Las Vegas - but this year it's seemed a bit more quiet? Guess last year there was the big Jason Mercier prop bet that lasted the whole summer - and it was easy to sweat too, because all the tournaments were being shown on wsop.com and stuff?

Such a treat to finally have some fresh NVG out of Las Vegas

Neat to see some the legends at the tables, still playing like they did on Poker After Dark

Thanks for sharing the fun photos pooters! GL with your games!!

Thanks. I found Sammy Farha too in the high-limit table games room at the Bellagio a couple weeks back.

I degen'ed with him at Baccarat for awhile, he liked betting banker and betting opposite me

. He did pretty good at my expense.

I asked him about Jamie Gold and he said "he's a liar and don't trust him..."

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06-27-2017 , 02:43 AM

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Kralex

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Sammy's looking good. Them Lebanese genes.

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06-27-2017 , 03:00 AM

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Dream Crusher

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Sammy is very competitive at the baccarat tables. He looks way better than when I saw him a couple of years ago at the high limit baccarat room. I suppose that has a lot to do with how he is running at the time.

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06-27-2017 , 03:21 AM

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can you actually be +EV in baccarat?

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06-27-2017 , 04:25 AM

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Originally Posted by laalaa1

can you actually be +EV in baccarat?

Apparently if you are edge sorting.

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06-27-2017 , 08:18 AM

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Sammy seems to be aging well. Gotta say a little bit surprised I was waiting for a typical matusowdegen aging but he looks really good and healthy. Makes me happy. The smile is still there.

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06-27-2017 , 02:31 PM

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PeteBlow

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Did Sammy and DNegs swap hair?

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06-27-2017 , 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by KossuKukkula

Sammy seems to be aging well. Gotta say a little bit surprised I was waiting for a typical matusowdegen aging but he looks really good and healthy. Makes me happy. The smile is still there.

++1 Smile-seems so genuine-dude may actually be happy!-unlike the one i slap on my mug as i walk into my 9-5 everyday... although i am happy as well.

Love Gustav!

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06-27-2017 , 03:08 PM

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Dream Crusher

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Originally Posted by laalaa1

can you actually be +EV in baccarat?

No, but that doesn't mean you can't win! lol My understanding is that Sammy was living at ARIA for a year playing baccarat full time (to be fair, I don't keep tabs on Sammy so it might have been 9 months or it might have been 2 years). I can only assume that he was up overall or he just owns a bunch of money trees. During that entire time I only heard of him playing poker once.

I think he was mostly playing baccarat at ARIA though. I ran into him playing baccarat at Bellagio one time but I'm pretty sure that's because there was a blackjack tournament over there.

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06-27-2017 , 06:29 PM

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laalaa1

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Damn what a sick life

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06-27-2017 , 08:12 PM

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can you actually be +EV in baccarat?

Depends on the type of rewards you're getting I suppose.

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06-27-2017 , 08:25 PM

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TrustySam

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Sammy Farha ... there's a name from the past

Fun photos and updates pooters! Thanks!!

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06-27-2017 , 09:53 PM

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the fact that doyle is still rolled for these games is really under appreciated

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06-27-2017 , 09:55 PM

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the fact that doyle is still rolled for these games is really under appreciated

AFAIK Doyle hasn't had a losing year in a long time - if ever

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06-27-2017 , 10:02 PM

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AFAIK Doyle hasn't had a losing year in a long time - if ever

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As far as you know, I'm the King of Guatemala

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06-27-2017 , 10:04 PM

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As far as you know, I'm the King of Guatemala

In his interview in ~2014 he said he had never had a losing year and that if he ever did he would quit poker

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06-27-2017 , 10:09 PM

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Look how happy Trueteller looks in that pic. At a $2000/4000 mix game with Gus on his right, a bunch of live players in every other seat (minus CrazyElior in seat 1), really hot dealer and no Sauce, Kostrysin, Cates or Thuritz in sight!

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06-27-2017 , 10:17 PM

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In his interview in ~2014 he said he had never had a losing year and that if he ever did he would quit poker

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Seems fair. Although I tend to err on the side of caution when listening to poker players talk about winnings on "untracked Euro sites"

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06-27-2017 , 10:29 PM

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Sounds like Doyle is having a rough series this year. Perhaps this will be his first losing year. No shame in that regardless though.

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06-27-2017 , 10:34 PM

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Sounds like Doyle is having a rough series this year. Perhaps this will be his first losing year. No shame in that regardless though.

Is Doyle playing any of the events? It seems like he is just playing the biggest mixed game at Bellagio.

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06-27-2017 , 10:41 PM

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Doyle doesn't play WSOP events anymore. Odds one should get to bet that he'll play one this year:

Just playing the cash games:

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06-27-2017 , 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by nutflopper

As far as you know, I'm the King of Guatemala

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06-27-2017 , 11:44 PM

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Dominic

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I didn't even know Guatemala had a king.

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06-28-2017 , 01:39 AM

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Sammy would be great to meet. I think of all the famous pros he'd be the one.

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06-28-2017 , 03:12 AM

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Sammy would be great to meet. I think of all the famous pros he'd be the one.

He was fun to gamble with, he would troll people thinking they'd lost in baccarat... slowrolling whatever hand he was betting on... then saying "PAY PAY PAY PAY" when he hit a natural 8 or 9 or won the hand!

He also told me to "slow down buddy" when I started betting more after losing early on.

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