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Brad Booth is a SCRUB! Did anyone see the "play" he made on Phil Ivey (GSN - High Stakes Poker)?

No Limit Cash Games are about making money not about acquiring chips (see tournament strategy) Recap: Yukon holding 2s-4s pushes "ALL-IN" vs. Phi Ivey's Pocket Kings on a 3d-7s-6d FLOP. Obviously Brad was trying to make a "play". Betting 300k to win a 50k pot is just bad poker. He bought in for over a 1 million and was just pushing his stack around. Of course Ivey folded (the good play) Though I respect Brad's game, this was probably the most bone-headed play EVER. People calling this one of the "Best Bluffs" are simply bad poker players. http://www.yukonbrad.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x-GGdHohnI // added details I'm sure you guys have play in lower NO LIMIT games, where some guy sits with an obscene about and just tries to railroad the entire game. Its not poker, its just bored rich guy. //

Public Comments

1. Yes I saw it last night, and I agree with you.......STUPID play, I don't have any respect for that kind of play. And for what? 30K.......Doesn't make any sens at all. I guess he wanted to give the "tone" but, that's even more stupid, player like Ivey play the biggest games in the wold, they don't take that kind of move personally. It's a bonehead move for NL.....And TV. I know "yukon" is a good player, but I wonder what he would do seating with his Million at Bobby's room, playing LIMIT mixed game for 30hrs straight against the best in the world. Anyway, I usually don't criticize player who play higher limits than I do( $5/10 and $10/20).....But I lost respect for him a little. I guess it was good for the "tv people" Take care
2. Agreed - dumb move. But go into any online poker site and you will see it happen all the time. Players regularly overbet the pot in an attempt to steal. They are banking on the other players not wanting to risk their chips to win a relatively small pot. It is a move used with regularity and is always a poor play.
3. this was not the most bone-headed play ever, i certainly wouldn't have made this play, but i can see why he would do that...he had just sat down a short time ago with the $1 million and wanted to show that he was here to gamble, which could allow him to be paid off when he has the nuts, because people may choose to look him up the next time...also, he probably put ivey on either a big pair or A-K/A-Q and knew he would not be able to call such a large raise again, not really defending his play, but trying to explain the possible reasoning for it edit: i understand why you think about the play what you think, but let's establish that brad booth is definitely a better player than you and me or anyone else here...and calling him a bored rich guy is absurd, did you watch any of the other hands he played? he played very good poker and is a very good professional, which you are not
4. Realize that when you see televised poker you are watching an extremely edited broadcast. You can't get a feel for the game since they're only showing the big hands where "something happens." They do a pretty good job showing nuanced hands on HSP, but realize that every hour of broadcast time is many hours of poker. I've heard people talk about this play, and it may in fact be stupid. However, realize that we don't really have a good feel for how the game was playing, past experiences that Booth had against Ivey, and tendencies of Ivey's that Booth may know. Basically, don't read too much into anything you see on TV poker. It's fun to watch, but we're only seeing a fraction of what is really going on.