Madness or Skill?

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What do you thing about this hand? A big bluff and a heroe call from Bruno Politano at the final table on BSOP.

He was crazy, Hyper aggressive or it was just a great position play?

 
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MrPink514

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Obviously he got lucky making a pair on the flop. But his 3bet pre flop was a great play in my opinion.
 
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Nice play, I dont got balls for that. Like the Brazilians saying "aqui não" (not here)
 
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He even had a little luck on the flop, but his ability to risk a pair of 7 and may even lose the tiebreaker with a simple 2. And even more sensational it to check the river , waiting for the opponent to increase the pot. Foster was controlling the round from the beginning.
 
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The two very crazy players, so by risking with 7-2 and the other to continue paying anything the whole play .. crazy play even have to say that the brazuca took very lucky it.
 
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Paying anything not, because it appeared an 8 on the turn or river, he would have made a straight. I also venture . He did not lose as many chips as well. He was conscious
 
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Skill .. with a bit of luck

Just like real estate where they say "Location, location, location" .........

this is "Aggression, aggression, aggression".
 
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I think that is half the skill half luck , you have a fight and the opponent is to have ful
 
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"Not here" hahahaha He did a good reading of the game, took the moment with a nit image to make the call and went well on the flop. Good hand.
 
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Well he started PF with a squeeze attempt on 2 guys he thought were probably on the weak side. He figured the only reason Newhouse got in was because he was thinking Larrabe was up to something. So it was a good opportunity to run a squeeze, and that is hardly ever about what cards you are holding (or shouldn't be).
I'm sure he was less that thrilled with the Newhouse call, but then he gets a great flop hitting the 7 and also figuring with some certainty that Newhouse isn't in this hand with a 9, let alone a 3. Now he's thinking he has a good chance at being ahead of KJ-AK. No reason to slow down. Another great card for him on the flop - again he is certain Newhouse is not in the hand with a 4 based on his preflop action. And as Chad explains, the Newhouse bet makes no sense to his action line. The only thing that makes sense is for this river bet is trips when the 3 hit one the river - BUT if that were true then Newhouse's preflop action makes zero sense. It would be correct to call with that board as none of Newhouse's action showed him hitting any part of it - no 9, no 7, no 3 and no 4. The only thing it could be is an overpair and chances of that were remote.
Politano made a bold preflop move, got caught and then got cards.
Newhouse made a pretty transparent bluff and got called.
 
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Pretty Ballzy... Just depends on how the other player was playing all game though..
 
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its sick for us just bc the stakes, think how many times u won with cards like those and without bluff u wont earn anythink.
 
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Well he started PF with a squeeze attempt on 2 guys he thought were probably on the weak side. He figured the only reason Newhouse got in was because he was thinking Larrabe was up to something. So it was a good opportunity to run a squeeze, and that is hardly ever about what cards you are holding (or shouldn't be).
I'm sure he was less that thrilled with the Newhouse call, but then he gets a great flop hitting the 7 and also figuring with some certainty that Newhouse isn't in this hand with a 9, let alone a 3. Now he's thinking he has a good chance at being ahead of KJ-AK. No reason to slow down. Another great card for him on the flop - again he is certain Newhouse is not in the hand with a 4 based on his preflop action. And as Chad explains, the Newhouse bet makes no sense to his action line. The only thing that makes sense is for this river bet is trips when the 3 hit one the river - BUT if that were true then Newhouse's preflop action makes zero sense. It would be correct to call with that board as none of Newhouse's action showed him hitting any part of it - no 9, no 7, no 3 and no 4. The only thing it could be is an overpair and chances of that were remote.
Politano made a bold preflop move, got caught and then got cards.
Newhouse made a pretty transparent bluff and got called.

Great analysis, man! :)
 
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You can call this maddnes because there is Negreanu and look at his style of play , i like this man soo much.
 
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I think, hand reading and opponents gestures helped him in such important situation.
 
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Nice hand for him,need courage to do that.
But he have fear,he didn't go all in.If he go all in,you can say that is skill.
 
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Lucky of course, Not my style to depend on luck. If i play like that I will be broke in a week. :eek2:
 
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Only correcting , it was not the BSOP but wsop .
I find it very risky to play so Bruno Foster, but if he did it was probably already well studied their opponents, already knew how to play this hand against them.
 
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he just got lucky making a pair on the flop.
 
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It was a excllent board for a hero call also...
But, in those cases, a player have to be a quite mad to accomplish the action.
 
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