WSOP: $10000 Heads-Up World Championship Enters Day 2 – Cake Poker News (blog)

WSOP: $10000 Heads-Up World Championship Enters Day 2 Cake Poker News (blog) Phil Ivey takes on career $2.5 million man Kido Pham, former WPT Player of the Year Gavin Smith faces High Stakes Poker commentator Gabe Kaplan, … and more »

Poker in Vegas: You Learn From Experience – Opposing Views

Opposing Views

Poker in Vegas: You Learn From Experience Opposing Views Daniel Negreanu, Eric Siedel, Barry Greenstein, Gavin Smith, Gabe Kaplan, Phil Ivey, Vannesa Rousso and David Williams were all mixing it up at the tables. … and more »

High Stakes Snapshot: Hero Plays A Plenty

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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ROUND OF 16 THIS SUNDAY AT THE NATIONAL HEADS-UP POKER CHAMPIONSHIP – SFCPressPoint (press release)

ROUND OF 16 THIS SUNDAY AT THE NATIONAL HEADS-UP POKER CHAMPIONSHIP SFCPressPoint (press release) Also in the line-up is 1998 WSOP champion Scotty Nguyen who faces off against Welcome Back Kotter's Gabe Kaplan and 2003 WSOP champion Chris Moneymaker …

Round Of 16 At The National Heads-Up Poker Championship 5/9 – Broadway World

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It’s an all-star turnout for PokerStars.net at The Venetian – Las Vegas Sun

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It's an all-star turnout for PokerStars.net at The Venetian Las Vegas Sun … Gabe Kaplan, Phil Laak, Howard Lederer, Chris Moneymaker, Darvin Moon, Daniel Negreanu, Scotty Nguyen, Huck Seed, Jennifer Tilly and Jerry Yang. … PokerStars North American Poker Tour Venetian Event Draws 872 PlayersPoker News Daily all 69 news articles »

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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Snapshot: Hellmuth Felted

GSN’s sixth season of High Stakes Poker kicked off last night and a few things have changed since Season 5.

For one, AJ Benza was replaced by the much more attractive Kara Scott. Though it wasn’t exactly a straight-up trade, in Season 6 Gabe Kaplan finds himself alone in the booth with Kara Scott on the floor for post-hand interviews.

The new format is decent enough. There’s less pointless banter with only one play-by-play guy and you can hear the table talk better and get an overall better feel for the game.

After one episode it’s difficult to say which format is better. For some reason I found myself missing AJ Benza though I never really liked him in the past.

Either way the poker action remains the same. Episode one picks up right where the previous seasons left off with a ton of big pots straight out the gate.

The “World’s Best Poker Player” Phil Hellmuth was up to his old tricks and was involved in a few noteworthy pots.

He got it started right away with an atrocious out-of-position four-bet-fold vs Phil Ivey that was comical at very best.

He then played extremely scared and ended up saving money with the second nuts v.s Antonio Estfandiari and was clearly steaming when this hand came up.

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Poker After Dark Season 6 Opens with Announcers Playing – CarbonPoker Blog (blog)

Poker After Dark Season 6 Opens with Announcers Playing CarbonPoker Blog (blog) High Stakes Poker hosts Gabe Kaplan and Kara Scott (who was just recently named a host), Joe Sebok, Mark Gregorich, and of course Poker After Dark host Ali …

Poker After Dark Season 6 Opens with Announcers Playing – CarbonPoker Blog (blog)

Poker After Dark Season 6 Opens with Announcers Playing CarbonPoker Blog (blog) High Stakes Poker hosts Gabe Kaplan and Kara Scott (who was just recently named a host), Joe Sebok, Mark Gregorich, and of course Poker After Dark host Ali …

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