sammys call

[commoncents 0]

what do you think of sammys call with 5-7?

[Stylin_Fish 0]

Poor daniel, he keeps getting molly-whopped by a cold deck.

[tswing 0]

This is two days in a row that Sammy is getting his money in with flush draws, nowhere near the nut draws. This call was horrendous because he was not getting nearly the odds he needed, it's almost his trademark now, to go/call all in's on the flop with a weak flush draw. Remember from day one he called all his money with the KQ only the Q of diamonds with an A9rag out there all suited, I mean this is ridiculous already, what the hell is he doing?? That's the type of person that makes you want to kill when your playing in the casino, it's like come on man, stop doing that...

[CaneBrain 95]

what do you think of sammys call with 5-7?

I thought it stunk. Sammy straddles a fine line between aggressive and stupid sometimes. works for him though.

[nbliss16 0]

lose for sure.That one probally stung a little more then the others.

[Stylin_Fish 0]

what do you think of sammys call with 5-7?

I thought it stunk. Sammy straddles a fine line between aggressive and stupid sometimes. works for him though.

I agree he has gotten even more reckless and even more cocky but you gotta love the guy.Flop X-X-X(two hearts) Gets all in Sammy has A Q other guy has pocket queens.Sammy "uh oh, i'm the favorite, You can't catch a queen and there are three aces left." He hits runner runner for the flush. Classic Sammy.

[LAS22 0]

Very loose, but he is a true gambler in every sense of the word. If you hit you look like a master...if you don't you look like a fool.

[iveyfan30 0]

does sammy ever not "get there" on a draw..i mean obviously he doesnt always make it, but he does SEEM to get lucky alot... sammy likes to gamble, which is what you want your opponet to do when you are ahead..i'm sure sammy knows what he's doing..

[chantro 0]

Very loose, but he is a true gambler in every sense of the word. If you hit you look like a master...if you don't you look like a fool.

Wrong

[turd ferguson 1]

This is two days in a row that Sammy is getting his money in with flush draws, nowhere near the nut draws. This call was horrendous because he was not getting nearly the odds he needed, it's almost his trademark now, to go/call all in's on the flop with a weak flush draw. Remember from day one he called all his money with the KQ only the Q of diamonds with an A9rag out there all suited, I mean this is ridiculous already, what the hell is he doing?? That's the type of person that makes you want to kill when your playing in the casino, it's like come on man, stop doing that...

Yeah, you've definitely seen enough of his play to know something like that.Do you want to kill him in the casino because he's taking all your money? Because that's exactly what he would do.

[LAS22 0]

Let me re-phrase that, if you are a Pro you look like a master...if you aren't you look like a fool.

[Wingmaster05 0]

does sammy ever not "get there" on a draw..i mean obviously he doesnt always make it, but he does SEEM to get lucky alot... sammy likes to gamble, which is what you want your opponet to do when you are ahead..i'm sure sammy knows what he's doing..

Someone bring back that avatar...he's satan, remember?

[Silly_11 0]

what do you think of sammys call with 5-7?

I thought it stunk. Sammy straddles a fine line between aggressive and stupid sometimes. works for him though.

I agree he has gotten even more reckless and even more cocky but you gotta love the guy.Flop X-X-X(two hearts) Gets all in Sammy has A Q other guy has pocket queens.Sammy "uh oh, i'm the favorite, You can't catch a queen and there are three aces left." He hits runner runner for the flush. Classic Sammy.

maybe he's still reeling from the big lay down so that he could outplay moneymaker.

[rk 0]

poker is gambling. and that is even more so in tourns. to be successful in this big tourns you have to gamble to acquire chips and quite often that means gambling with the worst of it. sammy has good style. i'd be more afraid of playing against him then many others. he is the kind that can break you quickly. don;t recall if he made it into the money in the main event this year, but he sure got off to a fast start.

[turd ferguson 1]

poker is gambling. and that is even more so in tourns. to be successful in this big tourns you have to gamble to acquire chips and quite often that means gambling with the worst of it. sammy has good style. i'd be more afraid of playing against him then many others. he is the kind that can break you quickly. don;t recall if he made it into the money in the main event this year, but he sure got off to a fast start.

Brilliant!

[Stylin_Fish 0]

Yeah, Sammy made it into da money.

[AgroPoker 0]

Very loose, but he is a true gambler in every sense of the word. If you hit you look like a master...if you don't you look like a fool.

No you look like a fool just by makeing the call if you hit or not!

[AgroPoker 0]

poker is gambling. and that is even more so in tourns. to be successful in this big tourns you have to gamble to acquire chips and quite often that means gambling with the worst of it. sammy has good style. i'd be more afraid of playing against him then many others. he is the kind that can break you quickly. don;t recall if he made it into the money in the main event this year, but he sure got off to a fast start.

I agree poker is gambling and I agree you need to take bigger gambles in tournys, but this was a cash game and the gamble in the cash game is to get your money in with the best of it and gamble that it holds up, or getting the right pot odds to call with the draw and gamble that it comes in.In this case Sammy did niether.my vote bad play

[PhishForChips 0]

You all have to remember that Daniel has a VERY aggressive table image for the most part. And often times the best way to fight aggression is to counter it and take a gamble every now and then. plus, often times DN will be on a total bluff and unfortunately for him, pros have seen many of his hands from the T.V exposure so of course they are going to call a flush draw. The question i have for DN is why be so aggressive when you hit a set on a flop of all one suit? Of course you risk a call from someone with only one of the cards suits or even a made flush draw (talking about the play he made with the set of 3's on a suited flop). Also, to these pro's, its nothing to call off $100K on a draw. You have to remember that too. if he's making these moves in a lower buy in game, he probably doesn't get half the calls.

[DLizzle 0]

well if you have a flush draw with 57, even if DN is on a bluff, he probably still has you beat. In the late stages of tournament the call was ok, but this is a cash game. He was gambling, thats what he does. And the 3s, DN can be aggressive if he reads Sam for less than a made flush or higher set, since he is a favourite against anything else. Also, he can make a full house or four threes still.

[fastsilver79 0]

Sammy's call with the 57 was a very loose call but if you read Super System, Doyle talks alot about getting in there and gambling thats how he plays in a live game. He mentions that the majority of the time he will get all of his money in with the worst of in inorder to win a big pot. "You gotta give give action to get action" or atleast have that image. So Sammy may have read daniel for a big hand but knew if he got lucky he could win a big pot. And Look at how he has been running agianst Daniel even in the Main Event.

[Guest Anonymous]

what do you think of sammys call with 5-7?

I thought it stunk. Sammy straddles a fine line between aggressive and stupid sometimes. works for him though.

I think the question is, if Sammy's gambling, why does Daniel keep handing him huge opportunities to gamble? To use this example, what range of hands is Daniel putting him on before getting 250K into the middle after the flop? Even if you know you're a 60% favorite, why not try to control the pot-size a little more? What are the blinds?I think if anything is getting away from Daniel, it is choosing his betting sizes properly. Even if you're a 70% favorite, why put 200K+ on the line time after time? Trying to create folding equity against a crazy gambler just won't work.

[fastsilver79 0]

Daniel is doing the right thing by putting all his money on the line you have to put the guy to a decision for all his money and when your have the best of it as a 7-3 favorite you want the guy to make a bad or loose call and since you will win that pot so much more. The blind are 300-600 100 ante.

[Guest Anonymous]

Daniel is doing the right thing by putting all his money on the line you have to put the guy to a decision for all his money and when your have the best of it as a 7-3 favorite you want the guy to make a bad or loose call and since you will win that pot so much more. The blind are 300-600 100 ante.

Hello newb.First off, if he has 4 to a flush with 2 cards to come, you're a 6:4 favorite, not 7:3. And if the blinds are 300-600, 200K is how many big blinds? What percentage of the existing pot (no pre-flop betting was described)? What percentage of the pot do you have to bet to give someone who's got a 40% of catching you the wrong odds to draw? 50x the pot will do it, but is unnecessarily wasting too much money. Which is my point. The style he is playing seems to be lending itself needlessly to high variance. He could be minimizing his swings a little more carefully imo, although with the incomplete description of the betting it is hard to say exactly what happened.

[fastsilver79 0]

I get what your saying about keeping the pots small but why only bet a small amout that doesnt give the person the right odds when you can put them to the ultimate test for all there chips. Putting all the money in is the better play because you put maximum pressure on the person and in my opinion thats what the game is all about. when i said its 7:3 i was generalizing its actually 63:37 The thing about betting only say the double the pot is that someone willing to gamble is more likely to call and take a chance while putting all the money in you stand a huge chance of taking the pot right there and winning a huge pot has a big favorite if he calls.