I don’t know what I bother to watch these little ‘Tips from the Pros’ videos that Full Tilt keeps putting out, other than to get a chuckle out of the mis-information that FT continues to put out under the guise of ‘learning poker. This particular turd has Durrr explaining a hand that he played against Doyle Brunson in Poker After Dark.
First of all, let’s just be honest: Tom Dwan is a shitty poker player. He makes wacko plays that sometimes work out, but other times don’t and end up costing him a lot of money. He does have balls in the plays he makes and the hands that he chooses, but he must also have a printing press that pumps out money, because there is not a lot of skill or sense in many of the plays he makes.
In this newest Full Tilt video, he plays pocket 3′s against a POKER LEGEND with a flop of 9-9-5, a turn card of a Q and a river card a J or something like that. He calls Brunson down all the way to the river with his 3′s and his justification is that he was hoping that Brunson had A-K and bet every street on nothing more than A-high!
Seriously?!?!?!
Why not just say, ‘I screwed up and couldn’t bring myself to fold my hand because I am an action junky that likes to look like a genius by playing shit hands!’
Seriously! What hand other than A-K did you think you were beating here, Dwan? You have all over cards (over your 3′s) on the board, in addition to which you are beaten by any higher pocket pair such as 4′s or 6′s. Do you really think Brunson is betting every street with pocket 2′s?
Come on! This is the kind of stupid play that gets a lot of poker players in trouble; you don’t want to admit that you are beat, so you find some tiny hope in your mind of what your opponent may have that justifies you sitting there calling like a bonehead! This is not good poker, it is dumb, and it is an example of a kid being played by a pro.
Dwan lost a ton of cash on this hand and there was no justification for it other than just plain playing shitty poker.
If you want to take chances and win some miracle hands like Tom Dwan, fine, get ready to accept the big losses that come with that kind of play.
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I couldn’t agree more with this Dwan post; I commented on this a while ago on Usenet. It seems a fairly standard play to raise with any pocket pair, something I used to do when I started out. Nowadays I only play NL freerolls and very small tournaments. Hold ‘Em cash game is a mug’s game.
Coming back to this hand, Brunson’s re-raise is indicating a big pocket pair. It’s bad enough raising with 3s but he should have got away from it at this point. Although Brunson didn’t play the hand particularly well, and might have been beaten on the river, he probably had enough of a read on Dwan to realise his trips were good.
If Dwan keeps playing like this, he’ll end up going broke big time.
These so-called experts make me laugh. Sometimes I watch higher stakes cash games on FullTilt; if anything the standard of play there is worse than 50c-$1, especially at Omaha. They play like madmen.