Ivan Demidov vs Dennis Phillips - WSOP 2008 Main Event Final Table

[omc03]

What happened to the rest? Who cuts a vid of at that point?

[RicanX5]

Hey look, its FPS Russia

[ucla198]

phillip played it horrendously. ivan 4bet pre cause he doesn't believe phillip has that strong a hand (maybe a hand like AJ or 1010 AT BEST). phillip shouldn't limp reraise pre with AK espeically since he doesn't shove after ivan 4bets. also the donk bet by phillip was stupid since ivan showed so much strength pre that ivan probably isn't folding (ivan could easily have QQ+, AQ+, or set of 10s or Js.)

[Tembath29]

I'm not so sure that Demidov's play here is great. Limp/raising pre flop is a sign of real strength. I'd be ranging Phillips on TT+ and AK here. I don't think he's folding any of those apart from what he actually had.

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[yanick203]

I just eliminated Ivan Demidov on Pokerstars in a sit n go

[curuzu]

@yanick203 so what u want? a medal?

[curuzu]

I think Ivan thought "well, the old man looks unconfortable, I re raised preflop so my image is like AA or KK, 1st plan; push I make him fold, 2nd plan; If he call I have 2 over cards and a UpDown Straight draw.... Do or die" IM ALL IN!!

[templedown]

id closes his eyes for a sec when he's bluffin. great bet though. good player

[Motherfunctional]

two poor plays here. calling with AK, extremely weak bet on the flop...

[11kike17]

The bet of phillips on the flop is very bad. Ivan do it very well

[DukeBalaor]

@11kike17

Weak bet? 4.5 millions? :D Are you kidding me? :o))) Should mean he hits a set, or over pair, it was good move, but Demidov decided gamble and for this time, well play. But he has afraid to push it. Only way, fold or push :o) I thing, that was pretty good decision, but againts set???? Just gable, he cant know.

[crockett616]

What gave it a way was not the way he said 'i raise' but the fact that he bet into the preflop reraiser and he bet small. He wouldnt have done it with a real hand. He would go allin preflop with QQ and probably KK and he wouldnt bet those or AA into demidov on the flop. No reason for all the hate though dude plays better than anyone here. Im not sure why demidov reraised preflop, all hands hes in trouble against will not fold but those will that he dominates or can push out on the flop.

[kazikartinec]

@crockett616 It's very easy why Demidov reraised, if you play poker long enough, u must know that chip leaders usually open most of the pots by trying to steal, which ivan did(opened a lot), and Phillips could easily play back at him by limp reraising- so Demidov decided to 9bet him, which is also very strong if Phillips doesn't have AA there, he could put Ivan on AA.

[adam75south]

lmao "i raise"

[mmnmnmmmnmmn]

4 bet**

[mmnmnmmmnmmn]

He simply did not have a plan after flatting the 5 bet. which lead to a big spew.

[thefrigidness]

dennis worst play here is only betting 4 million after the flop .. so weak

[sketto]

I think he gave it away when he said "raise". Demidov must've picked up on that. He'd been playing so good, no way he missed that.

[galeng]

4-bets getting flatted makes me giggle

[m4rkyboy]

Russians play good at games

[AA72AA72]

when demidov 4 bet it there preflop you have to decide to flat or shove with A K off, I mean come on people this is the world series of poker, and most online player know this

[Meems1001]

wrong, you need to decide to shove or fold, flatting and hoping to hit a 6-outer, or in this case a 5-outer, is just donking off your chips

[nolanryan999]

balsy to 4-bet with just AQ... the flop move was pretty awesome, but Phillips deserved it with his donk bet (1/4 the pot). At least demidov had a chunk of outs in case he got called.

[audiosultan]

Russian players are soo freaking sick. look up erik seidel vs alex kostyrsin (dunno how to spell) aussie millions 2008 headsup. they are really really really sickkk. amazing move by demidov.

[kazachkoff]

А я бы за коллировал. Или упал бы на 4-bet. Рыбы...

[shw3d]

Да, настоящие покер-про - в комментариях.

[superdave31]

yeh the main mistake was flat callling the raise

i wonder what would have happened if he went over the top and went all in i wonder if demidov actually thought he had the best hand

[nuimyster]

its so funi to hear all ur commnets calling phillps a donk, he made the final table, who had the last laugh lol... u have the luxury of seeing this after the fact you dorks

[superdave31]

mate i would love, absolutely love if i made the final table , played terrible and then everyone mocked me

id be like ok... yet im the one with 5 million sitting in the bank lol

[ElSpewtardo]

@nuimyster we have the luxury of seeing how terrible phillips played the hand

[MikeAllenInDaHouse]

what a crappy play 1st mistake he flat calls under the gun with AK, 2nd he re reaises then flat calls out of position for a hug amount of chips then he puts out a bet that says 'Im a weak old man who needs punishing for my shitty play' :)

[Furthermore23]

all in? demidov played like he got pocket AA QQ KK well played of demidov, all in would be a mistake.....

[TheDerder82]

the biggest mistake he made was the call pre flop...All in or fold

[bigderekmc]

lol. nice flat call phillips. limped to trap ak. ended up trapping urself.lol wp donk. who flats a 4 bet with ak??? and then the standard airball donk bet! lmao! get the fk outta here. imo i play the hand the coplete opposite to phillips. demidov pwnge

[ElSpewtardo]

He bets $4.5 m on the flop, the pot was over 16million at that stage. So retarded, and then he was getting a sick price to call for the rest of Demidovs chips and folds. LMAO

[wesleyhoulihan]

Are you saying you would've called Demidovs all in with AK there for your tournament life? Sure, he shouldn't bet the flop like that but even after he did he had to lay it down surely?

Really bad play though i agree with you on that...

[ElSpewtardo]

It wasnt for his tournament life, he had Demidov covered. The fact that he flatted Demidovs 4bet with AK which was about 1/3 of Demidovs stack is just horrid...

And it all started because he limped AK lol

[ElSpewtardo]

Edit: Sorry Demidov hadhim covered but that fact that phillips commits almost half his stack pre and folds is hilarious lol

[Neto808]

It doesn't matter how you play. Phillips cashed in the Main Event twice in 2 years and you didn't

[ElSpewtardo]

Wow cashing 2 tourneys must mean he is good. lol

[Neto808]

Making the WSOP ME final table and a deep run at the same event in the next year means he can play

[ElSpewtardo]

Jerry Yang won in 2007. Must mean he is good also. lol

[ShottyAtIlluminati]

I don't see what's so great about demidov's play here, he's double gutted with a backdoor flush draw and 2 overs, if philips calls his shove he's getting over 2 to 1, so it's a no brainer shove vs anything but a set, which I would bet philips never plays like this. Even in this case (which is actually worse for AQs than if philips had an overpair) if hands were face up and philips calls 100% of the time, he can still profitably shove.

[n1c4m1]

Demidov played the player obviously not the cards. Any pro would have probably called demidov.

[abcd7767]

any pro wouldn't limp in from an early position with AK. other players might call with suited connectors.

[jonsonn2]

1:55 dr. evil

[skearo75013]

position...

[1985pza]

demidov plays here so fuckin good

[NikolayTim]

@1985pza Демидов пишется с большой буквы. Это фамилия (по вашему - второе имя) )))

[bennybody]

3:18 thats a real relieved reaction

[ets008]

I thnk Phillips demonstrated the worst possible way to play AK in that spot

[ViggiMassi]

true, I like the limp though, since he probably figured that either he would get a raise or a walk with the blinds that high.

[ViggiMassi]

of course when I say I like the limp, I like how he does that in this particular situation. Not a smart move usually.

[gerardotxholdem]

@ets008 play the FINAL TABLE OF MAIN EVENT WORLD SERIES OF POKER "A-K" like Phillips and re-write your line kid.

[abcd7767]

demidov is so good. it wouldn't surprise me if he makes the main event final table again.

[thepostfk]

He was in early position and Limped with AK?

[ilias900]

donkaments

[jussisaurio]

horrible call with AK. all-in or fold.

[tryss]

When Dennis Phillips said "I'll raise" on the flop, Demidov must have thought that Phillips was trying to represent something strong when he had nothing. So that's probably why he went all-in.

[crcrulez]

shut up noob

[hamgray]

haha

[SugeKnight187]

One of my favorite plays ever, took balls of steel to do that. Demidov probably knew EXACTLY that Phillips had AK and outplayed him like a mufucka...as soon as Phillips said "raise" instead of "bet", it was over

[edruseli]

lol donkaments

[bennybody]

so the wsop main event is now a donkament to u?..donk

[edruseli]

yes.......yes it definately is. if u think otherwise then you have never played it. i on the other hand have played it so the difference is that i actually know wtf i am talking about u cocksucking scumbag

[martinmc11ira]

when did u play it? you cant be that good at poker if your on watching videos of poker you tosser

[bfm92]

wow phillipsplayed that bad, only play preflop was too either putdemidov not on aa, or kk and too move all in, or too fold, too call there is so bad

[ivienthol]

Wow Dennis sucks

[munckymagic]

Love this hand. When philips reraised I actually thought ' He likes to reraise with AK' after seeing previous episodes on TV. So I guess Demidov thought this as well and it was confirmed when he called the rereraise. Then Demidov put all his chips behind his read, nice one. Isn't that four words?

[nickv1111]

lol phillipsaments

[KnowYourTeam]

3 words...'out of his depth'