WSOP Main Event Hand That Still Bothers Me.

[gatso]

Should have raided the official WSOP shop beforehand, so you are now head to toe in official WSOP attire. Possibly rounded off with a ridic hat, that you hope might get on the opening credits of ESPN's coverage.

that reminds me longy, this is the hand we discussed on friday night and I believe that you're now sitting in the bar with flushy and trigg having been stacked

[The Camel]

Should have raided the official WSOP shop beforehand, so you are now head to toe in official WSOP attire. Possibly rounded off with a ridic hat, that you hope might get on the opening credits of ESPN's coverage.

Should have got a white cap and got celeb poker players like Flushy, Channing and Devilfish to sign it.

[action man]

keith has a few redic caps ive seen on occasion

[Numpty Dumpty]

so...

In the only tournament where anyone half decent would fold KK preflop (ok, not quite true) you got dealt AA, had already pre-decided to play it the way an uber-awful player would play it, acted like a uber-awful player at the same time to make it look more like AA, and got your opponent to open fold KK, taking the minimum possible.

I really respect your game keith, but not sure I understand the reasoning behind this one. Surely to anyone without any pre-knowledge of your game it is a relatively simple sigh-fold everytime?

[titaniumbean]

then maybe act as though you're not happy with the amount and start throwing more chips into the middle one at a time

Do this, it'd be amazing. 


And yeah as Numpty says surely this would be a better pre planned bluff than a good way to play AA?!

[The Camel]

so...

In the only tournament where anyone half decent would fold KK preflop (ok, not quite true) you got dealt AA, had already pre-decided to play it the way an uber-awful player would play it, acted like a uber-awful player at the same time to make it look more like AA, and got your opponent to open fold KK, taking the minimum possible.

I really respect your game keith, but not sure I understand the reasoning behind this one. Surely to anyone without any pre-knowledge of your game it is a relatively simple sigh-fold everytime?

I think a fair percentage of terribad players play a huge range of hands badly in the wsop. I've seen players stack in level 1 with TT pre, go totally crazy with AK, putting six or seven bets in. I've seen plenty go broke with aces after the flop when there is peanuts in the pot. Really I've seen totally ridiculous things like you would never believe.

In this specific case, if I make it, say, 1300 to play, I probably get one caller, maybe two (as it turns out definitely 2, the other limper had TT).

So, I'm playing AA OOP against two unknowns (well, unknown except the first limper is a member of Team Pokerstars online and can presumably play to a high level). This does not seem a particularly nice spot. If everything goes perfectly I might make 6k in this pot.

So, instead, I decide to make a wacky play, which could, just maybe, get someone to stack off. I figure at least 25% of players would stack off with KK there. And some would with QQ too.

I told this hand over dinner in Edinburgh, and again 2 from 7 would have stacked off.

I don't know if it's a good play, but I certainly don't think it's terrible.

[action man]

i think the main flaw in the plan was not recognising his worldwide status as the mfkin camel

[GreekStein]

i think the main flaw in the plan was not recognising his worldwide status as the mfkin camel

mfkin Camel!

[titaniumbean]

It can't be terrible putting tonnes in pre with Aces tis better than open folding!

Would a better play not be a big chip/small chip style raise where instead of 3x100 it's 1x100 2x1000 ?  

[The Camel]

i think the main flaw in the plan was not recognising his worldwide status as the mfkin camel

LOLZ.

I was playing in the $10k heads up at the WSOP.

My opponent in the first round was Tom "KingofCards" Marchese.

There were 256 games in the first round and we were one of the last three still going on after nearly 3 hours.

Someone walked past the table and said "C'mon Camel, finish him off"

he looked a bit shocked and asked, "Are you the Camel on Pokerstars?"

I shrugged and said "Yeah"

He looked at his mate who was railing him and said "how fcking bad do I run? I think I've drawn some random old guy and actually I am playing the fcking Camel".

He won of course.

[GreekStein]

i think the main flaw in the plan was not recognising his worldwide status as the mfkin camel

LOLZ.

I was playing in the $10k heads up at the WSOP.

My opponent in the first round was Tom "KingofCards" Marchese.

There were 256 games in the first round and we were one of the last three still going on after nearly 3 hours.

Someone walked past the table and said "C'mon Camel, finish him off"

he looked a bit shocked and asked, "Are you the Camel on Pokerstars?"

I shrugged and said "Yeah"

He looked at his mate who was railing him and said "how fcking bad do I run? I think I've drawn some random old guy and actually I am playing the fcking Camel".

He won of course.

Pretty massive compliment. Marchese is abs sick

[titaniumbean]

i think the main flaw in the plan was not recognising his worldwide status as the mfkin camel

LOLZ.

I was playing in the $10k heads up at the WSOP.

My opponent in the first round was Tom "KingofCards" Marchese.

There were 256 games in the first round and we were one of the last three still going on after nearly 3 hours.

Someone walked past the table and said "C'mon Camel, finish him off"

he looked a bit shocked and asked, "Are you the Camel on Pokerstars?"

I shrugged and said "Yeah"

He looked at his mate who was railing him and said "how fcking bad do I run? I think I've drawn some random old guy and actually I am playing the fcking Camel".

He won of course.

Pretty massive compliment. Marchese is abs sick

sick brag.
 
 

[The Camel]

i think the main flaw in the plan was not recognising his worldwide status as the mfkin camel

LOLZ.

I was playing in the $10k heads up at the WSOP.

My opponent in the first round was Tom "KingofCards" Marchese.

There were 256 games in the first round and we were one of the last three still going on after nearly 3 hours.

Someone walked past the table and said "C'mon Camel, finish him off"

he looked a bit shocked and asked, "Are you the Camel on Pokerstars?"

I shrugged and said "Yeah"

He looked at his mate who was railing him and said "how fcking bad do I run? I think I've drawn some random old guy and actually I am playing the fcking Camel".

He won of course.

Pretty massive compliment. Marchese is abs sick

He used to play HU SNG's. My record against him was really good. That was before he was famous.

My record against gboro is even better!

[The Camel]

i think the main flaw in the plan was not recognising his worldwide status as the mfkin camel

LOLZ.

I was playing in the $10k heads up at the WSOP.

My opponent in the first round was Tom "KingofCards" Marchese.

There were 256 games in the first round and we were one of the last three still going on after nearly 3 hours.

Someone walked past the table and said "C'mon Camel, finish him off"

he looked a bit shocked and asked, "Are you the Camel on Pokerstars?"

I shrugged and said "Yeah"

He looked at his mate who was railing him and said "how fcking bad do I run? I think I've drawn some random old guy and actually I am playing the fcking Camel".

He won of course.

Pretty massive compliment. Marchese is abs sick

sick brag.
 
 

My sickest brag was definitely at last years WSOPE.

Teddy Sheringham came up to me and asked "Are you The Camel?"

I nodded and he said "pleased to meet you, my name is Teddy"

As if any bloke of my age didn't know who he was!!!

[titaniumbean]

i think the main flaw in the plan was not recognising his worldwide status as the mfkin camel

LOLZ.

I was playing in the $10k heads up at the WSOP.

My opponent in the first round was Tom "KingofCards" Marchese.

There were 256 games in the first round and we were one of the last three still going on after nearly 3 hours.

Someone walked past the table and said "C'mon Camel, finish him off"

he looked a bit shocked and asked, "Are you the Camel on Pokerstars?"

I shrugged and said "Yeah"

He looked at his mate who was railing him and said "how fcking bad do I run? I think I've drawn some random old guy and actually I am playing the fcking Camel".

He won of course.

Pretty massive compliment. Marchese is abs sick

sick brag.
 
 

My sickest brag was definitely at last years WSOPE.

Teddy Sheringham came up to me and asked "Are you The Camel?"

I nodded and he said "pleased to meet you, my name is Teddy"

As if any bloke of my age didn't know who he was!!!

That's awesome!!!