Lindgren vs. Antonius

by snoopy
Submitted by: snoopy on Tue, 05/06/2007 - 12:08am
 
This week’s hand of the week came from the new, and highly popular might I add, ‘Poker After Dark’ TV show.

The hand in question involved American superstar and former WPT winner, Erick Lindgren, crossing swords with one of Europe’s finest (poker and looks according to many females) in Patrik Antonius.

There hasn’t been too much action, thus resulting in both players still sitting on their starting stacks of 20k. The blinds are 100 and 200, meaning they have 100 big blinds of play.

The action folds round to Erik Lindgren on the button who makes a minimum raise to 400 with Jd 9d, Patrik Antonius smooth calls from the big blind.

The flop comes Th 4d Td.

Antonius checks, Erick bets 500.

Antonius raises to 1,400 and Erick calls.

The Turn is the 5h.

Antonius now leads out for 2,500, Erick calls.

River brings a Kh.

Antonius checks, Erick bets  (well, bluffs) 5,700…

So, what happened?...

As per usual, the hand of the week has been parading on the blonde poker forum with the forum members giving their views on the issue. Personally, I’m not too keen on Erick’s call on the Flop unless he is sure Patrick is bluffing. For me, there’s no reason why Antonius can’t have a Ten or maybe a good pocket pair, even a bigger flush draw perhaps, which could get Erick into all sorts of trouble. I just think Erick’s building an unnecessarily big pot with what is ultimately a marginal hand, a check behind to see a cheap Turn whilst also disguising the flush if he does hits would have been the move for me.

But of course, I’m a numpty and far from the multi-million winning pro that Erick is, which is possibly accentuated by revealing what Patrik had…


Yep, Patrik made an excellent call on the River with his 6c-5c, although some may claim he got lucky on the Turn to hit his bottom pair.

The question is, did Erick play his hand well, or should he have done things differently. The blondeites didn’t approve…

doubleup: “Not sure I like the river bet, I doubt that it is going to get a pair to fold. I can't help thinking that Antonius has either a very weak hand perhaps a baby flush draw or checks intending to call a reasonable bet."

MANTIS01: “I don't like Lindgren's bet on the flop. He persists with his slowly-slowly-catchy-monkey strategy by juicing the pot...but what sort of hand can he have that stands a re-raise with such a non-committing bet? Antonius quickly pounces on the situation.”

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Oh, and before you go, why not watch the hand in question yourself by clicking the youtube link below? Quite an entertaining hand, if only for the post-hand needling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg78-gEECfw