There are successive arts, there are specialties in the art industry, this is the truth that Han Yu teacher told us in "The Master Says", but there is no shortage of experts around us who come from behind and go hand in hand in multiple sports, Su Hao is one of them, as a former e-sports player, he has won such a result as a world champion, and recently he lost the red card player Holz in the Legendary Poker Super High Roller Tournament, and became the highest-ranked Chinese player in this top event at the same time, receiving a reward of 280,000 US dollars.
Su Hao's competition is the legendary poker super high roller tournament that has been held for four years, this competition is known for high buy-ins, strong players and a generous prize pool, phil Ivey's last time to play a live competition was the inaugural event held in 2016, and Holz, who led the global revenue rankings in 2016, also had a good performance in this competition, he was the champion of that tournament and took away a reward of 3.64 million US dollars.
This year's tournament was held at the Adriatic Seaside Masetral Casino in Montenegro, and many of the world's top players signed up for the 250,000-Hong Kong dollar buy-in 6-player high-roller game, including Steve O'dwyer, Lucas Greewood, sam trickett, John Juanda and other well-known players.
Su Hao played well in this game, won the second place, and the bottom card also contacted him for the first time to see how he commented on his performance.
q.: Just finished runner-up in the Legendary Poker HK$250,000 Buy 6-Player Unlimited Texas Hold'em High Roller tournament and won your best result in the live tournament, how are you feeling now?
Su Hao: In fact, when I first lost, I was very depressed, because I hit 3 times the amount of chips from holz 3 times my chips to 3 times that of him, I thought I was the basic champion, and there was still a big gap in taking the runner-up, but the next day I thought about it, I was still happy, the competition was as good as a cloud, my strength was still far from the second, but I had good luck taking the second.
Q: This competition has attracted many of the world's top players, including manig loeser, lucas greenwood, steve o'dwyer, etc., what preparations have you made for them?
Su Hao: I was completely unprepared, because I was not ready to play this game, so I signed up for it. Including when I played the final head-to-head, I didn't know what holz was playing, fortunately I had a lot of friends, some friends told me that holz stole more chickens than I thought, and some friends told me that I must be fierce when playing hu. So I started fighting back, and crazy bluff hit the chips back, but unfortunately lost in the end.
Q: Before the game reaches the second round, you don't have many scoreboard conditions, and the progress of day1 seems to be very difficult.
Su Hao: Yes, day1 has no cards, no running horses, very plain to the next day.
q: With a 5w+scoreboard to the second round, how did you adjust and reach the final table?
Su Hao: Good luck, I have the impression that the two 55-open cards were won, and then the winning rate was very high, and I didn't lose much pot.
Q: The high roller pick opponent was the best player in the world in 2016, holz, and you had an equal number of scoreboards when you entered the singles, did you think you could beat him?
Su Hao: Earlier I played with him in cash, I didn't think he was particularly strong, at the beginning of the single challenge I had 900,000 chips, he was 1.1 million, and then a level time I only had 500,000 and he had 1.5 million, this time he did show a very strong single-head level, the style of the game was very fierce, gave me a lot of pressure, unfortunately in the end I still made two mistakes, lost the game, and he played very well, almost did not make mistakes.
Q: Early in the game, you had some advantages, but there was a more critical hand that brought you back to the starting line, and your a high met his q6 and didn't send it out, can you tell us the details of that hand.
Su Hao: This is the biggest mistake I made. Afterwards, several friends and I analyzed this first card, this first card happened at 15000/30000 (ante 5000), holz only had 500,000 chips, I had 1.5 million. Flip forward I ajo open 60,000, holz q6o flat heel. Flop qt7 he check, I bet 60,000, holz shove, I follow. Holz and I didn't have any flowers and backdoor flowers to buy. Flop can actually not follow, although the odds are almost appropriate, but from the overall point of view holz won this card everyone will return to the same running line, if I fold, my chip is still 2.5 times holz, or can always give him pressure.
Hand Review:
Before the flop, holz limp Su Hao raised to 60,000, holz call, flop q710, Su Hao continued to bet to 30,000, holz chose directly all in (440,000), Su Hao thought about it and chose call, Su Hao aj♣️♥️, holzq6♣️♠️, transfer 4♥️, river card 10♦️, holz successfully doubled.♠️♠️♥️
Q: The next game seems to be in holz's control, what difficulties were encountered at that time?
Su Hao: The next few hands are over. After losing this aj, the next card he flop k3 two pairs, took three shots of value, I chose to follow to the end based on his image, and maybe I was in a bit of a state of not recovery at that time.
q: Holz rated you very highly after the game, how do you think he played?
Su Hao: He played very well, congratulations.
Q: You've won a championship in a global tournament before playing Warcraft 3, and now you've achieved excellent results in the world's top tournaments at Texas Hold'em, how did you achieve good results in both sports?
Su Hao: I think I love to play by nature, and I am particularly willing to play with things I like, and I am not convinced if no one else plays well, so I have to spend more time to surpass you, especially when playing Warcraft, but now as I get older, I may not be so focused on one thing, because it should be personality.
q: Now there are a lot of friends who play e-sports to play Texas, there are a lot of your friends, there are a lot of new players, as a person who has come over, can you give them some advice.
Su Hao: I don't dare to be a suggestion, but I personally think that in fact, the domestic environment is very good, the level of various online game platforms is very low, and it is relatively easy to start, but players should plan for the future in advance, and their horizons should be relaxed.
Q: What do you think is the essential difference between the two projects?
Su Hao: Texas competition and e-sports is still a little different, Texas is more like a party, many friends meet to be happy together, losing will not be so uncomfortable, lucky to win the prize money everyone is happy together. E-sports is pure sports competition, there is almost no luck here, especially the 1v1 real-time strategy project, people worse than you can hardly win you a game in their lifetime, under a high level of confrontation, losing will be particularly uncomfortable, on the other hand, if you take the championship there will be a huge sense of honor, confidence bursting, a bit of the world to give up who I am.
q: There are many more competitions this year, what are the next plans?
Su Hao: I don't have a fixed itinerary to participate in the competition, if there is nothing wrong, and I want to play the game again, I should go to the next Legendary Cup High Roller Race macau station.
q: Thank you for your interview with the hole card.
Su Hao: Thank you for the bottom card.