Making good reads, and catching cards

"I'm going to rebuy, I'll just pay you in Bellagio chips" ($100,000 of them)

I dunno....the other day I saw him lay down the nut flush to a weak bluff by Todd Brunson because the board was paired and he was afraid of a boat.

he explained why he layed it down...
he didn't expect todd to make that play with just jacks..
i guess daniel outthought himself

Screw all of that.

Jennifer Harman!

i couldn't believe it when i saw that but i believe it was a good laydown.

She played well and made a few nice bluffs..

harman looks pretty decent from 100 feet
but up close.. it doesn't look too good
wrinkles.

I don't really care if she looks like Yoda. She owned the table, with and without cards.

Any torrents available yet?

Pokerbay only has up to ep. 6

Harman played good but i think Antonio should've called when he had the queens and two kings were on board but he might had been playing extra cautious because he just re-bought

Please?

Didn't TB make the bet because he figured DN would think that way? Shouldn't DN have taken that into consideration? I mean he could've easiy been value betting with the Q or K high flush; I couldn't believe it when DN mucked his hand. One of the worst plays I 've seen on this show. I think he may have been playing to the camera's, trying to show the world how "great" he is at reading cards, but it backfired bigtime.

No thanks to you biotches I found it!

http://www.thepokerbay.org/details.php?id=115

I bid you good day.

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Well yeah, but Daniel figured that Todd might figure that Daniel would think that way, so Daniel thought that Todd thought Daniel was afraid of being moved off the hand, so Todd only bets with a big hand because Todd knows Daniel thinks Todd won't bluff at that pot.

How's that for overthinking?

Yes, making a bad read and folding the best hand is a really good play.

lol, i know, I was thinking the same. you can go on and on like that. still think it was a terrible laydown though. BTW, after tonights show they showed the previews for next week and it looks like DN is really gonna start kicking ***. He had a mountain of chips and in front of him!

Going with a read and saving chips for another spot in a cash game aint all that bad........

From what DN said prior in blogs the second day which is coming up in future episodes soon is when the beat down for him starts again to the tune of like 500k.

When you are supposedly one of the best in the world, I dont think you should be giving pots away like that. JUST SAYIN.

i would raise on the flop to see where i was. if she called, i am more or less done with the hand.

however, this is play that i have not really seen during the show so i wonder if at these stakes it isn't as viable.

Does anybody know where one can get a recap of the hands from High Stakes Poker?

Matusow made a few brutal calls last night and I wanted to confirm the pot values, cards, etc.

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Etaipo's is the best... but since he will be gone for 2 weeks, PokerBay is the best bet.



DN is not an android that makes perfect plays all of the time... he put Todd on a hand and went with his read... If Todd would have made the full house and DN layed the nut flush down, then people would be saying what a genius laydown and not the other way around. I guess its a fine line between being a genius and a goof...

I am eager to see Brad Booth's game next week.

i was trying to figure out who the hell that was.

this was a really good episode. daniel and jen definitely ripped the table a new one.

but my opinion of esfandiari gets higher and higher as hsp progresses.

Esfandiari is definetly playing great in the episodes, aside from Harman's pocket queens which busted him. On his website, he even has a quote that's stuck with me. "I play pocket jacks the same way I play pocket threes."

One thing I've never understood (possibly because I don't play NL cash games too often) is why the players have chips to bet with, and in addition to that, they have actual cash to bet with. Wouldn't it be easier just to have all chips? Does the cash have a psychological effect when it's bet in the place of chips? (i.e. Negreanu's bricks from Season 1 of High Stakes) An explanation of that would be appreciated.

Now it is official Matusow is the biggest DONKEY ever!!

LOL

He called off $40,000 witha pair. WOW.

How stupid can you be.


I think Jennifer was the best player the last episode, and I think Antonio is way, way overrated. He lost his entire stack last season and lost it again this season.

Antonio had a ton of bad beats last year - Daniel's suckout vs his jacks

i think he had aces three times and lost twice and chopped once

he overplayed the 8s but it happens he's been solid

or at least he was until he got busted and came back and played like a p- ussy and started whining about how he wanted to work in a furniture store

I think that's mostly because it looks cool on tv.



Right, but it is easy to make such judgements from TV. I'm pretty sure, Esfandiari lost a significant portion of his bankroll on this show (I believe in the beginning he said, that he has never played that high) - and mostly by getting sucked out on - that has to impact your game.

Hi..

I searched the other topics but didn't find the information.


I was wondering, do anyone knows how much every players buy-in and how much they earned (or loose) so far?

(same question for the entire season 1)

thanks a lot

who are those people in Matusow's entourage? gf?

I thought I saw that Cardplayer guy... Rich Belsky there during the episode where DN grills Matusow about having no money.

The episode tonight was great! Some good pots, a bust out, and some good table talk.

It really is a wonderful show, the best poker on tv IMO, but they really need to get off of such a low run channel. They spend half of the hour paying the bills!! Drove me nuts lastnight!

Mike must have been terribly embarrassed after having busted out after they gave him 4K to stay. I felt a little bad... He's like a big stuffed, toy donkey, ya can't help it.

Loving this show, both seasons. Daniel summed it up the best as Mike was leaving (paraphrasing). "He plays good, good, good, then WHAM. He loses focus and that's it".

It was pretty cold hearted of the players to pay Mike to stay, knowing he was tired and would give it all back, but it's also very smart. It's Mike's job to exercise good judgement, their job to exploit the lack thereof.

Daniel's been great in these shows. He took some brutal beats last season, but still battled back to about even (after being stuck $740k). This season he's up over $140k after the first day if I'm not mistaken. Not too shabby.

His nutflush laydown against Todd Brunson's bluff wasn't his finest hand reading moment, but I have to remind everyone that he got all of Todd's chips a few hands later anyway. Instead of putting all his chips in when he could have been dead, he got them in a few hands later with the best hand. Daniel has the sense not to pay off a better hand and trust his instincts. How many of us can say that? :-)

As far as Antonio's game, I have to agree with those that have been very impressed. For the most part he's shown great judgement and reading ability. Like Daniel, he took a TON of bad beats last season, and more this season. Jen Harman has his number though, and she's in his head. That made him lay down those queens instead of raising. He'll need to take down a big pot against her to get his confidence back.

I'm having a blast watching Sammy Farha play every hand regardless of cards/position and do well with it (albeit with more success last season than this season). He's a funny guy too, not something I'd seen from him when watching him play tourneys.

The Unabomber keeps cleaning up...I always thought he was a tourney specialist, but he's kicking butt and taking names at one of the most difficult tables in all of poker. His weird re-raises after limping with AK preflop are freaking me out though...$43K? Into a pot of $4000? Only action he's going to get from that is gonna have him crushed...AA, KK. If he keeps that up someone's going to pick up on it and trap him.

Hard to tell much about Brad's game...hard to lose when you turn a straight flush and then not play a hand for a long time. -)

I was about to write a long post about what I thought about the show but instead I can just quote yours. I felt almost exactly the same. Nice work.

Thanks! I forgot to mention how much I enjoy Gabe Kaplan's commentary...good stuff as well. His sidekick...only so-so.