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Red Devil wrote:Never again.

Victory!

http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/def ... ?TID=11460

Elky going for the triple crown HUP $10k Stud championships. Live.

I tilt a little more every time ElkY tweets stuff like "One time" and "oh my god I run so bad". Still he is like the king of run good so it's just a matter of time, surely.

This ten level hard stop ruling is the pits, incidentally. It ruins all flow and momentum.

Edit:

Congratulations to Bertrand Grospellier, Winner of Event #21: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship ($331,639)

In what was an epic, nearly four-hour heads up battle, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier is the last man standing and the latest WSOP bracelet winner. After being down to less than 200,000 and at a nearly 24:1 deficit when the limits were 50,000-100,000, ElkY managed to storm back to take the lead against his heads up opponent Steve Landfish. The two exchanged the lead on numerous occasions afterwards but ElkY came through and win his first WSOP bracelet and the $331,639 that goes with it.

The day started with 14 players and we quickly lost several notables including Jason Mercier and Ville Wahlbeck. Sorel Mizzi and Men Nguyen were also knocked out while Nick Schulman lost moments after Nguyen and was the final table bubble boy.

Landfish, who entered the day as the chip leader, was near the top of the leaderboard for the final day all the way down to the final table. Chris Tryba was quickly eliminated at the final table while Kevin Tang, Chad Brown and Alexander Kostritsyn followed suit.

A key moment for Grospellier at the final table was when he doubled through Brown. Brown was ahead with a pair of aces on third and continued to stay ahead when he made two pair on sixth against the two pair and flush draw of ElkY. However Elky nailed the 5d to give him a diamond flush and the key double up.

John Hennigan entered the final table with a slight lead over Landfish but came in fourth after he took a big hit at the hands of Landfish and third place finisher Maxwell Troy, who had a very impressive run at the final table, in back to back hands.

When heads up play began, Landfish held a 2,260,000 to 1,520,000 lead over ElkY. Landfish quickly built on that lead and had ElkY extremely short. Amazingly, ElkY came all the way back to take the lead without even having been all in against his heads up opponent up to that point.

The two traded the chip lead back and forth until Grospellier landed a dramatic double up. He was all in on fourth and ahead with two pair, tens and eights. Landfish held a pair of kings but failed to improve as ElkY survived.

ElkY went on to take the lead, then give it back, but once he finally reclaimed it, that was all he would need.

On the final hand Grospellier made a pair of fives on fourth but Landfish picked up a flush draw. ElkY stayed in the lead on fifth while Landfish made a pair of fours. ElkY made two pair on sixth while Landfish failed to improve and when ElkY hit a full house on seventh, Landfish was drawing dead which gave ElkY the win.

The win gives ElkY the triple crown to go along with his '08 WPT Championship win for $1,411,015 and his PCA win for $2,000,000 earlier that year. He is this WSOP's second triple crown winner after Jake Cody and the fourth winner overall.

UTG is a donk and the one who just raised K7 and the guy next to him isn't great either.

Ship it.

Red Devil wrote:
PokerStars Game #63377297495: Tournament #404522007, $3.11+$0.39 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2011/06/15 14:54:50 WET [2011/06/15 9:54:50 ET]
Table '404522007 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Radiska (1067 in chips)
Seat 4: pepe8686 (1735 in chips)
Seat 5: 4King Fish (1670 in chips)
Seat 6: HamariMalua (1462 in chips)
Seat 7: whiskey920 (2520 in chips)
Seat 8: sakulchyrb (1873 in chips)
Seat 9: luo1953 (3173 in chips)
sakulchyrb: posts small blind 25
luo1953: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to whiskey920 [Ac Jh]
Radiska: raises 117 to 167
sakulchyrb said, "k7 raise... nice.."
pepe8686: calls 167
4King Fish: folds
HamariMalua: folds
whiskey920: calls 167
sakulchyrb: folds
luo1953: folds
*** FLOP *** [Kc 8c 2c]
Radiska: checks
pepe8686: bets 300
whiskey920: calls 300
Radiska: raises 600 to 900 and is all-in
pepe8686: calls 600
whiskey920: ????

UTG is a donk and the one who just raised K7 and the guy next to him isn't great either.

If you include the rest of pepe's stack then the pot is 3344 and it is going to cost you 1268 to put him all-in, so you are getting odds of 2.6:1 or 28%

Flush or ace gives you 12 outs so ~45% chance of hitting.
If the ace is dead then it's still ~35%.

At this point your stack is 2053
If you shove and lose your stack is 785 (-1268)
If you shove and win your stack is 5397 (+3344)

I think you've got to shove as you are getting good odds for the call and if you lose it's not all that bad. You still have 15bb which isn't terrible and the win would put you in great shape.

Somewhat short notice but is anyone up for a 4.40 tonight around 7:30?

Drumstick wrote:Somewhat short notice but is anyone up for a 4.40 tonight around 7:30?

Yes.

After the big downswing I had at MTTs the last week or so (plus some withdrawals), my roll was down to just under $300 so I've switched to playing some low-stakes HU for the last couple of days and it's been going well so far (tiny sample of course).

I compared the rake for the different HU games and the normal $15 HU SnGs have a slightly higher rake than the $7 ones.

Gonna play a few more $7 HU turbos and see if I can get my roll up to $400 ($342 at the moment).

Drumstick wrote:Somewhat short notice but is anyone up for a 4.40 tonight around 7:30?

They are $4.50 now (9.7% rake instead of 10%).

Yeah count me in.

Drumstick wrote:Somewhat short notice but is anyone up for a 4.40 tonight around 7:30?

Yes if staked.

If you all want to hop on MSN then we can get things started.

Vom vom vom. FT for epic chip lead.

Not a bad flop for 34s 8-)

Anyone up for another 4.50 tonight? :shifty:

Shame no-one cashed last nigth, seems like we couldn't create a big hand between us. I had some real rotten luck last night, then a suckout then walked into a hand with a shove steal. Had a set of 10s cracked by a flush draw, got someone to bluff their whole stack off when I had TPTK, and rivered a 7 to stay in the game when my top pair ran into bottom two pair in a short stack confrontation. ROLLERCOASTER COME ON.....

I can't as I'm going out for dinner in approximately two minutes.

Back mid July with a functional internet connection, moved into a new apartment with my partner few weeks ago and i've just got back from Tenerife

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Bloody hackers

I've changed my password and just added a PIN to my account, so hopefully it should be safe.

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