what's up guys dog poke in we're back
with a huge hand from heads up in the
World Series of Poker Main Event I think
this is a very interesting hand like
that Daario specifically has some
choices he can make with his hand along
the way and it's also heads up my
favorite format so let's go ahead and
jump into the action and chips and Sun
with Kings hang homage to our fallen
colleague Kenny West Randy already tells
me that with pocket kings at least one
ace will come on the flop 23 percent of
the time our hand begins with two
million four million chip lines and a
four million chip big blind ante now the
interesting thing about heads up here
relative to any other spot a tournament
is that there is no ICM at play anymore
it is simply if you win you get 10
million and if you get second you get 6
so you don't have to worry about page
ups in any respect
coming into the hand end song has a
two-to-one chip lead a good spot to be
in and the blinds have gone up to where
Dario now has about 42 big blinds in
place so we're playing a little bit
shorter than we've been and maybe some
of the other hands we saw in the main
event but still some pretty reasonable
stacks to work with our hand begins the
end so I'm looking down at pocket kings
and raising up to 11 million chips now I
like and songs raised size here I'm not
sure how much he was using bigger sizes
vs. smaller sizes but the the 2.7 X
button size he uses here it makes a lot
of sense when you consider there's an
ante at play I think if there was no
aunty I like to see something a little
more like 2.5 2.4 type open but when we
have extra money in the pot it makes
sense to use a bigger size there are
more hands there in tough spots first
this size and if it goes too small than
Dario can just come along with a ton of
hands and see flops for pretty cheap
over to Dario with the 8 4 suited now
this is a hand that you might be able to
get away from in a ring setting but when
you're playing heads up and you're
getting pretty good odds you're not
going to be able to do that Dario has to
call just 7 million chips here and as
the 11 million from ends on his 11
million and then 4 million in the middle
so he's calling 7 million chips to win a
pot that's going to be 26 million he
simply does not need that much equity
something like 27 percent equity if we
look at 8 4 suited against the range of
hands that opens he's definitely getting
that now of course the way you realize
that equity is very important he is out
of position but I still think that it's
close enough or it's not close enough to
where he needs
be playing this hand now I do like
mixing in a rear ace here from time to
time with a hand like eight four suited
I might base that a little bit more of
my opponent if I think that they're
folding a bit too much to three about
I'll mix it in and I think that they're
stationed E and they're gonna play
pretty loose or they're pretty tight
opener
I might just look to call anyway Daario
decides this is gonna be a calling hand
he makes the call and let's take a flop
this is a 77 percent of the time that it
does not come you are correct
two spades for Daario out there it was
eight for spades
lucky turn card away from
it's a lot of good cards for him in the
turn besides justice paid ones that let
him continue any straight card ten six
deuce with two spades aboard that both
players are pretty excited to see Dario
has a flush draw he's gonna make a flush
and he Spade and of course ends on still
has an over pair with his pocket kings
Dario checks over to ensign and decides
to go ahead and bet fifteen million
chips here a pretty sizable bet and one
thing that I will say from having
watched some of the final table I did
see a lot of smaller bets in these spots
from N saw him when he has hands are a
little bit weaker and so maybe I'd look
to play a little bit tighter and Dario
shus facing a bet this large not only
are your pot odds worse but if your
opponent might have some towels in that
department it could be a good spot to
make a few discipline lay downs but if
flush draw is not one of them your hand
is simply way too strong to be guessing
on if your opponent is really strong or
not you just have simply too much equity
so there's two ways that Dario can play
this he can either check raise here on
the flop or he can go for the check call
now I don't mind working in the check
raised from time to time and gets a
pretty simply but there is a big
drawback on these stacks if you check
raises and his opponent goes all-in he
has to fold and that's a pretty big
disaster when you have this much equity
you know we talked about this a couple
other videos but there are some certain
stacks where your draw ends up being
good enough to continue but not good
enough to raise because your opponent
can just go all-in
and you have to fold your equity so
because of that I do lean towards a
check call I don't mind every now and
then mixing in a check raise you might
see a pattern here sometimes we mix and
raises with a lot of different hands
anyway Dario decides to go ahead and
check call and let's take a turn nine of
clubs definitely get big
1:41 49 giving dario I got shot Kings
still good for insan here
33 million to Dario on the draw
you've got a good hand to semi-bluff
with it's just it's so risky and it
would take pretty much all his chips
I would assume he would jam here he
liked to Therese at all if he saw the
cars you would know he said all in the
Somerton comes an officer denying a very
interesting card now Dario has picked up
a straight draw to go along with his
flush draw and well and so I'm still
pretty happy about situation it's
getting a little bit scary now ten nine
is we've been in the lead six times and
an elite eight 7 has the nuts there are
way more hands that beat him but more
importantly there are a lot more run
outs that will be very bad for pocket
kings
Dario decides to check I think it's good
to check here I do think that maybe
working in some occasional leads and
spots like this where you could have
some strong hands doesn't make some
sense - this is a card that I think does
hit the big wines range but you're never
gonna go wrong with checking all of your
holdings now over to end song with
pocket kings what does he want to do
here and I think the answer is bet even
though this is getting a little bit
scary and this is a spot that I see a
lot of players make mistakes in you
still need to bet because you're simply
too far ahead of all of the hands that
Dario can have let's think about this is
opponent gonna have a ten a nine a six
there a flush draw there are way too
many hands room just to be scared of
these nutted hands I know this is an
over parish not the most complex bet
here but it's important to keep your
foot in the gas when you're betting for
value with strong hands now he's had to
go for a 33 million chip bet this is a
good sized bet here in the turn and I'm
liking everything about this hand so far
for pocket kings now back over to dario
interesting spot once again could he
check call it's pretty close he's
getting almost the direct odds that he
needs he might make some money when he
gets there as well but Dario's got other
plans in mind
Dario decides to move in and I love this
play this is an extremely good play it's
a well-balanced move he's going to get
to realize his equity he's opponent
either fold or he gets to see the river
he's gonna know if he hit his flush or
straight and that's very likely outcome
sure it's
more likely he bricks but he's got a
good shot at either of those hands
additionally gives him a chance to
balance out his value bets you know some
of the hands we talked about earlier ten
nine nine six eight seven a bunch of
these kinds of hands he could have that
would want to raise the term for value
well he's gonna need to work in some
Bluffs and he didn't Bluff with hands
like eight four then in theory he could
be exploited by his opponent just
folding Kings right because maybe he's
just not bluffing and that's really the
important element of turn check raises
you know I think back to a final table I
played with Dario in the one-drop or I
check raised with a straight draw flush
draw in the turn against the top payer
and I got a fold and that's really the
thing you want to make it so your
opponent doesn't know what to do you
want to make it so that's tough for them
is he bluffing maybe but probably not
that's the key to good poker balancing
out those ranges finding finding spots
where you can get hands like the eight
four spades here and work them in in a
crafty way that balance out when you do
have ten nine you do have eight seven
and you want to raise four value this is
the key to poker when you have good
hands mainly bet and raise and then
occasionally worked in some Bluffs that
don't have very good showdown value but
do have some equity so Dario is all-in
now back over to ends on who really
takes a lot of time here to make what
would be a very tough decision for
anyone
he said all-in he did jam and he gets a
snap oh man I was so you could tell you
almost folded right I mean between the
first second and the second second the
third set well there wasn't a third
second but you know it was he was you
could tell it was pretty tough pretty
tough call for him there this could be
it right here
totally still a but running into
Kingsborough Mario Sammartino needing
help he's got 12 outs but Hossein inside
one clean card away from a championship
suddenly
into the arms of his rail Sammartino the
bluff said my bluff Shawn
it could be the first time the main
event has been won with pocket kings
dire left to just shake his head and
hope he gets lucky to extend this so all
the chips are in the middle the players
have everything on the line what will
happen will Dario get there let's find
out
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