High Stakes Poker Season 3 Episode 11
By Glenn Cole | March 27, 2007
One of the biggest poker professionals out there tries his luck at High Stakes Poker. I know I’m not the only one who has been looking forward to this. And of course I’m talking about Phil Ivey.
It’s the same lineup yet again, but they said on the last episode that both Phil Ivey and David Williams will join the table.
Seat 1: Daniel Negreanu
Seat 2: Illya Trincher
Seat 3: Dan Harmetz
Seat 4: Antonio Esfandiari
Seat 5: Phil Laak
Seat 6: Chris Ferguson
Seat 7: Mike Matusow
Seat 8: Dan Shak
In the first hand of the episode Trincher takes home a pot worth over $40.000, playing against Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu tried to make a move with small suited connectors but Trincher didn’t go nowhere with his pockets tens. And with the flop KKK Negreanu is almost drawing dead, but I think Trincher is afraid of Negreanu holding a bigger pocket pair, so it will not generate that much action. Trincher gets back to back pocket tens, and this time Matusow is trying to make a move, (with A6 off suit). But this time the play works and Trincher lay down his hand.
Some minutes into the show David Williams make his entrance to High Stakes Poker. If you haven’t heard about this young poker player before, I can tell you he finished runner up in WSOP 2004, lost to Greg Raymer heads up. I can also add at this point, Ivey has taken his seat so now it’s some new blood at the table. Both players are often very aggressive and will hopefully fun to see in action in High Stakes Poker. Williams picks up pocket tens after a while and I think Phil Laak takes the opportunity to bluff him just because he is new to the table and maybe isn’t that experienced in the high stakes table as the other. But it ends up in a quite a big pot, $53.000 and Williams is the winner. So this young new poker professional makes his appearance known at the beginning.
Some minutes later John D’agostino and Brad Booth is getting seated at the table and puts more money in play. For example, Booth puts $1.000.000 in front of him. This has only happened one time before in High Stakes Poker, with Negreanu plying for the same amount in season 1. In D’agostino’s first hand he first tries to bluff Williams out from the pot but gets called and thereafter turns two pair, taking home a pot worth almost $45.000.
Two new comers and a “oldie” is involved in the biggest pot of the episode; Phil Ivey holding an over pair to the table, and both Negreanu and Williams holding a diamond flush draw, where Williams has the nut flush draw. Ivey is getting unlucky in this hand, playing it really well, but still looses quite an amount of money. And the winner is the most unlikely Negreanu, which made trips sixes due to the turn and the river. So Negreanu takes the pot of $127.000.
A hand shortly after, Negreanu is again in the hot seat. This time he has flopped a set when his opponent Brian Townsend has flopped an open ended straight draw. And again he ends up as the winner taking home over $106.000. So this two hands gives Negreanu a lot of profit, making him the biggest winner in this episode.
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