Running World Series of Poker Thread

That's a decent call when you are a big stack. Jamie Gold made essentially the same move last year, giving Allen Cunningham, by far the best player, a chance to double up when he called his all-in with KJo. Gold also three-bet on a three-way flop with four-high when it was three-handed. If Wasicka called there, he would have tripled up and had a much better shot at coming back against Gold (assuming he folds those pocket 10s on the Q-high flop).

 

Jamie addressed that on the broadcast and said he only called because it was Allen Cunningham and figured that winning a coin flip was the only way to take him out.

 

Jerry "Donk" Yang just let Kravchenko double up again.

Kravchenko makes a small raise on the button. Yang makes a huge reraise in the small blind. Kravchenko moves all in and Yang is priced into a call. He turns over A-10, and Kravchenko shows KK. The kings hold, and he's up to $27 million. Yang is down to $47 million.

Why the fuck is Yang reraising with A10? He can make a cheap call and see a flop and, more important, get away cheaply if he has to.

 

Yang is still raising almost every single hand. The other players are pretty much letting him take down lots of small pots, but they're playing back at him when they have hands, knowing Yang will call them.

It might go awhile like this.

 

Yang is playing super-aggressive, winning a lot of small pots but losing big pots. Some of his big plays have been pretty questionable. In fact, he's bordering on reckless, and he's doubled up the best player at the table twice. At one point, Yang had a $60 million chip lead. Now, I'll be surprised if he wins the tournament.

 

Tuan Lam just doubled up through Raymond Rahme. It was Lam's second major suckout to double up. Lam made a pretty questionable play going all-in with A-5 of hearts. Rahme had QQ, but Lam saw an ace on the flop. He's up to $26 million, and Rahme is down to $17 million.

Yang $52 mil
Kravchenko $32 mil
Lam $26 mil
Rahme $17 mil

 

Rahme just doubled up to $36.6 million through Yang. Went all-in pre flop with AQ. Yang called with QQ. Rahme spiked an Ace on the flop. Yang is down to $41 million but is still the chip leader.

That's the second bad beat Yang has taken. He could have eliminated Lam way earlier, and Lam caught a queen on the river (though he had two overs and an up and down straight draw. it was a 50-50 play).

This could go awhile.

 

Down to 3.

Kravchenko eliminated by Yang. He made a raise in the small blind. Yang, in the big blind, went all-in. Kravchenko called and turned over A-K. Yang showed 8-8.

A third 8 came on the flop, and that was all she wrote.

Of course, Yang played it like a complete donkey. Seriously, if you're chip leader and you're moving all-in before the flop with a hand like pocket 8's, you clearly have no confidence that you can outplay somebody. Though he still had plenty of chips, Kravchenko was in 4th place and had to call with the AK. I'd do the same.

 

Now heads up. Yang actually played a hand good, spiking an ace on the flop, then making a very tough decision on Rahme's all-in. Yang had A-5. Rahme had pocket kings.

 

SPOILER

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Just watched the end of Tivo.

Yang seems like a nice guy, but he's a total Jesus freak. In his interview with Norman Chad, he's giving big JC credit for the set of 4's he flopped on a key hand earlier in the tournament, and at that point I stopped tape.

Then I gave it a second shot, figuring I'd watch the rest of the interview. I'm glad I did, becuase I would have missed Norman fire off this gem: "Jerry, do you think this is the most poker the Lord has ever watched over?"

Classic.