Dutch Dynamite at the Main Event!
Published December 11, 2009Wow I started watching the Main Event ’09 yesterday and it is indeed THE GREATEST TOURNAMENT OF THE WORLD! I was very happy to see that Eli Elezra, one of my big heros, was immediately at the first feature table. But it happened to be another player who ‘made’ the first episode.
The always pollied Alan Cunningham was also on this table but all my attention went to the dutch player Lex Veldhuis. Let’s warm you guys up with a first fragment (starts around 3’30″):
Now he first makes a modest bluff with 97 against the master himself, but this is still fooling around in comparisation with what follows. With a value-bet bluff with King high he gets Simon Muenz off a hand for the first time. The episode continues here, where Lex (boyfriend of poker pro Evelyn Ng) continues to push around the table by overbetting his rivered straight flush against Can Hua. Even Elezra can’t watch it anymore after Veldhuis bluffs Muenz AGAIN for a big pot and shows him for the second time. And it goes on and on, with Veldhuis kicking out this Muenz AND Allan Cunningham later on. I love the Main Event so much.
Nice play ‘Durrrr’!
Published July 29, 2009Everybody in the poker world knows of course Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan by now, after his appearances in High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark. It was in that last show where I saw him make a nice play yesterday.
It was during episode of Season 4, when the PAD Cash Game is being introduced. Watch the fragment yourself below (hand starts at 5′):
While Phil Hellmuth is still telling the rest of the table why he’s the best player in the world 
, Allan Cunningham raises it up with AT suited but the raise is too small to prevent a family pot. He does flop top pair, but Tom Dwan makes a good play there: he has a gutshot straightdraw (and 6 high) but that doesn’t matter. Tom knows here that Allan can’t call this bet with just Aces in a family pot: Dwan could have easily flopped two pair, a set or even a wheel. This is a perfect example of playing the player instead of playing your own hand.