Re: Crazy hand to determine the final table at the 2018 WSOP Main Event
Originally Posted by
Rylant
I don't see how anybody can get away from Kings in that position. What are you afraid of? Aces? Ten handed, if one of those guys has Queens and the other has AK, Kings are huge. The only time I would EVER fold Kings pre-flop, is if I was certain somebody else has Aces. You WANT to be all in for all of your chips with Kings. That's how you get a monster stack. You can't fault him for his play.
Rylant
Sorry but I have to respectively disagree...Golfguy is 100% correct. As great as holding KK is, you'll still run pocket kings into AA 1 out of 20 times while you have them. Labat started the hand with 85bb, then he flat called the initial raise of 2.5bb. Once another player reraises allin and the initial raiser instantly goes allin over the top (for 85% of Labat's stack) it's almost certain 1 of them has AA. Especially when you take into consideration that it's the WSOP Main Event final table...people aren't gonna go crazy in a multi way pot and spew their stack away without the absolute premium of hands... it's life changing money to these guys, simply laddering up to the next pay jump is 100's of thousands of dollars more. Plus it's not even like Labat was remotely close to being pot committed having only committed 2.5bb of his 85bb stack. So for that reason alone it should've been an EASY FOLD for Labat.
You used an example of "what if" one of the opponents had QQ and the other had AK... I agree having KK is big in this spot but KK will still only win 56% of the time (basically the odds of flipping a coin), QQ would win 18% and AK would win 25%.
Calling 1 opponents allin while holding KK is fine, but once it becomes multi-way the chances of KK winning vs 2 random hands is drastically less.
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