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This week: Bart talks with BalugaWhale about the ins and outs of the well renowned hand between Barry Greenstein, Tom Dwan, and Peter Eastgate in a recent episode of High Stakes Poker.

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[edit] I am the new Entity. Ha.

Bart, the hand you opened talking about was def spewy imo - I know you know, but just the way you described the opponent, and the fact that it was multi-way and a dry board, I don't think there's even an argument for trying to get value on the river w/ a min-raise. He's never leading the river w/ worse than a T, and you're def in a way ahead way behind spot where the only hand you can hope to get value from with a raise is worse 3's, which isn't often enough imo, esp because he most likely isn't calling the flop w/ bottom PR.

What do you think..?

Also, Baluga kept referring to wanting to have the absolute nuts when playing deep, and that having the T blocker makes it very hard for someone to have the nuts on a T22 board, but uh.. The nuts would be 22, and Eastgate had the case 2 blocker, so maybe Eastgate should have level 65'd Durrr by turning his trips into a bluff, bluffing him off his representing TT


Heh - anyway, another great episode, looking forward to part 2.

Also, I've been happy to learn lately that there are so many solid poker players in the NH/MA area. Didn't realize Baluga was attending Dartmouth - very cool.

You really got my curious about that Aussie Million hand, was SB thinking to fold AA/KK there? Is there an analysis of this hand somewhere in one poker forums?

heres the hand that theyre discussing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SKwhb_nJVQ

"2fouroffsuit is getting damn near, the worst possible hand you can play"

Awwww wtf?!

Excellent show as usual!

Excellent discussion, but i felt that you repeated yourself a little and so the one hand of High Stakes Poker ended up taking what 50 minutes of air time? I think, however interesting the hand may be, that was too much

Bart, the hand you opened talking about was def spewy imo - I know you know, but just the way you described the opponent, and the fact that it was multi-way and a dry board, I don't think there's even an argument for trying to get value on the river w/ a min-raise. He's never leading the river w/ worse than a T, and you're def in a way ahead way behind spot where the only hand you can hope to get value from with a raise is worse 3's, which isn't often enough imo, esp because he most likely isn't calling the flop w/ bottom PR.

To answer dj_mercury's question I'm fairly certain that there is no analysis of this hand anywhere because Rho never showed what he mucked. I've put in an email to my director asking him if I can reveal Rho's hand before the broadcast. Hopefully we can start a discussion and I'll xpost over in HS MTT on 2+2.

Bart

What do you think..?

I've never been good with figuring out combos so fix my math here if I'm incorrect. There are 9 combos of T7 and 6 combos of sets of 7s or ts. Because the board was rainbow there are only two combos of T7 suited. I think that there is a strong chance that he would take a line like this with top two. Is the raise spewy? I think the answer to that depends on if he plays T7os. If yes, T7 definitely can make up a significant portion of his range. If no, he is 3 times more likely to show up with a set in this spot.

The Aussie Millions hand I talked about is here:

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2009-aussie-millions/event-9/day5/page8.htm

To answer Dj_Mercury's question there hasn't been any analysis of this hand because Rho never showed what he mucked. I've put in an email to my director asking him if I can reveal what Rho held before the broadcast. If he gives me the ok I'll post it here and start a xpost discussion over on HS MTT on 2+2.

Bart

Thanks for the answer, guess we will have to wait for the Main Event TV broadcast if you won't be allowed to reveal the hand Rho mucked. Btw in the DC high stakes NL forum there is a lengthy thread about the HSP hand you dissected in this episode with Andrew-Baluga.

I have permission. I xposted this hand over in the High Stakes MTT forum on 2+2. Rho had KK, which to me, a cash game player seems unbelievable. Here's the link to the thread.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/87/high-stakes-mtt/hand-aussie-millions-2009-a-440288/