Everyone says that 2009 was the craziest year for the development of online high-stakes table poker, but the answer is whether this is the case, we don't know. But in this year, in this year's online high table, there is a player whose name cannot be ignored, and this person is Tom Dwan, who makes opponents feel in awe. That year, Tom encountered demons and killed demons at high tables, encountered ghosts and killed ghosts, and made a name for himself with fierce means.
Tom Dwan
The next hand to be analyzed, we can understand from it what is a high table, and why the fight of the high table will be called a "nosebleed level" game by foreign media, in this level of the game, every step, every decision will make the entrants have a sense of frustration and meat.
In the process of analysis, we will look at this game from Tom's point of view:
process:
Blind $500/$1000 unlimited Texas game with a total of 5 players on the table, Cole South raises $3,000 at the beginning of UTG+1, Patrik Antonius folds at the button, martonas in the small blind is added to $12,000, Tom holds 5s-4s in the big blind, the effective chip is 300BB, he chooses 4-bet to $35,600, South fold, martonas call.
The pot is $74,200 and we have about 265,000 active chips left.
Turn 4d, martonas lead bet 78,000, Tom call, pot 230, 200, DOLLARS, our effective chips left 180,000 7, river cards 6c, martonas all down, Tom with his straight in the river cards, to win this $604,000 pot.
analyse:
Tom won this big pot with a very well hidden monster card, in this game of cards, there are several places worth playing, let's analyze these worth playing.
Tom uses 54s in the big blind spot with this speculative card 4-bet, given the depth of the player's chips, this move is not too bad choice, the player's effective chip at that time is 300BB deep, Tom's potential odds are very high, if he wins the card, he can get full payment.
Martonas, who took the KK, played a small slippery head and only chose the call before the flop, which made his card strength look much weaker than the actual one, he of course did so in the hope of squeezing more money from his opponent, but on the other hand, he was in a disadvantageous position to play cards, the flop situation is simply an example that will appear in textbooks, Martonas in the flop dark three, Tom hit two smooth cards, it is worth noting that Tom's supplement includes A, And this A is also a card in the Martonas range, if there is a real A on the card face, the situation is interesting!
The two players in the flop action is also very interesting, the dark three Martonas played very standard, playing cards to the filler, and Tom's pass card is much more interesting, but also very surprising, the card face looks very good for his perceived range, so here he should choose c-bet, if Tom bets, the opponent should therefore discard some medium-strength cards, I don't know what Tom thought at the time, maybe he thinks he can let Martonas fold in the subsequent transfer, Or make Martonas pay after winning the monster card?
The 4d of the transfer has little effect on martonas' strength, although after the turn appears, his cards are no longer nut cards (because if Tom takes 65, that is the nut card), but many of the cards in the opponent's range that are worse than his will pay for his cards, because his card power is well hidden, martonas bet a little more than the pot, giving the feeling of bluffing.
Tom did not hit the straight, but he hit a pair, if the opponent is really bluffing, he is holding the best card, and now his make-up card has become 13 cards, so his call on the transfer card is also reasonable, but it is not a good choice, because if martonas is indeed bluffing, he will definitely continue to shoot at the river card, then if Tom's 4 card strength is not improved, he is difficult to call, and Tom's win rate here is only 18%, so the choice of the transfer should be a fold.
But the card god is so willful, the river card is actually a 6, it is really a magical poker! Martonas couldn't think of anything this 6 would mean to Tom, so he chose to do it all, like those AKs, AA or dark threes smaller than him will definitely pay, on the other hand, no matter what Tom bets, the Swedish player will definitely call. Although every step was taken correctly, it turned out to be lost, poor martenas, losing to luck and losing the $600,000 pot, while Tom won a big one with a spirit of adventure.
summary:
Tom played a hand of random cards with such a deep chip, and his "trick" brought the most value to his hand. However, although Tom won the pot, his call on the transfer was problematic, and from the perspective of the reverse implied odds, he used the 45s card to play in the transfer, and the consequences were serious. However, poker is like this, sometimes you use all the right formulas, the result can be calculated is still wrong, but like Tom does not play cards according to the card, not only did not lose a lot of money, but encountered good luck, because the 6 of the river card makes the opponent feel the pain of bone cutting, the game of German poker, it is really impossible to take it lightly!