Watching the Pros online

Did anyone notice that on Stars they added a "Find a Team PokerStars player" option? If you want to watch some professional play you should really use this option; I watched Barry Greenstein milk $3000 off of a poor sap in five minutes!

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I might check that out while I'm playing tonight. It really doesn't surprise me that they did this. Full Tilt has had this feature for a long time.

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Watched RaiNKhan play for a bit last night. Interesting to watch.

He played a $300 MTT(cashed around $900) and $10 MTT (cashed about $80)

Here's one unusual hand:

PokerStars Game #14284431617: Tournament #71872640, $300+$20 Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (200/400) - 2008/01/03 - 00:04:01 (ET)
Table '71872640 95' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: SKOAL (2672 in chips)
Seat 2: imjuniar (8160 in chips)
Seat 3: ED IS BACK (7186 in chips)
Seat 4: Lyinfish (8445 in chips)
Seat 5: kalcihatch (9731 in chips)
Seat 6: RaiNKhAN (38263 in chips)
Seat 7: SNo0oWMAN (14072 in chips)
Seat 8: lica (9836 in chips)
Seat 9: PokerSavage1 (15957 in chips)
SKOAL: posts the ante 20
imjuniar: posts the ante 20
ED IS BACK: posts the ante 20
Lyinfish: posts the ante 20
kalcihatch: posts the ante 20
RaiNKhAN: posts the ante 20
SNo0oWMAN: posts the ante 20
lica: posts the ante 20
PokerSavage1: posts the ante 20
Lyinfish: posts small blind 200
kalcihatch: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
RaiNKhAN: raises 675 to 1075
SNo0oWMAN: folds
lica: raises 4525 to 5600
PokerSavage1: folds
SKOAL: calls 2652 and is all-in
imjuniar: folds
ED IS BACK: folds
Lyinfish: raises 2825 to 8425 and is all-in
kalcihatch: folds
RaiNKhAN: raises 4525 to 12950
lica: calls 4216 and is all-in
*** FLOP ***

RaiNKhAN said, "LOOOOOOOOOL"
*** TURN ***

*** RIVER ***
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RaiNKhAN said, "u gotta be kidding me"


*** SHOW DOWN ***
RaiNKhAN: shows (two pair, Kings and Deuces)
lica: shows ........ (two pair, Tens and Deuces)
Lyinfish: shows ... (a full house, Aces full of Deuces)
SKOAL: shows .... (two pair, Queens and Deuces)

imjuniar said, "nice lil setup"
RaiNKhAN said, "that many pairs"
RaiNKhAN collected 2782 from side pot-2
Lyinfish collected 17319 from side pot-1
Lyinfish collected 11188 from main pot

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I have been entertaining myself like that for awhile. Sometimes they play a low limit game (not sure why) and get heckled for it quite a bit. I watched Isabelle Mercier do this one time (think it was a $5/45 SNG). I kept wondering if someone hacked her password. I watched many of them play during the WCOOP events. I would be so tired, but would hang to the bitter end. I think it is a great feature.

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Watching the pros can be entertaining. The best one to me was Gavin Smith. I was with a different forum which had a radio show. They had him on the radio and later we got to play with him.

I did not play a single hand with him until the final table. We did not cross paths until then. At one point he milk half the chips from a fellow player hitting a K high str8 on the river. We chatted a while until he lost and was the tenth man out. The tournament speed up after he was eliminated.

But like he said you got to wait to kill in this game you cann't force it with out cards.

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AA KK QQ 10s? All in the same hand? Man sometimes that just doesnt seem possible! But wow what a crazy hand to watch either way! Guess I should give the pros a look!

I think they play some of the cheaper games as part of their sponsorship otherwise none of us would ever get this kind of opportunity to play a pro at their normal stakes. A while back i came across Vanessa Rousso playing two $11 SNG's.

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I like to watch the pros, and play against them. My current list includes:
Perry Friedman
Chris Fergerson
Chipp Jett
Humburto Brenes
Indirectly: Daniel Negranu and TJ Cloutier (I was in the same tournament, not the same table).

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Well there were questions and heckles from the observer chat in the $10 game he was playing. The Pro didn't answer any observer chat (he possibly couldn't see it anyway)

One chatter was asking why RaiNKhan was playing a $10 buyin.

The $300 buyin had a 1st place prize of around $50,000 -700+ entries from what I remember.
The $10 had 2500+ entries and a $14,000 1st prize. Good money for both events if you can get deep.

Seeing a Pro at lower buyins is good for pokerstars publicity also.

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