Wow..kids amazing. He did catch some breaks, but he is an incredible player overall. The final table was awesome with his refusal to chop, constant berating of LeeJones, and the "good, I have to take D" line. I dont believe I have ever seen domination like that at a final table in a huge tournament like that before. Very well done, congrats on the 140k ZJ

OMG rank him just on princicple!!!11111 stars 500k and party million :P

i can't believe that 77 hand against aq is a 140k pot in real money hahahhahaahhah.....well done man...

jsut seems that way because hes in more pots due to aggression and controlling the table. He donks out as much as any other pro. I saw nothing wrong and iam extremly excited to read his blog tomorrow. He better talk about that 8T offsuit hand for the win. That call was shocking and amazing.

re raise the guy preflop. bet 65% pot into him, (not to mention he decided to make this play OOP, [hold that thought] Gets re raise all in for a pot size raise.

If the guy is going to call your oop re raise, and then re raise back into you on the flop. Then i mean hes gotta have a reasonable hand, the guy was quite tight most of the tourny and i never once saw him make this play. So if zeejustin was deciding to re raise OOP to help his illusion of a strong hand then he must of understood how he looked to his opponent. Now once he got re raised back, he should of been thinking, well hell i just illusioned a high pp perfectly, this guy has to at least have a pp over ten, or AQ AJ suited clubs. Now if he has either, its a coin flip at best for me and do i really want to risk this entire chip lead on that.

As it turns out it was the right call with an extremly scary turn card but i mean i can't wait to see his explanation. The more i think about the less i appreciate his play. If he truly was thinking as deeply and well as i think then he had to let this hand go. The only explanation i have is that he had top pair, with a slight chip lead and said well if hes got me hes got me. But i just can't fold this and therefore his play had no real goal in mind except to fold the guy preflop.

I dunno, maybe MTT players don't go this deep into thinking, we shall see in his blog.

i dont think zee is that hyper agressive from waht ive seen, more TAG imo.

but really guys calm down, 1 huge tourney win and 1 huge 2nd is nothing. the guy is a donk plain and simple

I played magic as well(very good friends with friends of t sopranos, met him once at a friday night magic session, and have seen him numerous times at big live events). In magic, we tend to think very far ahead. I notice myself making plays in hopes of setting myself up for future plays. As far as aggresiveness, I am quite aggressive as well, but really its all situational. I simply think they play their stacks, and when the situation arises, they kick it into overdrive. They all have controlled hyper-aggression, and that has been proving to be a great strategy. Anyways, I am not sure exactly what in magic instills this aggressiveness. I know that in magic, players can take control of the game, and to control the games, you find ways to do this, often resulting in some aggressive plays. Also, decks are categorized into control, aggressive, and mixtures of both. Control would relate to the TAG player, and aggressive decks would relate to the LAG player obviously. This could translate into poker somehow, not quite sure though. Anyways, magic players are tearing up the poker scene. lets not forget Eric Froelich, youngest player to win a wsop main event(At 21 and 3 months, he won the limit holdem event). Dave williams, an extremely well established professional magic player. Noah Boeken, another well established pro. They are taking over :)

Actually, Readzie, I like your post a lot. Makes perfect sense to me and I'm seriously baffled at how he called that. He must think on a level well above you and me because I was thinking exactly like you on this hand. It will be very interesting to see what he does write in his blog. I know that he thought it out and didn't just say fu%# it i got top pair but man I could not have called that. I mean if he loses that hand he pretty much loses the tourney... Tough to have that much faith on a pair of 10's when your opponent has shown that much strength for basically a $50,000 pot. Quite an incredible call to say the least.

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I remember when ZJ called Mr. Berkowitz with K high or so for a 1k pot in a 5k HU. Panella showed T high or something. Ding ding.

He thought through all of that in the 10 seconds it took him to call?

=)

where is the ZJ blog? on some other site? need some help. TY

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haah I play magic too, very challenging game, and though I wasn't very good, it really helped my confidence and agression at the poker table. Will keep a spot in my mind always as one of the best games ever

I don't see where readzies math was wrong. He mentioned a flush draw and two overs being a coin flip and he also said you made the right call. He was just commenting on your thought process I believe unless he edited the post.