Live from the Two Plus Two Studios, February 14th 2012 - WSOP Insider Seth Palansky The feature guest this week on the Two Plus Two PokerCast is World Series of Poker Communications Director Seth Palansky. Seth joins Mike and Adam for a lengthy interview about all things WSOP including changes to this years' schedule, the WSOP circuit events and the $1 million buy-in charity tournament just to name a few. The guys also discuss the high stakes cash games in Macau, the potential epic fail of the Epic Poker League, some World Poker Tour tournament news and of course give away the password for the February 19th Poker Stars VIP Club Invitational for PokerCast listeners.
Embarrassing strategy question from this week's show.
Mike was talking about the WPT final table in Florida, and was very critical of the big stack raising 5x the BB under the gun with AceKing when the table was five handed.
It was not immediately obvious to me why this was so terrible. Limping can’t be right. So is the raise too big, in that it will scare off callers with worse hands? I could see making that argument if the raise was 10x.
Even so, is the big blind looking for callers with middle pair, to which he’s a slight dog?
Embarrassing strategy question from this week's show.
Mike was talking about the WPT final table in Florida, and was very critical of the big stack raising 5x the BB under the gun with AceKing when the table was five handed.
It was not immediately obvious to me why this was so terrible. Limping can’t be right. So is the raise too big, in that it will scare off callers with worse hands? I could see making that argument if the raise was 10x.
Even so, is the big blind looking for callers with middle pair, to which he’s a slight dog?
What should the play have been, and why?
It wasn't a strategy discussion. The hand was brought up as a casual example of how terrible the play was overall at the final table of WPT event. Adam was just being as ass and trying to be funny about me talking commenting on anyone's play at all because he thinks I suck. The whole point of bringing up the hand was not to break down the hand but how far behind the quality of play seems to be in Florida right now compared to elsewhere.
English has a lot of borrowed words and many of them retain their original pronunciation. Really, should Mike be giving any advice on how to pronounce words? Ask Mike how to pronounce schadenfreude in English.