Summary
It has been said of many poker players that they might go to bed broke, but they won't go to bed curious. They just have to call that last bet. They just have to see an opponent's hand. They just lack discipline in situations where they should have a good idea that they have the second-best hand. It's true that you can't win a tournament by making a bunch of laydowns, but you do have to fold certain hands if you believe you're beaten, as even maniac pro David Pham showed he's capable of in this hand from the World Series of Poker $10,000-buy-in main event in 2009.
With blinds at $50-$100, the player in Seat 8 open-raised to $250. The player in Seat 10 called, as did the small blind. Pham called from the big blind with 3-5 of hearts, having to put in only another $150 into a pot of $850, better than 5-1 odds on the kind of hand that can break opponents playing big cards.See the full content of this document
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Table Talk
The flop came 3-K-5, rainbow, giving Pham bottom two pair. All four players checked.
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