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Championship Poker at the Plaza - Final Table
On day two of this tournament, we played for a very long time, all the way from 36 players down to the final six. When we were sevenhanded, it seemed like it was never going to end. “Here comes Paris all over again,” I was thinking. In Paris, I was the chip leader with seven left and nobody, and I mean nobody, would go broke. Finally, I volunteered!
This time, though, I was able to make the final table, as Billy Baxter went out in seventh place. I started out in fifth chip position with $86,000, but I wasn't too worried about that. The blinds were still extremely small and the chips were spread pretty evenly. In fact, within the first 30 minutes, I was up near the lead.
Layne Flack was the first to go after several tough breaks in a row. Following him were Gavin Smith and Dan Alspach, which left just Ted Forrest, Freddie Deeb, and myself.
Threehanded, it was Ted's turn to run unlucky, as he just didn't have anything go his way. Now, it was between Freddie and me for the money and the title.
Freddie and I have played together a lot in cash games, but we'd never played heads up before. I was really looking forward to the match, because I believed we had very similar styles. Both of us like to play lots of hands and see lots of flops.
As play started heads up, that's exactly how things went. Very few if any pots were raised preflop, and we matched wits after the flop — each of us trying to outmaneuver the other.
The structure when we got heads up was without question the most skill-oriented TV tournament structure in history.
With the blinds at just $800-$1,600 with a $200 ante, Freddie had $342,300 to my $337,700. That's more than 200 big bets each! This wasn't going to be “raise and take it” poker, oh no. You weren't going to see both of us get all in before the flop unless we had the same hand — aces! To win this match, we'd have to do it after the flop — yum-yum.
So, with the A 7, I went ahead and limped in from the button. I find it kind of humorous when some poker commentators are so shocked when a player doesn't raise with an ace: “He's just limping in! Wow, how unorthodox.” The truth is, most of the great players will often limp in with ace-rag hands rather than raise. Why? Well, because a hand like A-6 offsuit just doesn't play well after the flop. When you hit your ace, you get action only when you're beat, and if you miss the flop and get called — well, then you are kind of in a mess, too.
So, I made the “standard” play here by limping with the A-7. From the big blind, Freddie raised the pot $7,000 more. Now, we hadn't been doing that, so I assumed that Freddie must have a pretty strong hand. With an ace and position, though, I wasn't about to let him take the pot right there, so I called.
The flop came K 6 2 and Freddie fired out $16,000, which represented close to a pot-sized bet. So, I folded like a good boy. Yeah, right! I had position and a key card, the A. Also, if Freddie had a hand like Q-Q or J-J, that king on the board may freeze him on the turn, at which time I could pick up the pot. It was too early to make my move on the flop, so I decided to wait for the turn and see what developed.
The turn was the 4 and Freddie checked, as I'd hoped he would. Now, before I continue, I have to make one thing clear: The 4 a scare card! Freddie and I both like “little cards.” That was no secret to either of us. Freddie knew I could have made a straight with 5-3, two pair with 6-4, or some other off-the-wall hand.
Now, I thought Freddie had something li
Negreanu: Poker at the Plaza
Jep, hvis man virkelig vil "inside the minds" på great poker spillere så skal man læse Negreanus artikler.
Jep, super artikel!
@ EndTwo
Negreanu skriver, at det var en TV-transmitteret turnering. Hvis dette omfatter de normale "hole card cameras" skulle det være muligt at finde ud af om Freddie havde AK på hånden hvor Negreanu bluffede.
Nogen der ved hvilken kanal, der kunne tænkes at have vist denne turnering?
Jeg har sommetider tænkt på, om Negreanu virkelig går igennem alle de ting i hovedet, når han tager sine beslutninger eller om det mere er på fornemmelser, og han så udtænker logikken bagefter. Jeg har det tilsvarende med Roy Cookes artikler.
Under alle omstændigheder godt spillet.
Kim
Jeg har den turnering derhjemme på DIVX så jeg skal gerne lige checke om Freddie havde AK eller ej. Såvidt jeg husker havde han ihvertfald en bedre hånd end Negreanu.
@KimN
Jeg tænker ofte samme tanke... Ligeledes havde jeg altid en mistanke (i gymnasiet) til at forfattere bare skrev nogle bøger, og så kunne man bagefter fortolke dem på syv forskellige niveauer, uden at forfatteren egentligt havde tænkt videre over det.
Ja det er nemt at være klog hjemme ved skrivebordet.
Er det ikke også det Sklansky forsvarer sig med, når han bliver spurgt hvor han ikke vinder de store turneringer. Han tænker simpelthen ikke hurtigt nok, når han kommer under pres ved bordet. Men han er vel en af de bedste bakspejls-spillere der findes;-)
Det der kendetegner de helt store spillere, er vel at de intuitivt kan analysere en given situation og agere derefter - situationer som vi andre dødelige skal bruge flere timer på.
@ Skanberg: det havde jeg helt glemt igen i ren spænding...
@JimNashe: det må du meget gerne... da jeg ikke selv har den...
Øv det ser ud til at jeg har slettet den engang jeg bustede min bankroll og besluttede mig for aldrig at spille poker igen (jeg slettede alle mine pokerfilm dengang, for ikke at blive fristet til at begynde at spille igen).
Men som jeg husker det har Freddie helt sikkert en bedre hånd end negreanu, og han bliver meget indebrændt over den hånd og snakker om den hele tiden resten af den tid de spiller.
Vedr. hvorvidt Negreanu spiller på ren intuition og bagefter rekonstruerer sin tankeproces, så kan man se flere gange i både denne turnering og andre hvordan han sidder og snakker højt med sig selv. Og ganske ofte er hans analyser 100% korrekte.
@ JimNashe
Ok, det var da en skam med sådan et lille raserianfald over en tabt bankroll, men tror godt jeg kan genkende det selv ;)
Men kan du evt. huske hvor du har fået fat turneringen henne? Den lyder rimeligt underholdende!
Jeg kan faktisk ikke huske hvor jeg hev den fra, men jeg kan se at man stadig kan downloade et par afsnit fra www.demonoid.com/ (søg på poker).
Det var en ret fed turnering at se på fordi de viste ekstremt mange hænder, så det var ikke bare det sædvanlige all-in race som WPT og PSI nogle gange kan være.