Short Deck certainly fun to watch.

It seems skill factor goes down , luck factor goes up vs full deck to the point that nobody has any sort of edge on anyone else.

True or False?

P.S. Also Triton Series looks like class act. Great Location and they spent the money to bring over A team from U.S. to run the tourney. With all the high roller tours avail now, buyin money might run out or some of the tours gonna have to go away.

oh and could Katz run any hotter ?

I wouldn't say nobody has an edge. I've been watching some of this series and there have been plenty of spots where people have misplayed hands or made great bluffs/calls/etc.

However, the game seems a bit simpler and a lot of the mistakes are probably due to the novelty of it, with NLHE players not yet totally adjusted to how short deck changes ranges and hand strength. Stuff like pocket pairs that people are accustomed to playing fast in short-handed NLHE are just not that good in short deck a lot of the time. Even if you consciously understand that, it's probably hard to fully incorporate it into your game if you're someone who's been playing regular NLHE for years.

Ultimately, I think the game is likely to be a short-lived fad that excites people for a few years until it's "solved" by the average player and becomes more of a pure gamble fest, but maybe a pure gamble fest is what people want.

I do think it would be cool to see a short deck event at the next WSOP, and hugely +EV for players who bother to study and prepare a little bit, as new players to the format will register and play horribly.

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Short deck makes for great viewing. Or maybe it's all the old school (and some new) names which makes the viewing of these events great, it actually is hard to tell, in my mind. Because when the 1MM event went 3 handed and it was no player I cared about I instantly tuned out

But seriously, the way it plays makes me look at it as a PLO version of NLHE. Aces are still best but JTs still got one hell of a shot. Setmining low pairs is crap, and if someone can have the nut straight they probably have the nut straight

Short deck seems so stupid. Hope it doesn't catch on.

ditto

also w shot clock it moves pretty fast so the entertainment
level is heightened.

When is gus hansen gonna join the party?

Is there gonna be cash games? Anyone know when?

Lex said in chat that they are recording cash games for later release

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The sickness is real

I like the way they jump from table to table. The action is pretty much non-stop.

Glad you guys are enjoying the action hope you’re enjoying me and lex in the booth!

Yeah, Randy I have been pleasantly surprised with you two.

You guys work pretty well together.

Absolutely love this Triton series. Amazing action and great characters, who aren't afraid to pull moves.

Already mentionned it earlier itt. But hey, gladly saying it again. You guys are doing a great job at being precise and funny at the same time.
The balance between deep analysis and sarcasm is imho very enjoyable.
I bet it is not that easy to commentate for few days straight jumping from short deck to long deck at a stressfull pace.

Cheers and gg

PS: Say hi to Lex La!

+100

Feel a tandem of Jcarver + Lex would be the nut high. Don't mind Nano, but feel like pairing could be better. Miss Lex streaming poker so much so I was forced to watch Doug Polk/ Tonka's stream just to get my Twitch poker fix.

It's really epic! When will the cash game air? That was a 1B buyin right?!

Played short-deck for the first time in my life at Playground Poker Club last night, with zero prior knowledge or study, and it was the nuts. Supremely entertaining, full of people who literally had no idea what they were doing, and actually relatively easy to pick-up "on-the-fly" simply by doing modified equity calculations in your head.

Example donkey play from NLHE "expert" not adjusting to Short-Deck: he opened QQ OTB and snap-called my 35BB shove (I had AK).

Chopped it as CL, officially finished 3rd, but went home with the most money and the biggest smile. I'd love to play more and hopefully it will be included many tourney festivals, including next year's WSOP.

Or there could be other reasons they did it for a reasonable paying gig. Koreas an amazing place

*coff and has possibly the hottest/best hookers in the world coff*

So QQ loses value in short deck since there are 4 fewer lower pocket pairs, while AK gains value since it makes a straight more often?

It's not the straight outs, it's the pair outs Imagine a poker game where you added in 100 other cards on top of AKQJT98765432. There, QQ would be a huuuge favourite AIPF vs AK, because AK needs to pair up to win (and in this new imaginary game there's 100 different cards that hit the flop turn and river, not just the 13 we are used to, so unlikely to hit a K or A). Short deck does the opposite.

QQ also loses in value because it's simply easier to be dealt KK and AA than in regular NLHE.

These were from the Triton event back in May. Official video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5MwjWKzCbw

wow that river call from Yong vs Greenwood was pretty sick