Sunday, July 22, 2007

Man Vs Machine

Phil Laak is going to play poker against a computer... again.

Last night I watched Negreanu play Hold'em, then switch to Stud Hi/Lo on Pokerstars. He made a few thousand.

In that second pic, Daniel had been leading out. In this pic, Daniel bet $100. AffleckKGB raised another $200 and Daniel folded. He had what, 7-to-1 odds. He must have had junk in the hole.

I also watched Barry Greenstein.

I'm pretty sure Barry was all-in pre-flop with this hand, which confused me. But I guess it worked out for him. I was jumping around games, so maybe Barry suspect that he was being bullied and took a stand? I don't know.
One guy asked Barry to play heads up, but only offered to play for $1k. During the course of the conversation Barry won a lot more than that. By the time I quit watching Barry was up to over 8K in chips. I just don't see how it would ever be in Greenstein's bests interest to play a long heads up game when the table game are so lucrative. But Barry was really nice about turning him down:


I also watched Greg "Fossilman" Raymer play Omaha:


All the pros I saw were winners. And they all seemed to fill the table with players. I think that a lot of people pop in so they can say, "I played with..." to their friends. Heck, I thought the same thing.