Jason Mercier vs Wilf poker amazing bluff WSOPE 2009

[itssimpleiwinyoulose]

What hand raises on the turn that couldnt raise on the flop? Unless he was slowplaying an overpair or a set the only hand that makes sense to me is QJ. And 2 pair are hard to make :)

[moctezuma2008]

@itssimpleiwinyoulose if he flat called with A-K high on the flop, what makes you think he couldn't flat called with A-Q? Sure, Q-J is another possibility, but u can't just say "two pair are hard to make". It can certainly happen. And yes, I've seen many ppl slow playing overpairs, especially if you are playing against Jason since he is most likely to C-bet every flop after a raise preflop. Great play by both players.

[wathetimbo13]

wilf the milf



[5JoelP]

newb looking player on a flush draw board, wilf just calls the flop. on the turn he raises mercier. people usually only reraise with the nuts on the turn, the turn also came a q which is an rasy reraise spot for wilf, mercier knows this. so for this story to be believable mervier has to believe that he hit a set and just called the flop, or he just wants mercier to give up on the turn, but when that didn't happen wilf still went with the reraise which seems a bit more bluffish than strong.

[efker1]

@5JoelP hahaha, this fag thinks he is a good poker player on youtube.

[scottwlfc]

@5JoelP ok, so what is your point exactly?

[kostasmatrakas]

HOW FAT DOES HAWKINS IS? I DONT LIKE HIS STYLE....

[JDLupus]

@kostasmatrakas If I sold a company for $169,000,000 I'd put on some weight, too.

[EuropeanSpaceAgency1]

Cute!

[smack9923]

Meh i doubt top pair would fold judging by how he was reacting.he just got really lucky but still sick

[godzac]

LOL I THOUGHT WILF WAS 'WOMAN ID LIKE TO FUCK'!

[sunnyboy8644]

@godzac LOL...

[pilotz32]

Mercier: Don't call, don't call, don't call, please don't call.....

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[cardmastad]

standard play whats so amazing?

[ayd1nmo]

If he 3bet preflop none of this would have happened. nh though

[KevinDorner]

Amazing allin-move by Mercier. Extremely risky for sure... on the other hand he knew his opponent would only be able to make the call with a huge hand like a set or at least two pair. And Mercier might have thought, if that guy has such a strong hand he wouldn't have raised on the turn to keep his opponent in the game and make him pay off with top pair or something. Anyway, incredibly high level those guys are operating on, really impressive.

[southeast21]

@KevinDorner sorry i cant understand what you mean,.. dont explain i know why he did it anyway.. but i get tired of peeps talking like they know but in fact they dont..

everytime i play lets say i deosit 300 dollar i double em up to betwen 2000-3000$ cashgame in 3 hours totale sometimes moore thats high operating level;) u cant do this if you cant play not that fasst.. this is true story..

[ONEBlackJellyFish]

semi-bluff

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[Lakis2519]

he just read his hand perfect , he also has the king of hearts in his hand assuring him he ain't chasing the flush draw and realised he can't call a 3bet at the time being nad his currnet stack size , not to mention there is always 1 / 6 chance jason hits his ace / 9 on the river

[ChadNose]

Mercier is just a crazy donkey and Wilf needs to learn not to pressure a crazy donkey with ace high. Easy as cake. He learned the hard way though and lost 350k chips from trying to outplay a maniac.

[Izaak247]

How is mercer so good?

[jkilla11789]

bunch of pros on here analyzing the play, what a joke. VNH Jason

[jonesydavid]

Crazy good from Mericer. No reason why Wilf can't have a small set or JQ, so it's a sick read in the first place. Wilf can only call with QJ AQ AJ if he has a dead read that mercier has air/ semi bluff Ah10h or Ah Kh. As mercier rarely plays AA KK AQ this way himself, much more likely he would call the turn raise and call non heart non paint river. Mericer is reping a set or QJ. The sickest thing is Mercier is almost never bluffing in the spot given the line and stack sizes.

[conor66666]

should have raised pre-flop..

[chazsinohui]

Sick

[J0ban]

@4thwonder7

By making that big reraise on turn in that stage of the tournament Wilf won't call with any other hand than a monster (which is 22s and 55s since Wilf would reraise JJ+ pre) and AQ. Wilf called the flopbet and most players would'nt do that with AQ. Mercier probably had him on AJ and decided to bet him off the pot when the scarecard came.

Weird play by Wilf though. Flatcall pre and turn a great hand into a bluff on a dangerous board.

[kavana85]

If i had the luck of mercier i would shove there on a draw, but i don't so i wouldn't!

[Maverrick11]

mercier is a very good tournament player, and good against the lower end professional cash game players, against the best players in cash games he gets dominated though

[superdave31]

merciers play is pretty good because lets see.. - what is the other guy calling the flop with? A jack? Maybe.. tens, 9s A/K etc.. - the turn-if he called with those hands the turn is gona put a lot of pressure on them. The only hands at this point mercier is worried about is queen jack, and ace queen maybe ace jack as well. Tho you still may get a donk that calls with 8s, 9s etc. - by going all in, even if he gets called he has a lot of outs, in some cases even the king could still be an out

[enigma636]

if wilf think that hes losing and waiting for open only A,K or 10(25%) then this is a nice fold.doesnt worth to risk 370 for 1087.

[bierbuik]

That's the worst fold I've ever seen. He only had to call 370 in a 1.087.000 pot LOL What a donkey.

[mmnmnmmmnmmn]

A pair of balls, beats everything.

[Amaru19]

Wilf deserved to be shoved off his hand, why the hell would you raise that turn.. omg..

[fullfledgedfighter]

@Amaru19 maybe they both had reads on each other.

[samauripizzacats101]

i disliked mercier when i first watched him but he won me over with good play

[laistar]

unluckily enough his bluff didn't work against Ivey

[18BlueMunich60]

mercier is the best tournemant player right now

[acske]

wilf played this so unbelievably badly, basically turned the best hand into a bluff.. no raise pre then a bizarre reraise on the turn? was he raising for value or what?!!!

[millsathn]

"everytime we look up he's knocking someone off"....that isnt the best choice of words

[Gytax0]

@millsathn If you haven't seen the whole tournament, don't tell anything. He knocked out tens of players.

[beeryce88]

Mercier, one of the best right now for sure

[blamtasticful]

The only way I think this play makes sense is if Mercier puts Wilf on a jack.

[rikvanvelzen]

PS. next to that Mercier know wilf doesn''t have AA/KK because they would have raised preflop and QQ is also ruled out because of the callbehind on the flop. For KQ the same applies as AQ

[rikvanvelzen]

so I think Jason puts WilF at exactly AKo (AK of hearts has good equity and would just call) or 66 to TT. This means WILF has been put in a spot where he can hardly call and even if he does he still has some equity....

[rikvanvelzen]

Easy shove for Mercier.... he bet flop 1-3 pot and if wilf has overpair,tpgk or set he needs to raise against mercier´s possible draws for protection cause mercier bet seems like either a blockbet or a bluffinducebet. wilf´s raise on the turn basically means he has AK or smaller pocketpairs.... AQ wouldn´t raise cause it has great showdownvalue, sets and overpair would have allready raised the flop and raising with a flushdraw is overplayed...

[4thwonder]

i just don't get this play. how the hell does Mercier know he has folding equity against someone who committed nearly half his stack? i wouldn't think twice about just calling turn and shut down if i miss. sick play

[SurvivingTheHorizon]

@4thwonder i watched an interview at some point about this hand. it was the flow of the tournament, he had taken like 2-3 pots off this guy over the last few hands and expected a move. insane play if thats all it was.

[vademax44]

@4thwonder almost a min raise on his play... weak reraise

[superdave31]

@4thwonder yeh but rememver he also has outs even if he does call

[TeddyNutsChannel]

@4thwonder It's gut feeling. I'm not trying to blow my own horn but there are times when you know the guy your playing heads up thinks he's behind. Mercier picked it up and made the best play possible..

[bassbole]

@4thwonder There may have been some history here, I wouldnt doubt it.

[Manveru31]

@4thwonder You must use what you think your opponent knows. if you always use logic and statistics is difficult to improve as a player. Like Barry Greenstein says, it's all psicology

[futuroleghista]

@4thwonder

Wilf did big mistake: didnt reraise preflop AK, so Mercier exclude he has AK, AQ, AA,KK,QQ. On Flop came a J and 2 hearts. He flat Mercier again. He rearaised on turn after e Q come. What the hell Wilf can have? I would exclude a trap with 55-22-JJ cause of the flush draw. Would exclude AJ,KJ,QJ that would reraise on flop or value-bet at river. Only real danger for Mercier is KQ but still have small fold equity and 8/11 outs if called. All other hands have great fold equity.

[thecureandthecause1]

@futuroleghista he could easily not reraise with any of those hands preflop

[futuroleghista]

@thecureandthecause1

Infact was what Wilf did, and I think is big mistake and especially against Mercier and when you have position on him. Anyway ovviously Mercier cannot be sure 100% when shoves. But all the hand make you think Wilf have not an over pair, on flop hearts would be scaring and wilf checks. Ok maybe didnt reraise AQ preflop and hit it on turn. So is only 2 hands: AQ(unlikely) and KQ.

[nybombs]

@futuroleghista huh what? I don't think mercier would do the same play with AQ and KQ... if you go all in, you are getting called by better hands and fold by worse hands...

[nybombs]

@futuroleghista wilf should have 3bet preflop

[stinky472]

@4thwonder Real pros don't get pot-committed in the sense that you are talking about. The amount of chips one has put into a pot should never affect the decision to call, only the odds. Unless Wilf could put Jason on total air, any pair (the worst better hand Wilf could hope for) still dominates him and gives him insufficient odds to call with only two overcards at the turn. That said, I don't have an answer to your question about fold equity: how Mercier was able to pick that spot was beyond me

[stinky472]

@4thwonder How Mercier was able to polarize Wilf's range is beyond me. His PF and flop/turn actions didn't give me any sense that he had AK and didn't connect on the flop. The board is fairly dry and not particularly threatening or well-suited for a monster bluff. I also wonder about the tournament structure. If they were in a critical spot in the money and Mercier picked up on this, he might have felt he could pull this off against Wilf even on that fairly dry board.

[djsinya]

@4thwonder Mercier is very aggressive and sometimes makes bad moves.. Look at his hand at the WSOP 2010 against Robert Mizrachi putting Robert All in with 55 against mizrachi's kingz

[curuzu]

@djsinya link?

[djsinya]

@curuzu i aint got the link.. But you can watch the coverage of the 2010WSOP.. You'll find it while watching

[sidsa9]

soo good

[drbdrbrobertdrbdrb]

I would pick Mercier to win the WSOP 2010 main event :D

[se0163]

i was going to say it was not that amazing, it was pretty standard on the turn but when Wilf raised and Mercier shoved... so sick!

[zexglavorezo]

Mercier is a very good player :]

[lewy10000]

mercier will be nine or ace ang he has a strit

[StoneHawk1]

omg next Phil Ivey

Jason Mercier playing very good !