Williams vs Farha
Published July 13, 2011I’ve really discovered the National Heads-up Championships episodes as real good entertainment. Of course, still no High Stakes Poker, but some very interesting hands none the less!
This poker show has one great advantage: you’ll never get bored of seeing the same table all the time. Ok, and another great advantage: ALL the famous poker pros participate, which is already entertainment guaranteed in some cases. The sickest hand I’ve seen in the 2009 Championships must be the next one, between Sammy Farha and David Williams:
It’s the first hand they show from these guys in this part of the 8th episode. Williams flops the nuts and Sammy should be ready to pay him off to the maximum. Williams plays the hand the best he can, but Sammy catches his three-outer on the river. This is obvious a sick beat for Williams, holding the second nuts in an heads-up game (!) against the only hand that beats him. Also notice the priceless acting from Farha on the river!!
Players with a history
Published June 28, 2009When two players share a certain history which eachother, regarding poker confrontations in the past, a hand can be played completely different than in any other normal situation. This was showed exactly by Sammy Farha and Patrick Antonius, on High Stakes Poker (S04E16). I have the fragment right here for you:
Where Barry Greenstein folds his AJ, Sammy wants to play with his K6 against Antonius. The Finnish player makes a continuation bet on the flop, but Sammy is not scared with his middle pair, this obviously is a great call. Not because Sammy’s just a loose player but because he actually is convinced he has the best hand there. Antonius however sticks with his read that Sammy is not that strong and fires two more bullets on turn and river. Sammy makes two great calls. Those two guys will without any doubt collide again in the future.