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what if its mizrachi?!?

13). Take off your big Phil Ivey button that you purchased from the Humpreys before the day started.

14. Get douche chills everytime he chants "Jaka Jaka Jaka"

Pray your at a TV table and you get an extra 10k to wear someone's hat.

It is not if, it is when. You will be lucky if it is only one.
Play your game and don't worry about it. If you are,then don't put up the $10K (or even $1K in a smaller event)

This happen to me the year Stars supported the BCPC. Had David Williams at the table all day. Most of the people at the table didn't seem to want to play a pot with him so if I was in a hand with him, we were usually head up which worked out just fine.

He picked some chips early on some good cards but then just dominated the table. It was fun to watch.

I think the advise about not showing ANY cards or saying more than necessary is good.

Had Timex on my left in a PCA side event. We had some fun in BvB, too bad i was half-sleeping from jetlag, did learn a few tips tho.

Also played with a few other pros, first time was chad brown on my right, prob gave him too much respect.

Just play your normal game, know they'll adapt a bit more their ranges, so adapt yours too, and share the fishes.

Call the GF to get some pics before you go busto.

ask him, he has any good deal's on real estate? should do wonders for the table !!!!

1.Play your own game.
2.The only difference (vs against other players) is if you bust him before the TV feature table, you will lose TV deal that can bring you (at least) buy-in back.
3. At TV table, most pros play tight because they don't want get busted on TV.

Shove if there's a 4-flush on the board. He will fold his flush without checking his hole cards.

Nothing different. But I have noticed that I tend to focus on their play more closely than others at the table which is almost opposite of what I should be doing. That is, I often have at least some idea of how the pro plays but not anybody else.

I think most pros play tight on day 1 anyway cause all the Donks are going to call them with anything just to be able to go home and say they railed Phil Ivey.
and even if he is a 70/30 underdog the donk will bust the pro almost 1 in every 3 times

It's possible that pros would be aggressive on Day 1, because the amateurs don't want to bust early. They want to get their money's worth.

then again, I don't think you can really group "pros" together. I played about six hours with Huck Seed and he was tight as a rock. And I also had Mike Matusow at the same table and he busted after about 90 minutes of super aggro bluffing. This was a $1.5K event, btw, so it's possible that some pros may treat those differently than the ME.

They def do this... i have played a lot of 1.5k and 2.5k events with pros (mostly Omaha type events) and they play super fast and try and build up stacks. Obv some don't but a bunch do.

Read this book and you'll be fine.

ask him if he chops

I think just play your game, use everything you know about them from the endless hours you've watched them play and try to give them as little info as possible on how you play. Depending on which stage of the tournament you are in, early on a lot of "pros" may be willing to gamble to get a big stack depending on what side prop bets they may have going on. Try to gauge which gear they are playing in and target your play to attack it or stay out of its way...think "Kill Phil" for ex: making them commit more of their stack PF then they would like to take the plays our of their playbook post flop. Big name pros typically make less mistakes than us in difficult situations so try as much as possible to keep your decisions simple. Also, naturally everyone at the table will be more stressed out and focusing their attention on everything the pro is doing....use this to your advantage to focus on them and playing more hands with them instead of the pro.

I've personally not been in situations where I've looked to my left and seen Phil Ivey but if I did, that would be my plan.

...praying to the poker gods also helps

Just play your game - they go down almost as easily as non-pros - except, you will generally find they have better cards going when they see a flop than non-pros in a tournament - they understand it is a marathon and not a sprint.

Or, if it's Ivey, tell him to give you some gum.

If it's Hellmtuh, act as if you have no idea who he is.

Talk about Sam Grizzard as if you were best buddies, explain why you think he is the best player in the world.

Wait for Phil to lose a hand then talk about how Sam would have played it much better.

You'll then get lots of camera time as Phil beats you to a bloody pulp.

This will all be followed by Phil being warned not to kill any more players or he'll be penalized, maybe.

If it's Daniel, offfer him a Slim Jim or a bacon cheese burger.

Anyone else, throw up on them before cards are in the air, it will make you unforgetable and likely put the pro on tilt.

Ok, heading out today, and while I offer sacrifices to the I-15 gods, figured I'd share some memory of my first WSOP event, 2 years ago. 1st table was a dream, just the nicest bunch of nameless entities I could hope for, and I did well. Had tripled my initial stack when table broke, and I headed over to the blue section to find my new assignment. Wait a minute...I know that dude! My eyes locked on Lee Watkinson, sitting in the 4 hole, as I sat down in seat 8..whoops, card says seat 6--table has a good laugh at my expense. A bit redfaced, I turn to my left..hey, I know that dude! Joe Sebok has a bit of a smirk, but otherwise is fairly cool, says hey. I look around the table a bit more carefully...hey, seat 2, whaddyaknow! Mike Binger is getting a massage.

I begin to feel the initial spine-tinglings of LockDownMode setting in, as the table remarks that it seemed off when I sat down in seat 8. Apparently it had just gone busto, Binger being the victor, I presume, as he has been stacking a new addon to the magnificent chipcastle in front of him while I've been orienting myself. Ahh, here comes someone to fill that seat now...waitaminute, I recognize that hoodie/cap combo..why it's none other than Shawn Buchanan, recent winner of a WPT event. I had just watched that one, sick calls with 33: gee, sure glad he has position on me.

Being in the blue section, my hopes of running wild in this tourney have just gone thud in a major way, as I realize this section will NOT be breaking this day. I settle in and try to keep an image of frivolity, cracking as many jokes as I can between clenched teeth, as mercifully, the dinner break arrives. My tent-food tastes of ash and 50% of that I chalk up to my psychological state. Cadge a quick smoke, head in to mingle amongst the masses railing Hellmuth, when up walks a table-mate..and I don't recognize him! At least from television, I do acknowledge him as seat 5 though, and we start up a bit of a conversation. I ask him if he notices how aggressive Binger in seat 2 has been, that our blinds have been raised something like 14 times in a row from that particular sector. He looks a little dazed, then mumbles something like "yea, now that you mention it..." and I see the wheels beginning to roll in his head. And sure enough, first orbit back from dinner; it happens. Me in BB, seat 5 is small, and Mr Binger fires a 2.8X raise. My man in the small is ready, and shoves his smallish stack, snapcall! My neighbor, AJs..the Bingster tables 25o...5 on the flop, and a very long walk ensues when no improvement occurs.

I can't help myself, I tell the table of the dinnerbreak conversation, which draws a raised eyebrow from his Bingness. Now I'm starting to feel the pinch, my once robust stack down to about 10BB, been in this hellhole for 9 hours now and when, the ONE time, its limped from 2 positions and I get to play the small blind (JKo), I manage an open-ended draw and plan on determining my fate with an allin check-raise to Bingers obvious steal attempt. He tanks, calls over one of the many reporters who have been hovering about, scribbling furiously as they try to ascertain who is besting whom at our table of horror, and remarks "I'm thinking of doing something really stupid." I truly liked the sound of this at the time and actually hoped for the call! Silly wabbit, Mr Binger had the nut flush draw, ace high, and when the unnecessary club rolled off on the river, my case of the mumbles began.."nh" "gg". In retrospect, I should have told more jokes..

Ah well, thanks for letting me get that little bit of goo out of my transom, back to the sacrifices...anyone know where I can pick up a radar detector cheap?

in my experience, it's not the pros you know that you mostly have to worry about...

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Tripled up, then moved to a second table and blinded out the same day because stack was only 10BB..........NOT POSSIBLE.
But a well written fairy tale for sure.