Why Allen Cunningham is a Killer
May 15, 2008 by Blake
Filed under poker blog
Here’s a hand between Phil Ivey and Allen Cunningham in a live No limit hold em cash game via Full Tilt Poker.
Love Cunningham’s play on this hand. Not raising the flop with crap on board. Just calling the turn. Laying down to the obvious value bet on the river. So many other players, I think including greats like Negreanu and Hansen, would have lost a hell of a lot more in this spot. Allen truly lost less than most any other player would have in his spot.
Plus he looks like John Malkovich.
Absolutely unreal. Both of these guys are poker GODS.
Not to mention if it was Phil Hellmuth instead of Cunningham the following would have happened:
IVEY bets 15K on flop
HELLMUTH: I re-raise. Make it 45K.
IVEY calls
turn card comes
IVEY bets 45K
HELLMUTH: I re-raise. Make it 135K
river card comes
IVEY bets 100K, making same value gestures he made on CUNNINGHAM
HELLMUTH goes in the tank for awhile
HELLMUTH: I’m all in for my last 250K
IVEY insta calls and flips over 2-2
HELLMUTH: This donkey crap is for the birds. That #$%$#@% idiot called my raise with 2-2. I raised to show you I had a hand. You are the luckiest donkey in the history of the world
GUS HANSEN: Uh, it’s Phil freaking Ivey.
HELLMUTH: And he’s too stupid to spell poker.
Whilst everyone thinks its a great laydown, he’s just thinking to himself “even if I win I can’t win. It’s Phil fucking Ivey.” Must Fold.
Jason, haha yeah “Donkey stuff.” You got it on that.
Yeah Phil would have lost at least twice as much, particularly on the flop bet.
Phil is strange in cash games. He makes a lot of weird plays. Like that episode of High Stakes where he folds a king high flush draw for a really small bet against two players. Then he turns around and makes huge bets with crap into huge hands and dudes fold. He just knows.
In my first comment I meant PHIL Hellmuth.
In second, PHIL Ivey.
Too many damn poker Phils.
Great play going on in this vid. The announcer annoyed me though with his “snap off” comments.
WTF does snapping off a set of 2s mean? He was just making words up.
oh come on, dude, you never SNAPPED OFF a set of deuces? duckets?
poker commentating is gross almost all around. gabe kaplan and his cohost on high stakes are the ones i think who actually add.
the guy on POKER AFTER DARK is the absolute worst.
Snapping off…right term, wrong place for it. I don’t think you so much snap off a good hand as you do snap off a huge chuck of someone’s stack. Just an observation.
Bathrooms come to mind with the term snap off. At least in my depraved mind.
Gabe is a great commentator. He knows the game better then most but has a good sense of humor.
I like Mike Sexton too. I think the two worst are chad Norman and that other idiot. There is ablsolutely NO technical commentation about play. It’s just annoying banter and suspense building. Blah.
I meant Norman Chad. That guy is a douche nozzle.