Monte Carlo Millions 2005
I arrived in Monaco one day before the main event to and took ahelicopter from Nice to get to Monte Carlo. This is a wonderful placewith great views and and beautiful landscape.
We had a welcoming party and the draw for the seats and the big namesare in town to get a piece of the $3 million guaranteed prize money.Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Jeses Ferguson and many other huge names arehere. It look like th toughest field I have ever seen.
Day one started and I picked up a table that was much easier then mostand was able to cruise along for most of the day by picking up smallpots on a consistent basis. One interesting pot came up just before mytable broke, I picked up 6-7 harts on the big blind and it was raisedto 1200 we were playing 200-400 So it was a must call in mysituation. Flop came down A-5-4 with 5-4 of harts giving me a straightflush draw, this looked very exciting and I could push this hand rightthere and take it 95% of the time, but on the flop I just called theturn brought another hart and I bet 5,000 he raised me another 10k andI had this feeling that he has the bare K of harts, So now I don’t havethat much value to re-raise since I am blocking his out with my up anddown straight flush draw. So I just call his raise we have another 30k+behind to play with on the river, the river come a blank and I checkit like here you go just bet and take it. He goes all inn and I veryquickly call he does show me the bare K of Harts. I get to go over 100kin chips we started on 50k.
The table brakes and I get moved to Phil Ivey’s and Mike the Mouth’stable so we very quickly get the TV table. Phil just dominated heknocked me out of this event last year and he very quickly doubled medown again this year. He is just so good, the best player in the worldin my book. But I take a few nice pots of the Mouth and survive theday on 102,400 this is above average and I am looking forward to day2.
Pokerworks.com
Deutsches Poker
Poker Français
Póquer en español
Poker in Italiano
Magyar Póker
Hrvatski Poker
Dutch Poker
Brasileiro Poker
November 21st, 2005 at 12:24 pm
Hi Tony,
Pls stay cool and I hope you win it!
Seriously, good luck!
November 21st, 2005 at 3:10 pm
Nice call Tony!
Good luck for this event:
Use your “trash talk” and destroy them! i wish you to be the Captain;)
November 21st, 2005 at 9:13 pm
Tony, do you play cash games? If so, I got a hypothetical for you. Say you have a solid read on a certain opponent in a ring game and youre in a situation heads up with the guy where he moves all in on you. You “know” or are very confident he has 2 overcards to your low pair - lets say pocket 2s just to make it tasty. Do you call this knowing this is a winning proposition or do you fold? Cause you can always find a better sitation presenting greater EV after the flop if you indeed have that good a read on your opponent.
Keep the ladies skinny TG.
~TM
November 22nd, 2005 at 8:43 am
I am inclined to call this but I know many players would not call. I have made these kind of calls before. If I win the pot and its 50%-50% pot and there is some money in the pot its k to call. For me to get a huge edge if I have a good stack is ok to call. The odds should not be worked out on one hand but also after that hand how many % do your odds improve by to make the fianl table?
August 24th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
You cant spell and your pokers worse
August 24th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
That guy cant even spell pokar. WAit till the Bandits give some chat, then we’ll see what your banter’s made of. Our big Asian friend knows you’re as dry as Joe Beevers