Antoine Saout AQ vs Antonio Esfandiari KJ WSOP 2009 - Day 8

[MaKsPuA]

hard to swallow the raise Antonio ?

[weatherallc05]

@MaKsPuA yeah stop being a cock. you will never be as good as antonio , simple

[devez7]

that donkbet from Antonio, was literally a donkbet!!

[Izaak247]

Shouldn't of donk bet Antonio

[crcrulez]

Saout and Begleiter the best players on wsop 2009

[New987user]

Description says 3.215 M pot .... lol 1.8 M of it was his own chips when he bet it and Esfandiari folded ...

[krispyrice1]

everyone is a poker expert on youtube

[weatherallc05]

@krispyrice1 so they think. they are all twats, and will never win a bracelet or half of what ivey or dwan has earned in their career. the fact is they woldnt last 10 hands at the wsop cos as soon as they realised they dont get to see their opponents hands like on tv screeens, they will be scared shitless. they are shit fucking players and all hypocritical

[PouChen]

oh wow... one youtuber disliking this clip?

must be antonio :P

[krazyazn208]

saout the best of the final table

[dannyburge]

@krazyazn208 ...ivey?

[bomberboi200]

@krazyazn208 are you saying he's better than ivey?

[krazyazn208]

@bomberboi200 of course not, almost everyone votes ivey as the best in the world, so he automatically is the best. saout was 2nd best of the final table. just got unlucky and i believe he shouldve won the whole thing

[PVFCFordy]

@bomberboi200 He played better than Ivey on the final table and he was crazy unlucky not to win it.

[chokunochokuno]

@krazyazn208 i think u are forgetting the best player on the world

[WaspSnG]

@krazyazn208 Better than Phil Ivey?

[desperados700]

@krazyazn208 because hes a french ;)

[Neiltwiss]

@desperados700 because he's a french? So he is the worst.

[uguysarefried]

@krazyazn208 dont diss ivey like that

[ikweetbeter]

@krazyazn208 he did get UL

[cloudstrife1288]

@krazyazn208 Ever heard of Phil Ivey?

[STMotorsportTube]

donkbetting (atleast in HU pots) is impossible to balance, most reaction to any donkbet for the first time in HU pots=>raise

[pmam1968]

Nice example of multi-level thinking.

Flop came rags so Esfandiari correctly realized flop had missed Saout so he bet the flop out of position.

Saout recognised that Esfandiari only bet the flop because it missed Saout, not because Esfandiari had anything either. Saout's A-high plus a gutshot stood to be better than Esfandiari's holding so he raised him off the hand.

Both players played the flop correctly - bet, raise and fold.

[el1407]

@pmam1968 There's nothing correct about Antonio's play here. Ivey would have checked here, allowed saout to bet, and then come over the top. And that's why he made the final table and Antonio didn't.

[pmam1968]

@el1407 I think both betting the flop and check-raising had merit. However, with the path he took he could give the pot up if Saout came back over the top, which still left him with over 4 million in chips. Check-raising was also possible but it was a high-risk/high-reward strategy - it would pot-commit him (he started the hand with about 5 million chips). If he had a deeper stack it might have been more attractive.

[el1407]

@pmam1968 True, but there's no reason to believe that Saout bets the same amount as Antonio if it's checked to him. The way I see it, antonio's out of position and has a weak hand, and hence, bets 3/4 the pot to take it down. If he goes for the c-raise, I can't see Saout betting any more than 1/3 the pot (if he indeed does bet) meaning antonio would have only had to come over with maybe little more than his original 3/4 pot bet. Tbh, I just hate the bet cause there's no way Saout is folding.

[pmam1968]

@el1407 Yeah, maybe you're right. It was a good read but a sub-optimal play.

[johnsull66]

why is this hand posted???

[samueljue]

@johnsull66 because ur probably used to all-in preflops, while what you have here is real poker.

[idalgleish87]

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