Imagine you invest 10,000 into Main Event and this happens first hand

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Some hands you're the pigeon, and some hands you're the statue.
With momma's bankroll it was like a freeroll for him.
 
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Pretty brutal, but I don't think I would shove on Sammy's 3bet first hand especially since the A is tripped up with two broadway cards.

Prob. lose half my stack though gross first hand for sure.
 
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I would absolutely GII here. Ax hands are down to 3 outs, JJ-KK are down to two, everything else is drawing dead, and Sammy Farha is like the worst lag in high-stakes poker. I am not about to put him on the only two hands that beat mine -- they're like 3% of his range on the flop and 5% on the turn (he has like 3 iterations of AT and 3 of QQ on the turn, vs 12 of KK/JJ and anywhere between 20 and 101 of Ax depending on his preflop Ace range, which being that this is effing Sammy Farha is probably all of them).

That was completely and utterly brutal. nh Sammy.
 
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How did the announcer know that someone else folded a 10? Did anyone else notice that he claimed that Hudson was drawing dead after the turn? Exact same thing happened to me in a tourney recently to bust me out only with one big difference. I was the "Sammy Farha" in that situation and my opponent was the "Hudson" but my opponent caught his one-outer on the river for quads to bust me out.
 
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zing: farha held the only other T, so he was drawing dead the second they both showed their hands. And this actually isn't that bad of a cooler, its just bad luck combined with somewhat poor play on the part of the guy eliminated (forgot his name). But yeah even though he may have been ahead of farha's range on the flop, farha's range is drastically narrowed by his turn action, and not to mention the other guy's shove would basically never get called by worse except maybe AK, but even then most good players would realize their trips are no good in a 3bet pot with 3 broadway cards. I think he just looked down and was like "omg full house in the main event, im all in!!"
 
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No one folded a 10, Farha has 1, Oliver has 2, and 1 is on the board
 
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Wow! That just had to hurt. I'd probably have to take two or three months off to heal up after that one.
 
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I guess I can't count to 4. duh...Further, I guess in my hand, there were 5 queens in the deck because I swear my hand was AQ, the flop came AAQ, my opponent had QQ and spiked the 5th Q in the deck on the river....oh well, I'm getting old, lol. maybe I had AK, the flop comes AAQ, the turn gave me my boat with a K and the river was a Q, I wish I had the hh for that one, but oh well.
 
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I guess I can't count to 4. duh...Further, I guess in my hand, there were 5 queens in the deck because I swear my hand was AQ, the flop came AAQ, my opponent had QQ and spiked the 5th Q in the deck on the river....oh well, I'm getting old, lol. maybe I had AK, the flop comes AAQ, the turn gave me my boat with a K and the river was a Q, I wish I had the hh for that one, but oh well.
Aha, I do have the hh. Turns out I had AA, the flop was AQQ, he only had QJ and got the remaining Q on the river.:hmmmm:
 
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now imagine the guy who lost with AAAA ... is he still alive or commited sucide alredy?
 
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Exact same thing happened to me in a tourney recently to bust me out only with one big difference. I was the "Sammy Farha" in that situation and my opponent was the "Hudson" but my opponent caught his one-outer on the river for quads to bust me out.

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That would be absolutely brutal and yes and long poker break would be needed after a beat the bad and that early...
 
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Lets hope the guy hadn't prepaid for several days at a hotel...that had to be hard to swallow. But first hand...
 
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wow I remember cing that hand back in the day. was a crazy one then and still is crazy to watch it over. wow I thk he did play a little to aggressive aftr farha raised him. I mean so early in tourney y go all in when its that early. just my opinion
 
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Pretty sick cooler for your first hand.
 
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Well since the most likely outcome in playing the wsop ME for any player is to bust before the money....


After the initial shock, I suppose I would be glad the poker gods didn't make me wait 3 days to bust JJ to KK in some super standard spot with 25 BB or something.
 
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I think I would've instantly fell off my chair into the fetal position, started sucking my thumb, and cried until security carried me out.
 
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I would absolutely GII here. Ax hands are down to 3 outs, JJ-KK are down to two, everything else is drawing dead, and Sammy Farha is like the worst lag in high-stakes poker. I am not about to put him on the only two hands that beat mine -- they're like 3% of his range on the flop and 5% on the turn (he has like 3 iterations of AT and 3 of QQ on the turn, vs 12 of KK/JJ and anywhere between 20 and 101 of Ax depending on his preflop Ace range, which being that this is effing Sammy Farha is probably all of them).

That was completely and utterly brutal. nh Sammy.

these ranges you assign are redic.
this guy butchered the hand so hard, especially given the stack depth. he only gets called by A10/AQ, if farrah turns QQ he probably super tank calls. i dont think people realise how deep they are or how redic his shove is. he has 2 combos of A10, 1 combo of AA, 6 combos of AQ, and 3 combos of QQ and NOTHING ELSE.
 
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Well since the most likely outcome in playing the WSOP ME for any player is to bust before the money....


After the initial shock, I suppose I would be glad the poker gods didn't make me wait 3 days to bust JJ to KK in some super standard spot with 25 BB or something.

id be pretty pissed that i punted 10k in equity.
 
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Oliver dug his own grave when he went all in. Players started with 10k chips. There was like 900 in pre. Checked flop. Bet 300 on turn and Sam raised pot so like 2600-2700 in pot and Oliver has over 9k behind. Sam is raising for value here. Why on earth would you shove that much when there is a possibility (even if it is remote) that you are beat. If he just called the raise and Sam would have value bet the river and Oliver just called, he would still be in the tournament.

Other hands that are similar that come to mind is guy who shoved with quad aces on the royal flush. All he had to do was call instead of shove. Is it just me or was Justin EXTREMELY confident in his hand. Yes I know this hand was a 1 in a billion chance so maybe a bad example.

The other one was in the 2010 main event in a 3-way limped pot with Mizrachi, Affleck, and Emery. Emery flopped a set a of 6's on 3 6 7 board. Michrachi had 98. 10 on the turn. Emery bet and Mizrachi raised. Emery shoved all in. There were 2 straight possibilities and the river 5 would have made it easier for Emery to fold.

And for anyone saying that you can't fold these situations, what about the guy who laid down jacks full.
 
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I don't see how any player could fold 1010 with that flop. It just happen to be the first hand of the game. I would be on the rail too. LOL!
 
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yeah....... i dont think id enjoy poker anymore after that lol
 
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Oh wow, i think it would take a while to play again after that if it was a significant buy in for your bankroll!! I think he took it pretty well to be honest though.
 
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