Season 3 of High Stakes Poker

[Reel Deal]

Back to the lab with your weak-ass cheese-head smack.

[Reel Deal]

Exactly. And that's the only thing I get out of him during the WSOP broadcasts, comedic entertainment... certainly not his commentary on poker.

[JDMcNugent7]

i cannot beleive the plays these guys make, so many of them make no sense. also the announcers are completely wrong with their commentary so often it's ridiculous.
i really feel like a regular at 25/50 could beat this game.

[sjay2k]

ya i can't stand watching televised poker.

Everyone plays so bad and the action is so slow.

[Kurn]

Personally, I'd find HSP much more interesting if it were $2000/$4000 limit stud.

[Boobie Lover]

I feel like a winning player at 3/6 would beat this game.

[Boobie Lover]

If the commentary is already horrible at NLHE, imagine the clusterfuck it would be with this game.

[JDMcNugent7]

maybe i dont really get the whole "Running it twice" thing, but why would Lindgren want to run it twice when he has
TT on a 36T board with 2 hearts, and gets it all in vs Harmans AK of hearts when he's like a 65% favorite.

[Boobie Lover]

It's the same EV. Running it once or twice doesn't change how big of a favorite you are, just makes their expected hourly return lower since this takes more time.

[Talking Poker]

Well, it lowers *short term* variance. You'll have more chopped pots, less 100% bad beats, and so on.

I'm indifferent.

[Reel Deal]

Reminder: Ep. 9 tonight.

[Talking Poker]

FWIW, I've been playing closer attention to Gabe, and I do like his commentary a lot.

[Boobie Lover]

I'm fairly certain that Illya Trincher is that guy. I'll assess it at about 85% that he is the guy.

[Reel Deal]

First 8 minutes of Ep. 10... DN limps w/JJ and then QQ and Harmitz limps w/AK. I'm not getting this.

[Reel Deal]

Interesting Ep. 11 hand…

Blinds @ $300/$600

D. Williams limps UTG with A3
Ivey raises to $3,000 in MP with QQ
J’Dags calls on the button with 74
Negreanu calls out of the BB with 64
Williams calls
(pot = $13,100)

Flop: 5T8

Negreanu & Williams check
Ivey bets $10,000
J’Dags folds
Negreanu calls
Williams calls
(pot = $43,100)

Turn: 6

Negreanu & Williams check
Ivey bets $28,000
Negreanu calls
Williams calls
(pot = $127,100)

River: 6

Negreanu & Williams check
Ivey asks Williams how much he has left (Williams: “about $40K”)
Ivey checks

Negreanu wins with trip 6s.

Any comments on how this hand played out?

[Boobie Lover]

I think Negraneau's river check was weak unless he planned on check/folding to an Ivey bet. Betting the river there seems sort of mandatory since it might get looked up by Ivey with JJ+ while Ivey betting that into two players might not happen, and it is sort of obvious that D. Williams missed a draw and i doubt he is going to bluff into two people.

[Reel Deal]

That's what puzzled me too... why did DN check the river?

[Van_Broked]

DN is way too passive overall in this game imo. I think he need to be more aggressive instead of constantly floating flops with bottom pair etc. Raise it up for chirst sakes at least sometimes.

SPOILER***********************************







Anyone see yesterdays episode? I just saw part 1 on you tube. Brad Booth makes a sick bluff with 4 high lol. All he had was a gutshot and a backdoor flush draw. I wish the rest of this episode was up on youtube.

[lightfungus]

[Van_Broked]

I can't remember if it was this weeks or last weeks, but I got a chuckle from Gabes comment. "And David Williams insta-calls". Don't know why I found that funny.

Thanks for the links Fungus, this table is just sick. I gotta say over all the 3 seasons I think the Magician has played a lot better then I thought he would. He's got some game.

[melioris]

today's episode was pretty good, although the AJ vs Gabe mock hatred banter is getting thin.

And speaking of thinly veiled mancrushes, I figured out why TP was so keen on Patrick A.

TP PA
TLA

[Talking Poker]

I don't get it.

But I do agree with you about the mock hatred thing. It's been annoying me for 2-3 weeks now. Enough, girls.

[melioris]

there is nothing to get. You have talked about how good you think the guy is and then he turns out to be a hunky man-boy, all shirt unbuttoned showing some smooth chest. Nevermind the tarted-up ladies in the background, my panties got a little moist everytime he was on screen. And, for the record, I think Gabe's did too.

[Talking Poker]

I haven't seen this week's episode yet. Watch him play for a while and you'll see that he's even dreamier than you think now.

What's "TLA" though? Wait - True Love Always or some shit like that?

[Reel Deal]

This thread is starting to go down a very dark path.