High Stakes Poker Snapshot: Welcome to Ivey World

It took five episodes of High Stakes Poker Season 6 to bring us an episode with some real action.

Episode five, which aired yesterday, had just that – and loads of it.

We had Dario spazzing vs durrrr, Gus getting felted for 200k vs. Negreanu, Mercier vs. Ivey and, of course, durrrr three-barelling Ivey.

Any one of those hands would make a great strategy snapshot. But, sadly, we had to narrow it down to the single greatest.

IMO, it’s a close race between Ivey “picking off” Mercier’s bluff and durrrr’s three-barrel.

Though the Ivey-durrrr hand might have been more exciting, I believe there’s more to talk about in the Mercier-Ivey hand.

The durrrr hand was just a sick three-barrel in a three-bet pot. Of course, had Ivey called like he was contemplating with his pair of sixes, we would really have something to talk about.

However, I wouldn’t be able to provide much insight on fifteenth-level soul-reading so it’s a good thing he folded.

The Mercier hand, though, is very interesting and not just because he’s a PokerListings blogger.

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Snapshot: Welcome to Ivey World

It took five episodes of High Stakes Poker Season 6 to bring us an episode with some real action.

Episode five, which aired yesterday, had just that – and loads of it.

We had Dario spazzing vs durrrr, Gus getting felted for 200k vs. Negreanu, Mercier vs. Ivey and, of course, durrrr three-barelling Ivey.

Any one of those hands would make a great strategy snapshot. But, sadly, we had to narrow it down to the single greatest.

IMO, it’s a close race between Ivey “picking off” Mercier’s bluff and durrrr’s three-barrel.

Though the Ivey-durrrr hand might have been more exciting, I believe there’s more to talk about in the Mercier-Ivey hand.

The durrrr hand was just a sick three-barrel in a three-bet pot. Of course, had Ivey called like he was contemplating with his pair of sixes, we would really have something to talk about.

However, I wouldn’t be able to provide much insight on fifteenth-level soul-reading so it’s a good thing he folded.

The Mercier hand, though, is very interesting and not just because he’s a PokerListings blogger.

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Snapshot: Ivey Goes Vegetarian

Though there were basically no big hands of note on Episode 4 of GSN’s High Stakes Poker last night, there was at least one interesting twist.

After some haggling, Tom Dwan bet Phil Ivey $1 million that he couldn’t go vegetarian for an entire year.

Now chances are this bet doesn’t go an entire year, either one side or the other will buy out before the year is up. But it got me to thinking what would your price be?

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High Stakes Poker Snapshot: Ivey Goes Vegetarian

Though there were basically no big hands of note on Episode Four of GSN’s High Stakes Poker there was at least one interesting twist.

After some haggling Tom Dwan bet Phil Ivey $1 million that he couldn’t go vegetarian for an entire year.

Now chances are this bet doesn’t go an entire year, either one side or the other will buy out before the year is up but it got me to thinking what would your price be?

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Snapshot: Hoivold Sent Packing

Last night two relevant television programs aired. The first was Canada losing to the USA in preliminary Olympic hockey. The second was Episode 2 of High Stakes Poker Season 6.

The first one is too painful to talk about so let’s cut straight to the second.

We’ve now had two episodes to see how cutting AJ Benza from the booth and adding Kara Scott on the floor has worked out.

I think I can now officially say I miss AJ Benza and that somehow, despite knowing very little about poker, he made the show better.

He and Gabe Kaplan were like to friends watching tv, ribbing each other. It was entertaining.

Without AJ, it’s just Kaplan rambling to himself. And when the action’s slow, there are very noticeable, long silences.

And there were plenty of long silences in last night’s show. Episode two had to be one of the most boring in recent memory.

On the bright side, it did bring us a couple interesting hands. The hand under the microscope this week sees Andreas Hoivold sent to the exit.

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