In this episode Howard made a really good bluff and turned over the title of amateur moves to Sahamies who makes a crazy & desperate bluff against Phil Ivey.
In this case Phil flops 2 pair and Sahamies flops an open ended str8 draw. Phil shows nothing but strength in this hand by re-raising Sahamies bet on the flop and betting almost the full size of the pot on the turn. Then just because Phil checks the river Sahamies suddenly thinks he can pick up the pot and bets 51k which is almost a pot size bet.
The hand begins at 3 min.
I am just not sure what Sahamies was thinking here, the river card was not really that much of a scare card to Phil Ivey unless he just put him on only top pair. Given that Phil had shown that much strength it seems pretty crazy to put him on a hand that weak. The bluff amount was kind of stupid to as he was risking 50k to win the 25k he had dumped in there on a draw. Given that I do not believe Phil Ivey has a pain threshold in poker anywhere near those stakes his pot size bet was just giving money away as it had the same chance of working as a 1/2 pot size bet.
I really like Phil’s check on the river, if he put Sahamies on the str8 draw or just a pair he has little chance of his river bet getting called. But checking does give Sahamies the chance to hang himself which he did.
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Darkened Poker
Tags: Phil Ivey, Poker, Poker After Dark, Texas Holdem