The Moon line was even funnier bc his wife hears and replies something along the lines of YEA thats the kinda player he is he gets lucky. Or something. HAHAHAHA oh god.
As for the Ivey Cada A8 44 hand, Im kinda in the same boat as Windbreaker. While I don't agree with Schulman's take of him being a sick puppy by calling, i don't think it's as easy of a call as you guys think. I think the call represented over 1/3 of Ivey's Chips and would've left him with 9 Million or something. And with a hand as bad as A8 your gunna be dominated mostly, and flipping vs two paint cards or smaller pairs the rest of the time. The odds are tempting, but it's not quite 2:1 and this isn't a cash game. I think its a lot closer than people are giving it credit for.
On the subject of Schulman, I dont think his strategy was that bad. Play tight and let the idiots donk themselves out, hopefully picking up a pot or two along the way, then open up when it gets 5 or 6 handed. If he wins his 80/20 race vs Cada we would've gotten to see if that indeed would've been the case (opening up and going for the win now)
As far as Buchman's AQ play we didn't see the whole hand (dunno why???) but I believe it's in a different boat than the Moon/Begs hand, bc there were multiple raises. Like when Begs opens for 1.5 and Moon shoves 22 Mill in the middle like wtf? Does he ever have AA or KK here? I think not. In the Buchman hand he was bluffing by representing a bigger hand hoping to get JJ to fold or something and since it was multiple raises it actually could make sense.
Overall though I have played with Buchman a few times in AC and also watched him play pretty closely in the last 2-3 tables of the 2007 Harrah's WSOP Circuit Event that he finished 2nd in (the same once that Adrian final tabled hence why I was watching so close). His play never really impressed me too much and he seemed to overvalue hands in some spots and bet strange amounts in others. He has a good tournament resume so I can't knock the guy, but thats just my opinions on what I saw from him.
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