Lex Veldhuis: 2009 WSOP Main Event Day 1a (part 2 of 2)
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at
4:28 pm
A montage of Lex’s ESPN coverage of the 2009 WSOP Main Event, from Day 1a on the feature table. Part 2 of 2. *the last hand of part 1 and first hand of part 2 are shown in reversed chronological sequence in order to make both parts fit into the 10 min youtube maximum*
Tagged with: 1a • 2009 • Day • espn • Event • Lex • Main • raszi • Veldhuis • WSOP
Filed under: Online Poker
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mmmmm. actually I dont equal him..thank god. I know am a better player than him. without the spotlight that’s all cheers
HAHAHAHAHAAH! Like it when a guy who barely is 25 compares a player today to the GREATEST POKER MACHINE that was Stu Ungar!! There are thousands of players like Lex today but only one Stu Ungar. If Dolly ever makes such statement about a player, I will take it seriously but until then, let’s not insult the greatest poker player that was Stu Ungar with these merely flash in the pan players fictional comparison.
He did not cash in the main event. All the hype is about the fact Lex sucked out to the final table in the 40k buy-in even but trust me he wasnt playing like a careless fool then. He finished 7th in a 201 player field by the way.
Don’t fucking disgrace Stu Ungar by comparing him to Lex. Lex is good player but nowhere near Ungar’s level. There are millions of players like Lex but only one Ungar.
I wudnt say millions like lex.There aint millions of players in teh world who are playing in the episodes of high stakes poker .Theres not even millions of poker players
As if any of you idiots ever seen stu play poker except for some old wsop footage on youtube.
There are not ”millions ” of players like lex, because in that case onlike poker would be totally dead .
Him and stu cant be compared because none of us would have any idea how stu would’ve played online, or if he would’ve adapted to todays (nosebleed) games.
The one thing we can say with 100% certainty is that Lex is a better professional gambler then stu was. Ducy?
First off, Lex is nowhere near Ungar’s level. I like Lex and no offense to him because his bluffs were skilled and he has more money than I’ll ever have. Like Phranswa said, if Dolly ever made such statement of Lex being a better poker player than Ungar, I’ll take it seriously. Lex isn’t even near Dwan’s level. And Kaplan doesn’t even dare say Dwan is better than Ungar but tries to compliment Dwan by saying Dwan’s playing style is similar and reminds Kaplan of Ungar’s style.
Dude, give Lex some respect. Just because field was small, his accomplishment is nothing? Btw, even though it’s 201 players, the players he faced were established pros and top players, opposed to main event where you can gather many chips through donkeys and have advantage over pros. 40k event was filled with 201 REAL, SERIOUS poker players and no satellite to that tournament. Lex is sick and he’s gonna be on High Stakes Poker next season, or so I heard because Negreanu got him in.
‘ungar’ probably wouldn’t survive 2 seconds in the nosebleed stakes today.
lex and stu ungar in same sentence just isnt right
Stu would lose in the high stakes today…for a few weeks…then he’d start to adjust. He had a brilliant mind, just not the high-level competition at the time to sharpen it.
muenz = tilt
Does anyone know how Lex got eliminated from the WSOP?
You can tell Veldhuis was annoyed of Elezra comment earlier. So he tried prove a point, that you don’t have to play good starting hands to win.
There are glimpses of me in this hand.
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@EGarrett01 not a few weeks, maybe a few hands. since he caught on to the game just like that and start to beat amarilli slim, doyble brunson and the rest of em after just playing for 2 days
@FreakishDonQuixote sonny are you seriously fucking serious? do you even know who that fuck you are talking about with your fucking stupid homo gay mouth? you are talking about the greatest mind ever to play to game, he defeated people after playing this game for 2 days, he switched to poker because nobody wanted to play him gin-rummy because they just couldn’t compete with his super intelligence. are you fucking serioud kid? get the fuck out
@rownus son I don’t know if someone was holding a knife to your throat and forced you to write that comment “lex is a better gambler than stu ungar” or if you were just fucking drunk and had a cactus shoved up your ass while wearing an elvis wig and a yellow dress. because you obviously haven ‘t read what the pro’s like phil helmuth told about stu ungar. don’t you ever compare these people with the 1 and only legend
@dannyoo2 it took him 2 days? what a fish.
@FreakishDonQuixote it took him 2 days to defeat pro’s like doyle brunson and amarillo slim, it took you 2 years to make your transition from the 1/2 to 5/10 play money tables. so why don’t you just shut the fuck up?
@evybabee wrong…you show your bluffs to ensure you get paid off with your good hands…you’re more lkely to get called by opponents with less than average hands….
@mastahlone
this is on purpose, he’s always an agressive player, but this was over the top, showing off.. if you would play like this all the time you would be losing lots of money for sure.
@mastahlone In an interview after this event he said that as soon as someone called one of his bluffs he was going to tighten up, but until then he was going to show every time :)