Anyone watching WSOP?????

[supercow3250]

its getting intense. Too bad i already know who wins though. That ruins the point. Anyone wanna talk with me? Please? Bythe way, who in their right mind would go all in with queen 7? Joe Hachem thats who!

[eddo31]

i just finished watching it, and it was pretty good stuff.

there was some pretty good poker being played. i was impressed with some of the players, particularly because many of them were unknowns. not that they arent great players, or that every known player is a good one, but i thought that the level of play was pretty good.

i dont think that knowingthe winner actually changed anything for me. it takes away some suspense, but i wasnt really watching it for that anyways. i wanted to see some good poker, and i got that.

what an awesome payday for those guys. of course, i would be pretty disappointed if i won "only" $1-$1.5 million, when there was so much more money out there for the top spots.

how about dannemann's backer? what a day for him. obviously he took a serious risk with the $5k backing, but that paid of very nicely in the end, and all he had to do was watch.

[EaglesPlaya]

Nice show, even though ESPN hoped Matusow would have gotten further. lol.

[thrash1294]

now every one of the newbies will play 7-3

[Ivey67]

There is no way danneman could of thought Hatchem floped a straight. I think he did the right think going all in he had a straight draw and then he flops a pair of aces. He played well and enjoyed watching him play. He just went out there and played and enjoyed it. He wasn't worried on how far he was going to make it.

[Zybomb]

I might be a "safer" HU player than most -- but I personally would of smooth called, or if I raised and he pushed, Id give serious consideration to laying the hand down

PS: It sucks that we couldnt see more HU action, the past two years have been a few hands, I loved the Moneymaker/Farha HU

[Reel Deal]

Exactly what I thought... how priceless that he wins the final hand and over $7M with 73o?!?!! This ought to fuel the donkeys to play rags like that over and over!! Thank you Hatchem!!

[supercow3250]

YEah i agree with all of u. 7 3 offsuit everyone will play now. I mean i would if it won me 7 million dollars!!!!! but that doesn't mean that it is good

[BDMK]

HU, preflop, any two cards are 'good'... (for much more detailed, great analysis on this see harrington on holdem, vol 2, the headsup chapter....and while ur at it, read the rest of vol 2 and get vol 1 as well. ull thank urself later!)

anywho, all that being said, and im not in any way, shape or form pretending to be 'all that', but i would have also "just" called if i were danneman, instead of going allin on a draw heads up, trailing some 2.5-1 in stack ratio.

there would have been another opportunity down the road. HU postflop most made hands are already monsters. (hachem's of course was an unbeatable super-duper-monster).

conversely, draws, even OE straights (or 4-flushes), are deadly if needlessly overplayed/overbet unless of course one is on their last few chips, which danneman wasnt at that point.

again, as always, just my two cents.