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« Reply #75 on: June 28, 2006, 01:25:53 PM »

Last hand of the night on last night's show

Greenstein and Farha have $190,000 each in front of them, both are comfortable winners over the night

Greenstein raises to $2,500 UTG with AA blinds being $300-600

Farha reraises to $10,000 in MP with KK

Greenstein re-reraises to $50,000

Farha goes into the tank, he senses he is is beat...it looks as if he is going to make the laydown...the other players are milling around, wanting to go home but sensing the impending car-crash

Farha, suddenly, as if ultimately deciding on instinct, pushes all in to be met with an instant call

a $380,000 pot...

Farha offers to run it twice, Greenstein declines

the K comes on the flop

Greenstein takes it like a man, pure class

Farha is the epitome of cooooooooooool!
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« Reply #76 on: June 28, 2006, 01:34:07 PM »

didn't the flop come down before he offered to run it twice?
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« Reply #77 on: June 28, 2006, 01:36:12 PM »

didn't the flop come down before he offered to run it twice?

didn't he offer it before and on the flop? very sporting.
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« Reply #78 on: June 28, 2006, 01:51:27 PM »

  run it twice? 
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« Reply #79 on: June 28, 2006, 01:54:04 PM »

as a form of insurance, participants agree to run two flops and split the pot according to the results of both
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« Reply #80 on: June 28, 2006, 02:03:06 PM »

as a form of insurance, participants agree to run two flops and split the pot according to the results of both

Ah, cheers.
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« Reply #81 on: June 28, 2006, 02:11:17 PM »

I'm pretty sure that you run it twice post flop not pre flop. I thought I heard BG muttering something about how he wanted to run it twice with the nuts.

All the calcs in this thread (after a quick glance) seem to be for the last two cards.

http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-forum/index.php?showtopic=54819
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« Reply #82 on: June 28, 2006, 02:12:45 PM »

Why would the underdog, Farah in this case, want to run his kings against aces twice, and why would Greenstien refuse?
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« Reply #83 on: June 28, 2006, 02:52:53 PM »

Farha asked to run it twice once the cards are on their back pre-flop with all the cash in the middle.

Greenstein declines.

Then the flop comes K-high, and Farha again offers Greenstein the chance to run it twice.

Greenstein declines again.

So Farha asked to run it twice when he was miles behind, and Greenstein refused. Then having hit his miracle flop, Farha offers Greenstein a possible get out which is also declined.

The two players were ice cool throughout.

Fantastic TV, and to me, much more compelling than a bunch of idiots pumping fists and whooping and hollering when they catch their card.
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« Reply #84 on: June 28, 2006, 02:59:39 PM »

Why would the underdog, Farah in this case, want to run his kings against aces twice, and why would Greenstien refuse?

They run it twice for half the pot at a time.

running it twice would give farha 10 cards to hit a k and get his money back. Greenstein would be less likely to be outdrawn twice (especially as being outdrawn once would lower the chance of it happening again).
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« Reply #85 on: June 28, 2006, 03:04:03 PM »

He plays them like he would play inexperienced amateurs, betting small on each pot and hoping to win there and then

Strangely they have picked up on this and raise him mercilessly...

I'm sure I recall a quote from a tournament where Phil Ivey is pounding Hellmuth and Hellmuth complains saying something along the lines

'Every time I raise, he reraises!'

and one of the old timers says

'That's cos you keep folding son.'
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« Reply #86 on: June 28, 2006, 03:09:13 PM »

Its just a class show!

Season 2 Episode 4 just came out for those wanting such things.
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« Reply #87 on: June 28, 2006, 03:13:05 PM »

He plays them like he would play inexperienced amateurs, betting small on each pot and hoping to win there and then

Strangely they have picked up on this and raise him mercilessly...

I'm sure I recall a quote from a tournament where Phil Ivey is pounding Hellmuth and Hellmuth complains saying something along the lines

'Every time I raise, he reraises!'

and one of the old timers says

'That's cos you keep folding son.'

yes...on the WPT that was...I was nearly pissing myself as I thought the same thing when watching it.
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« Reply #88 on: June 28, 2006, 03:17:54 PM »

He plays them like he would play inexperienced amateurs, betting small on each pot and hoping to win there and then

Strangely they have picked up on this and raise him mercilessly...

I'm sure I recall a quote from a tournament where Phil Ivey is pounding Hellmuth and Hellmuth complains saying something along the lines

'Every time I raise, he reraises!'

and one of the old timers says

'That's cos you keep folding son.'

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=3862.msg89819#msg89819
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« Reply #89 on: June 28, 2006, 03:20:17 PM »

I think it's good for the game aswell.

It has the characters/top pros that people want to see, the amateurs (or whoever else they want to bring in (would anyone fancy a chance at winning a seat on the net with $100k to sit down with?) to cheer on, watch them lose etc and class play without the blinds rising so fast it becomes a luck fest. Could this be a big part of the future of TV poker?
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