| This is a discussion on Bubble Puss within the online poker forums, in the General Poker section; Okay, playing tight on the bubble is one thing, but this is disgraceful. Ed "The Cajun Squeeze" Pellegrini lays down pocket aces 3 times while ... |
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| Yes. Making the money is the most imortant thing. | | 21.05% | |
| No way. Play to win! | | 78.95% | |
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| Bubble Puss Okay, playing tight on the bubble is one thing, but this is disgraceful. Ed "The Cajun Squeeze" Pellegrini lays down pocket aces 3 times while on the bubble. (March 15, 2007) CardPlayer.com - TV When you go to this page you must manually select Bay 101: Ed Pellegrini. Last edited by Four Dogs : 16th March 2007 at 12:41 AM. |
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| Well, like the guy in the vid said, it's a little different if he satellited in. If he's a guy who can only play $30 tourneys, but somehow made it into like a $500 entry tourney and now has a chance to win that $15,000 minimum prize, then I don't see it as that terrible...don't know if I could do it myself, but don't fully blame him. If this is a tourney well within your BR limits and you regularly play those stakes, then you're beyond weak-tight folding aces... Cute interviewer btw |
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| What a fish. He shouldn't be playing poker. I have bigger balls then him and I'm a girl. LOL my kind of gal, guess there is a little depends jumping, if its head to head and you have aces, you should be shot maybe even multiple times for folding aces, now if the whole table went all in, then you should fold and hope for the best, but a general rule of thumb is you dont fold aces even if your on the bubble, the odds are still in your favor, hell even 3 people in you go all in, but if the whole table went all in and your on the bubble, I would fold just to be safe. Also depends on what kind of people your playing against. |
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| ...I hadn't noticed the video, maybe it was edited in there after, but I think there should be an option in the poll, such as "Ah....it was really funny...I may not play to win or have made it past the fifth grade, but I'm sure as hell not stupid enough to fold pocket A's 'cause I'm scuuuurrrreeeed to lose". |
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| David Williams said "$15,000 is a lot of money. It depends on his financial status." Exactly. It all "depends". But if I got in on a $1000 satellite and I had as small of a stack as he did (notice that?), then I personally would be about 90% as likely to do the same thing to reach the money. $15,000 would improve my financial status quite a bit. It has nothing to do with balls and everything to do with sense regarding each person's unique situation in life and poker. |
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| re: Bubble Puss poker Quote:
Granted if I were in his position and I had decided to get through the bubble before playing anymore hands I would fold without looking at them. |
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Also, he was pretty stupid for even showing the Aces he folded.....twice!! |
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Incidentally I just thought of this, if I had played enough poker to have a cheesy nickname like "The Cajun Squeeze" I would definently not fold my aces |
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| folding aces Depends on how much reward there is in making money. if your in a million dollar freeroll and your near the bubble i might fold, since i had been there allday. But if your in a 10dollar buyin and your risking losing 15 bucks, id push w/AA or even kk or qq. of course im just a phish out of water anyway so it really doesn't matter what i think. PeAcE |
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| Here is how he finished: (courtesy CardPlayer.com) Ed Pellegrini Eliminated 11th ($70,000) Ed Pellegrini gets all in for his last $97,000 preflop with A K from under the gun. Amir Shayesteh makes the call from the small blind and shows K K . The board comes 5 4 3 3 Q and Pellegrini has been eliminated from the tournament. The question is...if he hadn't layed down the Aces, would he have finished higher than 11th? |
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| At the very least he should have called all three times. He may have hit trips aces. Or like he said the 5's came out. I can understand in certain situations. Folding AA if you were calling all your chips to a raise pre-flop and there's a player that is all-in anyways next blind. But even then I wouldn't do it myself. |
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I think he should have played them and worked himself a huge stack for the final run. |
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| re: Bubble Puss poker He wasn't going to play any hands. I'm sorry but I wouldn't have folded the aces there. If I go out on the bubble with aces then I go out. I mean how many times do you think you're going to get them? It is the bubble so if you simply push every time you get then you do have some fold equity since no one else wants to go out either. |
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