There are bigger punts, but with this being a top player like Mizrachi and it being on the final 3 tables of the Main Event, I think this deserves a mention.
He shoves 19bb from UTG-7, which is completely unnecessary off that stack depth. Raise/folding this should be totally fine. Even if you think the table is overfolding to the shove, he has to get through 6 players still, any 1 of which could hold a hand that dominates yours (as happened).
Sorry if this is obvious but in the Kottler Kd2o hand I understand why the Kd is a good card to bluff on turn but why is it a good river bluff card when river wasn't a diamond?
Honestly I am not entirely sure, but digging into it a little. We almost always bet the turn with king high, no pair, no draw, but regularly check back Kx+FD. So we have slightly more bluffs with Kh or Ks on the river than Kd.
She's supposed to pure check the river, but if she decides to have a betting range KJ should beat all her bluffs. I think the main problem here is if someone is supposed to check range and they bet, they usually have a good hand. Also a wild card in the main event could just bet a pair of twos on the river. I think it's a pretty bad river call by Jason, but it's such a small pot it can't be too big a punt
https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2025-wsop/event-81-10000-wsop-main-event/chips.767961.htm
(no timestamp for video since still ongoing)
There are bigger punts, but with this being a top player like Mizrachi and it being on the final 3 tables of the Main Event, I think this deserves a mention.
He shoves 19bb from UTG-7, which is completely unnecessary off that stack depth. Raise/folding this should be totally fine. Even if you think the table is overfolding to the shove, he has to get through 6 players still, any 1 of which could hold a hand that dominates yours (as happened).
Sorry if this is obvious but in the Kottler Kd2o hand I understand why the Kd is a good card to bluff on turn but why is it a good river bluff card when river wasn't a diamond?
Honestly I am not entirely sure, but digging into it a little. We almost always bet the turn with king high, no pair, no draw, but regularly check back Kx+FD. So we have slightly more bluffs with Kh or Ks on the river than Kd.
Koon pays off Groeninger?
https://youtu.be/LIhs83NHFJo?si=3oKrNr5hksFDEdzm&t=774
She's supposed to pure check the river, but if she decides to have a betting range KJ should beat all her bluffs. I think the main problem here is if someone is supposed to check range and they bet, they usually have a good hand. Also a wild card in the main event could just bet a pair of twos on the river. I think it's a pretty bad river call by Jason, but it's such a small pot it can't be too big a punt
How about Boivin vs Seth Davies FT of the 250k where Boivin folds A9o on the river vs 66?
That hand looked reasonable to me, but I might run it for the main newsletter
Okay thanks!