Man, I tell you what...as a woman poker player...every chick that even knew what poker was was rooting for baumann and/ or/ and hopefully amazingly both/hille to make the final table whatever year that was, merson year I think off hand... It was a bit anticlimactic, especially given the other previous historical notoriety goes to annie puke, which everyone with a brain hates for good reason and barbara einrieght(sp?) which no one remembers or cares about I guess plus super small field probably but still amongst the best of the best at the time...anyway, yeah...im a wee bit tipsy so I forgot what I was babbling about or to whom but I think that one dealer chick who won some entry from some other chick promoting chicks and paying for an entry for them playing is still in, which is pretty dope.


Again, every chick watching at the time back then was like ooohhh nooo, she's out in 11th, hopefully this other chick makes it to the final table....ooohhh nooo, and now she's out right after? God, that blows.

you need to get some rest

Ps... Hille making ft would have been awesome with merson...i think she beat him pretty much every previous hand he tried to play with, against, or at her...for whatever reason.

ooook...and yet here YOU are. Wtf are you talking about anyway? Why such an expletive for no reason? And what are YOU doing up at this hour? Trolling nice well meaning people complementing others and discussing things by succession in a forum...?


YOU'RE super awesome, dude!




Lol...what a multiple expletives.


Eyeroll.

Why the F are people rooting for Aldemir?? Guy already had the ultimate sunrun last year and doesnt deserve to go deep again. He literally doesnt do anything impressive either, hes a boring nit and somehow people just give their chips away to him over and over. Happened on the final table last year and happened yesterday too.

Asian guy decides to bet his entire stack with second pair KQ as a bluff on A63K4 into Aldemir's AA for no reason at all. Like WTF? This doesnt even happen in my 5$ Hyper SnGs online..

When you already had the ultimate sunrun once its just unfair to run deep again. Winning AJ all in against QQ too.

Tell me what religion he is because he has picked the correct one...

I completely agree that the guy just plays super tight and super solid. Not to mention the excessive tanking. Really have no idea how he's made it so deep again.

100% agree with u here ECB

Sorry to have upset you. It was not my intention. I stand by my first comment

Im not surprised hes making it far because as we see there are so many fish who blow up on ridiculous bluffs, theres just no point trying to bluff yourself. Its unnecessary. Levels are long enough to just wait for spots and wait for the other players to bluff into you. And of course hope you dont get coolered, which is the part where his sunrun comes in. To not get coolered once while outlasting this amount of players is just insane rungood. Unreal. The way hes playing it has almost nothing to do with skill, just rungood to avoid the wrong side of a cooler.

What does surprise me is that people are rooting for this boring nit who hasnt had a single impressive or exciting play during the stretch of two deep runs in a row in the main. The PokerGO studio as well are rooting for him. Pisses me off. Root for the amateurs and exciting players ffs, not the pros! Especially not the ones that are of the boring nit variety.

Someone like Zhang winning is literally 10000000000000000 times better for poker than Aldemir winning again.

Smith lost most of his chips early in the day in one big pot, and it looked like he was all done with less than 200K. He's done a masterful job of hanging on and slowly chipping up to survive to Day Six. He is still relatively short stacked (about 2,000,000) but only one double up away from being a real threat. Go Cowboy Dan!

Me: whips thousands every day
Also me: I refuse to spend $15/mo on pokergo so I must come to poker forums for updates

He is a very entertaining player. Treats the Main Event like he's playing in a 2-5 game. His range is pretty much wide open. He will literally play any two cards! His success has been in his ability to read the relative strengths (card strength and mental strength) of his opponents and continually put them to the test. He has been right more than he's been wrong so far.

Watching online (Pokergo) you can actually get a better read on players then you would if you were sitting at the table with them. The camera does not lie! I was able to spot a leak in Zhang's game. I hesitate to tell this, but if someone reads it and uses it to their advantage, good for them. And if Zhang sees it then I'm sure he will exploit what I'm saying. Here's what I observed about his play. When he's bluffing he's talking a lot more, telling guys to take their time and think about it. Stuff like that. When he has the goods he's much quieter. This has not been the case in every hand he's played, but it has been a pattern of his that I noticed. You go back and watch some of his play (youtube?) and you will see what I'm talking about.

That said, I loved the way he just totally dominated the table, keeping everyone else on their heels against him. Only Nunley seemed to handle the pressure of playing a hand against him relatively well. Zhang just has that Zen look on his face all the time and it's hard to get any kind of read on him (other than the above). His conversation is definitely off putting and not what you'd expect to hear from someone during the Main Event. Reminds me a little of Gold all those years ago.

Of course it could all come crashing down on him in a moment the way he plays. I fully expect him to modulate his play more tomorrow.

Juanda was featured a lot on the wpt tourneys that aired before the wsop did that moneymaker year everything blew up and I remember everyone online too nefore that which made his parlay even more special for all of us goons out there trying to also.

I remember watching them for months before and of course he was on all the poker shows after and around that time too. He always seemed nice cool collected respectful and gentlemanly even amongst all the other expletive type c k measuring loudmouth wannabe star type expletives around. He was always featured and could have had all the same type deals if he was also an insufferable expletive, I guess...no doubt he was offeted them.
Never heard anyone say or even hint at him being the type of pos most of the other loudmouth dbag garbage among the tops at the time nor has he proven to be since then, unlike the hideously horrid dudes famous at the time and since. Seems like a decent quiet normal guy not caught up in various bs and bs circumstances. L1

Hard to find a hand you can lose to in that spot. But a very tight player might put Nunley on Q,Q or 5,7 or maybe even 7,7. It's easy to find a way to lay down that hand if you're afraid of getting knocked out. And that's obviously the case here. I think they used to call it Weak Tight. One other thing, the guy was new to the table and not comfortable with his opponents yet. That probably played into his fears.

I played with John in L.A. area tourneys back when he was a rising star. He worked hard at his game, was a good competitor, never complained and was fairly well liked for his table demeanor. He just got better and better, and started making score after score. He amassed millions when that was a true fortune. After years of that kind of success he backed off from poker a little bit and found other things to do with his life. He would still play but not as much. I give the guy a lot of credit for being successful at poker and using his success to better his life.

Aldemir looks much more relaxed and generally friendly at the table this year. Got nothing against him.

Ignore the haters. Awesome post. A number of excellent women players out there. The odds are against a FT in any given year given how many fewer women than men play, but it’s only a matter of time! And most of us are rooting like hell for it.

who folds a full house?

IIRC didn't Seidel fold a FH a while back in the Main? Turns out his read was correct too.

Hi hater. He was already one of the best players in the world before winning the main. Look up his resume then compare it to yours. Then go look in the mirror and slap yourself.

Likeable guy, and would be a great story. I've always preferred a well known pro to win the main so we can remind ourselves it's a skill game. Some aggro donk being able to win the most prestigious tournament in poker & get lucky for that long & that structure is quite disheartening but of course it's great for bringing in new players so I understand people rooting for the likes of Zhang 100%. A couple of entertaining characters to get to the final table sure, but personally I prefer the winner to have put in the work, be considered one of the best players of the remaining 2-3 tables and be around for years and not someone who we'll barely hear of again.

People are free to root for whoever they want too, it's not as if we'll be on the rail.

Where did I say he was bad? I said he is boring and running hotter than the sun. All facts.

I also said Im playing 5$ hypers so yea... obviously his resume is a lot better than mine. Such a dumbass argument --- "Hes better than you so you cant criticize him". Braindead fanboys.

Rooting hard for Aldemir, Cowboy Dan, and Zhang to final table this!

Is Shelby Wells the last female standing? Kinda disappointing to only have 1 woman left out of 100+.

No too many compelling stories left, I guess I'm rooting for her, Papo MC, Zhang or maybe Kenny Tran. Aldemir would be a cool story too.

This girl is number 2 in chips...

https://www.pokernews.com/poker-play...thymia-litsou/

Flew under the radar but she is second in chips going into today's Main Event.