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Originally Posted by BoterSmoter
Whats the point in checking and betting the flop before you've seen??
for once, the announcers have something intelligent to say. "Daniel has a pretty good feel for where Phil is at, and Phil has
no idea where Daniel is at". And later "Daniel is as comfortable as he can be right now". And finally "Phil looked a little silly in that hand."
Making these grandstanding moves is risky, but here it's paid off beautifully for DN. Note that he gets to play absolutely straightforward through the whole hand, simply betting while miles ahead.
to answer your question as best I can, because both DN and PH are way, way better at table chat than I even dream of being: PH needs to check the flop anyway, so by doing it in the dark he's not giving anything away if he flops something surprisingly good. This gives him effective position, sorta. This was a steal attempt gone wrong from the beginning, so he's trying to mix things up somehow.
DN is cbetting most flops here, so why not say so. This effectively buys back position back at a price he was already going to pay.
by the way, these maneuvers are either bleeding-edge sophisticated or a bunch of hooey, I'm not sure which, but not something you or I will ever need to understand.
Last edited by gedanken; 08-09-2008 at 12:08 AM.