You are wrong, you dont want to see a flop, with say AJ, miss flop, then have to fold...you want to take down the pot preflop, or get it all in preflop if on the short stack.
He said 15 times the BB is a SHORT stack, not a big stack. Everyone's definition of being short stacked is different, mine is around the same as Phil's. If the minimum buy in is 20x BB, this is why its the MINIMUM, you wouldn't be wise to buy in with the minimum, you will get blinded out and be forced to play as if you are short stacked fairly quickly into sitting at the table.
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When the fourth club comes up, devilfish said "i have to 5 of clubs, is that good?" trying to pysch out hellmuth. on the river, the 5 of clubs comes up so everyone knows devilfish was lying.
He is hilarious. First he says "I'm not tricky enough to play Q10 this good am I?" indicating that playing that hand would be top quality poker. Then the other guy shows Q10, and suddenly Phil acts like it's not top quality playing but donkey playing instead, just because he loses.
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Phil is one of my favourites players, but he always looks like a retard when he starts laughing.
Annie Duke's voice is not only annoying, but her commentary on this hand was way off. Phil's hand was NOT "well dominated" by Devilfish. Unless one of them made a flush, odds were that it would end up a split pot. I think Annie just loves hearing herself talk, even if she has no clue what she is saying.
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Phil was right, the kid exited at 201.
He is hilarious. First he says "I'm not tricky enough to play Q10 this good am I?" indicating that playing that hand would be top quality poker. Then the other guy shows Q10, and suddenly Phil acts like it's not top quality playing but donkey playing instead, just because he loses.
bloody yanks! Hellmuth needs to learn to control his temper he ain't as good as he thinks any avreage joe can win you can't always be lucky & he has said that himself
The Kid out-played Helmuth.
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Can you just imagine if phil had the A10 suited.
AA to AK, AA to A7.... KK to KQ... are worse beats than overpairs to underpairs.
93%-7% in mathematical odds
53%-47% in party poker odds
I give u respect hellmuth for winning wsop 11 times, but when u talk about being the best and tlaking yourself up it gets old, u would hqave more respect from everyone if u just did your thing and didnt talk like u no everything.
11 bracelets, most of them when tourneys were 100 people.
Dude is a social misfit.
He's not a bad beat magnet at all, it happens to everybody. He just cries the loudest and acts the most immature when it happens.