Ben Sulsky and Phil Galfond having big stacks in WSOP Event #44: $50,000 THE POKER PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
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Ben Sulsky and Phil Galfond having big stacks in WSOP Event #44: $50,000 THE POKER PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
Scott Seiver chipleader after day 2.
Ben Sulsky almost 3 times his starting stack, Phil Galfond almost 2 times.
A big beard equals a big stack for Ben Sulksy. I wonder if he is walking on a treadmill below the table...
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Hoping for another RIO bracelet!
We missed out on this one:
Did Phil hire GT as the Rio reporter ? At least he will enjoy the heater.
His wife let him grow that?????
♥
GT, was it you that wrote a poem Joey read to Sauce in the podcast ?
Would a guy with a beard like that ever be able to make poems?
Wow he really grew that beard since last week's video.
No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw
Ben Yu raises to 9,000 from the button, and Phil Galfond reraises to 21,000 from the small blind. Yu calls.
Galfond draws one, and Yu draws two. Galfond continues for 47,000. Yu thinks for a minute, then puts out a call. Galfond announces, "Nine-Six," as he tables 96432. Yu mucks his cards, and Galfond wins the pot.
Phil Galfond - 280,000
Ben Yu - 352,000
Im pretty sure the pic in the OP is mustafabet not sauce
35 remaining after the the break, Ben "beard" Sulksy doing well 555k, Phil Galfond hopping behind with 330k. Scott Seiver leads the pack. Stay tuned.
Can RIO sign Jean-Robert Bellande? What a player. He even lost a 320k pot earlier with 99 vs T8 on 875 vs Dan Shak.
Ugh. Gogogo Ben and gogogo Phil!
Nice run!
Jason Koon is chipleader out of 24 players in day 3 in Event #45: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em.
It is a 3 day event, and he is chipleader after day 2, but good luck regardless!
Ben made a comeback due to his beard. Phil could've made a comeback too, but he doesn't have any beard.
Scott Seiver is gone. Jean-Robert Bellande is still in, I'm sure that he will make it HU with Ben.
Phil has a Bovada account. That might have played into the decision to bust.
The bearded man pictured above is not Ben. Though your belief in the power of the beard is still seemingly correct!
Why is there no live coverage for this event...
Yeah, WSOP is really missing out on that one. They prefer to show silly final tables instead of a feature table of the exciting events.
There will be a live stream of the final table with commentary tomorrow on a short delay starting around 2pm as long as they get to the final 6 tonight. If not then it probably will start once they get to the final 6 tomorrow afternoon
I would love to watch it too.......maybe the difficulty of commentating all the different games?
Can someone please make a video showing us how to factor in beard considerations into our ICM calcs? I'm not a live tourney pro so I've never cultivated this skill.
How much fun would be to watch JRB videos
It is obvious that Galfond wanted to play on bovada as he donked off his stack at stud hi-lo with quads:
Buchanan: (X)(X) / 3cAs8s2c / (X)
Galfond: (X)(X) / 9dTsJcTc / (X)
Glantz: (X)(X) / Qd5sKc3s / (X)
Two bets (48k) go in on fifth, three bets (72k) go in on sixth. Buchanan and Glantz are all-in.
Matt Glantz - 230,000
Shawn Buchanan - 375,000
Phil Galfond - 40,000
Jean-Robert got this, he went from 500k to over 1 million. All Ben needs to do is hang on and take second place.
Jean-Robert eliminates Matt Glantz in badugi!
Jean-Robert Bellande - 1,060,000
Matt Glantz - Eliminated
Ben is killing on Badugi but can't deal with JRB. Would be a pretty sick series if Ben reaches FT and uses the WSOP footage.
GOOOOO SAUCE!! Any streams?!
Bellande Takes Monster From Klodnicki
No-Limit Hold'em
Chris Klodnicki and Jean-Robert Bellande take a flop 9d8s6h of in a raised pot. Klodnicki is first to act and he bets 45,000. Bellande calls and the As falls on the turn. Klodnicki continues his aggression with a bet of 125,000. Bellande calls once again.
The Qh completes the board and Klodnicki cuts out a bet of 265,000. Bellande goes deep into the tank, leaning back in his chair and sipping from his bottle of water.
"Man, Chris," says Bellande. "I've got a f**king monster but I think you have it."
Another moment passes while Bellande ponders his action.
"I guess pushing all in might be out of the question here, huh?" asks Bellande.
"I mean, that would be pretty sick if you did," replies Klodnicki.
Ultimately, Bellande announces that he has too big of a hand to lay down and he slides out calling chips. Klodnicki rolls over for a pair of sixes. Bellande shows and is awarded the pot.
"As my daddy told me when I first started playing poker," says Bellande to the room. "Don't bluff the donkey."
Jean-Robert Bellande - 1,420,000
Chris Klodnicki - 1,690,000
Maybe this is a stupid question but are all the tables no playing the same game simultaneously?
It seems like a huge advantage to be playing something like limit holdem at the bubble instead of PLO or 2-7 and from what I can tell from the updates some people are playing stud 8 while others play 2-7 NL.
Jean-Robert is a beast.
Ben has a beard.
FT:
Seat 1: Chris Klodnicki - 1,585,000
Seat 2: Jason Mercier - 733,000
Seat 3: Mike Gorodinsky - 2,278,000
Seat 4: Jean-Robert Bellande - 2,522,000
Seat 5: Ben Sulsky - 1,310,000
Seat 6: David "ODB" Baker - 3,240,000
Seat 7: Dan Kelly - 760,000
Anyone know if this will be streamed?
The final table is a 'bold stream'.
irc the final table will be NLH only. so this might be the reason for the low amount of entries (they did or wanted to do this Change to increase entríes)
Nope, they play all games. NL final table of the PPC was when Brian Rast beat Phil Hellmuth after dodging a three flushdraws in a row.
43 minutes countdown!
http://www.wsop.com/2015/live-video/default.aspx?sr=&TID=14244
Poor Sam Greenwood has to watch himself lose to with AK vs 8d7d on Ad9d6h during every break.
Sauce still hanging in there, he only needs to outlast 3 more players to make it HU with Jean-Robert. Good luck!
Sauce just folded his big blind to JRB small blind raise on 27TD. What is all about this "closing the action getting a great price" stuff ?
Maybe he had KKKQQ. Also ICM implications can cause Sauce to play tighter than in a cash game. For instance a rough draw to a bluff catchers is far from ideal when you will need to call future bets.
Don't take it too hard GT. Being Sauce the shortest the ICM pressure on limit games should be way smaller than other games, specially against a player not that aggressive.
Triple draw games play big, once you call you are 'dragged' in. ICM is still a factor, maybe Sauce overvalued ICM if he was much shorter than everyone else, or he had other reasons to avoid variance in that spot.
Sauce loses QT to KQ all-in vs Baker. Good game. $353k for 4th place. Gordo, Baker and Jean-Robert still in.
How many BBs/ which position when he went all in?
480k button shove at 25/50k with a 15k ante.
Ahhh... GG Sauce. Very well played. Not to sound like a "Monday Morning Quarterback", but would it be more optimal to pass on this +EV spot and wait for the next game variant to start?
Was just thinking about that hand, what was he doing ott ?
Clearly he figured that his opponent would be raising a lot of backdoor draws that he wanted to deny equity.
Obviously, just seemed very optimistic.
Sauce takes down $353k for 4th place.
Good game Sauce.
GG
Meh. Jean-Robert couldn't finish with a 4 to 1 chiplead. He got a text from Phil Hellmuth that probably jynxed him; Phil Hellmuth had the same chiplead when he was HU at the $50,000 PPC vs Brian Rast and couldn't finish either.
Nice win for Gorodinsky.....at one point he was really short stacked but hung around and was able to get back in. Easier in this format I think than nlhe with the antes. I want to try some of these games but they're hard to find on line
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