She's played numerous times on LATB, with Garrett

This xb seems fine to me. What's he gonna get called by? The K4o river overbet/call on the other hand........

K4 river call is shockingly bad. I really couldn't believe he called. Didn't like the bet in the first place, and then Steven makes a huge raise. That's just never a bluff!

Do the players find out the hole cards 30 minutes after the hand or not until airing?

I think the AJ bluff by Brynn was really bad even though it worked...he can check and beat AK AQ KQ KJ...should expect Brandon to fold aces on the turn so no need to fire three and hand has so much showdown value. But it worked so no one talking about it.

Brandon's fold with the JTs just crazy bad that's probably the best hand he arrives to the river with except JJJ or TTT which are the same as JT in that spot anyway.
Any flush, a straight, weirdly played KxJc. It's a really mandatory valuebet. Probably going to run that and the K4 hands in Pio to see which one is the larger EV mistake.

yes

please no

You expect Brandon to fold AA but call the AQ and AK thinking that he needs to hit a gutter to win?

Worse flush, straight, random stubborn Kx. Brandon Steven is a rec. Seems like an obvious b/f spot as Steven wont bluff raise ever.

He did one street prior.

He value raised.

He may value raise the river then.

Different situation after the board pairs imo there's no value to be had from raising any more. On the turn you can get value from A high flush draws, sets etc. But Im not going to discuss strategy anymore, you can disagree if you want

Pretty sure it was posted that she was already on LAB playing in a 25/50 game.

We can't get on NP for checking back K-flush on that Board if we also feel that TD's 90k River bet against BK is 'bad' (He even said so) .. especially after the K4 hand earlier. He had the least amount of time playing against BS .. but still should've done some homework, BS has been around a long time.

The action in both hands lends itself to not getting called by enough hands that beat you and either losing or folding to raises. BS does seem a bit inconsistent with his play here in cash.

I think the BK AJ bluff with BS was well timed, even though BS figured it out (and still folded). Those are the plays that can make a session and actually involve 'poker' (not just 'cards'). I play PLO more now and you can pick up a lot of pots by ranging opponents based on position and previous action.

JRB and BS must be 'close' .. I just don't see BS battling the way he did with TPTK against other Players. He's probably forced to call the shove, but I think he could've let the Turn check through. BS did say that JRB might be steaming with KQ in that spot, but even still .. they have enough history together that BS may be inclined not to pile on the run bad there (apparently not). The 'set' comment with JRB saying 'buddy' 3-4 times indicates they have lots of time together, probably from BS flying into Aria for cash games. GL

This has been amazing to finally watch and brings back a lot of good memories. They did a great job keeping the old HSP feel. I really hope they do another season after this one once this Covid crap is over with.

i defended NP a bit on this thread, because i feel like a lot of 2p2 try to act cool and bash on any pro that isn't overly trying to act "fun."

but the way NP reacted to brandon steven's hand was so cringey. the way he was asking "were you bluffing." literally trying his best to make the rec player feel embarrassed about his play.

AK AQs were flushdraws+gutters right?

I am aware dipshit that's why i said they would welcome her back after this epic punt.

enjoyed the first session, thoroughly.

I said earlier that AJ & Gabe "probably" wouldn't be as good in 2020....

I was totally, completely irrefutably wrong, they are just class, just like old times - 5 minutes hearing them natter away and it's like we're back in the early days of HSP.

Best format and commentary duo ever in poker history high stakes poker and aside form the slightly tilting card graphics I'd say pokergo done a superb job of the reincarnation.

Hats off from me, great job, had completely lost interest in watching any poker show but i've been excitedly waiting for every thursday just like the old days.

Well, you see, you said this:

Doesn't imply knowing that she's played before, or "Welcoming her back", Dipshit

Seems a pretty outdated fairly stupid point to me...

Seems fairly obvious Steven/Solomon/Schwimmer/Lynne had 100%... JRB makes no secret that he's staked by Robl... Dwan/Kenny/Petrangelo/Koon may or may not have had 100%, who cares though, we know they all play high stakes on the regular, why does it matter is Petrangelo has 33% or 88% don't see why it would bother anyone that much.

You think they weren't loads of guys staked in the old days - Brad Booth was NOT playing his own money when he stuck Ivey in with the 42 in the famous bluff. You think Matasow was playing his own money in every episode, Greenstien staked on a couple of them according to some people etc didn't damage the show then... doesn't damage the show now.

Lynne Ji said in an interview that leading up to it she sold as much as she could

Gabe Kaplan said that all the players are playing with their own money right from their own pockets!

She certainly didn’t help dispel the stereotype of Asians bluff-bombing the pot at any opportunity lol.

I'm curious about Barry's finances. Obv when most of us first learned of him, we knew of him as "the Robin Hood of Poker" who would donate 100% of his tourney cashes, even for 7 figures. I don't know if I'm aware of him seeing a single flop in the last half dozen years or so.

Saw Barry playing 40/80 LHE (stakes could be wrong) at the Commerce like a year and half ago.

He obviously hasn't stopped playing tournaments, but judging by his Hendon Mob, it seems like he is pretty much busto by his standards. You see all those High Roller and Super High Roller tournaments popping up, but the highest he's played in the last 5 years are $10k donkaments, and something like one of those per year.

https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=4739

I also remember some story he told on Joey's podcast about him going to Macau and having $10,000 to play cash games with him. This is the guy who used to run $1m pots once (which may have played a part in his downfall).

As for speculating who was or wasn't staked in the old High Stakes Poker, I think it's public knowledge that Mike Matusow was staked. This was actually mentioned in the show. In one episode, he had "Sheiky" standing behind him and Gable Kaplan mentioned that he was sweating him because he had a piece. The whole "going south" debacle around Freddy Deeb wouldn't have played out the same way if he hadn't been staked as well.