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NBC HU Final, Hellmuth v Matusow!
I reccommend that people find this TV show online and watch it if they haven't already.
In what is effectively a $350,000 best of 3 HU sng, the play & the antics/body language of the 2 players is just unbelievable.
2 players well known for their live poker skills playing on raw emotion, it's the most entertaining/comical poker show I've ever seen.
Whatever happened to trying to keep a good poker face! !!!!!!?
Some highlights below !
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Comedy gold indeed, was hoping it would be hellmuth v matusow in the final and i got my wish lol.
I wish mike would tone it down a notch though, he makes my ears bleed.
Quite enjoyed this whole series. We still have weekly Premier League & PCA to enjoy.
Comedy gold indeed. I think it is best to compare it to American Wrestling, or Breaking Bad, that sort of stuff.
When Hellmuth "trapped" Matusow with A-K, he almost fell over with excitement when he jumped up & tried to push all his chips in.
On a certain level, yes, really quite funny. Good for poker in many ways, too.
But they are both definitley good for poker.
You look at the names in that tournament, and have to wonder HOW did they make the final.
The last hand, how can Hellmuth check/jam top pair (questionable play maybe?) but not only that, when he isn't snap called he gets up and starts jumping around like a maniac.
He should have just turned his cards over instead, less effort!
He was dealt J9o in the small blind, first to act pre and he says check! Then proceeds to limp and call the inevitable raise.
Crazy. Why didn't he just realise his blunder, muck the hand pre, then give himself a bol locking for not concentrating, rather than spite limp/calling and semi bluff/folding half his stack. What a plonker.
His so called 'Live skills' r worse than his Poker skills!
You're debating Vs someone who has a great forum track record, and for good reason. He's right.
If you're judging anyone on MTT results, do it on ROI, over a huge sample size.
In Cash Games, we usually say a 100k hand sample size is just enough to get a good idea of your w/r, right?
Extrapalate that to tournaments. Yeah.
Hellmuth would get absolutely destroyed at 200nl on most sites, nevermind his borderline atrocious play in MTTs.
The most recent bracelet he won (at the WSOP) was in Razz. I railed most of the tourney, and he played pretty w@nk. It was almost embarassing watching one of my childhood idols just spew constantly as he binked his way to another bracelet.
Anyone rating Hellmuth and Matasow is clueless about the game. There, I said it.
Was a cringe fest though....
Mike's call with the FD was OMFG really spite Hellmouth !!!
mbn to be such big names in the game, how much sponsorship would you get - they don't have to be that good
think mike was so happy he could clear some debt
The most recent bracelet he won (at the WSOP) was in Razz. I railed most of the tourney, and he played pretty w@nk. It was almost embarassing watching one of my childhood idols just spew constantly as he binked his way to another bracelet.
Anyone rating Hellmuth and Matasow is clueless about the game. There, I said it.
All relative, everyone was not as good as players are now.
Just like players were not as good in 2008 as were in 2010.
Likewise fields are tougher now than in 2011.
So yes the old timers are really going to struggle to keep up.
Even Hellmouth has admitted he needs help with parts of his game.
Face it when you have all these uni/grads math geeks smashing the game with numbers - not much white magic can do against that
Like all the old timers throwing their hands up saying "wtf am I suppoed to do verus that"
still think it's very hard to create a level playing field unless we just look at year by year.
o look Hellmouth done ok last year
lol gg
When you start getting good at poker you come to realise that tournaments are a joke.
You come to also realise that the majority of sponsored pros are an even bigger joke.
You dont have to be any good at poker to make money if someone is paying your buy in.
eg if a sponsored pro enters a million pounds worth of donkaments a year and cashes for half a million. He is a losing player by quite a bit yet has won half a million quid.