You gotta love Meltzer's luck. He raises Q9 off from the BB to try and pick off the limpers, two players call because they realize Meltzer's raise is BS, and he flops 2 pair with Dwan turning a weaker 2 pair.

And then, of course, the TT hand. You REALLY got to love Alan Meltzer's luck.

gimme a break, even Durrr thought it was funny

Jesus christ what a great episode this was. Fabulous line up cant get it better maybe if Ivey was there like 7th man iam not sure who i wanted out.
Gabe obviously is the man this is going to be insane interesting how this will end.

Kinda like Dwan's usual run of luck huh.

If I remember right, Durr sucked out on him when he was on HSP with something like 10 J when meltzer had KK

Plus pot calling kettle black, Durr is biggest luckbox ever

Yeah, he got really lucky that the king paired on the river on that hand.

Only cost like 50k or so (don't remember how big the pot was).

I don't really recall Dwan ever bluff-raising a 3bet pot on the flop, then checking behind on the turn, and then betting half pot on the river with nothing in a TV game.

The kind of guy who has more money than everyone else at the table combined, and the kind of guy who plays by the philosophy that he runs it once regardless of the odds.

http://www.pokerplayer.co.uk/news/fe..._big_game.html

Actually, his answer lies in the post above this one.

Also, FWIW, I think Gabe plays AK and AQ like that. Whether he should or shouldn't isn't the point, I just definately think he would. Old guys don't really like 4betting AK. So he raises the flop. Then he checks the turn so he doesn't get stacked in case Dwan has boat, and also so he can get paid on the river when Dwan can't pay him on the turn.

Given that Dwan almost paid with a pair of 3's, this appears to be the best way to play AK/AQ against him.

Did you see gabe kaplan bluff the mess out of dwan it was funny as hell the way the hand was played dwan looked very amature

viffer, one time!

Meltzer said he put him on TP w/a flush draw right after the hand, and also during the hand he said "I think I'm beat "right now"" making me think he thought durrrr was on a flush draw with a smaller heart than his Th. I've seen lots worse calls on TV poker than Meltzers here.

Contradiction.

Part of the problem for Meltzer is that he has a HUGE draw to go along with his pair. OESFD's are the hardest to ever get away from, because you usually have close to 50 percent equity even when you are drawing.

He can put Dwan on a better pair, he can put him on a flush draw, he can put him on a straight draw-- but unless he puts him on a better pair AND straight and flush draws, or a nut or second nut flush, he's still got a lot of outs and may even be a favorite.

This is one of those situations where seeing the hole cards warps the viewer's thinking. It happened Dwan had basically one of the worst possible hands from Meltzer's standpoint. But how likely was that?

Not so if you quit cherry picking my post. I said he said he put him on TP and a flush draw so Dwans FD could have been less than his Th, right?

To be fair to durrrr, Gabe Kaplan plays in a very weird way. His lines very often don't make sense whether he's bluffing, value-betting, or not sure.

Jaba

Nee Jabba no badda



sicko episode tho

nice to watch, loved the hands played vs alan and gabe.

Gabe, you crafty old vet

+1

the funniest part was melzer saying aftarwards to Eli (who was doing his best keep the fish happy talk) that he put dwan on a queen and flush draw (conveniently exactly what he had!) which truly goes to show how braindead he is since hes trying to show how good his read was, yet is ignorant to the fact that he was crushed by that read

was someone watching this show on nbc just now? what was he saying about brendan small? was he on???

Maybe Meltzer wouldn't have folded KK anyway, but maybe Gabe's bluff against Dwan helped get him that call.