2013 National Heads-Up Poker Championship Episode 8

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presented by wsop.com a place in the quarterfinals at stake here at caesar's palace payouts ramping up intensity ramping up four matchups with some of the best players in the world come on Meet the diamonds and Hart's side of the group Tom Dwan Brian Hastings Joseph Chung Eugene Catchalope and I'm taking another shot at the round of 16. Joe Sarock Dan Smith and at our top table Phil Hellmuth and I'm David Sands the guy about to beat phil hellmuth let's see about that kid let's see about that that's why we're here phil david is known for being a methodical player any worry that that white magic could be neutralized by you no, I mean, I I think I think I hope what separates us.

I hope to have some great reads, but I mean, David Doc Sands is a very talented player and he's done some amazing things and I think he's very talented, so I think it's going to be a good match. You seem confident, David, right? Yes, I have a lot of respect for Phil, but you know these

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growing up, so it's always fun to play against someone you idolized when you were younger. Good good. Good luck, gentlemen, let's put our cards in the air and say hello, Matt Vasquez and Ali Najjad, back with you for the conclusion of the round of 16. I think so, I think that's right, good luck phil, good luck phil hellmuth and david sands, highlighting a very competitive group of hearts and diamonds hey, there's no helmet handshake to start the match, can we interpret that absolutely? Oh, I don't think it's that hard to get too much out of it, but David Sands is exactly the kind of player Phil Hellmuth should feel like. threatened by his young talent and, most importantly, very hardworking, but we're going 27.

Bill is not nervous, he has 13 bracelets and he will let you know. They raised it to 2,700 with 9 8. ace nine suitable for david sands That's a superior holding. He calls David and we will see our first flop in this match. We traded two fours and a straight draw for David Sands. Total air for Phil Hellmuth Sans is checked. I feel like someone is certainly capable of folding, but on a flop like this after your opponent has defended the big blind, you will be more inclined to six thousand to make the continuation bet, you bet six thousand and sans bet a fairly conservative start of the match, David had the ace high on the wheel, he tied with Joseph Chong. your left and eugene cachaloff a slight chip advantage for joseph as you can see he looks at the jack four and calls the ace 10 of diamonds for eugene he passes to chong he takes a little different approach here he doesn't lift the button and eugene ha flopped a nut. flush has the royal flush draw, not that he needs it jacks for joseph to catch up he spent 1600 and chong calls i give eugene credit for betting the flop makes it much harder for joe to put it on the flush who Would you bet on the color? max flush on the flop, right, it's a tough card for Joe.

He made three of a kind on a bet of 3000. And that, of course, is because Eugene checked to him, which is a fantastic check. He's spinning Joe here in the rivers of the four of swords. and a full house for chong are you kidding me? this is the first pot we see in this match the max flush against a pot catcher love is marked chong bet 6600 there are a couple out there but you can't expect eugene to just call and you actually see the raise to 18,000. a joe loves this, i'm on my mind and he's going to try to put eugene all in oh that seems said not at all eugene knows that with the pear out there the top flush is vulnerable and if you have the best flush what do you send it with Joe?

I'm a little sorry if you just called with this and Eugene sets the flush ace high, that's not a Harvey home game, it's a disciplined game, it might look bad on TV. Well, Joseph Chong has taken the lead as he quickly increases his starting stack of 100,000 blinds 6 and 1200 to start, but moving up quickly in this fast-paced format will be some of the best No Limit Hold'em players in the world. Here at Caesar's Palace there are four chips at stake in the round of 16. youth is in the hearts and diamonds groups six players under 30 phil hellmuth is the only player with more than 40 power matchups at this time which one stands out for you of course Hellmuth Sands showdown is the one where everyone The eyes in the room are on, but let's not fall asleep on that Dwan Hastings battle.

We also got to see fireworks at that game. Returning to Joseph Chong and Eugene Cachalov. You know, Eugene was worried about a call. bad, but instead his fold looked incredible, he raises the 3,200. eugene raises with 8-5 in diamonds joseph 9-6 off suit and he calls and the flop six trey seven huge flop joseph flops middle pair eugene is open with a flush tie here and joe is leading straight into the jackknife pre-flop, wouldn't mind taking this pot right here on such a textured board eugene just calls and certainly could have raised with that big draw turns a jack of spades into second card for joe sixes plus eugene's call in position allows joe to check cancel the bet 7,000.

I love this bet from eugene, he is taking advantage of the opportunity to win the pot right here and even if joe calls like he does, eugene has many leads and one of those leads comes on the river eugene makes his flush joseph has checked this is not an attractive table for 9-6 at the moment especially if eugene makes a reasonable size bed bet 13,500,000 which qualifies as reasonable size and he gets a call wow eugene takes the pot takes the pot joseph chong must have decided that eugene was simply floating on the flop in air position there is no other explanation for the river call get it back immediately chung with one misstep later from a big sell out who will move on joseph chung eugene catchaloff tom dwan brian hastings joe sorak dan smith phil hellmuth david sands this year's event started with seven former main event champions at this point there is only one phil hellmuth left but phil knows that a win 24 years ago Ago won't help him today as he faces one of the best tournament players in the world, David Doc Sands, who secured his spot in the event when Daniel Negranu withdrew and Sans is making the most of it, so Ali, what is the doctor doing?

I have reservation for Helmuth, this is the doctor's first appearance and he may feel some pressure here during the operation. Helmuth, well, it's a great opportunity for Sans to prove to a large audience that he belongs to the poker elite by beating one of the poker elite. He would do well to maintain his characteristic methodical pace and hope to disrupt Hellmuth's rhythm because in a matchup with almost equal skills every little advantage counts and I give the advantage to the doctor who is in the round of eight, well, it is Phil Hellmuth who has a slight lead so far in this match blinds eight and sixteen hundred still squeezing jack nine out of suit, will call ace queen for doc 54. raises to 5,400. 54. huh, that's a pretty big pre-flop raise, phil's made the call now Phil didn't have to make this call but he doesn't want to get into the habit of limping on the button and then just folding to hit the flop is king king five quite attractive board for doc sands to fire the continuation bet is 8,000.

He bets 3,400 and Phil quickly raises to 8,000. Phil is trying to sell the idea that he either limped with a pocket pair or a king, but with that texture on the table, a king is a more difficult cell. The doctor matches without obviously not buying what Hellmuth is selling increases the stock's costs. The turn is a ten of diamonds and now both players get a straight draw. doc checks and waits for Phil to pass behind him. check Phil verifies that he has passed. Rivers of four of hearts. A letter totally irrelevant to him. board doc checks sam has now checked with phil having checked on the turn when you see him looking for chips this is going to be a really tough sell a king would have bet the turn card no doubt phil bets 11,000. so doc is going to put him on the pocket pair or full pocket, one or the other, puts it in the air, calls and takes the pot with an ace high and Phil shows a high jack.

You don't usually see Phil Hellmuth involved in boats like that. In fact, I thought you could call me with the ace high, of course you did well, my turn, boy, now I'm going to have to beat you in the next seven minutes, I'm not going anywhere, you could do it in seven minutes, someone is not intimidated. david sands has a seven minute warning apparently turns the clock back to joseph chung and eugene catching jacks for joe thirty five thirty five hundred you're putting a raise to thirty five hundred pocket kings to catch eugene re-raise to 9 200 200 joseph raises to 20 500 500 the temperature rises one and eugene is going to put joseph in total and call you know chong really faced a small chance that kachalov had tens but otherwise it was aces of queen kings or ace king here is the flop and the flop eight two six no help for the good piece there are two hearts on the board king of hearts oh you are asking too much there is seven of diamonds on the turn joseph chung the only player to finish in the top 2 in the main event the last three years and goes home this afternoon his maiden voyage in heads-up will end in the round of 16 eugene kachilov advances to the round of 16 the turning point in this match was when eugene threw the flush maximum to joseph barco I want to play poker doc sounds let's play poker do you want to play you have me good everything is tied you want to play the game let's play the game I think that's what he's here for is that the evil frozen doc has raised with king six of another suit this time it you have, uh, nine seven for Phil and he calls the decision.

Hellmuth is leaning on that ace and senior lady the doctor made and would do well to keep his emotions in check while he shows more frustration. The more the doctor concentrates, he flops his layup of 10-8, an open straight draw for Phil and a very quick check. Hellmuth is clearly aggravated without the 3700 bet. call call phil call i think phil needs to slow down and make sure he is thinking about every decision he still checks the ace of clubs on the turn a quick check from hellmuth sans has checked and the river a doctor could have been able to represent the ace there six thousand five hundred six thousand five tell me if the pair is nine bet sixty five hundred sands they deposited their hand and Phil Hellmuth took the pot.

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David Docksand said he was going to beat Phil Hellmuth and so far Sam's has the advantage, but he has a lot left to play for. Eugene Catchaloff has already advanced on Joseph Chong. There are still three games in dispute while they await bids for the quarterfinals. in the balance tom duan on the left and with the chip advantage over brian hastings blind in 12 and 2 400 here, did you play in the first round, uh, matt matrows? top pair and it's 10 suited and pop second pair oh yeah I heard a pair of nines against seven four of hearts here and on the flop tom's pairs are seven the word apparently travels fast in the poker room duane already has Summary of Hastings' previous matches Juan has passed Hastings bent 5500 and Tom says the problem is that he can't escape, but he doesn't love it.

Treya Diamonds comes on the turn check and that will allow Tom to feel a little better about his hand on the river deuce. of diamonds on the river I wouldn't be surprised to see Tom Bett, but there is a good check here, so Hastings measures a bet of 16,000. In a pot of 21, that's three quarters and a good placement by Tom doesn't think that Hastings bluffed. In the end you don't seem so unhappy. I'll try to hide it. I have many things to smile about. Return to Hellmuth and Sands. Maybe you'll move or something. Maybe I'll call you.

I don't know. Phil is thinking out loud again. I'm not sure if. Is that on purpose or not, he doesn't look at this either, you doubled over, that was your first complet of the day and I hadn't even looked, obviously, it's not like you have to read, no, of course, no, that's sick, neither Had I even looked, I would have done it. I loved hearing David tell him that he had a reading paper supervised by his fiancée Erica Moutino, also a noted poker player, and to think that we almost lost Doc Sands' talent to the world of tennis.

He was actually recruited to play in college, but he struggled. a back injury that sidelined him permanently, you don't need to have a good back to play poker. Call Connecting Cards for Philly Calls with 6'5 suit 10-4 for David. Usually we will check when I limp on the button, you compete with you. You showed one, you had a hand, you think Hellmuth was complaining. The flop is four aces, jack, bottom pair for Sans. Nothing happened to Hellmuth other than position and a chance to stab after heSans will pass it. Phil Betts 2400. Sans calls and doesn't give Phil credit. almost anything after limping the button turns into two of spades straight shot draw for helmet arenas quickly checks phil checks to the river queen of hearts without checking once again 15. and that's a big overbet from phil hellmuth with six high on the river and the sands fold their hand, it is very difficult to call with fours on that board, but if you stop to think about it, 15k in a pot of less than 10 is polarizing.

No, I didn't imagine you'd actually be that aggressive with me. I wasn't sure, I thought maybe I could be that aggressive, so we haven't played together much. Not together, but the one time we played you played a little bit fast I felt like, For better or worse, fast is not a word often used to describe doc sands, he is like a chris ferguson junior when it comes to speed of play, doc is raised to 6500 with ace 10. phil h deuce returns to raise to 17,000. Wow, we normally don't see anything this aggressive, the problem with the play is that he has talked about not wanting to be pushed, so the doctor knows that this could simply be part of an agenda and not his hands without go up to 28 4.

Good scenarios for you, right? It's 28,000 phil folds, of course, I'll never compete with you again without having it and he showed the ace. they are too aggressive they lose a little to start winning a little more next time david sands bounces very well and has the poker brat talking to himself welcome back to caesar's palace las vegas phil hellmuth and that man david doc sands fighting in the highlight table for a round of 16 birth the doctor started a business in college buying used textbooks from his fellow students and then selling them on amazon and ebay he made a nice profit of 30,000 when he finished he had four employees.

The enterprising doctor is called with a king queen suited for phil, then begins a race to 10,000. he raises again and again, my turn is a big raise from hellmuth and there will be no shortage of squeaky sands will rise again the more 11,400 don't try it to intimidate a bully, raise 20 more, oh wow, so 41-4, another 20,000 on top of that, it's not very often you see 41-4 preflop with king queen suited phil hellmuth when he's not even an all-in situation without folding his hand and the chip lead, that's a look at phil 2.0 hellmuth taking the lead, while brian hastings is enjoying his day in the round of 16, but we doubt that Compare it with a day he had in Cornell's session against Victor Blaum.

My famous $4.2 million win was simply a surreal experience. It was in the middle of finals week at Cornell. I was studying but I had the tables in the background. We played six tables of 500 1000 Hot Limit Omaha. I started pretty quickly. I started looking at my poker tracker and realized that he had won about two and a half million dollars when it was all over. I was in a complete state of shock. I couldn't believe it was possible to win so much money in One day I was playing online poker and I was studying, but I had the tables in the background.

You can do 4.2 at the bottom. Come on, yeah, you could still put me up front with the channel and have a little race. The other three will do it. I come from these three matches possible ace king here for brian suited no less than there are eight that will put in a race to 8 000. tom with jack six diamonds in call and he of I am considering a quick call from Hastings all in and a call what happened there jack six of diamonds for tom tom dwan decided that hastings' range was so tight to call that he thought he would just send it and risk virtually all the chips in play in this pot and the pair of sixes on the flop for john the king is for hastings you can't put the king on that side he has to be on this side i expected like another kick in turns to the seven of hearts dwan loses that will make tom's job a little more difficult he needs a blackjack or six river is the seven of diamonds brian hastings has doubled up to take a virtually insurmountable lead tom dwan took 4,000 of the 200,000 in play file that under the oops category yeah, i made a pretty big lump there, can't really promise I can't beat ace two blinds to two and four thousand here ace five suited for david it seems that the doctor always has something to work with he pays well nine seven phil has checked what there is not before the flop to bet between these two flops is jack ace king no pairs his ace phil checks and sands makes a bet of 4,500 now remember that this is a weak pot and it seems that hellmuth is not going to give sans credit for this part of the deck that he checks and raises. 11,000.

Stan's calls are not what Hellmuth wanted to see with nine high and no tie turns into a two of hearts and a flush draw for Sands 25. Phil draws dead bets of 25,000. He's not going to give up his line and keep trying to count. the story that he has ace five times arena is not going anywhere everything has moved in doc arenas is in the beauty of this play is that he could get a better hand to fold and in case he gets beat they call him, he knows he has outs and phil folds his hand and throws his gum and throws away a good chunk of his chips around 40,000.

David Sands is now leading this match you put it all in blind yeah you'll have to take a good sniff it's brutal I can't fill it seven jack six of hearts for brian hastings he's putting toms one all in ten of hearts am I getting slow oh my god oh my god you got your heart covered can we take hearts out of the equation check out the flop thomas 10 and two fishing and check this one out failure to fly travel jacks you have the nine eight yes, the bus starts well you turn a kind of sword a little life leave that bus in the duan park now it can reach an eighth to double, can it? do it, rivers of king and brian hastings goes to the age round 3-0 on his maiden trip to heads-up, well thank you, bye, tom duan was indeed dead on the flop, brian hastings went to the round of eight in your head. up debut there is a word to describe my playing style it would have to be dissident intelligent different exciting patient aggressive aggressive aggressive cannot be a three letter acronym old fashioned observer creative swim push with movements intelligent I could never describe it in one word I would be erratic, relentless and ferocious , d-gen if I could describe it in two words I would say very erratic, calculated, calculated, calculated, calculated, adaptable, adaptable, heads-up returns the next two Saturdays on NBC, the round of eight and the semi-finals, then the final , a new feature. table joe sorak on the left dan smith on the right and quickly sorak is at risk with most of the chips in play in the middle another of these huge pots with a hand that looks like it doesn't belong guess which flop is five deuce queen sorak picks up fives as outs he is looking for an ace or a five ace on the easy turn now he has aces and fives in the lead and dan smith doesn't seem happy rightly so he has two outs and joe doubles up to take a big lead in the match dan smith sees feel like tom dwan right now let's get back to phil hellmuth and david sands and sands with about a two and a half to one chip lead in this match i promise the blinds are at two and four thousand and thirty five yeah i think 52 has more or less reason so that's not the story pocket nines for arenas, of course, I limped a lot there, he showed me that he's ready to pay, I know he's ready to pay the external monologue at work once again, you know, and for sans, he makes every bet like it's in water with lithium they're all deliberate queens for helmuth you get the feeling that all the chips could end up in the center here 22. you raised to 22. hellmuth raises to 22,000. he calls everything and phil calls all in queens pocket queens against pocket nines in your hand two nines it's about sans helen use a four to one favorite heading into the flop all that work and I'll let you cool down maybe I'll be rewarded I'm not that confident phil con the best hand but the one at risk right now here comes the flop well help me say you're not so sure you have no reason not to flop well oh but you're really not so sure now a set of nines to David Sands here's the turn, what do I do? they call that visualization turns into trey diamonds hellmuth needs to catch a queen on the river he's going home yeah throw the coat to phil that's how I get my money like every tournament I play and it's crazy I want say it repeats itself over and over again and over bill needs a queen here's the river the moans are rewarded in this case phil hellmuth hits an outside two to stay alive in his round of 16 showdown against david sands sands had it about to go home now hellmuth in the lead check out the chip count between joe sarac and dan smith and sorak has smith almost going home everyone smiles in joe's corner oh yeah all in and jack six for sorak him will put the clean version of seth rogen all in gets a call from dan well jack hi against ten high six smith has already doubled can do it again and the flop two six ace pair of sixes cerak has sixes dan needs to get a ten or a pair of runners here it's your turn turn the seven of diamonds diamonds siroc has the diamonds not covering consecutive cards, so now dan has three outs once and does not appear in the river of five of hearts and joe sorak is in the round of eight and dan just couldn't get his two jacks to hold against the Rocks is five and Joe is lucky to move on to face Brian Hastings with blinds of three and six thousand as we return to the main table, none of the players with more than 20 big blinds raised to Jack by Doc Sands here's more playable holdings for him six thousand. in the blind he goes back to doc sands sans cancels call queen six for hellmuth checks well that's not what the doc wanted to see im sure he would have been willing to bet with phil if he had raised and phil pairs is six on the flop two pair for hellmuth check hellmuth check no checks six thousand no bet six thousand good board for me to try to win the pot here with a little phil is call it's not going to happen obviously the turn is a king of hearts of hearts tell me if that's out ten thousand me I like this line from Phil Hellmuth big blind hand I don't like the fact that he was advertising that he had a big blind hand trying to sell the idea that he had a 5.

To be fair, that line may have increased the suspicions of the doctor and the call and the river and stands pair his jack must be good checks helmuth checks sans bent's 12 400 phil quickly calls call and walks away oh my god the core fusion could be imminent here it's a pretty bad beat 12 400. I played them so well which is How sick, what 12-4, come on, I'm dead. Phil is upset because he had the right read and the river just didn't cooperate to make him think he thought I was weak. Wow, what a card, man, I played you pretty well. there's pretty good the excitement of a queen the agony of a jack phil hellmuth doing everything he can to try to outdo david sands the

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Calm and collected and then the smallest thing can make him mad well, that's just the story of the only pill I know, hellmuth with pocket dos, it's called 3000 10-9 for sans phil, limping on the button with the two deuces, I suspect he's trying to induce doc sands rays david goes up and there it is, but now what do you do? there's over 11,000 to call i think phil's intention was to try to play this as a big hand oh phil makes a call but without re-raising and just calling that's not the case you already beat this hand once the flop it's 5 8 layup two overs for doc not much more look at the pot size almost 35,000. you have to bet at least half to make it Significant, he makes 18, 7 is the bet and that's why you don't really want to take a flop with two deuces unless you get a three of a kind, it's all over, all the cards are in phil, he's moved all in, he certainly takes a risk and without folding, helmuth takes. bet the pot bet a nice read, good execution from Hellmuth, but given his recent hard work, that's what he expects of himself.

I'm very happy with the way I'm playing because I've worked hard. I'm learning to play faces. at a world class level I was a little surprised that it wasn't at the world class level before. I think if I have the math and tactics down, that will allow my reading ability to kick in, okay, I think he's strong. I'll leave him I think he's weak I think I'll go up right now It seems I have my white magic, my reading ability, that is, and I feel very comfortable, who do you think he told Phil that he was not in the world class ? non phil level that's sure lines at four and eight thousand here you know that trust is certainlya big part of any poker player's outlook and success, but it's not all ace nine of hearts for doc sands 16, raise to 16,000. queen 10 out of suit for the flick and see the flop, check for pair top and a flush draw for Sands, unfortunately for him, not much happens in Phil Hellmuth's corner.

It might be difficult to get Phil to check and Sam is going to bet 8,000. 8,000. That's right. a small bet phil calls on check tell me his check is in the dark he couldn't resist the temptation of five to one and on the turn sans makes his flush he has this pot locked in and for those of you watching, you will never want to have a hand with zero percent next that's no good you're saying no good sans bets 12 400 400 good bet phil folds and sans takes the pot it would have been hard to continue with the queen high there I don't like the way I played that one, You're a monster, you're raising every hand, you haven't folded a button in a long time, so I had an easy boat before the flop, David Sands did more than hold his own in what has become a heavyweight poker fight. welcome back to caesar's palace, las vegas side of the 2013 national heads up poker championship, lines of four and eight thousand on doc sands with a small lead over phil hellmuth in almost any hand these two choosing to play should be a situation all in with the blinds where they are king queen of hearts for helmuth here all in oh and he's moving all in too king queen for sans he'll call hello it's not a free spin it could have been like this it could have been your demise right there you go to be careful with those hexes oh whatever a little dismissive I like that here's the flop that's not good tray of ten queens and a heart and that means only hellmuth can win this pot he's a jackal oh a jack of hearts in the turn that's the first piece of the royal flush puzzle doc sands in danger of being duplicated around here I don't think so, but still 80 percent of the time this will end in a moment I think you're going to get there doc thinking about the card black on the river phil hellmuth has doubled up to take a big lead in the match oh my god I got lucky I got lucky today thanks for the roots guys thanks for the support by the way it's amazing there's a lucky team.

There must be some billionaires in this group. That heart on the river leaves David Sands with just over 20,000 of the 200,000 on the line. He and his fiancée are worried about his life at the tournament. Right now the blinds are so big that twenty thousand really isn't it. Not much to work with, yeah the doctor will need a double double and then a little more double, oh and he moves all in with jack six, calls Phil, doesn't call, didn't bother to look at the second and It turns out that it is an a, it is the king.

For Phil Hellmuth, he'll take those messed up Sands shares, come on you're paying up front, no I'm not paying up front, that sounds like prior pain, here's a flop. The flop is 9 10 10. Uphill climb for Doc Sands, he's interested in a straight. card on the turn would make it interesting seems fair you should have a queen eh should have something for a straight girl seven eight queen would be reasonable sand is looking for a jack or a six here is a turn that would allow him to take the lead properly Here he moves to the four of diamonds, so it all comes down to the jack or the six or the curtain for Doc Sands and that curtain has closed.

Phil Hellmuth moves on to the round of eight you played, it was a good good match, very good match, I mean, obviously. It could go either way, in so many places there, in fact, if your king, queen makes spades in senior champion, well, it took Phil a little longer than the seven minutes he predicted it would take at the beginning of the match, but still Go ahead, it really could have gone either way. It's phil hellmuth moving on and while it may be phil hellmuth's time, remember that name, david sands, a valiant effort in diamonds, a couple of rookies make it to the round of eight, let's go with julie doc, you fought so hard During the whole game, how was it? is losing that hand king queen uh well, you know, it always sucks to have it with the same hand, I guess Phil had a little bit of equity than me being suited, but uh, yeah, I mean, obviously it was discouraging as was the reigns on the river once.

I got there with the nines against the queens, but it was a great match. Phil played excellent and you know, it was a lot of fun to be a part of this event. Phil. How was Doc as a competitor? He played fantastic poker. I thought he's one of the best poker players out there right now, but he's also, you know, one of the two or three best online players, as well as being a great live player, so I thought that he would play like he did. he was a little more aggressive than I thought um I thought he played fantastic poker and this was the longest match ever uh ever yeah it was you now he wouldn't give an inch I wouldn't play a battle it's a good battle I hope to do it again Phil, you're halfway there, can you look like a two time champion now?

I'd rather not answer that on camera, but I'll just say that I feel more comfortable than ever. I have ever been in a heads up by far, I feel very comfortable, my readings seem to be really good, minus one or two errors against the doctor. Well, I'm out of the tournament, so now you have nothing to worry about. Well it was a great game gentlemen one of the best so far thanks again phil thank you very much good luck thanks doctor sounds let's play some poker I'm not going anywhere it may look bad I'll try to hide it look at this get it back too aggressive that could have been your disappearance right there, I'm not so sure, don't play anything to stop it, wow, next Saturday on NBC, it's the round of 16 in the semifinals here at Caesars Palace, two more hours of national head-to-head. poker championship presented by wsop.com oh my goodness what a match against Doc Sands, I mean we played three and a half hours, no really interesting situations were resolved except one where I had him with a three to one chip deficit when he got dubious queens. and they dealt me ​​nines, I only have 52,000, I realize I'm going to have like a hundred thousand, he's going to have 100. 22. all the chips are going to end up in that situation with those two hands facing each other, regardless of all that. job, I'll let you cool me down, maybe I'll get rewarded and he's talking about how I feel like I'm going to hit a nine and boom, there's nine right in the window, it was obviously a good feeling and when the three of diamonds appeared on the turn I avoided it by getting a backdoor flush draw two hours away from going to the Elite Eight now the queen came bam and I think she's a queen and everyone starts screaming and yelling, it was kind of a gift and thanks for the gift you