High Stakes Poker Season 3 Episode 6
By Glenn Cole | February 21, 2007
Eli Elezra is playing really strong poker and Sam Farha is loose like a cannon, raising every freaking pot. This ends up like a heads up game between Farha and Elezra with the other players like spectators some of the time.
It is the same players like the one’s who ended the last week’s episode. So this week is the table full of well known faces from earlier High Stakes Poker.
Seat 1: Brian Townsend
Seat 2: Sam Farha
Seat 3: Todd Brunson
Seat 4: Paul Wasicka
Seat 5: Barry Greenstein
Seat 6: Eli Elezra
Seat 7: Jennifer Harman
Seat 8: Erick Lindgren
This week starts with a fake straddle, (Todd Brunson raises to minimum $1200 with AK) and everyone and some more calls the raise. Eli Elezra flops a big hand, and getting outdrawn by Todd Brunson which turns the nuts. Elezra looses the minimum in that hand. I don’t know how he can play so conservative in that position, when he is known to play aggressive. Flop JT2 rainbow and Elezra has JT. When the Q comes on the turn he just check, and on the river he just calls the bet of Brunson. It’s all about winning much and loosing small. And as I said, I think he lost the minimum with that hand at that point.
As always Farha is in the big pots, making some interesting moves, unsuccessful this time though. (Well successful to the most players but very unsuccessful against Elezra). But his play is loosing up the table, and its fun to watch. It’s almost like he is playing with monopoly money.
A lot of credits to Elezra’s play this episode. He is holding quite strong hands against the nuts, and finds a why to fold them or to loose a very little amount. And when he is holding a weak hand but the best hand he is getting much in to the middle. As you can read every where, it’s about playing the opponent as much as to play your cards.
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