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Everything gets exaggerated at the Final Table of the Main Event. It is such a unique spot that I am not even sure which rules SHOULD apply. But if you believe in the idea of turning down a reasonable opportunity for something better later, the Final Table of the Main Event would be such a situation.
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In our early days of working on THE STRATEGY GUIDE, my conversations with Chris Ferguson were wandering and unfocused. Chris had the answers, but I had not yet progressed to the point where I could figure out the correct questions. Consequently, I started by asking him about a number of situations and opinions, most of which had little to do with each other. Because I later became much more organized and methodical, most of that early information didn’t make it into the book.
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Two of the players I most strongly identify with the Preservation Strategy are Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow. Both players – friends and confidant’s on Poker Strategy – pride themselves on being able to make “big lay downs.”
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In the end, I don’t have the “answer” to how risk adverse you should be when getting the proper odds to play a hand. Rather, I raised the issue in Part I because the concept is rarely discussed but undeniably important to tournament play. The remaining parts of this discussion will consist of pieces of information I have been able to gather from expert sources. Please keep in mind that so few people have considered tournament preservation in a methodical way that it’s almost impossible for me to summarize completely and accurately someone else’s ideas. The concept of tournament preservation changes at different stages of a tournament and based on the quality of the player.
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All tournament situations are not created equal. For example, you raise with As-Js and an opponent moves all-in. Do you call?
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This is really unusual, but I’m taking a week off from playing poker online. The only time I’ve done that all year has been when I was at the World Series of Poker, so it was hardly “a break.” I’ll be doing work on the Blog during that time, but I’m getting away from playing for a little while.
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It’s been nearly a month since Jeffrey Pollack resigned as the Commissioner of the World Series of Poker and I’m just now getting around to writing about it. Partly, this has been because of the rush of other assignments: finishing up my Final Table work (which still isn’t done) and my trip to LA. But mostly, it has taken me this long to accept it: Jeffrey Pollack is really gone from the World Series of Poker. It may take a long time before we realize how much we’ve lost.
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Undoubtedly, Joe Cada is having a nice holiday season; he’s probably the happiest guy in the entire state of Michigan. (Geez, who would even be Number Two?) Another fellow who should be very pleased with how the Final Table turned out is Steve Soffa.
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Annie Duke’s charity tournament started at 8pm and the schedule called for a presentation at 11pm, so the tournament structure was, to put it gently, ACCELERATED. The buy-in was $330 with $100 re-buys during the first hour. We ended up raising more than $70,000 for DEF. And nobody can say I didn’t do my part.
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Howard Lederer punctuated his speech at the DEF seminar by telling a Phil Ivey story. A few years back, Phil won a big tournament at Turning Stone. Howard was part of the broadcast team and it was a unique, live broadcast from the final table. Consequently, Ivey and the broadcast team both had plenty of reasons to celebrate that evening.
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