WSOP 2009 Main Event BEST FOLD OF THE YEAR

Balmigere making a pretty sick fold with 28 players left in the Main Event

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• balmigere
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[TheBalmix]

It's good to see comments are still going on this hand, thx MeetyourmakersTV :)

I'm François Balmigère, making videos on limpers!com.

In the hand everything from betting pattern to physical tells told me right when he raised on the turn that I was beat, mostly by AJ. From there I'm mostly boatmining with the right odds, I could have snapfolded river but well, it always hurt so I had to doublecheck my read.

Was a great week, best memory ever!

Haven't played many tournaments lately.

[MeetYourMakersTV]

@TheBalmix Hey François! This is a great fold and everyone here agrees with this, it's a very deep thinking to put him on AJ since he'd play hands like AK and KQ the same way. Tnx for posting! Keep on grinding haha

[SurvivingTheHorizon]

i always think physical tells are bs. but moon's exaggerated sigh when Balm. calls the turn followed by the no think river value bet makes it easier to put him on a strong hand. Still, Moon strikes me as the type to play something like KQ the exact same way.

[MeetYourMakersTV]

@SurvivingTheHorizon Exactly my thoughts. Balmigere is a class player, a real professional and got the right tells at the right time. Too bad he got knocked out on a bad beat against Kopp. He will hear more about Balmigere's name soon, count on it!

[daLiZaRdKiNg71]

@kvnd7331 well he had K5 suited so we could've had a flush draw plus the others we betting like they had a 2 pair or possibly a strong King. I woulda defiantly layes down those cards

[kvnd7331]

why would cada bother playing K 5 if he is going to fold top pair thats the best ur ever gonna get with that crap

[HBKsutton]

@TheBalmix You're a fucking genious.

[RampagePoker]

but i think he would have made that call if he would have had more chips

[RampagePoker]

nice

[alive2k7]

@alive2k7 I call to improve my hand and also hoping to get to showdown.

River he bets 2M....

Fucking sucker bet, but i only have 4.5M chips right now, so i can't only consider this bet from a pot odd point of view. I give him a range of 0,0001% bluff, 4% KQ and the rest of the time AJ/J9

:)

[alive2k7]

If my fold with my set of T's is correct, i just bought my survival into the ME, otherwise everybody's gonna see me as a fish my whole life. But i was 99% sure he had the str8.

FYI i'm talking about the TT i'm flatting from the HJ against Cada's open, Darbin calls from the btn.

Flop KQT, raiser checks, i bet 550k, Darvin calls, turn bricks (a backdoor flush appears), i bet 1,075M and Darvin raises to 2.2M

[alive2k7]

je call pour fill up surtout et prier pour un showdown. River il bet 2M........ Fucking sucker bet, mais il me reste 4.5M à ce moment, je peux pas prendre à la légère ce bet juste pour les pot odds. Je lui donne 0.0001% bluff, 4% KQ, reste du temps AJ/J9.

Gonna translate it into english :)

[alive2k7]

This is a message from a François post on Limpers : Si mon fold du set of tens était bon, je me suis payé ma survie dans le ME avec, sinon bah tout le monde va me prendre pour un fish toute ma vie Enfin je suis sur à 99% qu'il avait la quinte.

FYI je parle de mon TT que je paye au HJ face au raise d'un jeune, et Darvin paye au bouton. Flop KQT, check du raiser, je bet 550k, call de darvin, turn brick et backdoor flush, je bet 1,075M, raise à 2.2M de Darvin,

[alive2k7]

Considering Moon level of thinking i don't think it would be totally crazy to think he could have KQ like 30% of the time

His range would be like 30% KQ, 40% AJ, 25% J9, 5% the 6 combos of KK/QQ (even less that 6 combos since he would reraise preflop like 90% of the time with those hands).

So getting 4 to 1 and expecting him to have KQ at least 25% of the time i would have called, that's why i play NL200online and Balmigere is playing like 2k :D