Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Interesting hand discussion

http://wickedchopspoker.com/this-week-in-poker-with-alex-outhred-brian-rast-and-jason-calacanis/

Jump ahead to 53:25, watch through about the 1:07:00 mark. It's an interesting analysis of an extremely difficult spot that Jason Calacanis was put in during an episode of PokerStars "The Big Game." Brian Rast runs the numbers and concludes that Jason probably made the right decision mathematically, independent of the outcome (which would have been truly ugly).

1 comment:

GPO said...

To me the mistake in the hand was Affleck had the chance to keep raising preflop with AA and choose not to. Right there you are trying to get cute. Bad things can happen when you try that. He should have reraised after Duhamel made it 3.9 million.

I don't know of many reasons why you should stop raising preflop when you have AA.