Stu Rutter WSOP package, May 28th 2024, @1.04

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$3,000 No limit holdem

Getting to Horseshoe to buy in for start of day two $3k No Limit holdem.

Quite surprised that reg is open for two levels yet, til 215pm, as its 20 bigs (40k at 1k-2k) to start day two.

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$3,000 No Limit Holdem

Up to 43,500 at 1k-2k

Table looks good, although there are a few nasty ones around the room

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$3,000 No Limit holdem

Sigh, gone in the simple day two fashion

41,800 at 2kBB, I have button.

Hijack, who is a French guy I don't recognise, opens to 4k. Standard ship. Snapped.

He has

We get the rubdown of hope runout....

for the flushdraw and gutshot

But no good on

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Schedule

Will enter the $1,500 No Limit Deuce to Seven sometime in the first level, which starts at 2pm

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$1,500 No Limit deuce to seven

Into the 1.5k Deuce to Seven  

Level 2 is 100-200(300). The only game with the peculiarity that you must raise coming in.

Table (7 handed) seems unlucky given what is possible in this tournament (more to follow on that).

Owais Shah and Ryan Reiss. Very much presume that Ryan Reiss is your typical top no limit guy who, far from an expert, has converted across well enough to use his poker, and specifically tournament skills, to be pretty good.

24,600 at 100-200(300). 188 entrants currently, so I think the projection would be 320

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$1,500 No Limit deuce to seven

Right, table better than initially suspected.

There's not many tournaments  where it's possible that a clarification of the rules is required.

It came up on the hand most likely to create that debate, which is specifically

A2345

Three said 'straight.' Its not, its ace high (and , if it came to it, would beat all other ace highs)

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$1,500 No Limit deuce to seven

Hmm

UTG raises to 800 at BB300. SB call

We have (KQ)732 in the BB.

Two draws always carry danger, but this is an easy call, with such pure potential.

Whiff, with KT732

But now, check, check, and..

1.6k into 2.9k with what seemed like a shaky hand, and...

A very quick call from the reg-looking guy in the small blind.

The bet being more likely bluffy was the more standard read,  and the quickness of the call, given he looked reggy, seems to hold real significance. It felt like the whole 'I have a bluff catcher and really want to call, but want to feign confidence, so that the third player (me) folds a potentially better bluff catcher.'

If I had, say, a good Jack, I think I would be very happily calling, and expecting/hoping, a bunch of the time, to see a pair from the 1-draw, and a worse Jack, or Queen from the 2-draw

Obviously, the problem with my hand is that I must raise to win it. I think its not quite there. It needs

1) Enough confidence in in the read, and

2) Obviously we know that the small blind has a bluff catcher (at least), and so would have a bluff catcher again if I did raise. And he would have a bluff catcher to what is always a suspicious claim from me; any claim to have made a hand at all from a 2-draw is a fairly thin one, and so becomes exponentially thinner if it is a claim to have a strong enough hand to raise this spot for value.

Think the decision to not bluff is still right, but it makes the showdown frustrating, as it is indeed

76322 from the 1draw, vs QT842 from the 2draw

23,300

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$1,500 No Limit deuce to seven

Wow

This event is the only with epic history of people playing (and indeed winning!) without previously knowing the rules.  And we just had the most classic version. This was the exact action:

New player at the table. Limps cutoff. Rule Debate. He's forced to min raise. It's going to be a confusing hand. It becomes more confusing as I have

Pat JT943 in the big.

It already feels like we might have a big case of new-to-the-game player. I decide to call. I rap the table to pat.

Cutoff's decision on how many cards to draw.... He throws 3k into the pot. Rule debate. Doesn't stand. He's asked again how many cards he would like. He decides none.

I check. 3k goes in again.  We now get the explanation that we expected 'Sorry, its my first time playing this game.'

I go into the tank..He now randomly says '7 high.'

Wow. I think its fair to say its the most unique decision I will ever face. What makes it confusing is, that it's so incredibly unlikely to be dealt a pat 7, that Bayesian probability dictates that, even if he's likely to be reading his hand correctly, and indeed telling the truth, then it still emerges overall unlikely that he has 7-high.

Nevertheless, I decide to fold. Its still so confusing, but I guess any poker player is able to look at 5 cards and see which is the highest.

He tables his hand, asking 'Is this a good hand?' The answer is yes. He has tabled

76432

The question is, will he play this game long enough to know that being dealt a pat second nut hand or better is longer than 5000 to 1, and that, however long he plays, it's almost definitely the best pat hand he'll ever be dealt.

24,800 at the first break

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$1,500 Deuce to seven No Limit

Absolute inevitable has happened, and the new guy has the table chip lead with 60k

Luckily none from us. Relatively quiet times with 24,500

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$1,500 Deuce to seven no limit

Up to 29,700

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$1,500 Deuce to Seven no limit

Two big spots vs the new guy, but he's not folding to anything, so nothing to do when missing

22,700

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$1,500 No Limit Deuce to Seven

CO raises to 2.4k at 400-800(1200)

Have 7532 on button,  which could be a 3bet, but worth allowing new guy in. Both blinds fold, though.

I make 87532. CO bets 7k into 7.2k

It's a standard call. He value bets either some, or a fair bit, worse, depending on his style.

No good. He has 86543.

17,800

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$1,500 Deuce to Seven no limit

20,200 at 400-800(1200)

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$1,500 Deuce to Seven no limit

New guy departs, but, sadly, its Reiss that got almost all of them

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$1,500 Deuce to Seven no limit

OUT

Re-entering.

Down to 19,500 at 500-1000(1500), have

(A)7652 as cutoff

Hijack opens to 3k, standard ship

He calls, and draws one. One for me

His 8542  vs my 7652

(I don't think he should call, albeit it is very close. Part of the reason why it's definitely not too bad is that, if he doesnt find me pat and with premium draw, the equity advantage is a very small one)

On their backs.

He makes J8542

That makes it almost exactly 50/50

But it's a Queen, for Q7652

Back into level 8, 500-1000(1500)