Excellent Ep.2, and how 'bout them quads? Some tough river decisions (like the disciplined laydown from Tom against an unpredictable villain), and good table talk, too. Gabe even busting AJ's balls for calling J2 'jack two'.

Why exactly?

Most likely 14 - but the later episodes are still being edited.

Season 1 (13 episodes), Season 2 (16), Season 3 (13), Season 4 (17), Season 5 (13), Season 6 (13), Season 7 (13).

Aside from players going bust and alternates taking a seat, each season had 3 nights of play and 3 different line-ups. Some players appeared on multiple nights.

All 98 episodes from Season 1-7 were ~45 minutes in duration. No uncut full streams of High Stakes Poker have ever been released.

Michael Schwimer is a former MLB pitcher turned businessman.

Very interesting to talk with, and was great for the game.

Link: The Return of High Stakes Poker with Michael Schwimer

Tom levelling everyone with that check back.

I remember years ago on here, I think in one of the one drop threads, that I said Salomon is a low-key endboss and got flamed super hard for it. And still people on twoplustwo think Salomon is a whale despite the fact that he's mid 50s, rich as ****, and has literally never had an actual job in his entire life, or that he has $10 million in hendon mob cashes with 12 entries on his page. Like the dude final tabled the one drop 3 times in a row that's definitely something you can do if you're an atrocious poker player. The hand vs Bryn Kenney he played beautifully. The guy is no whale, you're never going to see him wasting time playing some dumb solved online 100bb deep two blind game but put him in a 500bb deep 3 or 4 blind game and he's the shark.

I'm surprised not to see some talk about that durrrr check on the river with a boat against what I thought could definitely have been a flush. He really must be on some solid read to not think the flop c/r was anything other than a 10.

Unreal check back. I am guessing liveread that Dwan picked up the guy was nutted.

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I think it's a really good check back from Dwan and checking back at a high frequency is probably the optimal play here. He's a little bit handcuffed here IMO because it's pretty obvious that JRB folded a queen on the flop so he's kind of capped at tens full. If JRB had snap mucked the flop rather than calling a flop bet then tank-folding to a check-raise and a call from the initial bettor Dwan could probably go for value a lot more here since he'd be protected by having queens full in his range. JRB's line and behavior basically removes a queen from the deck though.

If Dwan bets any amount on the river I think it's going to be a decision for all of his chips most of the time. Salomon can jam all his queens to try to force him off a chop, obviously all his tens for value, some flushes as a bluff, and plus we've seen him flat a 3bet with kings preflop earlier on in the session so it's possible he has a better full house a small amount of the time which he can also jam for value. I think the amount of the time Salomon calls or bluffs it off with a flush doesn't make up for the times Salomon jams and has it or jams and Dwan folds to make a bet the higher frequency play here.

People always trash Salomen but the dude crushes everytime he plays on TV.

pretty sick xb there w 2nd nuts I think esp vs a guy like Salomon that is capable of spazzing out vs a bet for unlimited amounts or heroing light..

salomon shows up w kwads there otr v v infrequently with the way his ranges are constructed imo

I think if the cards are covered, most everyone itt finds a bet there/gets stacked.

That’s what makes it fun!

[ ] 2nd nuts
[ ] Sick XB
[x] Dwan was scared to bet in that spot vs Salomon

[x] Salomon won the minimum

I feel like he's the real version of the Dan Bilzerian fiction story. As I said earlier in the thread, I had never really seen him play before I got a Poker Go sub. He splashes around a lot, but puts people in some gross spots that are tough to navigate.

I watched episode one of Rob's homegame since I got Pokergo for HSP and Rick Salomon 3bets the first two hands OOP with 76o and K9o (they show every hand in Poker after Dark.) I find it hard to believe he could be a long term winner playing that LAG PF, but maybe he just starts out real fast to achieve some kind of Alpha dominance and then tones it down as the session goes on? He does make a lot of good thin value bets.

Does he really? Only saw him on these first two episodes, and he definitely seems to have a perfect reputation, but despite calling 100% of threebets when raised pre, he seems kind of straight forward solid post. Almost nitty even. Reminds me a bit of Ziigmund, who also had crazy rep, but was really fairly passive postflop ("Check-call Ziigmund")

Although in the beginning Rick also opened three times in a row witch trash, not risking that much. He seems verrrryy comfortable with the stakes, so probably is loaded indeed.

Tom Dwan is awesome, great live player.

The way Salomon basically plays is that in these lineups there is always at least one big fish at the table, it's not Salomon, and he plays by far the highest amount of hands in order to maximize his chances that he is the one to stack the fish in a million dollar pot. That's basically how you play exploitative poker, you play to be the one who stacks the mark and then you play minimally -EV against the pros until another one sits down or you peace out. The mark in these games is going to be going home felted most of the time and Salomon plays to maximize the chance that he's the one to take the biggest percentage of their money. He took down a million dollar pot on Poker After Dark, on Rob's Home Game, and now another one on HSP (Kenney isn't a fish but it worked out that way anyways).




It doesn't matter if you're playing a lot of slightly -EV spots, if you're consistently taking down 1000-1500bb pots every session you play in a live game you're going to be a huge winner over time. He's got 3 million dollar pots across his three PokerGO appearances, plus 6 million in profit from his 3 Big One tournament entries, I find it incredibly hard to believe that he's not a long-term winner in poker judging from his televised appearances.

In the Rob's Home Game episodes, Chamath Palihapitiya also said that he's down $50 million lifetime to Rick. Dude is a winner.

Was one of the best shows that got people excited about poker. Would be great if it could be viewed more mainstream as people watching it are already into poker

I see, so Rick Salomon is playing a "loss leader strategy" kinda like the Burger King dollar menu.

Seen Rick play on tv for about ten years , the only mistake ive seen him do was at the one drop bubble where a shorty shoved , fedor calls with TT, Rick rejams AKs but he flashes the A by accident, fedor didnt see it but the floor forces him to reveal the A which makes Fedor call and win.

It looks to me like he's doing fine.

Lads and lassies to be perfectly clear I abbbbbbbsolutely love Rick, he's my favourite player at the table after Dwan and he is clearly a crusher in all other aspects of life.

But he's still a whale.

Based on the numbers being thrown around it seems quite possible that Rick Salomon could be the biggest winner in the history of poker. That wouldn't fit the definition of a whale. That doesn't mean that he doesn't play like a whale at times though or have whale like qualities.

It's easy to play like a whale when you are playing for smaller stakes than normal like what they are playing on High Stakes Poker. The fact that he hasn't just spewed it off and has shown discipline is impressive to me. It seems he is there to win even though the dollar amounts don't mean much to him. Let's see if he can keep that composure throughout the entire session though.

I thought whales lost money, not absolutely crushed the highest stakes. And 3 consecutive 1 drop top 3s. I don’t get it....

Just because he doesn’t play a certain way people have to trash him?