Posted in Poker November 25th, 2008
Phil Ivey Folds the Best Hand in this High Stakes Poker Cash Game.
Brad Booth makes the most of this nothing hand against one of the best high-stakes, cash-game players in the world. In a big cash game like this, the pots are seldom below $5,000.
This is a table full of TAGs and LAGs where if you make one mistake, you’ll be gutted, filleted and divided up among the remaining players. David Williams makes a standard open raise 1800 but is reraised by Brad Booth to 5800.Williams is more apt to be making this play, but it seems Booth had it in mind no matter what he was dealt?His hole cards are actually 2, 4 suited but Booth must have saw pocket aces instead. Maybe he’s just looking to take the pot but for this small amount when they are sitting with 100’s of 1,000’s in cash behind it just doesn’t seem worth risking any for the return.There is also the other thought that he KNOWS his competition and can use the flop to his advantage.
He walks right into a monster though because Phil Ivey is sitting on KK or “Cowboys”. So Ivey quickly reraises to 14,000 and of course David folds out the way.
Brad Booth bravely asks Phil how much money he has left at the table, while realizing he himself is behind in the hand. Phil has a couple hundred grand so Brad CALLS phils preflop last re-raise for implied odds.There is some reasoning to Brad in hoping to hit this flop big and win a monster pot.
A ragged flop of 3 and 6 of diamonds and the 7 of spades gives much to ponder for each player. Basically, Brad Booth is dead in the water now. Phil is first to act and he bets out 23k. Now here, Brad does a lot of thinking about what Phil ivey has and how should he play this hand. If he hits the gutshot or catches runner runner, he will get paid off well, but there is a lot of risk involved to “chase” and that is exactly what he would be doing.
Instead he uses his position and stack size and comes over the top hard with a monster raise of $300,000 cash! He knows that Phil cannot call him if he has a big pp like AA or KK because Phil can put him on a small pp that just hit a set for him or even a 45s which though a radical choice is quite conceivable with these players on this level. Phil made his move, put out the chips and got his answer.Just like in the old western days, Booth is saying you are going to have to kill me to win this pot.
Phil Ivey isn’t willing to risk that, but I have a feeling Gus Hansen just might have.
Brad gives us a perfect example of using position, stack size and opponent read coupled with selective aggression in poker to win a pot he would otherwise have lost. Now this isn’t a move you can make in low stakes games as you already know some of the junk your opponents are willing to call your all in reraise with. They can’t put you on a hand and most don’t care, they only care about the hand they hold. But when you are in a good game and have some solid advanced opponents, this is how you do it!
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