High Stakes Poker Season 6 Episode 13 Recap – Poker King

Poker King

High Stakes Poker Season 6 Episode 13 Recap Poker King The players at the table to start this episode were: Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Doyle Brunson, Lex Veldhuis, David Benyamine, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, … High Stakes Poker in frantic finaleCrunchPoker.com High Stakes Poker Season 6 EndsCake Poker News (blog) all 9 news articles »

David Benyamine Leads WPT Championship Final Table – Poker News Daily

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David Benyamine Leads WPT Championship Final Table Poker News Daily Five-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Scotty Nguyen landed in eighth place in the WPT Championship, earning $105000. … Eric Baldwin (basebaldy) Makes Final Table of WPT ChampionshipPocketFives (press release) David Benyamine Will Take Chip Lead Into WPT World Championship Final TablePoker King PTP Hit and Run: April 23rd, 2010PartTimePoker News PocketFives.com (blog) -PokerListings.com -Poker News Daily all 39 news articles »

Stout’s WPT $25k Championship Day 2 and 3 Recap

I was just glad that I’m getting a little more patient in my old age and was able to keep playing solid no matter how boring it got. Besides, I figured if I could just make it through to 4/20, I should run great all day.

And that’s EXACTLY how that shit went down! It actually started the night before, when I saw that I had drawn the softest table in the room, and the only soft table in the whole tournament, maybe even in $25k tournament history!

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FRANCIS
WITEK
148400
58
1

KAIED
BARKHO
81300
58
2

MAROUN
JAZZAR
224000
58
3

MIKAEL
THURITZ
83800
58
4

CLYDE
HINTON
182300
58
5

EMELINE
BOICH
45500
58
6

MATTHEW
STOUT
170900
58
7

JUSTIN
YOUNG
296000
58
8

HYON
KIM
187500
58
9

I managed to chip up from 171k to ~330k within the first level … without even going to showdown once. I was in a dreamland, but unfortunately we found out we were second in the table break order. =(

We broke shortly before the first break, much to my chagrin. I was moved to a much tougher table, including David Benyamine, Amit Makhija, Chris Moore, Andrew “luckychewy/RunThisTable” Lichtenberger, and Christian Harder.

Little did I know I was going to run so good at that table it didn’t matter how tough it was. Most importantly, after a ton of failed set mining, I flopped my first set of the tournament.

In a seven-way limped pot, I flopped top set against middle set on a 7♥ 5♣ 3♦. Peter Gould’s son and I turned that limped pot of ~25k into a 700k+ pot by the 9♥ turn, and I faded a single out for a near double up.

Then my rungoodsauce continued when I flopped quad Queens against Amit’s A-K on a K♦ Q♦ Q♠. I won a pretty big pot, but there’s a chance I could have gotten more if I’d played it faster. Either way, I was near a million and third in chips out of ~55 left.

I cruised through the rest of the day and finished 4th in chips with 919,500. We’ll be playing 4/8k with 35 players remaining to start day 4. The average stack is ~560k, 18 places pay, and first is just over $1.5 MIRRRRRRRRION. Check out the full chip counts right here and my table draw for tomorrow below.

1. Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 350,000
2. Matt Stout – 919,500
3. Cliff Josephy – 489,500
4. J.J. Liu – 495,000
5. Nikolay Evdakov – 668,500
6. Robert Rugiero – 453,000
7. Phil Hellmuth – 807,000
8. Billy Baxter – 887,500
9. Scotty Nguyen – 569,500

Happy 4/20 all!

Matt Stout

Check out Matt Stout’s WPT $25k Day 1 recap right here.

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High Stakes Snapshot: The Old Triple Straddle

The hand in question starts off with David Benyamine posting his $400 small blind. Next is Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, who posts his $800 big blind.

Then Daniel Negreanu puts on the $1,600 straddle. Eli Elezra posts the $3,200 straddle and, last but not least, Tom Dwan re-re-re-straddles to $6,400.

When you add in the $200 antes it adds up to $13,800 in the pot before the cards are even dealt.

Doyle Brunson, the first non-blind, looks down and sees A♥ Q♥. With the $6,400 straddle on, Doyle effectively has 24 big blinds.

With a solid hand and 24bb he chooses to just make the unexploitable play of moving all-in. Doyle would be more than happy win the blinds, antes, and straddles, but his hand is good enough that it has decent equity if called by anything but aces.

By moving all-in Doyle is guaranteed to see all five cards and can’t be forced to fold like he may have been had he made a smaller raise.

When Doyle moves in, he and the entire table burst out laughing, except for Mike Matusow. Matusow, directly on Doyle’s left, wakes up with K♠ K♣ and announces that he’s all-in too.

Doyle immediately stops laughing and let’s a hilarious “Oh no” slip.

The biggest nit at the table, who’s folded all but one hand, wakes up to kings when there’s three straddles and a $150,000 shove in front of him. Easy game.

Doyle realizes that once Matusow shoves he probably has AA or KK or sometimes QQ and that his A♥ Q♥ is in rough shape.

Each of the remaining blinds does his best to try and squeeze out AA to no avail.

When the dust clears Doyle and Matusow agree to run the whole board twice.

The first board’s flop comes out 3♣ 3♥ J♣. The turn brings the 8♥ and a backdoor flush draw for Doyle.

The river binks the 6♥ and the Grandfather of Poker sucks out with the backdoor flush to guarantee himself half the pot.

The second board’s flop comes K♦ J♦ 4♠ and this time Matusow has to dodge the gutshot.

The turn comes A♣ and the river bricks off the A♦ and Matusow somehow dodges and wins the second half.

After all that excitement the two end up splitting the $319,000 pot – a fairly anti-climactic ending to a pretty interesting situation.

If you haven’t seen the episode it’s worth it just to hear Doyle’s “Oh no” when Matusow moves in. It’s the best thing since his Ivey impression.

 

More Strategy Snapshots from High Stakes Poker Season 6:

Episode 9: Big Mistakes Benifet Benyamine
Episode 8: Ivey Fivebets Light
Episode 7: Negreanu Bluffs Into The Nuts
Episode 6: Good2cRaSZi Bluffing
Episode 5: Welcome to Ivey World
Episode 4: Ivey Goes Vegetarian
Episode 3: Negreanu Bailed Out by River
Episode 2: Hoivold Sent Packing

Episode 1: Hellmuth Felted

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World Poker Tour Day 2: Shawn Buchanan Tied for Chip Lead with WPT POY Leader … – PokerNews.com

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Faraz Jaka leads $25k WPT Championship – Bluff Europe Magazine

Faraz Jaka leads $25k WPT Championship Bluff Europe Magazine … for the $1.5m first prize including defending champion Yevgeniy Timoshenko, David Benyamine, Howard Lederer, Brandon Cantu, Brock Parker and Dave Ulliott.

WSOP Releases Current Top 20 for Tournament of Champions – CardPlayer.com

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WSOP Releases Current Top 20 for Tournament of Champions CardPlayer.com … and David Benyamine, six-time bracelet winner Layne Flack, and the last two pros who won WSOP Player of the Year, Jeffrey Lisandro and Erick Lindgren. … and more »

High Stakes Poker: David Benyamine Bullies Daniel Negreanu – Poker News Daily

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High Stakes Poker: David Benyamine Bullies Daniel Negreanu Poker News Daily Making his “High Stakes Poker” debut on Sunday night was Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, who played just one hand of significance during the episode. … High Stakes Poker Season 6, Episode 9: Brunson Takes a Hit; Matusow Heard but …PokerNews.com all 2 news articles »

High Stakes Poker: David Benyamine Bullies Daniel Negreanu – Poker News Daily

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High Stakes Poker: David Benyamine Bullies Daniel Negreanu Poker News Daily Making his “High Stakes Poker” debut on Sunday night was Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, who played just one hand of significance during the episode. … High Stakes Poker Season 6, Episode 9: Brunson Takes a Hit; Matusow Heard but …PokerNews.com all 2 news articles »

High Stakes Snapshot: Big Mistakes Benefit Benyamine

The Setup:

Stack sizes:

Daniel Negreanu $340,000~

Doyle Brunson $300,000

David Benyamine $200,000

Daniel Negreanu raises from middle position to $3,000 with the blinds at $400/$800.

Doyle Brunson makes the call in the cut-off and David Benyamine calls in the small blind.

Three-handed to a 9♣ 3♠ 8♠ flop. Benyamine checks and Negreanu fires $8,500 into $11,400. Doyle flats in position and Benyamine thinks and calls as well.

The turn comes Q♠ and the all three players check.

The river comes A♥ and after Benyamine checks, Negreanu fires $26,200. Doyle calls and Benyamine check-raises to $101,200 after a bit of thought.

Daniel Negreanu disgustedly folds, and Doyle Brunson disgustedly calls.

Benyamine shows 5♠ 7♠ for a flush and Brunson mucks his three queens with the Q♣ Q♥.

Benyamine’s $101,200 check-raise managed to fold out Daniel Negreanu’s better flush, 9♠ T♠, to get heads up with Doyle’s worse set of queens.

A questionable play, maybe, but it worked to the tune of a $265,500 pot.

The Breakdown:

When it’s folded to Negreanu in middle position he’s basically raising any two marginally connected cards when they’re suited, obviously T♠ 9♠ more than meets that criteria so he sticks in $3,000.

Doyle Brunson elects to flat call with his Q♥ Q♣ in the cut-off.

Doyle is almost 400bb deep with Negreanu and just calls both to keep the pot small and to keep his range wider in order to trap Negreanu on a later street.

It’s perfectly fine thinking but Negreanu has shown a propensity for calling three-bets both in and out of position. Since Doyle is in position he can control the size of the pot post-flop so a three-bet for value should be the more +ev play.

Benyamine is last to call with the 5♠ 7♠ in the small blind.

He’s $200k deep effective and is guaranteed a multi way pot but he’ll also be out of position for the remainder of the hand.

The flop comes 9♣ 3♠ 8♠ and Benyamine checks his gutshot plus flushdraw to the preflop raiser.

Daniel Negreanu also hit the flop and fires $8,500 into $11,400 with top pair plus a flush draw.

Doyle Brunson elects to just flat call with his over pair.

Looking to avoid a seriously difficult spot he calls and plays small ball hoping Negreanu will continue betting into him.

Benyamine chooses to just flat call with his robust draw.

For a moment he contemplates a raise but eventually thinks better of it. In a threeway pot he doesn’t want to checkraise only to end up getting all-in vs a better flush draw, leaving him with only a gutterball.

The turn comes the Q♠ which hits everyone, yet everyone chooses to check.

Of all the checks Negreanu’s is definitely the worst.

Negreanu has no reason not to bet his turned flush three-way. He’s the pre-flop raiser and there are a ton of worse hands his opponents can call with.

Furthermore if he checks through and a fourth spade falls he’s in pretty rough shape. But he checks and Doyle checks through praying for the board to pair.

The river comes the A♥.

Benyamine checks for a third time and Negreanu bets $26,200. Obviously once Negreanu doesn’t bet the turn with his flush he has to bet the river when it changes nothing.

Doyle calls thinking his three queens have to be good. But here’s where the hand gets interesting.

Benyamine check-raises to $101,200. He doesn’t call, which would be the “standard” play.

When the hand is over he explains to Kara Scott that he knew his raise would make Negreanu fold the best hand and allow Doyle Brunson to call with the worse hand.

Now, that is what happened but it’s tough to believe that was his intent.

It doesn’t make much sense, he expects Negreanu to fold a made flush with all of the calling station tendencies he’s shown in every season of High Stakes Poker?

Not likely.

Furthermore the point he made about Negreanu having to worry about Doyle’s river call is moot.

Chances are if Doyle could beat a ten high flush he would have either bet it in position on the turn or he would have raised with it on the river. He’s just not going to play a bigger flush that passively.

Negreanu doesn’t need to worry about Doyle’s call at all and should realize that if he calls the check-raise the action is finished, Doyle will very seldom overcall.

Which brings us back to Benyamine’s river check-raise, more likely than not Benyamine put Negreanu on a hand like A♠ K♥, A♠ Q♦ or even A♦ A♠, any hand that was a pair with a redraw on the turn and pot controlled three way. Of those, almost all of them improve on the river with the A♥.

Benyamine’s check-raise was more for value vs Negreanu’s two pair+ range than a bet to get a flush to fold.

Benyamine likely felt Doyle had a one pair bluff catcher and was a non issue in the hand. Of course what ended up happening was Negreanu folding his ten-high flush.

A fold that, looking purely at perceived ranges, isn’t very good.

When Negreanu checks the turn there probably aren’t a ton of flushes in his range, more likely Negreanu has a pair plus draw hand that he’s pot controlling.

So when he checks and then bets on the river he’s actually near the very top of his range given the situation.

The bulk of his range however are two pair or set type hands which Benyamine can checkraise for value with his small flush.

Negreanu probably just over-thought the hand, and believed he had to worry about Doyle acting behind him.

The end result was him folding the best hand.

Finally, Doyle calls Benyamines check-raise. The last mistake in a mistake-filled hand.

Honestly, there isn’t too much explanation for it other than he was angry how he played the hand up until this point and now was too angry to fold.

Add in to the fact that the whole hand was confusing as hell and he just stuck the money in and hoped for the best.

He wasn’t good of course, and Benyamine’s raise looks like one of the most unbelievably sick plays ever, successfully getting a player to fold a better hand, yet still getting action from a worse hand.

But that’s results oriented thinking, it was a a bad read that ended up working 100x better than he could have hoped.

On the bright side it did make for an interesting hand.

 

More Strategy Snapshots from High Stakes Poker Season 6:

Episode 8: Ivey Fivebets Light
Episode 7: Negreanu Bluffs Into The Nuts
Episode 6: Good2cRaSZi Bluffing
Episode 5: Welcome to Ivey World
Episode 4: Ivey Goes Vegetarian
Episode 3: Negreanu Bailed Out by River
Episode 2: Hoivold Sent Packing

Episode 1: Hellmuth Felted

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