what do you know?
you bet kk into trup queens so stfu.

just kidding obv.

It's true. that_pope did bet kk into trup qq. I saw it just now on the bathroom stall.

[ ] nvg

I think straddling is fine when you are down, especially later in the session when you have less time to get above 100k. But when you are up, that is just dusting away profits.

[x] im an idiot

confirmed

Yes

DN played lolbad

Why is PS pushing him so much? Seems forced..

its really fun rooting for viff. I puked when Tony G hit that straight.

NVG and Television Forum are two different things no?

Edit: i see someone brought it up already

It depends on the person's expectation. If it were me, I'd just hope to get on a good run and play tight when there are not many hands remaining (less than 75) --- and making a satisfactory profit. I wouldn't really care too much about the NAPT passport. If the pros call me a nit, sobeit. I don't really care.

If money wasn't important, then the correct strategy would be to gamble it up all the way to the end. Obviously, the worst thing that can happen is making fundamental errors that can easily be avoided.

yeah, its ok...
just keep flaming me because of a little mistake, thats exactly what i expected from bbv...

This is not a poker game, this is a game show.
Russ is the first LC that has had the benefit of watching the show online. He has surely seen that Daniel will not check to the LC ever. In every single hand that he's been up against a LC he has bluffed the end. If you're sitting there and you know that DN refuses to check to you on the end, you must call on the end more often.

Many people here are commenting on the LC performance as if he's an equal to the other players. He is not, he can not rebuy and the pros know that he's playing a freezeout while they are playing a cash game.

Who are you to judge this guy. He says that he and his wife talked it over and she was behind him. That's the only opinion that he needs to concern himself with.

I ended up playing back at the guy with the nuts (Justin) because of the other guy, who was actually nuts (Lex), who was playing back at me.[/QUOTE]

**** me ^^

Yeah - you guys had my head spinning - I suppose I should have put "nuts" in quotations. I had very little opportunity to see either you or Justin play before I faced you on the felt. I had no idea what I was in for.

Lex, I never had an opportunity to thank you and Evelyn for being so kind to my wife in the green room on day 1 (although I mentioned it ITT).

Thanks.

Because he is the face of PokerStars and despite being pretty much hated on 2+2 recreational players do genuinely quite like him.

I will definitely second that...Lex, you and Evelyn were definitely the most welcoming of all of the players that we met. It was great to get to hang out with you guys for awhile. And send my thanks on to Evelyn for letting me play with her IPad.

I actually thought this was a great spot for a flat and back raise. I don't mind flatting opens with AK sometimes; it can set up a deceptive situations where people will stack off dominated hands post-flop because they assume you can't have them out-kicked and/or must have a draw when you raise on a Axx board.

Also, a ton of the value of AK is getting pocket pairs to fold preflop (and seeing all five cards), but that won't happen here in the normal 3-betting spots as much as regular online table, for two reasons: 1) the pot limit format means you can't make it 4x to effectively discourage implied odds OOP, and 2) these egomaniacs don't ever want to fold against "the mark", even if they have **** like 95s.

Also, this LC is not aggressive enough to use his initiative to get people off one pair post flop. But back-raising a three-bet and putting in half your stack pre-flop marks your hand as HUGE, and commits you, which is exactly what you want, if you ever want a chance to get a decent pair (or the same hand!) to put in a bunch preflop and then fold.

As said earlier in the thread, if the LC could stick in 120k pre with 40% equity against an opponent's range that would be hugely +EV for the LC in this format.

In this spot, you might not get bonomo off AK, but at least bonomo doesn't get you off AK either, which is what happened.

Hand history:
Barry opens HJ KQ $2700, Negreanu flats K5ss, Russ flat AKo on button, Justin makes it $13700 from straddle position. Russ can make it like 50k here, close his eyes, and stick it in without looking at the flop.

and she wonders why theres a backlash,,,, delusionnnnn@L

I know it's getting close to Christmas but WTF is going on with Daniel giving away chips? I don't know if Stars is giving him an unlimited credit line in this game or has he completely lost it. Everyone makes a hero call here and there if they have a read, but he is doing it all the time and the rest of the table knows it and are exploiting him like an underage prostitute.
Does anyone have a running total of what he has lost in the past few seasons of HSP and the rest of his televised appearances? There is no way he can be anywhere close to even unless I'm missing a lot of his appearances.