| This is a discussion on Matt Affleck within the online poker forums, in the General Poker section; His run this year was much publicized after his blowup last year. Situation: 15 left in the WSOP ME You have 25 million in chips ... |
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| Matt Affleck His run this year was much publicized after his blowup last year. Situation: 15 left in the WSOP ME You have 25 million in chips and are among the chip leaders. There is a raise to $550,000 from the CO by one of the few players who has you covered. You look down at AA on the button. You raise to $1.55 million. He four-bets to $4 million. Do you: 1. 5-bet small, inducing a ship MAYBE from KK and folding almost everything else 2. Flat in position and play a flop |
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| Haven't seen it yet, for some reason something got prioritized on DVR, so I have to look for a replay. I shove, if he folds, I'm happy with the what, 18% chip increase. I can't just flat call and see a flop, then battle a larger chip stack this close to the final table, because if the flop contains 2 faces, or for that matter any face, i'm shitting bricks. And if he calls, I pray ! If I lose, I'm ok with it, I had my chips in better than 4-1 to double up and I assume this would have put him close to chip lead. |
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i mean, i might do the same for this very reason, but i don't think it's the best play. |
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I guess I expose a weakness in my own game with this train of thought. |
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| I think the issue is not whether or not we are too scared to play a flop with AA when we have position and villain's range is face up. We have 2 options,and 5-betting, whether it's a small raise or a shove, pretty much puts our hand face up. Or we can flat and leave some amount of doubt in villain's mind and let him think his JJ+/AK is good. The problem is we shove and we win the absolute minimum but we reduce our variance on the 18% chance that we lose out on making the November 9. |
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I just aint lettin him see a flop homes, I don't care who thinks who is representin' whatever. Thats a decent pot at this stage of the tourny, and I'll take it right now. Oh and by the way, I didn't see it, but I assume he flat called and there was a flop, ouch. Another Matt meltdown. AFLAC AFLAC AFLAC |
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| At this level, late in the tourney, w/ November 9 in sight you should be playing some zen like poker anyway. Keep it cool, take those chips put them in the middle of the table and tell your opponent to flip them KK's or QQ's over and lets leave it to the board. As someone said earlier by this point in the betting you're eventually gonna have all your chips on the table anyway if you pursue them Aces w/ a call or 4bet. This may be your only opportunity to get him to fold up and leave a good amount of chips on the table, especially being a larger stack. BTW Matt said in one of those little interviews they do early on in the tourney when he was at a featured table that he's not here to place he's here to win. If he put the guy on KK or QQ and is still playing w/ the attitude of winning the tourney I'd go for the kill shot right here w/ the possibility to snag up a "s***ton" of chips. If you shove and lose than what can ya do? But if you shove, get called, and win you're gonna put yourself in a beautiful postion late in a huge tourney to have a shot at winning the whole dam thing. I shove right here and I do it confident w/ an instantaneous reaction to the 3 bet. Especially if I have him pinned on pocket K's and Q's. Gotta have that killer instinct. Either way you're gonna have to deal w/ that big stack all day long, so get try to get rid of him when you have the best hand. |
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| re: Matt Affleck poker Yeah I think this thread is interesting to see people's responses. The natural/standard play when you have Aces and you are 4-bet is to simply get it in. Villain has told you he likes his hand very much and wants to dance. But I feel in this situation, as I alluded to in the Johnny Chan KK-AA hand, that it is simply incorrect to get it in with that many chips and CL status on the line. I do not think people this deep in the ME really have a 5-bet bluffing range. 5-Bet shoving with these deep stacks is like 5-bet shoving with on Day 1 of the ME with starting chip stacks. It puts your cards face up and you honestly cannot expect to be called by QQ-/AK. By flatting it leaves some doubt in the mind of villain and we know that while we can often put someone on KK+ by action preflop, when we flop a big overpair it becomes increasingly difficult to fold -- you peel the flop and then you're pot committed in a 4-bet pot and how are we folding overpairs on the turn? That said I think Duhamel played it really poorly. I think there is something to be said for the value of simply making the November 9 so I can see the desire to reduce variance. You get fame and fortune, a sponsorship, time to rest and prepare for your opponents. |
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