WSOP Main Event

[takeittothehouse]

Posted by Bruno in the Free Poker thread… (I couldn’t quote to a new thread but thought this would be a good way to start a topic – hope it’s OK Bruno).

Well, I watched the ME on a recording of the Pay per view, and read PokerNews.com as it was happening. And I think people are hammering on Yang and are a bit off base. After he caught Hilm bluffing, he had such a large stack that he could play ATC, and he could call down any hand he suspected of bluffing. During the tournament, two players who got knocked out said the same thing: that Yang was their favorite to win, and that he was reading people and playing the best poker of the remaining people. Not bad endorsements. Yang's call on Hilm was exceptional because he knew that Hilm was a big bluffer from previous day, that Hilm was capable of pulling the trigger on a bluff like that, and that Hilm would not play a set like that. To Yang's credit, he pulled the trigger when he knew he had read the situation correctly. Think how many times that you've said "I know you don't have anything, but I fold". Now, think about being in that situation on the biggest poker stage in the world. And can you muster up the courage to call the all-in for your tourney life, and probably the bracelet. Yang did......After that it was big stack poker.....

Did anyone else watch the Main Event? We did and at first I didn’t want Yang to win. I didn’t like his play – didn’t seem like he was playing poker as his move was all in all the time. BUT after watching a while longer I respected him that he came in with a plan (playing very aggressive since he was second short in chips) and executed it well. My feeling was that Lee Child should have called with his pocket queens (if you don’t hit a queen, what more do you want than 2/4/7 rainbow?), which could have eliminated Yang.

What do you think???

[idh78]

My feeling was that Lee Child should have called with his pocket queens (if you don’t hit a queen, what more do you want than 2/4/7 rainbow?), which could have eliminated Yang.

What do you think???

agreed. I'm sure Childs regrets that now....guess we'll all see that one on TV....but at the time it was very early and nobody at the table expected Jerry Yang on the shortstack to come out firing the way he did.

I agree with what Bruno said for the most part, however I do feel that Yang made some questionable plays that turned out to look genius, but really he was set up to make these plays because Hilm and Watkinson pretty much had a brain fart.....Yang was a player incapable of throwing away a hand like TPTK....with a player like that, wait til you actually have the goods before putting all of your chips in the middle and Yang will pay you off. Hilm could have just called the turn and folded on the river and still had like what about 14 million in chips? plenty of play left at that point...he wouldn't have even been the short stack...when Lee W. pushed with the A 7 with 9 million what was he thinking, Yang is probably not folding any pair there and from what we saw he isn't folding a better ace, not even an A 9....he may have called with a hand as bad as KQs in which you are only a slight favorite....it was a zero play against Jerry Yang, meaning he is only calling if he has you beat.....I do think that the amount of time it took the tournament staff to count Watkinson's chips was a factor though....almost like Yang talked himself into calling.

Overall it was a much more entertaining final table PPV than 2006....mostly because it looked like a $5 SnG.....

Do I think the best player won? No but I do think the most aggresive player won...and sometimes in tournament poker that can be enough if things go your way.....I mean what the hell happened to the Tuan Lam of the night before? Did he get some last minute coaching from Rhett Butler or something?

Would have been nice to see Scotty at that final table...not saying the outcome would be any different, but I wonder if he too would have fell victim to the Yang whirlwind....somehow I doubt it.

As far as Yang goes....I don't think he will be much of an ambassador of poker for the next year....but he will probably do better things with his $$ then donk off a couple hundred K on HSP.....he already donated 10% to charity and will proably help out his extendend family.....remember this guy was staying in a dumpy motel for the WSOP...only for the last two nights did he move into a nicer hotel...

I really didn't care for all of the religious crap myself, but to each his own...but if any of that stuff hits the ESPN edited version maybe some of the religious conservatives will see that even their own play this game of poker....and that it is not the root of all evil.....so that can't be a bad thing.

His interview with Norman Chad was even more moving than Jamie Gold's call to his dying father.

[idh78]

My feeling was that Lee Child should have called with his pocket queens (if you don’t hit a queen, what more do you want than 2/4/7 rainbow?), which could have eliminated Yang.



Yang admitted in and interview that he had two Jacks...