2024 World Series of Poker
Nível: 9
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500
To mark the WSOP Main Event, Faraz Jaka has given us some top tips for those playing in the most prestigious event in poker. You can always find more help and advice, as well as free poker resources and training videos on Jaka Coaching.
Top Tip #2: Mindset
"Another bit of advice for the WSOP Main Event is on mindset. People get really excited during the Main Event. There are camera, media coverage and your friends are texting you — there's just so much excitement!
"It's hard not to get sucked into that. So when you have a big stack you're getting all hyped up and then you get a bad beat and lose two thirds your stack you feel like crap."
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Staying grounded mentally and not letting your mindset wander away from the present is super important, says Jaka.
"You really have to try not to get too excited and stay even keel. I always remind myself, that in every tournament I have ever won, at some point I was a short stack with ten big blinds. So when I get short, I'm like, 'Alright, this is part of the journey to win a tournament.'"
To mark the WSOP Main Event, Faraz Jaka has given us some top tips for those playing in the most prestigious event in poker. You can always find more help and advice, as well as free poker resources and training videos on Jaka Coaching.
Top Tip #1: Identify Weaker Players
"My first tip is to identify the weakest players at your table," Jaka told PokerNews. "And while this may be important in all tournaments, in the Main Event it's extra important because you just get so many recreational players, and maybe this is the one big tournament they play a year.
"So be sure to identify who those players are. You want to raise their big blinds a little bit wider, you want to three-bet and isolate them. And really try to get into pots versus them."
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Jaka says that these weaker players tend to belong in two separate camps:
"There's going to be ones that are scared money that you could kind of run over, but then there's gonna be others that are gamblers.
"They're the ones where you actually have to kind of hold on and hit something, so be a little bit aware of who they are. They're definitely the ones you want to get into a pot heads-up with.
The players of Day 2abc are going on a 75-minute dinner break. Below are some of the highlights from the third level of play today:
- Dolofan Gets Paid WIth a Flush
- D'Ambrosio Kept His Word to His Tablemate
- Zhou Shows Altman the Bluff
- Galfond Gets Caught With His Hand in the Cookie Jar
Stay tuned as PokerNews continues to provide updates throughout the day.
With about 10,000 in the middle on the K♠10♠10♦2♣ flop, Alexander Prokudin checked to Linglin Zeng who dropped a bet of 6,500 across the line. Prokudin made the call.
The 7♦ completed the board on the river and both players tapped the table.
Prokudin tabled K♥8♥ and Zeng mucked her hand.
Michael Marder raised to 2,500 in the hijack and Benjamin Pollak three-bet to 7,300 on the button. It folded back to Marder and he four-bet to 18,000. Pollak came along and they headed to the Q♥J♥J♣ flop on which Marder checked. Pollak now bet 12,000 and won the pot without further resistance.
Dae Woong Song had raised to 3,000 from middle position and was called by the player in the big blind. Song then bet for 2,000 on the K♠9♣K♣ flop and the big blind check-called.
On the K♦ turn, both players checked while the 3♥ river was checked through as well.
The big blind tabled A♠2♣ for ace-high, but Song played the better ace-high with A♥10♦ and chipped up further.
Phil Galfond and Hao Zhou were heads-up on a flop of 5♥4♥Q♥ with several thousand already in the middle.
Zhou check-called a 4,500 bet from Galfond and then check-called a 21,000 bet from Galfond on the 9♠ turn.
The K♠ completed the board and Zhou checked a final time. Galfond cut out a bet of 70,000 and placed it into the middle — sending Zhou deep into the tank.
Zhou eventually put in a call and Galfond tabled 2♥2♠. Zhou let out a sigh of relief and tabled A♥A♦ for a pair of aces to take down the large pot.