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We would need the transcript of the game to analyse it properly. Here it is : ---------------- Stacks: Ungar: ~60,000; Matloubi: ~40,000 Blinds: 200/400 Hands:
by bionsystem 7y ago
We would need the transcript of the game to analyse it properly. Here it is :
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Stacks: Ungar: ~60,000; Matloubi: ~40,000
Blinds: 200/400
Hands: Matloubi holds 5-4 offsuit in the BB; Ungar has 10-9 offsuit in the small blind (the button).
Preflop: Ungar raises to 1,600 in the small blind, Matloubi calls.
Flop (pot 3,200): 3-3-7 rainbow
Action: Matloubi checks, Ungar bets 6,000, Matloubi calls.
Turn (pot 15,200): K, board still rainbow
Action: Matloubi checks, Ungar checks.
River (Pot 15,200): Q
Action: Matloubi moves all in for about 32,000 and Ungar calls within a few seconds, declaring, "You've either got 4-5 or 5-6, I call." Ungar then flips up his 10-high to drag the $80,000 pot.
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Not sure what your parent has in mind, but just from the choice of sizings from both sides, I doubt that many people would play either side of the hand this way nowadays. Which kind of make any analysis a bit pointless. But I'll check tonight with a solver if it has anything to say about it.
- estomagordo 7y agoIt's always hard to comment on a live hand, what with reads and all, but these bet sizes sure look funny by today's standards.
- jacobush 7y agoThen I guess it is also impossible to say how he would have adapted to other players of this time? What is a good strategy now maybe not have been as great then?
- bionsystem 7y agoJust to answer this, a good strategy today would wreck everything back then. Basically game theory shows us that it is possible to be very aggressive while still being unexploitable, and the more you deviate from this strategy (by being too aggressive like Stu, or not enough like everybody else pretty much), the more you lose.
- chumali 7y agoCan't see how Ungar could have acted any differently here given the betting by Matloubi?
- mattmaroon 7y agoHe had ten high. That loses to most bluffs. It's an underdog to a random hand. Normally you'd fold and laugh quietly to yourself because your opponent thought they bluffed you when really they had the best hand.
- mattmaroon 7y agoI don't think many people would have played it that way back then.