Phil Hellmuth专栏

比如说我现在就想把这个“WSOPE的好入场， 坏退场”的题目改成“WSOPE之乘兴而来，败兴而归“。
dolphin 发表于 2010-10-7 04:53

dophin同学，主贴中相应的复制内容已改，你自己的帖子你看着办吧。

Chip Flush with A-7 at WSOPE

With 30 minutes to go before the 7:00 pm dinner break in the $17,000 b ...
Phil Hellmuth 发表于 2010-10-1 15:17

    WSOPE之一手A-7，筹码一冲而去

在$17000买入的WSOPE（世界扑克锦标赛欧洲系列）主赛事上，还有30分钟就是旁晚7点的晚餐休息，我完全地掌控着我的比赛。我严格遵守自己的比赛计划:打的超紧并且每隔大约30分钟觉得对手弱时就给对手加注。因为我打的很有耐心（当我加注时，他们不的不承认我有牌），并且我似乎看上去很犀利（当他们弱时，我似乎能知道），我几乎赢了每一个我翻牌前再加注的锅。经常是，我什么都没有！所以我捡了足够的“免费筹码”。我的耐心让我继续留在比赛中，并且给了我手拿强牌打大锅的机会。

当下面这手牌出现时，我坐拥34000左右筹码 -- 我们以30000筹码开始比赛 -- 盲注是150-300。首先我拿到A-A，赢了个小锅，但是我让大家看了我的牌来加强我桌上的紧牌手形象。紧接着下一手我拿到J-J, 赢了个不错的锅。当我低头看到拿到Ad-7c时，我的筹码已涨到40000，我800开叫。我后面的一个孩子跟叫800，大盲也跟。翻牌是Qs-7d-5d，我叫牌2000，小孩儿跟，第三个牌手弃牌。转牌是红桃9，我研究了很是一段时间，最后叫出4000。小孩儿研究了一下，跟牌。河牌是Ac，我叫出10000，小孩应叫。我宣布：“对A”，但是小孩儿理解在桌上亮出5-5，他用三个5挖走了这个锅。

让我们来仔细看看这手牌：基本上，我讨厌自己以Ad-7c开叫。我记得自己的确想过：“好啊，你的牌运还不错，那让我们偏离那个超紧的计划，把牌加注。” 的确，这是一个不坏的想法，因为一般来说当一个人总是赢的话，那么他的对手们就会比较怕他。我喜欢那个小孩子以5-5这样的牌来应叫800。在翻拍上，我喜欢自己2000的叫牌。我必须叫牌因为我的牌很有可能是最好的。我更喜欢这孩子手拿三条应叫。有人会说这孩子应该加注来保护他的牌（牌面上有同花和顺子听牌），或者把锅做大些。但是更经常的是我发现当我有暗三时，我的对手局面糟糕，当对手局面糟糕时为什么要把他加注出去呢？并且，如果你有暗三，如果你的对手在诈唬，那么为什么要加注而使对手失去机会继续诈唬输掉他的筹码呢？

在转牌上我的4000叫牌太草率了。我应该先问问自己：“我现在能打败对手的什么牌？”并且基本上，我只能打败对手的同花听牌。所以更好的打法应该是过牌，然后如果对手叫牌我就根据我的读牌来决定怎么做。这孩子的在转牌上的4000应叫非常好！大部分的牌手都会因为牌面的各种听牌可能，为要保护他们的牌而加注，我不责备他们，但是我仍然喜欢这个过牌！我在河牌上的10000叫牌有些弱。首先，我没有给自己一个收获诈牌筹码的机会。其次，10000的叫牌可以轻易地让我的对手弃掉手中的Q。我应该过牌，或者做的更好一些，叫牌4000左右，给对手机会用Q应叫我的牌。总的来说，这手牌我打的不好！

dophin同学，主贴中相应的复制内容已改，你自己的帖子你看着办吧。
nano 发表于 2010-10-7 06:49

    是不是只有在发帖一个小时之内自己可以编辑自己的帖子呢？过了期限，好像就不可以了。

海豚同学真是现代活雷锋啊，我代表PH谢谢你。

是不是只有在发帖一个小时之内自己可以编辑自己的帖子呢？过了期限，好像就不可以了。 ...
dolphin 发表于 2010-10-13 18:22

抱歉没有及时回复，已经代你改过了。再次感谢你的帮助！

The Wedding Poker Tournament

When you have spent 25 years watching your older brother win poker championships, it is only natural that you would turn into a good poker player.  So when my sister Molly decided to get married on a Sunday, she included a poker tournament as part of the festivities on Friday night.  Forty five players anteed up, and a bunch of them were beginners.  As time passed, naturally my chips began to grow.  It wasn’t hard to triple up.  I mean, the beginners at my table played too many hands, and they called big bets when they weren’t supposed to.  So I never bluffed and I always bet big when I had it.  One hand I called with A-9, the flop came down 9-9-7, and I bet small to keep players in there.  The turn was a seven (9-9-7-7) and now I bet huge, only to be called by two players.  The river was the last nine (9-9-7-7-9), and I moved all in, only to be called in two spots.

My motivation was that there was no way that I was going to let my brother outlast me!  When we hit the final two tables, the following hand came up.  With the blinds at 150-300, two players limped in, and I looked down at 10-10.  I made it 2,500 to go, and the players in both blinds, and both limpers called.  The flop was Qd-10c-9c.  The player in the small blind bet out 2,000, the player in the big blind called, one of the limpers called, and I decided to just move all in for 22,000.  Both blinds called all in for a small amount, and the limper, who was second place in chips to me, decided to fold his A-J.  The hands were flipped up: A-Q for the player in the small blind, Kc-Jc (a straight) for the player in the big blind, and my set of tens.  The turn was a four, but the river was a nine and I scooped the pot with a full house.  What I wouldn’t have given to have this hand come up in a WSOP or a WPT tournament!  In any case, I went on to win it and here is a picture of the trophy: http://moby.to/8sfpim

Let’s take a closer look at this hand.  I like the limp in with A-J at a super loose table.  Why raise it up when so many players are certain to call, and you will actually need to hit your hand to win the pot?  I like my mega sized 8bb (eight times the big blind) raise with 10-10.  I was trying to clear some players out of the pot, and I was hoping for a nine high flop so that I could just power out a huge bet and get called by someone with top pair, or second pair.  My other option was to just call with my 10-10, but considering that I had the chip lead, and that I didn’t want to let someone with say, 6-4, hit a flop like 6-4-3; I like my mega raise.  The players in the blinds called the mega raise with A-Q (seems OK to me), and with Kc-Jc (seems a little loose to me).  And the fourth player (a limper) called with A-J, which is a little thin normally, but it was a weak lineup and A-J could well have been plenty live, and the hand was getting laid roughly five-to-one.  On the flop, I do not like the 2,000 bet from the A-Q.  It is time to go ahead and move all in for that last 5,400 or so.  I mean, you flopped top pair with top kicker!  The Kc-Jc smooth call was a good move, although this player only had 4,800 in chips left, thus I would prefer to see that player shove it all in.  My shove all in was a good one.  I wanted to get it all in before some crazy straight card, or flush card, popped up on fourth street.  I shoved to both to protect my hand, and to get it all in when I was a favorite.  The A-J lay down was a really good one!  By now it was obvious that the player with A-J needed to hit at least a king or an eight (straight), and maybe had to also avoid the board pairing or a flush card hitting, and maybe this player needed an off suit king (ace high straight) to win this pot!  I say fold, and save that last 16,000 for a better spot!

Don’t be such a “Jerk!”

On October 21 in Manhattan I emceed a charity poker tournament for CHOP (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), the number one children’s hospital in the USA-- http://www.chop.edu  Fortunately, we raised almost $1 million!  Knowing that he was frequently in Manhattan, I invited global entertainment Icon Steve Martin to play in the event.  Martin really is a great guy, and he is a very good poker player, and he definitely takes the game seriously.  In fact, Martin used to play in a regular poker game for decades in Hollywood that was so tough to get into, that A-list stars couldn’t wrangle an invite to the game!  It wasn’t that they played for a lot of money in this legendary Hollywood poker game, rather it was that Johnny Carson, the major studio heads, Martin, and famous directors populated the game.

The CHOP event began with 14 tables in action, and I announced that Martin was my pick to win it all.  With four tables remaining, and the blinds at $1,000 - $2,000, a player opened for $7,000.  Two other players called, and Martin called in the big blind with pocket eights.  The flop was Q-Q-2, and Martin moved all in for $17,000.  Two players folded, and then an amateur player decided to call with J-10!  Sadly, the turn was a jack, and the river was a four and Martin was eliminated.

Taking a little closer look at the hand, I love the way Martin played his hand.  His call pre-flop was perfect, and his all in bet for $17,000 was perfect.  Of course, I was shocked that his opponent called him with J-10, and I can only imagine what I would have said if someone did that to me in a major tournament!

Before the tournament began I gave Mr. Martin some pointers.  There are two major differences between playing in a charity tournament vs. playing in a normal tournament or a cash game.  First, in a cash game or in a normal tournament, you can patiently wait for a good spot to put your chips into the middle of the pot: but in a charity event, the blinds are raised every twenty minutes, so that you are quickly forced to play some big pots with some marginal hands.  Second, in a cash game or in a normal tournament the players are oftentimes good players with at least some experience; whereas in a charity tournament the players are very, shall we say, inexperienced.  So while I would play strong hands like A-K, A-Q, J-J, or 10-10 aggressively in a regular tournament (raising or reraising), I would not play them aggressively in a charity tournament.  The reason is that I know that in general players in a charity tournament will call big bets with hands that they are not supposed to play, that is to say that inexperienced players will put in tons of chips with hands that good players would never play (like Qd-Jd—those suited paint cards look great to a beginner!).  Thus, if I make a reraise in a charity tournament with say, A-K, then I can expect two, three, or even four callers!  Whereas when I reraise with A-K in a normal tournament, oftentimes I will take down the pot right then and there.  So in a charity tournament I wait until after the flop before I put big chips into the pot.  I limp in with A-K, and if I hit it, then I put in some bigger chips.  I limp in with J-J, and if it is still an over pair after the flop, then I put in the bigger chips.

今天才读这篇有 Steve Martin 的比赛。。要说电影，我看过的Steve Martin的片子可真多啊，不为别的，就为开心一笑。

Big Blow up Hand at WSOP!

With three players remaining in the 2010 WSOP (World Series of Poker) main event, there was a ton of money, and an ocean of prestige at stake.  First place paid $8,944,000, second place paid $5,546,000 and third place paid $4,130,000, and the winner would be declared the 2010 “World Champion of Poker.”  Joseph Cheong ($82 million in chips), Jonathan Duhamel ($76 million in chips), and John Racener ($30 million in chips) were the last three men standing.  In my eyes, Cheong had played the best poker of anyone at the final table, by far.  Cheong had had perfect timing for almost 12 hours of final table play.  All of his raises, and his reraises had won him uncontested pot after uncontested pot.  Meaning that Cheong picked up literally deca-millions in free chips without ever being called!  Clearly, everyone at the table was afraid of Cheong, and all Cheong had to do was avoid playing a huge pot with Duhamel and he was home free.

However, as often happens when someone is dominating a table, Cheong did not slow down.  First, he bluffed off $30 million to Duhamel, when Cheong was sitting comfortably on $110 million.  Second, he played a hand that will be talked about for decades to come.  With the blinds at $600k-$1.2 million, Cheong opened for $2.9 million from the small blind with A-7 off suit.  Duhamel—from the big blind--then raised it up (“three bet” it) to $6.75 million to go.  Cheong then made it $14.75 million to go (a “four bet”), and then Duhamel made it $22.75 million to go (a “five bet”).  Then Cheong moved all in (a six bet)!  And Duhamel immediately said, “I call,” and then Duhamel showed down pocket queens.  When the smoke cleared, Cheong had $6 million left in his once mighty $116 million dollar stack, and shortly thereafter Cheong finished in third place.

Let’s take a closer look at this hand: Cheong’s $2.9 million opening bet from the small blind was standard.  Duhamel’s $6.75 million three bet, a raise of $3.85 million into a $6 million pot (a 60% of the pot sized raise) was also standard.  Cheong’s $14.75 million bet, a raise of $8 million was not a good move.  First off, some history: Cheong had forced everyone else to fold hand after hand (they were afraid of him), thus when someone finally did three bet him, he probably should have thought better of four betting.  Why not surrender the original $2.9 million bet?  Especially, as Cheong had stolen $40 million in chips with his brilliant play.  However, if Cheong did read Duhamel for weakness, then his four bet raise was fine.  In that case, Cheong was wrong, but I still like a man that goes with his read.

Duhamel made a very clever five bet reraise of $8 million ($22.75 million to go) into a now $30 million pot.  When Duhamel made this smallish raise, he was leaving the trapdoor open for Cheong to move all in, and Cheong stepped right on through the trapdoor.  I absolutely hate Cheong’s all in move here.  When Duhamel five bet it, he had to have a huge hand!  Sometimes it is hard to understand how the world views us, but in poker you need to understand how the other players at the table view you.  Fact: everyone was scared to death of Cheong, as he was an absolute terror!  Assuming that everyone else feared Cheong, then he should never have four bet it, never mind six bet it.  Unfortunately for Cheong, his dominating performance over 12 hours will quickly be forgotten, and everyone will only remember the last 10 minutes: an A-7 off suit blow up of epic proportions!

Grinder vs. Duhamel

The WSOP (World Series of Poker) main event title is far and away the most coveted prize in the poker world.  With it comes the permanent title “World Champion of Poker.”  The $50,000 buy in “Players Championship” at the WSOP is either the second most coveted title, or the third most coveted title depending on where you place the WPT (World Poker Tour) Championship event on your list.  In 2010 Michael “The grinder” Mizrachi won the “Players Championship” and then somehow, someway, he made the final table of the main event!  No matter where the grinder finished at the final table, winning the Players and final tabling the Main—with 7,319 players--is a legendary feat!

With five players remaining at the WSOP main event final table, and the blinds at $500,000 - $1 million, the following hand came up.  Everyone folded to Jonathan Duhamel ($27.25 million) in the small blind and Duhamel opened for $2.2 million with As-9h.  From the big blind the Grinder ($54 million) moved Duhamel all in with 3s-3h, and Duhamel called for $27.25 million in total.  With $55 million in the pot, the hands were almost exactly even money!  The cards fell off Kh-9d-5d-9c-Jh, and Duhamel, who had just lost $17 million on the previous hand, now took over the chip lead.

Let’s take a closer look at this hand.  Duhamel’s opening bet of 2.2x the big blind is pretty standard these days, although in the past a heftier raise of say 3x the big blind was the standard.  One reason for the shift in standards is that players do not defend their blinds as often as they used to.  So why risk 3 big blinds, when 2.2 big blinds will win the pot before the flop just as often?

I hate Grinder’s $27 million all in move here.  Why ship in $27 million with 3-3?  First let me lay out a new theory: the new Internet thinking says that Grinder’s move here would be a good one if he picks up 15% of his stack size.  However, I disagree with that theory for a real world poker tournament, especially one where the blinds move up super slowly.  And, of course Grinder was the “Chalk” (the best player at the table), he had the chip lead, and everyone at the table was afraid of him.  In fact, during final table play I heard the other players refer to Mizrachi’s “Grinder-vision” with awe in their voices.  When you are the best player at the table, and everyone is afraid of you, then it is easy to win most of the small pots, and thus build your chips up almost risk free.  Grinder should have used his “Grinder-vision” to pound the other players when they were weak.  Under this scenario, Grinder could have saved his big chips, and his big bets for when he had a big hand.  Sticking $27 million into a pot with 3-3 takes all of the skill out Grinder’s hands.  Having said all of the above, I still do give Grinder credit for knowing that Duhamel was relatively weak (after all, he did have A-9 off suit).  In fact, Grinder’s move should have worked; that is Duhamel should have folded his A-9!

I do not like Duhamel’s $25 million call.  Why call off $25 million with A-9 off suit?  Was Duhamel really hoping that Grinder had K-Q, or A-8?  I mean, what are the chances that A-9 was the best hand?  [Not good!] Why not save that $25 million for a better spot?
I may not like the $27 million all in raise with 3-3, or the call with A-9, but let’s give both gentleman and their reading abilities credit: at the end of the day, Grinder was right that Duhamel was relatively weak, and Duhamel was right that Grinder didn’t have him dominated!