Mini Hand History Review - WSOP Edition*
Used to maintain my blog over at Poker School Online, where they used to run a parallel series to the WSOP called the PSOSOP - which was a lovely chance to have a little bit of the Vegas experience from the comfort of home, for a fraction of the price (most of the buy-ins were $0.25 or less
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One day, somehow managed to sign up for some sort of mixed game by accident instead of the NL game was hoping to play
Then at the time, remember getting a real kick out of hearing that people do that at the real WSOP as well
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Originally Posted by TrustySam
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Originally Posted by TrustySam;
Oh dear, oh dear ... just registered for tonight's PSOSOP, and got dealt 4 cards ... have no idea what we're playing!!
There was a fun story that got posted over at 2+2 - it looks like someone in the *real* WSOP did the same thing of signing up for a tourney that wasn't NL, and had the same reaction when he got dealt 'too many cards' ... but then he went on to win the bracelet!!
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Originally Posted by Alizona
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2015/0...bles-21869.htm
"I thought I had registered for the $1,500 limit hold'em," Pham said with a big smile on his face as he looked down at the bracelet he had just won. "I would've unregistered if I knew what the event was."
"When I got to the table, and when I got dealt five cards, I realized that something was wrong," he said. "I said, 'Oh my god!' because in Minnesota they don't have this game."
Pham currently resides in St. Paul, MN and continued by saying, "This was the first time I played this game, but I tried to learn the game at the table from the people at the table."
Pham's mistake reminded me of mine - unfortunately his exit hand from this year's WSOP Main Event also reminds me of me as well
Guess the spots that took me from big stack to bust were a little bit coolerish - but maybe poor stack management too?
Taking Risks, vs Pulling Back
Was listening to some tips from Dnegs and PH during the WSOP stream, and they were both saying that they felt people were taking too many chances for this stage of the tournament (when the money at stake is so much and the pay jumps are so huge)?
Dnegs also gave a tip about bluffing, and talked about how important it is to keep monitoring peoples' responses to your play - so as soon as they start to see you as a bluffer, you need to stop.
Folding
Then saw these posts in the WSOP Stream thread - do these seem like good tips?
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Originally Posted by .isolated
But a 6 outer is only 14% to hit. You need > 5:1 to call. I realize you said almost but it seems pretty bad.
In this spot I'd go based on my percentage in the tournament. He's got like 12 bigs left if he folds so tiny percent chance to make the FT or even the 18th place pay jump. If he hits he's got 20 million and 50+ percent to make the FT. Just gamble and hope to spike.
If you remember back to like 5 years ago Jon Duhamel made a call knowing he had like 10 outs on the river getting 3 to 1 for a massive pot. If he folded he still had like 70 bigs. But I loved his gamble because if he lost he'd still have 30 bigs and if he hit he'd have an overwhelming chip lead. He went for it, spiked, and won the tourney.
Guess when there's no auto reload after each hand (
), maybe helpful to consider how our stack will turn out if we call and win, call and lose, shove, or fold?
Some helpful tips - and they were all free
* WSOP edition means will post Pham's hand as an example instead of one of mine, which are tooo embarrassing!!
Last edited by TrustySam; 07-17-2017 at 09:46 PM.