Favorite televised poker hands? post your fav. cash gameplays and offer hand analysis

**hockey216** · 03-01-13, 06:34 PM

Hellmuth losing to Ivey. Players gang up laughing at Hellmuth. Hellmuth catches some tough breaks. But since his ego is so damn huge, player's don't feel bad for him when he loses.

**Deep_Rest** · 03-01-13, 10:02 PM

Any TV hand with Hellmuth is awesome. As far as real poker, any table with Dwan, Antonius and Ivey together.

**Untied** · 03-01-13, 10:54 PM

**Jimmy Proffett** · 03-02-13, 08:18 AM

That Friedlander deserved getting slowrolled imo.

I always liked this hand between Hellmuth and Durrrr. Just all around great.

**k13** · 03-02-13, 11:51 AM

Any hand that does NOT involve Ivey or Dwan.

**BeerDog99** · 03-02-13, 01:25 PM

This is one of the sickest I have seen. Negreanu and Hansen.

**daneblazer** · 03-04-13, 10:52 AM

Breaking my posting fast one time. Galfond lays down a boat after the turn is checked through. Elezra fires out a big bet on the river to try to make up for some lost equity from the turn checking through. Galfond reads it and folds.

A few hands later...

**tatddy** · 03-04-13, 05:47 PM

Originally posted by daneblazer

Breaking my posting fast one time. Galfond lays down a boat after the turn is checked through. Elezra fires out a big bet on the river to try to make up for some lost equity from the turn checking through. Galfond reads it and folds.

A few hands later...

Not too much thought put into either of these folds. Relatively easy for him.

**tatddy** · 03-04-13, 06:06 PM

Originally posted by hockey216

greetings. would love to make a thread with everyone's favorite CASH GAME hands, particularly involving the big name players (ivey, laak, hansen, esfandiari, elezra, greenstein, doyle, dwan, hellmuth, negreanu, matusow, etc.). I don't care about tournaments. They are relatively short stacked and cash games (especially when players are 200+ big blinds deep) are tougher to play.

Here's a favorite one of mine. Durrrr and ivey heads up after the flop. I particularly like the psychological elements of the hand. Ivey is a very high level thinker and tries to psychologically read and manipulate opponents. Watch the mental attack this hand.

I had forgotten about this hand. Amazing. I think Ivey ultimately decided that there was too good a chance that Durr was "bluffing" with a pair 77-99 and didn't want to lose another quarter million in a showdown to one of those hands. Too bad...would have loved to see a call there.

**hockey216** · 03-07-13, 06:42 PM

Originally posted by tatddy

I had forgotten about this hand. Amazing. I think Ivey ultimately decided that there was too good a chance that Durr was "bluffing" with a pair 77-99 and didn't want to lose another quarter million in a showdown to one of those hands. Too bad...would have loved to see a call there.

He analyzed the hand perfect. He knew Dwan was full of shit. Dwan 3bet to 28,000 (was 3500) preflop after Laak and Esfandiari were goating him into raising and calling him a maniac. Ivey figured Dwan might have just raised that hand by ego since players were calling him a maniac just before he raised. Also, Ivey has a suited ace, stacks between him and Dwan are VERY DEEP (over 1,200 big blinds each) and he's in position. With the right flop (e.g. diamond draw), Ivey knows there's chance to win a huge amount of money, Dwan's whole stack (800k). Ivey flops nut flush draw, knows he's in hand with Dwan, who's super agressive. Also, in case Dwan really does have a strong hand, notably a set of k's, q's, t's, that means Ivey most likely would get paid a lot of money if a diamond hits (if doesnt pair board). He also thinks there's chance Dwan is very weak. Since they are about 600k deep each after Ivey called Dwans turn bet, he figures he has a shot to get paid, or even make a sick float and river bluff in the instance Dwan is bluffing. The pot had gotton so large, that someone who fired 2 bullets and got caught might want to give up and cut losses on river, instead of risk losing another quarter-million more. Ivey's in position. If Dwan was airballing and decides to check and give up, Ivey could potentially win showdown, or if Dwan was bluffing a weak hand like a pair of q's or t's, ivey could bluff him off the hand. Ivey also knows that if Dwan does has a hand, a diamond coming on river would win him Dwan's entire stack, almost $600,000 more. In the end, he misses, and senses weakness in Dwan. I noticed a few things on the river showing Dwan was weak. His nervous fingers knocked over his chips when he went to grab them. Also, his voice sounded very shaky when asked how many chips he had. Also, he looked very scared like a statue, and looked like he was holding his breath in fear. He could be acting nervous, so the last part is the least reliable. However, Dwan also scratched his eye. That's a tell of lying. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Touching the mouth, nose, eyes, ear indicates a person is lying. In this case, there was some strong physical evidence Dwan was scared to death after that river bet. Ivey asked Dwan as soon as he bet "How much is that, and how much do you have left?" Dwan was shaky in his response. Ivey took a long time, and even said, "this is going to be the sickest call of all time." Dwan looked really nervous. Ivey knew that, and knew that this is the scenario where you might be able to make a thin call against a hyper-agressive loose player like Dwan. But a pair of 6's would be really thin. Ivey knew that he still needed something. If Dwan had it, he loses. If Dwan was bluffing with a pair of t's J's q's 9's 8's or 7's, ivey knows he loses. A pair of 6's can't beat anything. It can only beat a lower PP or some type of suited/connected 9-7 or 89 or 78 hand. That's really it. He doesn't beat much. Funny that Dwan had the only type of believable hand Ivey would actually be beating. In the end, Ivey knows Dwan is weak. He has the dead read on him. But it's no guarantee that his 6's will stand up, if Dwan is bluffing thinking he's behind with 7's 8's 9's T's, J's, or Q's. In the end, a pair of 6's wasn't enough. Despite knowing how weak Dwan looked, any pro will go broke if he throws in half-million dollars every hand with a lousy pair of 6's. Ivey knows he can't call. And he doesn't.

Ivey could have also been show-boating. He could have made up his mind on the turn that he's chasing the river to try to hit a diamond or a J and win Dwan's whole stack, or he's going to fold if he misses. He could have just taken that long to put fear into Dwan. and he did. He put the fear of God into Dwan. Dwan was probably sitting there after the bet, thinking, "Please God. make him fold. Please God. I promise never to try to bluff him ever again. I swear. Please God make him fold." This is part of the meta-game. If Ivey insta-folded, Dwan might have felt cocky and tried to run him over all session long. Ivey made Dwan piss his pants he was so scared. Even though he folded and sacrificed the pot, he probably gained equity by the semantics on the river. I guarantee you Dwan did not try to pull anymore big bluffs against Ivey for a while. Ivey probably profited in future from Dwan becoming passive/scared to bluff.