I have never heard Phil Hellmuth admit to weak poker play on his behalf or even just shutting up when he’s been had.  Today’s video shows Sammy Farha running him over with Q6 of diamonds.  Farha flopped a queen and Hellmuth caught a jack.  Farha ends up talking Phil into a call which I thought was somewhat of a tell.  I may not have been able to sense it live, but on the video it obviously does become a situation where Hellmuth could have taken information had he been paying attention.
Farha bemoans the fact that Phil has shown weakness so …read more

Poker After Dark never quite leaves me satisfied serious poker is being played. It feels too forced, like the players are only playing because they’re getting a ridiculous amount of money (go figure). Anyways, in this hand Sammy gets mixed up with Phil Ivey and Ivey catches a lucky Queen on the river to make a full house. Both had great hands after the flop with Ivey hitting a set of sixes and Sammy with a made straight and potential flush (technically it was a potential straight flush but Ivey had the 6s so it couldn’t have …read more

Only with two players like Sammy Farha and Patrik Antonius could you get a $1 pot with these two hands.
The play with both of these is completely based on aiming your bet at your opponent.
For instance, obviously, if Antonius was playing in a hand against Doyle or Phil Laak, say, he definitely would not have put in $500k with just top pair J kicker.
This is why players like Sammy are so dangerous, when you get a hand against them you have to nail them to the board and hope they don’t have you crushed. You see this kind …read more