cdddc75 0 Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Here are the estimated chip counts of the notable players left...Michael Mizrachi $21,000Ted Lawson $20,000Phil Ivey $20,000Ram Vaswani $19,000Chau Giang $18,000...Wow.If you were the "defending champ", wouldn't you learn how to play the game to defend your title? hes not the defending championChao Giang isLawson won a different Omaha eventOh yeah. Still, Lawson had some incentive to learn PLO in the last year. Link to post Share on other sites
pyedog 0 Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 WSOP $2000 PLO(rebuys)3:29- DN up to 9550. He's in every hand, lol.4:39- Daniel is out. What? Playing every hand wasn't a winning strategy? Geez all those low limit players at the casino who love to see every flop can't be wrong can they? Link to post Share on other sites
Whatever 1 Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 So far absolutely no focus except for one event.Very disappointing.BTW Minh has already made 2 final tables. Link to post Share on other sites
econ_tim 0 Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Maybe it was cold in the Omaha room. Link to post Share on other sites
cdddc75 0 Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 So far absolutely no focus except for one event.Very disappointing.BTW Minh has already made 2 final tables.Yeah. Short term luck obviously has nothing to do with DN's "struggles".It's all due to lack of focus.(sw) Link to post Share on other sites
crags 0 Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 well then, I'm sure many of us are noticing the same thing, Daniel just seems to not be playing that great poker this year. I'm not there so I can't tell for sure, but his results certainly haven't been fantastic. I think these $500k matches with Greenstein might be taking up too much of his concentration, seems he'd rather be playing those than winning bracelets! Link to post Share on other sites
Gator519 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 WSOP $2000 PLO(rebuys)3:29- DN up to 9550. He's in every hand, lol.4:39- Daniel is out. What? Playing every hand wasn't a winning strategy? Geez all those low limit players at the casino who love to see every flop can't be wrong can they?Not just the low limit players at the casinos play every hand.. take a look at the 15/30 and 30/60 tables as well, 5-6+ people per flop, at all times. Link to post Share on other sites
CodyHartman 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Is Barry still in the event??? I havent seen/notice his name yet on a site. Is Stud HU in the evening plans of Daniel??? Link to post Share on other sites
semaj550 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Is Barry still in the event??? I havent seen/notice his name yet on a site. Is Stud HU in the evening plans of Daniel???Well as of about 1 hour ago he had 17,000 chips. I can't find any word of him since then though. Link to post Share on other sites
Whatever 1 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 It's all due to lack of focus. Sorry, I was just quoting DN from yesterday's cardplayer video. Feel free to disagree with him if you want though. Link to post Share on other sites
cdddc75 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 well then, I'm sure many of us are noticing the same thing, Daniel just seems to not be playing that great poker this year. I'm not there so I can't tell for sure, but his results certainly haven't been fantastic. I think these $500k matches with Greenstein might be taking up too much of his concentration, seems he'd rather be playing those than winning bracelets!Posters here amaze me. How many cashes do Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, and Chris Ferguson have in this year's WSOP?This isn't easy folks... Link to post Share on other sites
Gator519 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Is Barry still in the event??? I havent seen/notice his name yet on a site. Is Stud HU in the evening plans of Daniel???Barry Greenstein $17,000That was the last chip count on cardplayer.com, about 2 hours ago. Link to post Share on other sites
cdddc75 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 It's all due to lack of focus. Sorry, I was just quoting DN from yesterday's cardplayer video. Feel free to disagree with him if you want though.You greatly exaggerated his quote.Meh. Link to post Share on other sites
mark33f 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 There is extreme variance in tournament poker! Stop expecting him to continuously win as much as he did for the latter part of last year. Link to post Share on other sites
CodyHartman 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 There is extreme variance in tournament poker! Stop expecting him to continuously win as much as he did for the latter part of last year.Yeah I agree. Really the amount of chips they get in comparison to the blinds does make it a must to make some big hands early on. Daniel's style of play can work for this structure but he seems to do better when he has a much larger stack to "play around with." 10k in chips with the same blind levels makes the type of poker played much different. Let us not forget these large fields are hard for anyone to get through. Link to post Share on other sites
BigFish 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 well then, I'm sure many of us are noticing the same thing, Daniel just seems to not be playing that great poker this year. I'm not there so I can't tell for sure, but his results certainly haven't been fantastic. I think these $500k matches with Greenstein might be taking up too much of his concentration, seems he'd rather be playing those than winning bracelets!Posters here amaze me. How many cashes do Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, and Chris Ferguson have in this year's WSOP?This isn't easy folks...Couldnt agree with you more. Link to post Share on other sites
SOWhatKid 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Ivey has a cash in one of the few tournys he's been in Link to post Share on other sites
Whatever 1 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 You greatly exaggerated his quote.OK, maybe. I think he said he hasn't had focus in the early levels but once he makes it past the dinner break he gets serious - or something like that.I would also like to point out that he really did go all in with Q10 sooted against an AA and a QQ because it 'was too cold in there, seriously' in his event yesterday. :shock: It's really hard and if you're off your game a little for whatever reason it's really, really hard. Link to post Share on other sites
econ_tim 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Latest chip counts from Pokerpages:--9:5553 left. It's getting down to the very best and very luckiest.Daniel Alaei 45kJosh Arieh 55kJim Bechtel 40kJoe Beevers 15kChris Bjorin 5kDavid Colcough 10kTony Cousineau 10kJohn D'Agostino 10kArturo Diaz 70kDarrell Dicken 40kMark Dickstein 35kJeff Duval 10kChris Ferguson 30kRuss Hamilton 25kJay Heimowitz 30kPhil Ivey 50kJohn Juanda 15kJohn Kabbaj 40kCasey Kastle 35kTed Lawson 10kDoug Lee 45kErick Lindgren 15kMarcel Luske 15kAli Sarkishik 5kErik Seidel 15kDerek Tomko 10kDavid Ulliott 65kLee Watkinson 10kWil Wilkenson 10kRobert Williamson 10k Link to post Share on other sites
nbliss16 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Josh Arieh Takes Control Log: With the board showing Ac-Qs-2h, Josh Arieh and his opponent get into a raising war, each player betting the pot twice. Arieh's second pot sized bet put him all in. His opponent calls, and says, "Do you have two aces?" Arieh responds, "Did you call?" "Yeah," his opponent responds, and then Arieh shows him the bad news. Arieh holds the Ad-As-3s-Kc for top set, which is good for the nuts at the moment. His opponent shows Q-Q-J-6 for a set of queens. Now Arieh's opponent needs the case queen or runner-runner straight for the win. The turn is the 5s, and the river the 8c, and Arieh's set of aces hangs on for the win. Arieh now has over $90,000 in chips. that a boy Josh Link to post Share on other sites
MilesZS 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 well then, I'm sure many of us are noticing the same thing, Daniel just seems to not be playing that great poker this year. I'm not there so I can't tell for sure, but his results certainly haven't been fantastic. I think these $500k matches with Greenstein might be taking up too much of his concentration, seems he'd rather be playing those than winning bracelets!I don't blame him for wanting to play heads-up for half a million instead.As someone probably already said (most of these posts I didn't read after people rephrased each other every other post), these are the largest tournament fields of any WSOP ever.Every tournament has been bigger than last year's significantly, I believe.Do many pros have multiple cashes? I think someone did... maybe Gordon, I can't remember...It's damn hard people, what the hell? Link to post Share on other sites
jjdylan 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 its not that DN isnt cashing or winning, its that hes out EARLY every time, maybe hes not focused, maybe its variance...but something is making him have a subpar year. Link to post Share on other sites
gradin123 0 Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 As someone probably already said (most of these posts I didn't read after people rephrased each other every other post)' date=' these are the largest tournament fields of any WSOP ever.Every tournament has been bigger than last year's significantly' date=' I believe.Do many pros have multiple cashes? I think someone did... maybe Gordon, I can't remember...It's damn hard people, what the hell?[/quote'']I've heard this argument a couple of times and it carries no weight at all. The larger the field is the more cash positions there are! Larger fields don't make it harder to cash but they do make it harder to win or make the final table. Link to post Share on other sites
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