June 22, 2007

A disappointing cash

I just finished my seventh event of the 2007 WSOP, the $3000 limit Hold 'Em. I made the money but then ran out of luck and cashed in 21st place for $7761. At my last table I played a pot against Phil Hellmuth, who still didn't know my name after four years. I reraised his early-position raise in the small blind with QQ and he raised my flop bet on a board of King-rag-rag and I just called, intending to call him down. He checked behind on the turn and I checked the river hoping he would bet. He didn't and showed Ace-Queen, well played to lose the minimum and get the free card.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you are on the button and he is early-position how does he check behind on the turn and how could he bet after you on the river?

Richard Brodie said...

Oops, right you are. I was in the small blind. Corrected.

QL

Anonymous said...

next time you see him, call him Phil Gordon

Anonymous said...

Where is the quiet lion?

Anonymous said...

no wsop report?

Anonymous said...

Brody, where you at? What has Harrahs done with you?

Anonymous said...

I am confused, aren't you never supposed to check the river? Shouldn't you either put in a bet low enough so that he will call or high enough to make it seem like a bluff?

Richard Brodie said...

1) No.
2) This was limit Hold 'Em. :)