WSOP Video: 3-handed 27TD $10K
Mercier raises on BTN with AK653, Wong 3!s from SB with A9874, Ivey cold calls in BB with Q7732. Goes, 1 2 2. Everyone misses, Mercier pairs his 5. Bet, call, call 1 2 2. Everyone hits hard. Wong make 2(9874), Ivey 54(732), and Mercier 82(653). Wong bets, Ivey calls, Mercier raises, Wong calls, Ivey raises, Mercier calls, Wong folds. Third draw goes pat, pat, bet, tank call.
Was Wong correct to draw 1 or should he draw 2 or fold? Was Ivey’s flat good or too face up?
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Not a fan of Wong's play on that hand unless he was very short stack.
Which Ivey's flat are you talking about?
Pre-draw, after 1st draw or after 2nd draw?
Ivey's flat after the 2nd draw with #1. He is Ivey, but the advice here has not been to slow play, that it becomes face up you have #2 or better when he raise later. I guess he wanted to keep in Mercier to draw 1 and catch something.
Mercier was the only one who played this good unless Phil is clairvoyant.
so can mercier ever fold this hand OTR given ivey's line is so corny here and so wheel-oriented?
i mean at 15:1 hard to fold anything, right, and i guess there's a sliver of an argument ivey sees some kinda weakness in wong's bet/call - but that seems pretty well-wishy to make two seemingly made ranges fold
also it's like, how does he even have a range that supports what he's doing here, anyway, with the initial flat?
so yeah i mean i guess the call OTR is just hoping ivey's doing something insane with 7777 that he mighta wanted to just originally call/draw OTT, but then decides to just go for it once wong only called mercier's raise?
Mercier tanked for about a minute on the river call. Technically, you could take Ivey's line as a snow/bluff, but who would do that into 2 players?
Ivey may have to backraise with the wheel as played. Hard to represent a weak pat hand and get bets in that way at that point.
I think Wong should have called and drawn 2 to 874 predraw, getting good immediate pot odds. Maybe could play like 9654 BvB or something, but drawing to 987 3-way??? That is almost like drawing to a T.
