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Who do you guys have in the final table? I think Polk should be the favorite, but I'm worried one of these times he's gonna play himself into a bad spot. What do you guys think?
 
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Good call

Nice call on that Rocca. I'd say Polk was well known to newer players because of this videos on Youtube and Twitch. Don't see the others from the final table making as many videos on Youtube.
 
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Yeah nice pick Rocca.:) Polk did an outstanding job considering at one time he was 13 big blinds from being eliminated, and not to mention when you consider all the highly talented players in this tourney and at the final table. A well deserved win from a fun player to watch.
 
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I think some of the plays in this event were great to watch as a beginner. Just have to remind myself not to do them in micro stakes cause they probably wont work the same lol.
 
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One play by doug sort of confused me. He turned the nut straight and decides to chech raise (shove).

Board Qc 5d 6h 4d

Doug has 78d
Opponent has KQ off

the pot is around 5 million chips, opponent bets 900k on the turn after doug hits the nuts and doug decides to ship it (for 4.3 million more roughly). I understand if doug is trying to protect his hand but the flush seems pretty unlikely and he has roughly 75-80% chance of beating any set so I really don't understand why he wouldn't cold call the turn and then value bet the river.

Idk I definitely would have played that hand differently.
 
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One play by doug sort of confused me. He turned the nut straight and decides to chech raise (shove).

Board Qc 5d 6h 4d

Doug has 78d
Opponent has KQ off

the pot is around 5 million chips, opponent bets 900k on the turn after doug hits the nuts and doug decides to ship it (for 4.3 million more roughly). I understand if doug is trying to protect his hand but the flush seems pretty unlikely and he has roughly 75-80% chance of beating any set so I really don't understand why he wouldn't cold call the turn and then value bet the river.

Idk I definitely would have played that hand differently.

He is check shoving on the turn because he thinks his opponent is going to check back on the river most of the time when he bets that small on the turn.
 
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He shoves there for two reasons. First reason is his opponent is making a very small bet on the turn that basically says "Hey, I have something and wanna play a small pot... So I'm not betting on the river"... By raising your opponent can get sticky with that KQ and make a reasonable call while you have him dead.
Second reason (and the reason I would have led the turn myself) is the two flush draws that are now out there... By calling the small bet, your opponent is realizing his equity at his price and you want to push away any potential top tier flush draws.
Even though Doug has one FD blocked by his own diamonds, it was not a board you want to slow play on by any means.
 
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He shoves there for two reasons. First reason is his opponent is making a very small bet on the turn that basically says "Hey, I have something and wanna play a small pot... So I'm not betting on the river"... By raising your opponent can get sticky with that KQ and make a reasonable call while you have him dead.
Second reason (and the reason I would have led the turn myself) is the two flush draws that are now out there... By calling the small bet, your opponent is realizing his equity at his price and you want to push away any potential top tier flush draws.
Even though Doug has one FD blocked by his own diamonds, it was not a board you want to slow play on by any means.

Definitely. This play both acts as equity denial and should get value from KQ. Especially since Doug check raised all in on the turn with a draw earlier, this drawy board should usually be enough to call with top pair. I would have in this spot, and Doug's reputation definitely helps here on the check raise. If I had KQ I'm probably calling.
 
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Polk is one of the BEST in todays game and proves it over and over again!!!!
 
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another big win for polk, i watched him win a few hundred thousand on twitch, must be nice to take down these big wins. just gotta put up the 111k lol wonder if he had any stakers or if he had himself 100%
 
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