Brunson Beer Pong Invitational to Be Held Wednesday – Poker News Daily
May 29, 2010 by admin
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Brunson Beer Pong Invitational to Be Held Wednesday
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Doyle Brunson Beer Pong Invitational 2010 – Poker Room Review
May 27, 2010 by admin
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Doyle Brunson Beer Pong Invitational 2010
Poker Room Review Other well known players and personalities will include Steve Gross, Hoyt Corkins, Erica Shoenberg, Erick Lindgren, Chad Brown, Vanessa Rousso, Mandy Baker, … Tony Dunst Dominates Day of Trash Talking, Drinking at Doyle Brunson Beer Pong …PokerNews.com Brunson Beer Pong Invitational to Be Held WednesdayPoker News Daily |
Phil Ivey Knocked Out in His Own Poker Room – Poker Room Review
May 27, 2010 by admin
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Phil Ivey Knocked Out in His Own Poker Room
Poker Room Review With guests like Doyle Brunson, Jennifer Harman, Tim Phan, David Benyamine, and Vanessa Rousso, the event was a great success and the Ivey Room is sure to … The Ivey Room Opens in Las VegasCake Poker News (blog) Photos: High-limit The Ivey Room opens in honor of Phil Ivey at AriaLas Vegas Sun |
World Team Poker Kicks Off – PokerStrategy.com (blog)
May 22, 2010 by Manuel
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World Team Poker Kicks Off
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WSOP Momentum: Phil Ivey
May 19, 2010 by admin
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2009 was the summer of Phil, no question. Two bracelets and a Main Event final table tell the story, but only part of it.
Rumors about Ivey’s epic bracelet bets were everywhere and even if we can’t know the exact numbers, we’ve got a pretty good idea what the bets were all about.
At the beginning of the 2009 series he had a slew of straight-up bracelet bets. $200k per bracelet with Daniel Negreanu, big money with Howard Lederer and Doyle Brunson and who knows what else.
When he took down his first 2009 bracelet he won a lot of money, to put it simply. The sickest thing was that Ivey didn’t stop there. Rumor has it he rolled over all those winnings and got odds against him winning a second bracelet in the next two weeks!
Think about how juicy that bet would be. All these guys who just lost six-figure amounts were being given a golden opportunity to wipe the slate clean. Winning two WSOP bracelets in two weeks is pretty ridiculous.
Nine days later he won another bracelet in the $2,500 Omaha/Stud Hi-Lo event.
With two bracelets and a sick, sick amount of money in prop-bet profits Ivey could have hung up his boots and spent the rest of the summer on the golf course. But then he wouldn’t be Phil Ivey.
He went on to final table the year’s biggest event, making a few huge prop bets along the way.
He reportedly stood to win $6 million in side bets if he had won. Andy Bloch bet him 99 to 1 on $20k for the win when there were 2,500 people left. He also had big bets with Tom Dwan ,Gus Hansen and more.
In terms of a single year at the WSOP, it doesn’t get much bigger than that. And if anyone can capitalize on momentum, it’s Phil Ivey.
We can only assume Ivey is lining up his 2010 WSOP bets as we speak. PokerListings.com is going to be on the ground in Las Vegas for every second of the 2010 World Series of Poker and we plan to keep a very close eye on Mr. Phil Ivey.
Keep an eye on our WSOP Live Coverage 2010 section to see it all unfold.
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High Stakes Poker Season 6 Episode 13 Recap – Poker King
May 12, 2010 by admin
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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) |
High Stakes Snapshot: Hero Plays A Plenty
May 11, 2010 by admin
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It all started when Tom “durrrr” Dwan made an incorrect hero call with nine-high vs Daniel Negreanu.
The hand was a rare unstraddled pot where Lex Veldhuis raised to $4,000 in late position with the A♥ 9♣.
Daniel Negreanu made the call in the small blind with the K♠ T♠ and durrrr called in the big blind with 9♥ 5♥.
The flop came 3♣ 7♠ 7♥. Negreanu checked and durrrr led for $10,700.
Veldhuis insta-folded and Negreanu made the call. When the turn came K♦ both players checked.
The river came Q♦ and Negreanu bet $28,200. durrrr tanked before wrongly calling with his nine high.
Unfortunately his nine was nowhere near good and rather than looking like a genius he looked just a little bit silly.
Phil Galfond was next on the hero bandwagon making a sick fold to save himself in a hand he never should have been in.
Galfond three-bet K♥ 5♦ vs an early position raise only to get cold fourbet out of the blinds by Eli Elezra’s K♦ K♣.
For some reason Galfond makes the call and the flop comes K♠ 9♣ 9♦. Galfond calls a bet on the flop and somehow checks the turn through in position when the 9♠ falls.
The river comes Q♠ and Elezra leads for $110,000 into $154,600. Galfond manages to find a fold with his nines full of kings.
Sick? Yes! But perhaps the sickest of the night was Lex Veldhuis’ river call on Doyle Brunson.
Doyle limped the big blind on Veldhuis’ straddle with Q♠ 7♠ and Veldhuis made it $11,000 with 9♠ 2♠.
Doyle called $9k more and to see a 6♠ 2♦ 3♥ flop.
Both players checked to a J♣ where Doyle led for $20,500.
Veldhuis made the call and the river dropped 4♣.
It didn’t end there, however. Elky joined the failed hero call camp after getting in far too deep with A♦ 6♦ by calling a three-bet in position only to stack off on a 4♣ 6♠ 8♠ Q♦ board vs durrrr’s A♠ A♣.
And last but not least Phil Galfond decided he’d fold another full house.
With Galfond in the straddle Negreanu raised in early position to $8,000 with the K♠ 5♠.
Veldhuis called on the button with the 9♦ 7♦ and Galfond defended his straddle with the 8♦ 7♠.
The flop came K♥ 8♣ 3♠ and Galfond checked and called. The turn brought the 8♥ and Galfond players checked.
The river brought the K♣ and Galfond checked and eventually folded to a full pot, $75,000, bet from Daniel Negreanu, successfully dodging another cooler.
And just like that the latest season of HSP comes to an end, a fitting conclusion to an eventful season.
It had everything we love about High Stakes Poker. The best players in the world doing their best to outplay each other, millions of dollars in cold hard cash trading hands and, of course, Gabe Kaplan.
We’ll be back with our strategy snapshots next season but for now you can relive all the Season 6 action using the links below.
More Strategy Snapshots from High Stakes Poker Season 6:
Episode 12: Galfond’s Gaffe
Episode 11: Negreanu Runs Bad, Plays Worse
Episode 10: The Old Triple Straddle
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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High Stakes Poker Snapshot: Galfond’s Gaffe
May 5, 2010 by admin
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The Setup:
With the blinds $400/$800 and a $200 ante Daniel Negreanu puts the $1,600 straddle on. It’s folded to Doyle Brunson who raises to $4,600.
Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier makes the call in the small blind, Phil Galfond calls in the big and Daniel Negreanu makes the call from the straddle.
The flop comes 7♥ T♥ T♠ and the action is checked through.
The turn comes the 6♣ and Elky leads for $11,000. Galfond makes the call. Negreanu thinks for a moment before making it $41,000.
Doyle folds and Elky gets out of the way but Galfond eventually makes the call. The river comes K♠. Galfond checks and Negreanu fires $80,200.
Galfond tanks and eventually makes the call. Negreanu shows T♣ 7♠ for the flopped full house which is good for the $192,600 pot.
The Breakdown:
When it’s folded to Doyle he raises to $4,600 after looking at just the A♣. With the blinds, antes and the straddle there’s a ton of dead money in the pot. Doyle’s raising as a steal regardless of his other card.
By not looking at the second card he gives himself a sweat once he knows whether he’ll be playing a pot or not. It’s just a way to keep the game fun.
Elky makes the call in the small blind with the A♥ 3♥ because he knows Doyle is going to be raising a wide range with all of the dead money in the middle.
Galfond makes the call with the 9♦ 7♦ in the big blind. With a decent one-gap he knows he can win a big pot with the right flop.
Negreanu is next to climb aboard the calling train with his T♣ 7♠. He calls because he was the straddle and there’s a decent pot already building with two callers in front of him.
The flop comes 7♥ T♥ T♠. Elky checks and everyone else checks through.
Everyone checks to the preflop raiser and Doyle declines the c-bet into three players. The more players in the flop the more likely someone (or everyone) has a piece of it so he checks.
The turn comes the 6♣.
Once the flop is checked through Elky figures with the nut flush draw he may as well semi-bluff at the pot and bets $11,000.
Galfond makes the call with his second pair on a paired board. He realizes that since nobody took a stab on the flop theres a very real chance that his sevens are good.
Negreanu all of a sudden comes alive and makes it $41,000 with his flopped full house. He has the stone-cold nuts and raises because he knows his image isn’t great this season. Also he knows this line isn’t the most believable.
Furthermore he wants to build the pot in case someone else has a worse ten. If he just calls it will be hard to get stacks in on the river.
Doyle now realizes he has ace-deuce and folds.
Elky mucks the nut-flush draw as well. He correctly recognizes he could be drawing dead even with the nut-flush draw.
Galfond thinks and makes the call with his sevens. He thinks that because the flop was checked through Negreanu can pick up on the fact that Elky could lead any two cards and thus Galfond could call with a wider range.
Because of that Galfond thinks Negreanu could be post-flop squeezing the bettor and the caller and thus he chooses to call with his pair of sevens.
The river comes K♠ and Galfond immediately checks. Negreanu fires $80,200 with the now-second nuts.
Galfond eventually levels himself into a call based on his read on the turn. He feels the K♠ doesn’t change anything and that if he had the best hand on the turn he probably still has the best hand.
A decent thought, but the problem is that though Negreanu is definitely capable of making moves he often pulls the trigger on one street only to shut down on the next.
You saw it with the hand earlier in the season when durrrr had flopped a full house. Negreanu bluffed at the turn and gave up on the river. When Negreanu bets big again on the river and goes completely silent there’s a good chance you’re beat.
Galfond, however, didn’t get out of the way and ended up calling the $80,200, only to find out his hand is nowhere near good.
Hero calls are tricky business. When you’re right, you look like a genius. And when you’re wrong, you look like an idiot.
It’s a tough, double-edged sword and this time Galfond found himself looking like the latter.
But don’t feel too bad for him; he’s made more than his share of money online.
More Strategy Snapshots from High Stakes Poker Season 6:
Episode 11: Negreanu Runs Bad, Plays Worse
Episode 10: The Old Triple Straddle
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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High Stakes Poker Snapshot: Galfond’s Guffaw
May 3, 2010 by admin
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The Setup:
With the blinds $400/$800 with a $200 ante Daniel Negreanu puts the $1,600 straddle on.
It’s folded to Doyle Brunson who raises to $4,600.
Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier makes the call in the small, PhilGalfond calls in the big, and Daniel Negreanu makes the call from the straddle.
The flop comes 7♥ T♥ T♠ and the action is checked through.
The turn comes the 6♣ and Elky leads for $11,000 and Galfond makes the call.
Negreanu thinks for a moment before making it $41,000.
Doyle folds and Elky gets out of the way but Galfond eventually makes the call.
The river comes K♠ and Galfond checks and Negreanu fires $80,200.
Galfond tanks and eventually makes the call and Negreanu shows T♣ 7♠ for the flopped full house which is good for the $192,600 pot.
The Breakdown:
When it’s folded to Doyle he raises to $4,600 after looking at just the A♣. With the blinds, antes, and the straddle there’s a ton of dead money in the pot Doyle’s raising as a steal regardless of his ther card.
By not looking at the second card he gives himself a sweat once he knows whether he’ll be playing a pot or not. It’s just a way to keep the game fun.
Elky makes the call in the small blind with the A♥ 3♥ because he knows that Doyle is going to be raising a wide range with all of the dead money.
Phil Galfond makes the call with the 9♦ 7♦ in the big blind with a decent one gap he knows he can win a big pot with the right flop.
Negreanu is next to climb aboard the calling train with his T♣ 7♠. He calls because he was the straddle and there’s a decent pot already building with two callers in front of him.
The flop comes 7♥ T♥ T♠ and Elky checks and everyone else checks through.
Everyone checks to the preflop raiser and Doyle declines the c-bet into three players. The more players in the flop the more likely someone (or everyone) has a piece of the flop so he checks.
The turn comes the 6♣.
Once the flop is checked through Elky figures with the nut flush draw he may as well semibluff at the pot and bets $11,000.
Galfond makes the call with his second pair on a paired board. He realizes that since nobody took a stab on the flop theres a very real chance that his sevens are good.
Negreanu all of a sudden comes alive and makes it $41,000 with his flopped fullhouse. He has the stone cold nuts and raises because he knows his image isn’t great right in this season. Also he knows this line isn’t the most believable.
Furthermore he wants to build the pot incase someone else has a worse ten. If he just calls it will be hard to get stacks in on a river. So he raises now to build the pot.
Doyle now realizes he has ace deuce and no part of anything and folds.
Elky mucks the nut flushdraw as well, he correctly recognizes that there’s a decent chance that he can hit his flush and still have a second best hand so he wisely folds immediately.
Galfond thinks and makes the call with his sevens. He thinks that because the flop was checked through Negreanu can pick up on the fact that Elky could lead any two cards and thus Galfond could call with wider range.
Because of that Galfond thinks that Negreanu could be post flop squeezing the better and the caller and thus he chooses to call with his pair of sevens.
The river comes K♠ and Galfond immediately checks.
Negreanu fires $80,200 with the now second nuts.
Galfond eventually levels himself into a call based on his read on the turn. He feels the K♠ doesn’t change anything and that if he had the best hand on the turn he probably still has the best hand.
A decent thought, but the problem is that though Negreanu definitely is capable of making move he often pulls the trigger on one street and rarely pulls the trigger on the second street.
You saw it with the hand earlier in the season when durrrr had flopped a full house. Negreanu bluffed at the turn and gave up on the river.
When Negreanu bets big again on the river and goes completely silent there’s a good chance you’re beat.
Galfond however, didn’t get out of the way and ended up calling the $80,200 and only to find out out his hand is no where near good.
Hero calls are tricky business, when you’re right you look like a genius and when you’re wrong you look like an idiot.
It’s a tough, double edged sword, and this time Galfond found himself looking like the latter.
But don’t feel too bad for him, he’s made more than his share of money online.
More Strategy Snapshots from High Stakes Poker Season 6:
Episode 11: Negreanu Runs Bad, Plays Worse
Episode 10: The Old Triple Straddle
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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National Heads-Up Poker Championship on NBC: Lederer Versus Hellmuth – Poker News Daily
April 27, 2010 by admin
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National Heads-Up Poker Championship on NBC: Lederer Versus Hellmuth
Poker News Daily Meanwhile, 10-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Doyle Brunson made quick work of Brock “t soprano” Parker. The latter was all-in with pocket … |
