High Stakes Poker - Amateur loses 117K+ on 2-7

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he lost this because the table agreed to a side game, if you win a hand with 7-2 no matter how you win bluff or nuts, the whole table has to give you an extra $500 each.

he was obviously trying to prove himself. distinctly after Phil Hellmuth bluffed Mike Matasow off pocket Kings with 72, and put mike on tilt!
 
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Salorio is a semi-pro, like the Greek guy : he plays poker a lot and has a job outside of it if I recall. He has given an account of why he played the hand his way and it was pretty much standard. If we weren't seeing the holecards, there was no way someone could see he had 2-7, plus he was putting Brandon on AA and thus trying to represent a King. If Brando had AA or QQ or JJ, would he have called ? The chances of him flopping trips if he had AK for example are slim and flopping quads is ridiculous. He would have outplayed Brandon 80% of the time, he just got unlucky and couldn't get away from the hand before dropping so much.

Phil Hellmuth's later bluff with 2-7 was way more horrible IMHO, what with him trying to talk Baxter out of the hand, sizing his river bet so bad and pointing to him that he knew exactly what he had. If an opponent knows exactly what you have and bets 5/6 of the pot on the turn when he is usually betting every pot light, wouldn't red flags go off ? Matusow made the same freaking mistake when he had quads against Hellmuth: he opened his mouth and lost his river call.
 
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Salorio is a semi-pro, like the Greek guy : he plays poker a lot and has a job outside of it if I recall. He has given an account of why he played the hand his way and it was pretty much standard. If we weren't seeing the holecards, there was no way someone could see he had 2-7, plus he was putting Brandon on AA and thus trying to represent a King. If Brando had AA or QQ or JJ, would he have called ? The chances of him flopping trips if he had AK for example are slim and flopping quads is ridiculous. He would have outplayed Brandon 80% of the time, he just got unlucky and couldn't get away from the hand before dropping so much.

Phil Hellmuth's later bluff with 2-7 was way more horrible IMHO, what with him trying to talk Baxter out of the hand, sizing his river bet so bad and pointing to him that he knew exactly what he had. If an opponent knows exactly what you have and bets 5/6 of the pot on the turn when he is usually betting every pot light, wouldn't red flags go off ? Matusow made the same freaking mistake when he had quads against Hellmuth: he opened his mouth and lost his river call.

What Matusow did was unbelievable imo. Why the hell didn't he just shut up? If he's comfortably going to tell what kind of strong hands you don't have it's obvious he wants a call. Hellmuth should also have kept his mouth shut. I don't know, but it really seems like Hellmuth hasn't made a good play so far this season, maybe except for the call against Mike's bluff in ep 2.
 
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