2010 WSOP November 9

[AceLosesKing]

Came home on MSN to hear the A7o vs QQ story from Gaz, all I can say is: LOL.

[bennymacca]

heads up has started

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting ... ain-event/

interesting to see that racener is limping his buttons. obviously wants to play some small pots early on and try to grind his way back into contention

[Scotty]

He's been up over 40 Mill (started at 30 Mill), but is currently back down to ~25 Million.

[Scotty]

interesting to see that racener is limping his buttons. obviously wants to play some small pots early on and try to grind his way back into contention

Ha, and the first button he opens - Duhamel shoves over the top, forcing a fold

[Russ]

BOOM, Duhamel wins.

[bennymacca]

racener played pretty weak from reading the reports.

if it was me, i would have basically treated it at a freeroll, because everyone expected him to finish second, so i would have been trying to get it in pretty early. even as a 35-65% chance, i nearly would have taken that because with 80 million he was right back in it.

but for some reason he decided to try and small ball it.

would be very interesting to hear his comments on why he did that.

[Heather Jenkins]

ive been watching the live feed on the net racener played very tight which was poor for such a low stack but it was a bit out of his reach with the lead duhamel had!
lets see next year maybe someone on here may be there!

[Brett Kay]

Got to disagree with the both of you on the above.

Its not a freeroll, there is 3 million at stake roughly between 1st and 2nd. Not to mention the title of WSOP Main Event Champion, plus the sponsorship fees and everything associated with that.

Racener has come back from a 2:1 chip lead in a previous event for a win of 100k, he has also played well at the higher levels.

Rather than spew chips by consistently raising and losing to the moster stack of Duhamel, he was content to small ball so that he could chip away at the stack because he most likely thought that 1. he was the better heads up player (pokermobdb backs that up with a few high placing in HU events). 2. That he could outlast Duhamel in a long game, (previous multi day events)

He did have some unfortunate hands, where he has probably had ace high and Duhamel has bottom pair, or the 774xq board where 4 x was beat by Duhamel's 4 K.

He still had enough bb's to make the match competitive at the beginning

[bennymacca]

He still had enough bb's to make the match competitive at the beginning

i agree with this bit in that he had enough at the start, but i think he kept on doing it for a little too long. as soon as he was down under 20 million the game was as good as over

[Brett Kay]

He still had enough bb's to make the match competitive at the beginning

i agree with this bit in that he had enough at the start, but i think he kept on doing it for a little too long. as soon as he was down under 20 million the game was as good as over

I think he was waiting for Duhamel to try and fire out a few bets to knock him out early. Shock and Awe tactics.
Not getting the hands to call with to double up early is where he fell down. He got the double up hands but they were at 20mil in chips.