Poker After Dark Table 1
By Glenn Cole | April 29, 2007
Hellmuth screams at everyone, Sheikan is mocking every play by Hellmuth and the other players at the table just sits back and enjoys the show. Everyone know that Hellmuth is loud at the table, but can he justify it with his play?
As you can see it all started out with a really talkative table, with many different personalities. Hellmuth is one the most fun players to se playing, and the other tried quite some tricks to get him on tilt.
Seat 1: Gus Hansen
Seat 2: Phil Hellmuth
Seat 3: Shawn Sheikan
Seat 4: Annie Duke
Seat 5: Steve Zolotow
Seat 6: Huck Seed
Just so you know, on all tables the seated started with 20.000 in chips and the start blinds were 100/200.
This table started out with a loud mouthed Phil Hellmuth, who talked about how he will trap every player and get all their money, but it backfired just from the start. Hellmuth picked up pocket queens in the small blind and just called. Sheikan in the big blind had 63 of clubs and just checked it. The flop came 654 with two clubs. This gave Sheikan a monster draw, with his open ended straight draw and flush draw. The turn showed a blank, and now Hellmuth started to bet for the first time in the hand and Sheikan was obligated to call with his enormous draw. And what do you know; the river was 2 of clubs, which gave Sheikan both a straight and a flush. Even with this dangerous board Phil betted out, with only one pair, the queens. Of course Shawny raised it and Phil made, in my opinion a rather weak call with just his queens. So Sheikan took home the first big pot, worth 10.000 in chips.
This hand made Hellmuth even louder than before and the other player teased him like never before. This didn’t calm down later on, since he got involved in a large pot against Annie Duke. Hellmuth raised on the button with AT, and Annie looked down on pocket kings in the big blind. She made a oversized raise, and that was in my opinion the right move. Just because it was against Hellmuth, who apparently was steaming a bit, and short stacked. With this kind of structure, when the winner takes all you have to take some chances to accumulate chips. It developed to a rather long hand and ended up with Hellmuth folding. But at this hand, the other players behaved in a way no appropriate at a poker game. It was a big hand, and may have been the hand of Hellmuth existence at the table, but the other players didn’t give him any chance to think, and just bullied Hellmuth when he was in the hand. He made a big scene out of this situation, but I have to say; I took Hellmuth’s side in this matter, I really don’t think it was appropriate behavior by the other.
Later on Phil ordered a double white Russian and had the time to drink it before he got busted by his nemesis besides him, Shawn Sheikan. So the first one out was the Poker brat, Phil Hellmuth
Next player out would be Steve Zolotow. He became short stacked and Gus Hansen has raised many pots, and in this hand he did the same; raised in the cut off, but with this time with a strong starting hand (AK). Zolotow had KJ in the big blind and took a shoot, but lost.
Sheikan got unlucky in a key moment, holding AK versus Seed’s QJ of hearts and it would be all in pre flop. But as the way the hand went down, Seed did the correct call in my opinion, just because he got the right odds to do it. And now there were only three players left at the table; Huck Seed, Gus Hansen and Annie Duke, with Gus and Seed holding most of the chips.
As the short stack Duke had, she had to steal some blinds, or try to double up to get in to the game again. But in one hand, Gus called here, and were dominating Duke’s hand; Gus with KT against JT on Annie. Only two players left after that, playing for the $120.000 prize pot. In the beginning of that heads up, Gus was the aggressive at the table, with much raises to put the pressure on Seed. Seed waited and waited to get the right cards, and after a while he got lucky to find pocket queens, and doubled up, making the match almost a tie.
The key pot of the heads up, a pot worth almost 100.000 in chips was almost a race situation; Gus had A7 of diamonds versus Seed with KJ of spades. Gus hand held up, and make him a strong leader in the match, with 100.000 in chips of the total 120.000 in play. This situation made Seed to take some chances, and the final hand he was a underdog with 87 when Gus picked up a strong hand heads up, AJ.
This table’s winner was Gus Hansen which became $120.000 richer. This table was really enjoyable to watch, with a lot of talk and different types of strategies how to play poker.
View the first day of play
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