$360,000 Pot between Patrik Antonius and Brian Townsend

[dbtbandit67]

Even if they did Townsend clearly went against his own read on the river

[Faven67]

Brian is merging is river valuebetting range (too much imo) and calls cause he thinks patrick might turn something like 88 into a bluff. Pretty bad though especially with the 4 peeling off

[JohnnySmum]

Patrik Antonius is such a beautiful man; it brings me joy just looking at him

[galeng]

3:14 lol Ivey's mess of chips

[EarlZMoade]

look how organised Iveys stack is.

[HonorGuard117]

@EarlZMoade lolollol true that

[laistar]

Horrible call on the re-raise and horrible betting on the river, Patrik played it exactly like that because Brian is known for his very thin value bet.

[vexxe78]

Vesa Miettinen likes. I always respect Patrik Antonius work as a poker professional. See Vesa Miettinen.

[KayleighKJ20]

Durrrr tries a big river bluff at the wrong time. $86K pot. Durrrr is bluffing because he built all his money on a free 50 $ starting capital he got from Pokerfrik website so he not really worried about bluffing.

[husband009]

This time it didn’t work out, but that doesn’t mean the play was bad. For those who are looking for a 50 $ free starting capital you should visit PokerFrik website!

[habibur0994]

In this case he could have chosen to check raise the turn when he made the open ended straight to go with his overcards. Btwn if somebody is looking foward to start making money at poker you shoukld tkae free 50 $ from Pokerfrik website for a safe start :)

[mattingly234ever]

what a dipshit

[Localhost47]

5:08 Phil Ivey: wtf moment ~_~

[Jagerboi21]

wow!! worst call and worst betting on all streets....come on brian i thought u were better than that???!?!?!?!?!?!

[adham4ever12]

They are playing six tables and have agreed to resume play after just an hour’s break, so stay tuned for a lot more action. Lol, anyway i will built my bankroll out of those free 50 $ i got from Pokerfrik, so once day i'll kick durrrrs ass :)

[999Vanille]

Ironically it was durrrr who was on the losing end of this confrontation. Btwn are there any more sites like Pokerfrik which offers free 50 $?

[TheTspeedoflightt]

great raise the river by patrik

[canadianpoker83]

@haroonKS A bluff obviously

[wanttf]

fffishy river action with a middle strong queen. 

[SlutSmasher66]

PAs range by the river looks basically like a weak Q

when PA raises it looks like hes trying to rep the obv 78, but fact is he doesnt get 78s to the river that way that often. sets are unlikely because theyre sets.

he is asking what is more likely, PA is turning a Q into a bluff or has a set/straight

[raisydaisy01]

lol very weak play by JQ, watch phil iveys face :D

[k0rk1]

townsend said in an interview that he just did not think PA would ever play a set like he did. brian is a smart and creative player and sometimes it looks dumb when you don't play standart.

[ChronicBurnout3]

great video, could BT possibly have played the hand worse?

[superdave31]

but what are the chances of patrick bluff raising on the river? from what ive seen with patrick antonios he actually seems more of a standard player rather than a player that likes to get tricky. The only hand ive seen him bluff big is when it was vs farha and farha hit two pair and called him

[pattycakes65]

"I can't see Patrik Antonius raising here." Yeah I can't either. Who check raises a set on the river when they've under repped it the whole hand? Thank god people who play poker think like this.

[Harlingtonjnr3]

110 calling for 250...you need to be right roughly one out of 2 no? is PA going to chk/call pre-flop, flop and turn, then chk/raise river with you beating him 50% of the time with 2nd pair?

[adham4ever12]

It might make jungleman12 think twice about making marginal valuebets on the river in the future, so the result on this one specific hand does not tell the complete story. Jungleman started his carrier with only 50 $ he got for free from Pokerfrik website, that prooves he really is a top player.

[lohor01]

In addition, he does not manage to hit any of his winners on the river. Newborn players have the advantage over the old pros because today you can get free 50 $ starting capital from the websites like PokerFrik and it's an easy start.

[NebunLaCap]

@lohor01 can you get that 50 dollars if you already have a pokerstars of ftp account and deposited money before??????

[suneel7]

too all the professional's out there who are like 'lol he is so obviously beat'?! This is the patrick antonius factor.. These guys play each hu online all the time and when u add history at the table all sort of donk/hero calls could be made.. Fair play he had a read and he had the minerals to go with it! I personally cant see the logic but perhaps im not the one to judge,,, there are the guys who have made the millions playing poker

[NebunLaCap]

@suneel7 Yup and Townsend made his millions by cheating and colluding.

[suneel7]

@NebunLaCap

isnt that what every person online uses? poker hud stat trackers?

[NebunLaCap]

@suneel7 he COLLUDED

[suneel7]

@NebunLaCap serious!!! scum bags.... my bad, dude.

[ksimps44]

I check the river if Patrick checks to me.. lose small..

[Zao911]

god these commentaters are horrible

[Harlingtonjnr3]

How the f*ck is Townsend a pro? And he gets to bone Kara Scott!

[NebunLaCap]

@Harlingtonjnr3 Because he colluded to win a lot of money.

[tetankemint]

horrible call, you cant justify that.

[NebunLaCap]

@tetankemint I would of raised all in there was a straight out there. But he probably would of called idk. Would that of been a good play?

[tetankemint]

@NebunLaCap nope. trips is pretty much an instacall with that kind of board.

patrik knew that it was extremely unlikely townsend held a marginal hand like 3-7 or 7-8 to fill that straight, considering townsend made a big raise pre-flop. when a player makes it that much to go, he's usually holding a good hand with a good kicker at the least (unless his name is sam farha or tom dwann, of course).

[animal3204]

you cant cheat live thats y he lost

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[AdolfNewton]

Brian Townsend never heard of the term pot control before.

[Riox7PepzI]

lol these comments =D, patrik made that move because townsend bluffs like that normally so it looked like bluff TO TOWNSEND, it was move just for him and u guys say "bad call", that was fucking amaizing check-raise...

[donbabba1]

its easy to call it a bad call when you can see the hole cards if any of you played against Antonius he would make you look like you have never even played before lol(including me just not as much )

I agree bad call but looks a lot easier when you can see the whole cards.

[Randy1337]

the bet on the river is not that stupid, the call is just so bad.And this guy plays highstakes.LOL just LOL

[john656656]

@Randy1337 not really. the answer deponds on how well Patrik knows and reads Brian Townsend.

[stonedtoperfection22]

@Randy1337 why would the bet on river be stupid? Its value bet

[Randy1337]

@stonedtoperfection22 i said the bet is NOT that stupid as the call is.

[jiamonx2]

@Randy1337 everyone on youtube is a poker expert, how do you know these guys have never played a similar hand like this where patrick check calls every street and check raises the river with a bluff?

[serratop]

great play by antonius, townsend got traped like a beginner, who made an unnessessary bet on the river. if his hand would have been the best, hed won anyway, if not, hed be fucked as seen. you dont even have to see the pocketcards to know that. stupid bet, well done

[canuckman87]

love seeing online players like townsend and durr get beat by real pro's.

[KillerDiaguR]

antonius is an online player. and durrr and sbrugby are real pros.

[canuckman87]

No, you're a tretard.

[KillerDiaguR]

if you don't acknowledge A: that antonius spends a helluva lot of time playing online at FT, and B: both durrr and sbrugby are "real" pros, then i guess we will agree to disagree.

[canuckman87]

I agree on all points. Jus that online and live are two completelyt different games. Patrik is way better live than ''durrr''' and ''sbrugby''.

[Chillypuwn]

what the fuck you talking about. get a clue

[canuckman87]

Are you going to tell me with a traight face Townsend or durr is better than antonius?

[Gforcebond]

I gues he figured Patrick could only have two hands where he could of check raised there on the river. The nut str8 or a bluff. I think the math got to him which made him call. You could tell by his body language that his instincts right away said you were beat. He probably didn't expect a set or even two pair he would expect Patrick to either lead or re raise on the turn or flop if he had 2 pair or a set. Maybe he put Patrick on a busted heart draw possibility.

[superdave31]

the commentators annoy me saying 'i cant imagine him re raising this one'

every time i have a monster liek this im gona re raise regardless of what i think they have

if you dont shoot, you dont score

[MrDoninck]

strange! townsend is a really good player, and normally he would lay that hand down in a second. I don't know, i guess he blacked out or something

[Mopete666]

I think one hand that the commentators forgot to mention is ak.. brian could easily cbet the flop and hit the king on the turn.. which would be a hand antonius could get some value from by check raising, they mentionned kq but there are more, like bottom set for example, these guys mix it up brian could very well have a smaller set.

[MeanMountainMan]

This my be off, but here's my take on what happened. The commentator stated that Brian likes to value bet his marginal holdings on the river. If Patrik knows Brian does this then Patrik can check raise his monsters. Brian might know that Patrik knows that he value bets thin on the river. Brian might think Patrik may bluff raise him off a marginal hand on the river.

[superdave31]

ur description of the hand explains it all correctly. the donks here annoy me when they say all this shit like 'bryan wouldnt value bet the river' this is why ppl like bryan made it to the high stakes in the 1st place - they value bet rivers, they take risks, and their general poker thinking is on another level to most players

[Bputts]

@MeanMountainMan Major leveling lol

[superdave31]

@MeanMountainMan i still think you have to ask yourelf tho is patrick ever in the pot by river without a monster? i know about the higher level thinking and shit but how often does that happen compared to having a monster etc

[DonCoco00]

@superdave31 I changed my screen name(from MMM) a while ago. I think if he wants to play optimally vs. very intelligent opponents Patrik MUST be bluffing a certain % of the time.Futhermore, I don't think Patrik shows up with a straight in that specific spot very often at all. I think he'd flat the flop bet, but I would be very skect that he'd call on the turn(pretty sure he is getting priced out). I think Brian specifically thought Patrik was trying to move him off AA,KK,or continued...

[DonCoco00]

@superdave31 ...a mid strength type hand. Brian may think Patrik's raise for value is 55 or 66 for a flopped set. It makes sense with his limp call. The problem is that it is hard to make a set(You'll have to look up the math. I think it's 7 to 1). I believe that Brian thought he was bluffing at least 30 % of the time. If that % is correct (assumed, although again, if Brian value bets light Patrik's bluffing freq. should increase imo), Brian made a correct call. The commentators said continued..

[DonCoco00]

@superdave31 ... Brian had to call $110,000 to win $253,000. That's 2.27 to 1 on a call. If Patrik is bluffing there 30% then I like his call. 30% =2.33 to 1, so it would be break even call. I also think an argument could be made that if Brian calls in that spot, with less than a monster, he in turn protects himself against some bluffs in the future.

[DonCoco00]

@DonCoco00 EDIT- in reference to the math, the call would be very slightly bad, however Patrik's bluff freq. could be skewed towards a bluff.

[synthaxerror007]

some of u said he bet the river because he didnt want to be bluffed on the river. one point these guys are missing is that brian had position. check behind and then please tell me how he can be bluffed.

[mognite]

@synthaxerror007 brian did not have position

[PokerMashine]

o my GOOOD! what a fucking DONK!!!! putting in 150 000 $ with qj! second pair on the table.... he could have called all the way with 78 ffs.. lol they play so bad!

[MankDj]

If they play so bad then you can explain why you not playing there with them?:).

[pokerchobo]

pokermashine

huge fish

[next12win]

I'm shocked. Brian makes consistantly great laydowns from what I've seen. I think this call happened for two reasons, Antonios' reputation of bluffing BIG with junk, and I also think Brian picked up a false tell at some point. They're both great players.

[Shizun]

the bet on the river was absolutely stupid.totally unnecessary

[Semibrucelee]

well.. lol at ivey's reaction at 05:08

[tiamat87]

the call was pretty screwed up

i mean there are tons of hands that beat him

[Ladybird5352]

I love Flyvi

[precious32879]

love townsends reaction after antonius check raises the river

[RandomGuy43]

the fuck was brian doing?

[inmyfreezermayne]

......its easy for you to make those kinds of comments with the cards turned up. Townsend is a world class player, Antonius as well. You don't know the history between them, as well as each player's individual read. While I agree the call was poor, its too easy to make that type of assesment from our positions.

[jr543266]

why did townsend Value bet on the river? Their is absolutey NO hand that patrick could call with that is Worse than townsends

[popeye135]

its not that there was no hand that patrick could call,,,,sometimes (in this case) u make a value bet to avoid being bluff at the river with the best hand. If townsend checks the river Patrick would probably bluff at him and now Townsend wouldn't know if he is just bluffing or he really has a hand. Townsend played perfectly until the river raise call.

[EdDy4RheelZ]

Although this is true, if you just check on the river everytime you have something weak, then these players will eventually find out and will keep betting on the river and you wont' know if they're bluffing or not, like what popeye said. For example, you and I play. If I know you're a type of player who checks with marginal or weak hand everytime, then next time, I'll just keep betting on river. But if I know you're a type of player who bets on river, then I might check hoping for u to bet.

[EdDy4RheelZ]

Although it's correct to never make stupid river bets when you can win through showdown by checking it to end all the action, if pros spot your betting pattern and your moves and see that you're type of player who checks all the time on the river, then they can use this against you. You make yourself vulnerable to getting bluffed. They can make heavy river bets or you won't know if you should call or fold.

[IllSk1llz]

Antonius is a god in cash games.

[ee6640]

townsend is amazing awesome

this guy makes me go nuts