News: High Stakes Poker: Negreanu Falls Again

The 10th episode of High Stakes Poker saw Negreanu's string of bad luck continuing but also some interesting plays by Patrik Antonius who rolled over both Antonio Esfandiari and Tom Dwan.

Last episode of High Stakes Poker before the next change of players
offered a good combination of big pots and interesting prop bets which
are nothing unusual when you have Phil Laak at the table.

Daniel Negreanu's luck didn't change with the replacement of some
players at the table, as he played well but the deck
never seemed to help him out. Meanwhile, Antonio Esfandiari (pictured right) spent most
of his time talking, but he did find a spare moment to ship some chips
to Patrik Antonius.

antonius rolls over esfandiari

Patrik Antonius (pictured left) just returned from a break, took his seat and paid the big blind so he wouldn't miss the current hand. The action moved around the table to Esfandiari who limped in with

and Antonius fired a raise to $4,800 with

The remaining players folded and Esfandiari sealed pre-flop activities with a call. The flop came , Antonius bet $7,000 and Esfandiari called. The turn brought and another bullet was fired from Antonius' corner, this time for $19,000. Esfandiari wasn't pleased with this move but decided to play along and make the call.

The came on the river and Esfandiari was ready to wave the white flag. Antonius bet $41,000 and Esfandiari tried to extract some information from him, saying: "You just don't stop firing. You have a good kicker? I have a decent kicker, it's not great."

Gabe Kaplan confirmed: "He does have a decent kicker. He has a nine with a nine kicker, it's not great but it's decent."

All the talk didn't help Esfandiari much and he folded his hand. Moments later, the dealer turned over one of Antonius' cards and it was the ace, a card Esfandiari was hoping to see. The players have agreed that one card of the winning hand would be revealed and it has brought some variance to the game.

what's my tell

The prop bet story began after this hand with Esfandiari starting the topic "what's my tell", something Phil Laak (pictured right) readily pounced upon and asked Antonius does he have any tells on him. Antonius replied: "There is something, a little thing when you put the bets...it's not that."

Negreanu had a good laugh on that one, but Laak wasn't quite pleased with the answer and asked how much would he need to pay to "download" all Antonius' thoughts on his game, tells and all the other details. Naturally, the only man at the table who could calculate that was Tom "durrrr" Dwan. He came up with the number $435,000.

The endless prop bets continued with the question what are the chances that Laak would agree to pay such a price. An answer to that question could possibly come in one of the following episodes, as both Dwan and Laak will remain at the table when the new players approach the scene.

durrrr with a surprised look

Tom Dwan In the last episode, Tom "durrrr" Dwan (pictured left) stunned Howard Lederer when he turned over 8-6 to win a hand against Howard's A-K, but this episode saw a bit different situation in which Dwan was the one with a surprised look on his face.

The hand began with Dwan holding and making a raise to $3,000, Esfandiari called with and the action turned to Antonius. Antonius was up by almost $140,000 at this point and had some plan on his mind, as he re-raised to $14,000 with . Dwan called and Esfandiari folded his hand.

The flop came , Antonius bet $21,000 and Dwan made the call even though he didn't like that ace. The turn was another scare card for Dwan, the . Antonius bet $52,000 and Dwan found himself outplayed. He had the best hand but making the call was too risky and he decided to fold.

Meanwhile, Phil Laak was shocked to find he was stuck $9,000 for the night, wondering how did he do that. The answer to that lies in one of the previous hands he played against Dwan in which he hit a flush on the river and called Dwan's $9,400 bet after analysing the hand in one of his usual monologues.

The table lost Laak after he reached the double, triple reverse-psychology Dwan must've used against him in that hand, but most importantly, in the end he paid out an extra $9,400 to Dwan even though he was pretty sure that Dwan had a full house, which he did.

no luck for negreanu

Dwan had some more successful encounters earlier that night. One of such was with Daniel Negreanu (pictured right) in which he hit a straight on the river. Dwan started the pre-flop action with a raise to $3,000 and Negreanu called.

The flop came , Negreanu checked with his and Dwan bet $5,700 with his . Negreanu wasn't about to go anywhere with his pair of aces and made the call.

The turn brought and Negreanu bet $11,000, not enough to scare Dwan away from his pair of queens and a straight draw. The river came , Negreanu checked, Dwan bet $28,800 and Negreanu folded, saying that ten was the worst possible card that could've come on the river.

Negreanu's bad luck continued in a hand against Laak in which he flopped a pair of kings but Laak flopped two pair, eights and fives. The ending result was a $163,700 pot going to Laak. Perhaps the cards weren't fortunate for Negreanu again, but he did get away from all the dangerous situations, thus minimizing his losses.

The next episode will feature a new round of players and the only two faces which will remain are Phil Laak and Tom "durrrr" Dwan. Amongst the newcomers will be Doyle Brunson, Dario Minieri, Eli Elezra and David Peat.

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