Poker News: OMFG Jerry Yang

after my experience with 10-cent turbo's, countless freerolls, and a few NFG's, not to mention these guys have been at it for over a week, what i saw at the table last night [about 4-5 hours when they were 4, then 3]

was pretty friggin' solid play... boring, yes, but overall... solid.

well said brother

This can be a spoiler thread without one entering the Televised Section. It shows up when you check posts since last visit, and in the recent posts scroll.

Don't be ignorant when implying that it is one's own problem if they encounters a thread like this if they were concerned about knowing who the Main Event winner is.

Someone new to hate on for a whole year woohoo my life is complete.

WELL DONE jerry yang !!!!

If you dont want a WSOP spoiler dont enter the Televised Event Discussion thread what else is going to be discussed lately but the WSOP.Last edited by Lazarus88 on Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:32 am; edited 1 time in total

Well done Jerry Yang!.....Jerry has a style that most arent used to and most dont employ.....he is loose aggressive when it comes to short handed......but if u listened to anything that was said u woulda heard that when the tables were full not at the final table he was patient and TAG.......Jerry i think made a decision at the begining of the final table that he was playing for the win only.....that being said he prob knows that in order to win a major event of this size u have to get lucky a few times.......he took some shots w/ very marginal hands (many disagree on this) but he wasnt playing to "move up" so he took some risks in order to acheive the "big reward".....Jerry is much different than Jamie Gold (as we all know i think he is nothing more than a donkey) i think Jerry played very well........he was relentlessly aggressive but he got away at the key nessesary times and made his opponents fear playing back at him.....what more can u do if your trying to win a world title?.....against the good players he was up against u must get "unorthadox" and "creative" which he did! Congrats Jerry Yang!

Guys a donk I hope anyone but him wins.

This can be a spoiler thread without one entering the Televised Section. It shows up when you check posts since last visit, and in the recent posts scroll.

Don't be ignorant when implying that it is one's own problem if they encounters a thread like this if they were concerned about knowing who the Main Event winner is.

So wheres the SPOILER on fulltilt front page ? Why bother going around with mods saying hey dont post that change the title then put it on the front page. One is not amused.

My wife and I were talking about that as well. He was sitting great and could have coasted to the final table, then 2 hands later he's gone. The look on his face was hard to read. I couldn't tell if he was sad at losing, mad at himself for how he lost, or if something else was going on that distracted him (and made him lose).

It was too bad - I like Scotty. Wish he would have made the finals.

He won a $225 sat at Pehanga Casino in his home town of Temecula, CA. Very nice poker room.

Nice ROI. What is that, like 3667% ROI?

Good stuff!

Billy

The interview Bluff had with him after he had one was one of the best ones I have heard. He was very humble. This guy is going to make a great representative as champ this year.

I believe they said on the telecast yesterday that he won the satellite from a live game at his hometown casino in Temecula, CA.

But I thought he played great despite a couple of questionable calls. Even Phil Gordon changed his tune about Yang by the end of the telecast saying he played well... Gordon even bet Gavin Smith that Yang would beat Lam heads up (and laid 5-2 odds).

Good call... he had JJ. Wow, that was quite a hand... Childs was playing kinda scared and Yang picked up on it.

I was impressed by his play. With his persistence, constant raising, and refusing to back down, he dominated the table. He would not allow the others players to get overly involved solely with each other, which meant that the chips were flowing in only one direction; his. On the three occasions that he doubled the other players up, he went into it with the best hand preflop. I think that he played that table excellently. To be perfectly honest, I was rooting for Lam, but Yung totally deserved that win.

Well if nothing else, Jerry definitely set the pace of the table. The guy really dictated the action with his consistent raising and re raising.

In my opinion, the other players played a little too conservative. With the repeated amount of times Jerry was raising, I would have liked to see the other players play back at him a little bit. There were several times where post flop I would have liked to see Tuan Lam lead out and bet but he just seemed scared to pull the trigger.

Rahme definitely had me confused when he was pushing all in to an unraised pot for 30+ times the BB. Everyone I was watching with was absolutely baffled. We just assumed he was on tilt from the hand he'd lost to Tuan before that... but then when he played the KKs (the hand where Jerry busted him) I just realized he was an idiot - as Phil Gordon had pointed out earlier. I just can't understand how an Ace falls on the flop and he could check the action over to Jerry. I mean, a 2-3 million chip feeler bet wouldn't take down the pot, but it would definitely turn up a red flag when Jerry reraises or calls... but instead he checks the flop, lets Jerry bet at it, and then he goes all in over the top of him... UGH.

I also would have liked a more entertaining personality at the table. Someone that actually talked. These guys were silent 95% of the time.

You're newer here than me. Stop being a w33nis.

I cant beklieve what I saw happen with Scotty. I realize most of the hands have been cut out of espn. Can someone tell what was going on with Scotty who saw the live.

The last player that I cared about winning it, Lee Watkinson, was eliminated so I really don't care who wins anymore.

WSOP has become a donkfest.

If only Scotty Nguyen didn't blow it, he would have had a shot at making history of becoming the first repeat champion since Johnny Chan and the first pro to win it since 2001.

Such a shame, really.

I was thinking the same thing... and Yang's face/name is in the main lobby also. You're going to have to bury your head in the sand for a few months if you really don't want to know who the ME champion is.

Did anyone else just see the amazing donk-ness of jerry yang? I mean to beat a guy is fine, but to put a guys all-in with J 8 and get lucky to turn an 8 is sick. However it happens everyday.

The real reason I'm writting this is to try to examine those short words he said in english while the cards were coming out. Was a that prayer? Was he praying? Not even to god, but to his dead relative. Asking the spirits to grant you a win is something that I've never tried but apparently it works.

Chalk that one up to the "Poker Gods".

-roxx

I didn't watch him play so maybe he did play a hell of a game but this is what they had to say about him BEFORE the FT.

Here's the link to the article:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=poker&entryDate=20070716

and now during:

Lee Watkinson, who finished eighth:

Sure he was probably bitter about the loss but a pro usualy know how to handle tough loses and doesn't say things like that lightly.

Phil Gordon said on the PPV broadcast

Erick Lindgren said.

Maybe all these pros are bitter that they're not the ones winning, but those are some nasty comments from people that usually don't just throw words like that around. And even most people that think he played great qualify his play by saying he was an agresive bully and made "statement calls" . Keep in mind that the article covering teh final 9 I linked to said he played this way befpre ever having a big stack, so I guess the statements calls were saying "don't bluff cause I can't fold any pair or paint." In other words any player playing against us like that and we would say he was a fish.

He pushes with ATC and can't fold even when he meets resistance. Sure he came up on the winning end in many instances, but for the most part he just got it all in with hands that he should have likely folded (even when he was good) because the odds of him being in decent shape were slim. For every "great" call with A9 of A7, he made one with A9, against KK or AQ... so from teh lloks of it its not that he was making great moves, but that he coudn't lay down and ace or any 2 paint, and he would either get lucky or actually find himself marginally ahead and win.

Here we go already.....

First of all, you should put "spoiler" in the thread title and not mention any names in the title and give it away. Personally, i don't care but others might.

Second of all, you are probably those same class of people that called Jamie Gold a donk too. Every one who wins the most prestigious tournament in poker is a donk. It gets so **** old and i am sick of it.

When you win millions of dollars then you can have an opinion about who is a donk and who isn't. I didn't actually watch one hand of the main event, but i can tell you right now anyone who wins any tournament with thousands of people in it IS NOT A DONK. The donks were out in the first few levels.

Stop being so immature and ignorant about it. Last i checked, you weren't a poker pro. And i know this because a poker PRO would NOT call the winner of a huge tournament a donk.