Isildur1 vs Daniel Cates superstars showdown 30th Jan

I think this superstars showdown will most likely be the most entertaining one as of yet! I think I'll be watching most of it starting this Sunday at 5:30pm ET. Four tables of 50/100. Daniel seems to run good at FT but I belive Isildurs aggression will be to much for Daniel to handle. I guess time will tell!


Anyones thoughts on the game or if you're watching would be good.

The two best nlhu players in the world? Nice

two best nlhu players in the world?...eh, disagree.
should be entertaining though.

Two beasts...top2 nl hu in the worlds...should be pretty damn good.

meh they were playing recently and jungleman was winning. they also played b4 isildur left ftp and jungleman was winning there too. expect jungleman to book another win.

I think Isildur1 will take this one, Cates is good but I think Isildur1 will be better. Is it 2 PLO/2NLH o 4NLH?

ben_rhyno said:

I think Isildur1 will take this one, Cates is good but I think Isildur1 will be better. Is it 2 PLO/2NLH o 4NLH?

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It's just NL $50/$100 which should be good.Kinda gets annoying when PLO is involved, I'm not a big fan

Yeh this is gonna be a great match then def the 2 best HUNL players should be longer though, but not as long as the durrr challenge

I got 10$ to bet on Isildur1, if anyone wants to bet 10$ on Cates let me know and we figure things out.

ben_rhyno said:

Yeh this is gonna be a great match then def the 2 best HUNL players should be longer though, but not as long as the durrr challenge

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I think his durrr challenge is pritty much dead in the water to be honest. I can't see him accepting anymore challenges after his Patrik A and Daniels challenges are done (if ever) becase he is to involved in the poker live cash games now and does failry well there. I'm beggining to wonder if we will see durr playing much online anymore. He seems to be traveling the world most of the year with the other pros doing prop bets and so on.

I'm sure the daniel cates gam would of finished a long time ago if he had the choice, its Tom who seems to be the busy one more than anyone else.

forsakenone said:

I got 10$ to bet on Isildur1, if anyone wants to bet 10$ on Cates let me know and we figure things out.

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ooooh? Who are you doing these bets with I'd like to have a bash somewhere. Not sure If I'd want to wager on cates though even if his record is better from matches with Viktor. What odds are these?

ramdeebam said:

ooooh? Who are you doing these bets with I'd like to have a bash somewhere. Not sure If I'd want to wager on cates though even if his record is better from matches with Viktor. What odds are these?

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nobody so far accepted to bet 10$ on cates. so i am doing it with nobody, everyone is like "cates will win" and all that, but they won't risk 10$ for it.

still, if anyone wants to take on this, pm me.

Cates leading after 1500 hands.

If Isildur played me like he's playing cates,i could kick is you know what right now.

JOEBOB69 said:

If Isildur played me like he's playing cates,i could kick is you know what right now.

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That's why they play over a large number of hands. Im sure there are times where even we could run good against a pro for a short period of time.

However over the long haul I think we'd all find out the hard way why they are considered pros.

2500 hands is like the average weiner. Not very long

3betting hu to much vs a good postion player inflating the pot is bad.Didn't say i was better but i know what i'm seeing.
Edit : What he was doing when i was watching before any how.

JOEBOB69 said:

3betting hu to much vs a good postion player inflating the pot is bad.Didn't say i was better but i know what i'm seeing.

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lol so you would fold or call then?

I would not constant 3bet.

JOEBOB69 said:

I would not constant 3bet.

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But why not? It is probably a lot easier and more profitable to be 3 betting a higher frequency than to be folding/ calling oop more often.

Disagree you have to "mix it up" and there times where it could be very profitable.I just don't see it at the volume he is doing it at vs this type of player is all.

JOEBOB69 said:

Disagree you have to "mix it up" and there times where it could be very profitable.I just don't see it at the volume he is doing it at vs this type of player is all.

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You do realize that he is not 3 betting 100% and it is fairly balanced mix of raise call and fold right?

Just now watching again,i didn't watch no were near all the hands.What i did see when i was watching earlier though just quessing here it looked like 1\2-6\10 hands.

it finished just now, Isildur1 won with 51k lead after the 2500 hands.

too bad nobody wanted to bet 10$ on Cates, i would have made some easy money.

forsakenone said:

it finished just now, Isildur1 won with 51k lead after the 2500 hands.

too bad nobody wanted to bet 10$ on Cates, i would have made some easy money.

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Quite a convincing win too in the end. I always thought and said isildur1 would win, yet everyone (most, on here) was convinced that cates would win because of their full tilt encounters.

I myself would of loved to of bet on isil but seen as you was only offering to bet on cates, kinda didn't make sense for me

Yeah shame we didn't get action, anyway was a good game!