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This is a painful hand, and shows how dangerous aces are against middle and low pairs. We’ll be looking at the hand from sifoka’s perspective, he is dealt . Pre-flop:

RAISE acousticmann to $2
RAISE sifoka to $6
CALL acousticmann $4

You’ve got what you wanted. A raise in front of you, a hefty re-raise and a call. Not bad, decent action in a $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold’em game, even at Full Tilt.

Anyway, the flop rolls off, and it’s a good one. Flush draw that may have hit something, and some dangerous straight-are middle cards too:

Our man sifoka bets right into it, the right play — and is probably quite happy to see a re-raise. He shoves it in (again, the right play), and sees the bad news: a set.

BET sifoka $8
RAISE acousticmann to $20
ALL-IN sifoka $43.25
CALL acousticmann $23.25

Auch:

sifoka shows
acousticmann shows

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Board [ ]

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Seat 1 acousticmann showed [ ] and won ($95.75) with a full house Eights full of Sevens

Painful. Source, right here!

I can see people berating Phil Hellmuth’s play in this hand, but I’m quite sure he played it correctly. Not only is Bob Safai not the most solid player in the game, he also would have made the exact same play with any set or even two pair…

The “call” wasn’t what Phil wanted to hear though — mild cold deck.

I love this guy — he talks about High Stakes Poker, but also about ‘playing the players’ and what playing solid means to a poker pro like Sammy Farha. Sammy is a high-action player, but he’s also a great sport. Excellent interview, he shows he knows what he’s doing here!

You the man, Sammy!

This is televised cash game poker from Sweden, Scandinavia. Some top players are on the table including Tobbe Persson, Ilari Sahamies, Patrick Antonius, Tony G. & Per Hildebrand. When Ilari hits bottom two pair on the flop (3/5) and both Per and Patrick hit top pair — we can see the aggressiveness of Patrick Antonius, re-raising with the top pair and a small kicker in this situation.

Now, if this were me, I might have done the same — it’s not a bad feeler-raise, and it would get anyone out that is on anything but a better hand than he is. That’s where I feel Patrick went wrong in this hand. The Youtube commenters seem to agree he had to move in, but I can’t see why? Even against the nut flush draw he’d be an underdog, and there’s a good chance he’s a huge dog against any 8 with a kicker, or two pair/set.

Still, once the cards were flipped over Patrick had a good amount of outs — they didn’t come, though. Show looks like great fun, too bad it’s Swedish.

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