Sunday, June 27, 2010

Poker pearl #49


Above: Scan of the cover of the June 16 issue of Card Player magazine.

Lex Veldhuis discussed a hand he played on the TV show, High Stakes Poker. The blinds were $400/800 with a $1600 straddle. Barry Greenstein opened for $5800 and Phil Ivey raised to $18,000. Veldhuis re-raised to $31,000 with K J (basically as a bluff) and Ivey moved all in.

Veldhuis folded, of course, and was disappointed when he watched it on TV later and saw that Ivey had 5-2!

"Who knows what Phil Ivey sees that we don't see?" asks Adam Schoenfeld. "He might actually have one of those 'Terminator' cameras in his head that sees everything."

3 comments:

  1. He could beat most of us with just his eye intensity.

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  2. wow. Ivey trusts his reads alright.

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  3. One should only straddle a horse. Or...well, never mind.

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