The Irish Open Thread

[George2Loose]

Think CL has flatted with aces or kings here

[millidonk]

Just had a look at that WSOP Warrior they were talking about. seems pretty doable.

[George2Loose]

Yeh tis a good way of qualifying for Vegas

[JK]

Cos just got mentioned on the stream. Says Eddie is one of the top 5 hes ever played against. Eddie then goes on to tank call vs quads XD

[George2Loose]

Nice BOK Cos.

eames called river bet on a K10JJQ board. Guy had quad jacks.

Then jammed 15 bigs BoB with KQ. BB had AJ. Board AQ32A

[GreekStein]

Nice BOK Cos.

eames called river bet on a K10JJQ board. Guy had quad jacks.

Then jammed 15 bigs BoB with KQ. BB had AJ. Board AQ32A

sure was a bok. i sent that message yesterday and it was mentioned then too.

gg eames ul

[smashedagain]

Nice BOK Cos.

eames called river bet on a K10JJQ board. Guy had quad jacks.

Then jammed 15 bigs BoB with KQ. BB had AJ. Board AQ32A

sure was a bok. i sent that message yesterday and it was mentioned then too.

gg eames ul

so now you are trying to take credit for johns deep run. pppfffffffff

[SuuPRlim]

bullshit

[NoflopsHomer]

I usually don't get too critical of tournament reporting but I have been very unimpressed with the Paddy Power Blog over the tournament, reports are few and far between, there are no graphics for cards and sometimes the suits are missing (which is always a pet peeve of mine). Also, look at the way they report Eames losing to quads.

John Eames was just taken to value town by Aleksi Savela. John Eames makes it 90k to get the action started and Aleksi Savela makes it 290k from the blinds. Eames calls and we see a flop of K-J-T.

Savela leads out for 155k and this is quickly called by Eames.

The turn is the and action goes check-check.

We see the on the river and Aleksi leads out for 425k, just under half of Eames stack. Eames calls but mucks immediately when he sees the superbly played JJ of Aleksi

Chips: 3.1m Aleksi, Eames: 600k

1) Pretty sure Valuetown is one word in this context. (I know, not that important and I'm being pedantic)
2) How can you play quads superbly on a 4-straight paired board when your opponent has a very strong narrow range? Surely checking turn is bad here as Eames' range is things like A-Q+, T-T+ which he can't be folding at this point. Obv John has moves but he's not spazzing around 8-handed on a big final table here.

On the plus side, Jesse May is great as ever on the live stream.

[easypickings]

The reason that they say "superbly" is that anyone who doesn't understand poker thinks that any line involving some element of slow play is the most sublimely talented thing you can do.

And yes, value town is used completely out of context. You do not take someone to value town by value betting quads against what must be at least a straight (I think probably tens full for Eddie?), you take someone to value town by betting three streets with KT on JT3J4, for example.

It's a wonderful tournament, one of the best, and a great atmosphere, but there are always a few comical misunderstandings. The assumption that bringing the news on the bubble that the bubble finisher would get a 2011 package (and therefore effectively that there was no bubble), would be well recieved by everyone, is pretty funny; I imagine there were a few angry big stacks at that point.

[SuuPRlim]

I thought he had TT during the mad tank at the end, but during the turn I thought he maybe had Aces?!?!

[easypickings]

Yeah, it seems unlikely on the river he had an ace, as AK he would risk all his points pre , he can't have AJ as there are only four jacks in most decks, and AQ he probably (though possbily not) back raises vs the kid on the flop.

If he had tens full, he succesfully avoided ValueTown.

[redarmi]

Apparently he said he had KQ whih if true is a fairly surprising call but makes sense for his line on other streets.

[easypickings]

I guess his big problem is trying to pick up how much the Finnish guy, if he himself has little SDV,  will pick up on and use the fact that it's tough for Eddie to have an ace. But it seems an unlikely bluff line in a live tourney, don't know how much of a sicko the Finnish guy was.

[redarmi]

Love that bluff from Surinder!!!!