He may be one of the great live read players currently playing. People get hung up on GTO strategy and discount how much some players supplement their strategy with these reads.
Chen must have a live tell or something. Between this and the other Hero call -- he has the dead read on his opponent. How he makes the second one for ALL of it is just astounding.
He calls flop and turn because his plan was to chip in if chen checks river.... But he got lucky and paired his 5. Chen played the hand perfectly with that 3 barrel bluff strong move.
I love the irony of Hellmuth saying, while on the same table during a WSOP event, that Kitai had no chance to ever win the tournament (which Kitai went on to win) without knowing who he was... AND that Kitai's whole game is powered by the same White Magic that Hellmuth flaunts endlessly.
der Mann I haven't seen the video - it was a final table, but it might not have been widely televised, if at all. There may have been an obscure stream of it, but not on Twitch or anything. WSOP needs to sort their shit out!
The discussion of the Koon-Kitai action swap reminds me of a story from the Million Dollar One Drop. Early on in the tournament Jason Mercier had more chips than Antonio Esfandiari and were at the same table. Antonio offered Jason a 1% swap of action, but since Jason had a lot more chips he turned down the offer. Antonio went on to win $18M and Jason didn't cash. A $180,000 decision that I bet Jason regrets...
+JJ He would call, HE CAN"T SEE Andrew's cards. so yes he would call, he thought K high was good, because he read something about andrew that said that he was weak, like no pair weak. It still would have been a good call in the long run.
Chen should have watched Kitai stack. Once he was in that deep Kitai was low on chips and was going to call. As he didn't have many left if he folds. So why not!
For everyone saying callingstation and donkey, they aired many hours of final table, (him) making little mistake and several great calls and folds. Having seen all the footage you can only come to one conclusion and that is: spectaculair call or superb instincts. Commenting this call really only make yourself look stupid.
Great call when the 5 drops but without it he is never calling with K5 otherwise re name this video to Donk call. All in all great play by both players.
Have you seen the live footage? He was doing that often, and then made a move on the river. It's headsup, you can't play abc, certainly not at this level.
the reason that Kitai calling is that Chen represents range is too narrow, only AA, KK, AQ, KQ these four hands. QJ, QT may not 3 bet preflop, Pair 5+ range would check on turn and river, then left either AA, KK, AQ, KQ or bluff.
The river call was amazing. The flop and turn calls were absolutely terrible. His calls were putting himself in an absolutely terrible position. A five was the only card in the deck that could save him and he got lucky to hit his three-outer on the river. But kudos for calling when he hit it.
+Derik Brandt He can't see the other guys cards. Just because it IS terrible when you can see the stats doesn't mean it's a terrible call without knowing the other guys cards. He obviously picked up some info some tell, something that tells him that Andrew is really weak and he thinks his K high is good. Which it almost is, Andrew would play the hand the same way with J high. That's like saying if you have AK and your opponent who has AA has played Every hand he's played, and you push all in, he calls with AA, and everyone says your allin play with AK was terrible.....
when you play poker you gamble. thats how it is! no right or wrong move, even if you make the right play sometimes you sucked out on, the kj high reppin k high knew he has the best hand, then 5 came in the river, thats poker..
You think Kitai was planing on check calling all the way with K5 because he did it on the flop and the turn and turn? He obv put Chen on a weak hand but K5 beats nothing of Chens 3 bet range as even most SC hands Chen 3 bets with have made a pair and any pocket pair beats K high. Kitai was obv going to shove that river regardless of what came down and Chen knew that hence why he shoved the river to stop Kitai shoving and making him fold the best hand.
ok ill simplify it for you, basically im saying caioFabbro wont be a good poker player cuz he makes quick decisions while in poker u sometimes have to THINK about the hand which takes time. CaioFabbro obviously just plays the cards and doesnt think about what the opponent might have!
Kitai put him on a busted Jx. j/10,j/9 and was willing to go to the board with King high. Then he got lucky and bombed a 5. again you have to understand that these fellows have been playing together for hours. It was a bad play that got lucky. There is no way he was thinking of making a move to steal on the river because he wouldn't have had any fold equity. He figured Chen was going to 3 barrel no matter what and he got lucky.
@bobby18631 calling half ur stack with k high to apparently set up a bluff catch is not thinking outside the box. im sorry, but this kind of play is suicidal. fine, a call is more likely if chen overbets but if he bets like 4million kitai cant call. chen then reps more hands.
the"donk" has a triple crown (wsop,wpt and ept titles) he obviously had a tell on chen bluffs and KJ is the top of his bluffing range on this spot. maybe it's not the best line ever,but Davidi's a great player and a very nice guy,definitively not a donk.
I am not saying he is a shitty player. I'm saying that was a shitty play. Great baseball players can strike out or make errors. This was a great poker player outsmarting himself, overthinking a hand, making two stupid plays, and then getting lucky. Although, I agree, the river call was tough and a good read. But the flop and turn calls were just stupid.
you dont know nothing, he was calling bluffing range, if he was against JT you probably just shut-up, because you are watching on specific hand not on the range...
so many idiots out there.......this isnt just poker...this is heads-up!!it's a whole different game..so stop judging hes play like its a 10 men table..... and to me it's pretty obvious that he had a bluff plan for river the whole time
And as for the all in call, SERIOUSLY? totally pot committed already when he was behind, he improves his hand, over 3:1 odds, you SERIOUSLY think this is a difficult call?
Chen might've been bluffing but he's bluffing with the best hand! WTH is Kitai hoping for? A 5 to come? Totally shitty call on the turn. Just a fluky hero call on the river because Chen had shown nothing but strength throughout the hand.
I guess you will never be a good poker player cuz some decisions u really have to think about it. This aint internet poker where you click click click and have 5 seconds to think.... THATS NOT POKER.... You must play the cards which then it is easy to make decisions but thats not a winning strategy, you got to play the player.
hmm. He did great after the river, but before the river he just played his hand like a donkey. K5 is a insta-fold hand preflop. At no point did he raise either. Suicidal poker imo
The dudes got 3 Bracelets and people are calling him a fish lol. Only on TH-cam.
He also has the Triple Crown, for what that's worth...
valdez87 I believe thats worth a lot :D
but not on youtube i guess
He may be one of the great live read players currently playing. People get hung up on GTO strategy and discount how much some players supplement their strategy with these reads.
The guy deserves some credit, great read and great call.
Chen must have a live tell or something. Between this and the other Hero call -- he has the dead read on his opponent.
How he makes the second one for ALL of it is just astounding.
totally agreed you simply can't play this way without a clear physical tell of some kind.
kitai said in an interwiev (in french) that he had no tell on the first one, but that on this one he saw the carotid moving too fast (8:32 i guess)
every street was bad until the river Kitai
excellent call! Kitai is a great player
HOLY CRAP KITAI IS BEAST!!!
He calls flop and turn because his plan was to chip in if chen checks river.... But he got lucky and paired his 5. Chen played the hand perfectly with that 3 barrel bluff strong move.
Great lesson, DON'T BLUFF TO LOOSE GUYS!
he knew the river was coming :)
for sure
Kitai identified a tell on Chen early in the tournament. He revealed it on french radio a few months ago.
I love the irony of Hellmuth saying, while on the same table during a WSOP event, that Kitai had no chance to ever win the tournament (which Kitai went on to win) without knowing who he was... AND that Kitai's whole game is powered by the same White Magic that Hellmuth flaunts endlessly.
valdez87 do you know which vid it is by any chance ?
der Mann I haven't seen the video - it was a final table, but it might not have been widely televised, if at all. There may have been an obscure stream of it, but not on Twitch or anything. WSOP needs to sort their shit out!
insanity! madness!
yes that true :)
Mama mia......_______.........
Kitai explained that he had a huge read on chen since the call with A3. So he called.
okay but who won in the end?
they probably made a deal, moving the top 2 payouts closer to each other
LOL at the 2+2 speak.
lol i watched this full episode at the pokerstars account and with their edited version it looked like kitai called in less than 10 seconds.
people are commenting on the clip's entirety, not the entire tournament
The discussion of the Koon-Kitai action swap reminds me of a story from the Million Dollar One Drop. Early on in the tournament Jason Mercier had more chips than Antonio Esfandiari and were at the same table. Antonio offered Jason a 1% swap of action, but since Jason had a lot more chips he turned down the offer. Antonio went on to win $18M and Jason didn't cash. A $180,000 decision that I bet Jason regrets...
enorme davidi comment tu fais ??????????
@Péter Baumann he called so chen would check the river and kitai could get creative right there
To be fair, you should also include the times his opponent doesn't three barrel it, and he takes down the river with a bluff when missing the 5.
I never realized Jesus was from Belgium
what was his plan if he doesnt hit the 5 and Chen moves all in?? what a calling station..
+JJ He would call, HE CAN"T SEE Andrew's cards. so yes he would call, he thought K high was good, because he read something about andrew that said that he was weak, like no pair weak. It still would have been a good call in the long run.
you
lucky donk
juanda had trips
Chen should have watched Kitai stack. Once he was in that deep Kitai was low on chips and was going to call. As he didn't have many left if he folds. So why not!
haha great 1
This Kitai guy is scary: he looks like one of those maniacal east european mobsters.
+maximuscesar Liam Neeson didn't find him.
Ketroc LoL nor him or Michael Chiklis
What's with the insane pay jump in this tournament? €712,000 for first, €613,000 for second and then €290,000 for third. Am I missing something?
man what i said, was that if he didnt hit the 5 in the river, if he only have king high, it was a good call?
For everyone saying callingstation and donkey, they aired many hours of final table, (him) making little mistake and several great calls and folds. Having seen all the footage you can only come to one conclusion and that is: spectaculair call or superb instincts. Commenting this call really only make yourself look stupid.
calling station, calling station and did i ever mention hes a calling station ?
Great call when the 5 drops but without it he is never calling with K5 otherwise re name this video to Donk call. All in all great play by both players.
what a fish
I bet you would crush the average player from 2002.
Yeah, that's a fair point... although HendonMob usually doesn't record deals, does it...? ...Bleh, maybe it does. Cheers for the reply!
kitai's superb plan is to call the turn then call the river if he makes a pair loses the pot 41 out of 44 times
Tom Dwan would suffer playing against him.
This guy is a sick genius ! But he may have some read
Yeah because that's how you should look at this hand.... Level 1 thinking at it's best.
slow rolls each street... amazing
Have you seen the live footage? He was doing that often, and then made a move on the river. It's headsup, you can't play abc, certainly not at this level.
the reason that Kitai calling is that Chen represents range is too narrow, only AA, KK, AQ, KQ these four hands.
QJ, QT may not 3 bet preflop, Pair 5+ range would check on turn and river,
then left either AA, KK, AQ, KQ or bluff.
The river call was amazing. The flop and turn calls were absolutely terrible. His calls were putting himself in an absolutely terrible position. A five was the only card in the deck that could save him and he got lucky to hit his three-outer on the river. But kudos for calling when he hit it.
+Derik Brandt He can't see the other guys cards. Just because it IS terrible when you can see the stats doesn't mean it's a terrible call without knowing the other guys cards. He obviously picked up some info some tell, something that tells him that Andrew is really weak and he thinks his K high is good. Which it almost is, Andrew would play the hand the same way with J high. That's like saying if you have AK and your opponent who has AA has played Every hand he's played, and you push all in, he calls with AA, and everyone says your allin play with AK was terrible.....
+Lawrance Combs Except for your last sentence I agree with you, I just don't think calling is the optimal decision in the long run.
8:54 Yao Ming??
Great call on the river but total luck to be in the postiion to make the call.
when you play poker you gamble. thats how it is! no right or wrong move, even if you make the right play sometimes you sucked out on, the kj high reppin k high knew he has the best hand, then 5 came in the river, thats poker..
or pokerstars
I'm talking about how your comparison to internet poker. IMO internet poker is much tougher but it's because the players tend to be better.
8:55 his face looks like a meme
he's calling him down with K high, im sure he would of called anyway if the 5 wouldn't hit on the river, he just wanted to see his hand or w/e.
Obviously many people out here dont know poker ..
he got lucky to hit his pair, because he said he was calling on the river anyway, so if the five didn't come on the river, he would lose K5
A fish with 1Mil+
I think this guy is just a calling station
also realize he obviously has some great reads off chen....
how the fuck does kitai call all three streets down, especially for his tournament life? Chen played exactly he would have AA, QQ, KK, even AQ.
AA, KK, QQ, ANNNNNNNNND HIS FKIN BLUFFS. DONT FORGET THE BLUFFS. fk sake...
You think Kitai was planing on check calling all the way with K5 because he did it on the flop and the turn and turn? He obv put Chen on a weak hand but K5 beats nothing of Chens 3 bet range as even most SC hands Chen 3 bets with have made a pair and any pocket pair beats K high. Kitai was obv going to shove that river regardless of what came down and Chen knew that hence why he shoved the river to stop Kitai shoving and making him fold the best hand.
thats not what u said earlier and no it wouldnt be
ok ill simplify it for you, basically im saying caioFabbro wont be a good poker player cuz he makes quick decisions while in poker u sometimes have to THINK about the hand which takes time. CaioFabbro obviously just plays the cards and doesnt think about what the opponent might have!
2 bad calls, 1 good one
Kitai put him on a busted Jx. j/10,j/9 and was willing to go to the board with King high. Then he got lucky and bombed a 5. again you have to understand that these fellows have been playing together for hours. It was a bad play that got lucky. There is no way he was thinking of making a move to steal on the river because he wouldn't have had any fold equity. He figured Chen was going to 3 barrel no matter what and he got lucky.
@bobby18631 calling half ur stack with k high to apparently set up a bluff catch is not thinking outside the box. im sorry, but this kind of play is suicidal. fine, a call is more likely if chen overbets but if he bets like 4million kitai cant call. chen then reps more hands.
the"donk" has a triple crown (wsop,wpt and ept titles)
he obviously had a tell on chen bluffs and KJ is the top of his bluffing range on this spot.
maybe it's not the best line ever,but Davidi's a great player and a very nice guy,definitively not a donk.
Chen made weak bet at turn
if he calls with K high in the river it was a good call? i dont think so
I am not saying he is a shitty player. I'm saying that was a shitty play.
Great baseball players can strike out or make errors. This was a great poker player outsmarting himself, overthinking a hand, making two stupid plays, and then getting lucky.
Although, I agree, the river call was tough and a good read. But the flop and turn calls were just stupid.
you dont know nothing, he was calling bluffing range, if he was against JT you probably just shut-up, because you are watching on specific hand not on the range...
looks more like conkers
Lucky river for lucky fish. He lose this pot anyway if 5 dont come.
so many idiots out there.......this isnt just poker...this is heads-up!!it's a whole different game..so stop judging hes play like its a 10 men table..... and to me it's pretty obvious that he had a bluff plan for river the whole time
how could he fold the river.. he's actually got a pair :O idiot play all around
maybe it was his intention to go all in on the river if chan checked requardless.
Lol it's funny how if chan has the winning hand this vunt would look like the biggest donk ever. Hahshaa.
great calls or rather CALLING STATION DONKEY???
the flop and turn calls were dumb...espcially the turn unless he wanted to bluff the river
am i the only one here who thinks that the turn is fold or raise? the call was so stupid for 1/5 of his stack
No, Tom Dwan wouldn't.
Bad call After Flop and turn
go play microstakes moron, you haven't a clue of what's happenning here buddy.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin what's happening? please educate me. why did he call the turn?
Andre Lim Ill quote Kitai himself : "I thought my K high was good". Another question ?
he call all way becouse he think his king high is good and he was wrong but lucky
You cant bullshit a bullshitter
And as for the all in call, SERIOUSLY? totally pot committed already when he was behind, he improves his hand, over 3:1 odds, you SERIOUSLY think this is a difficult call?
i play pokerstars sit n go's every now and then and this is a noob. i would have gotten kk first hand and busted him
+Mrlegend947 Keep thinking that man. Keep thinkin you're better then pro's. Fishes be like
Mauves Army dude, i just won a $2 sit n go today... i know what im talking about
Haha good job man. Maybe if you win a couple hundreds of them you can play bigger buy ins.
+Mauves Army I think it's clear he's trolling. Weak troll though...
That kind of play will not lead to a productive poker career.
Chen might've been bluffing but he's bluffing with the best hand! WTH is Kitai hoping for? A 5 to come? Totally shitty call on the turn. Just a fluky hero call on the river because Chen had shown nothing but strength throughout the hand.
2 donkeys imo
this is only a great call cause he spiked a 5 on the river.
I guess you will never be a good poker player cuz some decisions u really have to think about it. This aint internet poker where you click click click and have 5 seconds to think.... THATS NOT POKER.... You must play the cards which then it is easy to make decisions but thats not a winning strategy, you got to play the player.
Bad call on the flop and turn ... in my opinion ( obviously when we could see the whole cards ) ... even if he's the best player in the world
lol.. I'd rather say how lucky... instead of great call.. 3 outs
this makes no sense
Lol the asian dude made a good play against the european donk who got lucky on the river lol Poker...
Yea, because that call was super easy. Sigh.
This donk is one of a handfull players who managed to win an offline Tripel Crown (EPT, WPT & WSOP title) so he is everything but a donk ...
hmm. He did great after the river, but before the river he just played his hand like a donkey. K5 is a insta-fold hand preflop. At no point did he raise either. Suicidal poker imo
good call, not great
I hate players play like that, 1 hour to think! OMG!! hope never play with them
the worst c-bet ever see!
Horrible plays on the flop and turn, that's just a donk like we see so many online ... Lucky only way for those noobs.