Epic Chip Leader Clash at Super High Roller Bowl VI | Bill Klein vs Michael Addamo 

I really wish they'd stop showing that little bit at the start of their videos. I wanna see the hand unfold naturally. I don't wanna know everything that happens prior to the shove, eg. the layout of the board.

I think this hand is a microcosm of Addamo's tournament philosophy, why he crushes tournaments while other pros just make a living. The guy just recognizes the value of having the big stack in the late stages of the tournament, and that current ICM models underestimate how valuable this is. An ICM model might say if you have X% of the chips then you'll Y% chance of winning. What Addamo realizes better than his peers is that Y is way too low. By being the big stack, you get to open extremely wide and bluff people off lots of equity. You're actually going to win a lot more often than ICM models estimate by exerting this pressure, especially in tourneys where pros are cognizant of their role of being tight with a middling stack at the final table. You rarely ever see him come to the final table with a middling stack... because he's taking a boatload of risks like this in the mid-stages. He cashes less than the average player despite being considered the best in the world. This is because he takes very risky/marginal bluff/bluff catch spots to try to build the big stack he can weaponize the rare occasions he actually does make it deep. This call, while I haven't seen any solver analysis, is almost certainly losing from the way we currently view ICM. You block Qx spade combo draws, and the other big stack shouldn't be 4-betting you very light. So most people would say that given the pressure of having your tournament life on the line, you should fold. But Addamo realizes that when he does call, though he'll bust quite a bit, the times he doesn't he's going to have an extremely high chance of winning the tournament, an even higher chance than computer models would predict given his ability to exploit middling stacks as ICM pressure intensifies. While he's not making completely spewy plays because he's "in it to win and not an ICM nit," he is pushing the lines and taking more marginal spots, so he more frequently has a large stack when does make the FT and can win the highest prize more often.

Unbelievable call.

That hand is a lot harder then face value.. based on tourney stacks and such, as well as bill being a wild man pre, flop turn and river. Wow

Hahahhaa everyone at the table was rooting for Klein

Man this guy is on a blazer the next legend

Honestly can’t tell if bill was bluffing or value betting lol

holy shit, thats most intense televised pokerhand in the last 10yrs :D

Addamo went from crushing online games to live

thank you for posting this and not spoiling the river decision! was fun to watch

I suspect Klein had no idea what he was doing in this hand. Maybe on the flop he was targeting 88's or 99's, but by the river he just made the panic all-in, which almost worked out by accident.

He was never folding after burning his last time bank you can see it in his eyes 👀. Good job Bill putting all in and to the test.

They need to make a different way to extend time. He’s using all his time cards and each time trying to get a reaction from Klein.

That's a hell of a spot... YOU ONLY BEAT THREE GODDAMN HANDS! AK, AJ and TJ. Hell of a drug...

What Analysts would say: Bill’s blocks Aces and Jacks so that line makes perfect sense as he would play them the same way with a really high frequency What Bill actually thought: ME HAS TOP PAIR TOP KICKER. ME BET.

Sick call. What's he beating here, AK or Ax of spades and the odd weird AJ... whilst losing to tons of value hands... PLUS the insane ICM. Absolute beast of a call!

super disrespectful to be talking about their hands in the middle of the hand smh

Wow. "Can't beat nothin', except that" -Phil Ivey AA, KK, A9, JJ, A7, T9s, 99, TT, even 88 all have him beat.

Do you guys understand that this hand is gonna be remembered for a very long time now? And not because of the hand itself, more because of what it represents and what will likely happen now.. Addamo winning this tourney is gonna confirm his legend status.. but if he had lost the hand (by folding the river), he would have been left with a middling stack, which would likely make him finish between 3rd and 5th.. and that would change the whole narrative greatly

What can he beat there? AK,AQ and AJ. Crazy

When will you guys put full coverage of this final table?

Realistically, there are 22 combos of winning pocket pairs (AA thru 77) that would take that line... Perhaps 16 combos of losing AK that might triple barrel (although all but AK spades would likely check turn). And throw in one combo of QQ that ties. You are asked to call 580k to win just shy of 3 million. This is razor thin... but I think the AK's that check the turn are too numerous to make this a good call. After all is said and done, I would have folded -- and that is why I suck at poker.

This is like hitting a buzzer beater in a sport

Hell of a call considering action preflop, on the flop and the turn. He's beating AK, AQ, AJ only. Wow!

Addomo is showing he belongs at that table with the best. He’s played brilliantly lately

Suddenly realized Bill Klein mirrors Oh Il-nam (#1 player) from Squid Game.

Great play from both players

THE BEST BREAKDOWN OF THIS HAND- Turn bet klien is saying he has 10, jj set or AK A10 double barrel becuz of 1/3 pot sizing.draw heavy board on that 7 paired up turn, Any AA KK rips it in or bets much larger than 1/3 pot as flus draw and straight draw open up. And older person like especially bill would tend to protect his golden cards like AA KK if he had them and bet way larger for sure :) So it’s JJ set, lesser frequency 10s set or bluffs AK’s, A10s, ajs, AQs, KJs,J10s, KQs, . Bluff outweigh the possible value hands on river. Addamos image 3bet preflop always play imp role here. Where bill is capable of 4 betting a player like addamo lighter than normal. Addamo factoring in all of this and given SPR on river HE HAS TO PUT IT IN !!!The eternal question is was it a vaube shove or bluff shove on river hahahah :D I THINK HE VALUE BET. CLASSIC CASE OF OLD MAN OVER VALUING HIS HAND AGAINST YOUNG MAD MAN REPUTATION LIKE ADDAMO.

God damn, what a call🔥🔥

Nice too see even the top players hate life in certain spots

bill thought he was taking the kid to school but it turned out the kid was sending him back to middle school

klein didn’t know if he was value betting or bluffing. i call this the fish special, where they kind of just put the money in and hope for the best. folding the best hand to this kind of bet is the WORST feeling in poker

WOW That was a tough call

I think he knows that Bill knows that the flop smashes Addamo's 4-bet calling range. Therefore I assume Bill is not bluffing all AK combos on the turn, or much at all after the call on the flop from Addamo. So he either picked up equity (AsKs, AsQs) (2 combos) or he already had a gutshot (AQ) if he was bluffing (7 combos). AJ Addamo might have thought of, but it is difficult since Klein should have checked somewhere (again, because of the range advantage, and impossible to get three-streets of value). Bill's value hands are AA, KK and JJ (15), or 12 is he checks all JJ on the flop. Based on the time he took maybe he considered Bill would only bluff with hands that gained equity on the turn? I don't know, he is Addamo, must have had a good reason to think this long with the odds he was getting :) Assumptions: probably not As5s-As2s in Bill's range due to the small 4-bet, no 99s or 10s due to the 4-bet.

8:04 "Klein will live but with the faintest of pulses" , yeah... and he's still in the tournament as well, just

7:42 who is whispering something about AJ before addamo makes the call????! I hear : He has the AJ, sounds like Brewer's voice

DAMN IT...

Sick call especially with the Qs

schulman was so real right here 7:55 lol

Bill always always have the second best hand always ✌🏽

Knowing the time to pull back the agression is also a strength And not weakness Mr KLEIN😁

Whoever makes these thumbnails needs to be fired. NOW.

the most over dramatized hand ever televised

This hand is kind of sick. I probably find myself folding QQ honestly and if I'm on the fence, holding the Qs might tip me over to the fold.

What did he put him on? Ak?

he can buy all the table and the casino lmao

Truly amazing

Ali Nejad has matured so much as a commentator, I am very impressed..

Great call!

commentary on point

Some good ole fashion street poker.

I don't understand the call and never will

That is an insane call; loses to 99/TT/JJ/KK/AA all that would play the same way (maybe not 99). Ultimately this call allowed him to get the massive chip lead and ship the tournament

Why is everyones scared of the old guys breath

Announcer: AND HE DOES PAY IT OFF! Wait what?

You can hear whispering about the hand in the seconds before the call. What's that about?

He had to call. 580 to win 2300. After putting in so much chips it’s a no-brainer to call.

Were the blinds 15k / 30k here? I couldn't see a graphic with the blind / ante amounts. So they are roughly 45bb effective at the start of the hand?

How is this not a snap call? Once he called the turn bet, is he really putting Klein on AA, KK, and expecting him to check?

Good one

That run out every pair beats QQ 77 88 99 10 10 JJ KK and AA..... very hard call.

he's only beating AK and AJ really since hes blocking AQ ... it looks like a great call but I feel like 80% of the time this is just going to be a huge unnecessary punt vs Bills 3 betting range. But hey it worked, good play.

Anybody that thinks Klein is turning his hand into a bluff has never watched him play before.

Nice!

Interesting hand. Awesome call. Wonder if that call is solver-approved? On one hand you're getting like 4 to 1, on the other hand you can't really beat anything, especially when you have the Q of spades, which blocks lots of turn semi-bluffs that would have missed. Not sure what I would have done here, but probably put him on TT or JJ and folded. Pretty strange play from Klein. Guess that's what makes him an amateur.

why do you start the video like that

IS HE FORGETTING WHAT HIS CARDS ARE? He looked at them 3 or 4 times.

PMSL Addamo is a fucking luckbox

Absolute fucking superhuman, fuck me what a call. Guys a beast, very nice bluff by Klein too I thought.

Old man speedin'

He’s a Beast

If he thinks he would jam aces then it’s a bad call.

You don't call all the way to river with QQ and tank think that's a snap call. I hope he looks at his QQ one more time maybe they will change

These guys call poker like its the Olympics

We know what he can do in the high roller scene against the same 30 players But can Addamo beat a 1k+ player tournament full of recs lol. Would be interesting to see how he would adjust

This hand was so bad from start to finish. After 4 bet and a call we have bets on every street and snap calls everytime except for 5 mins of decision time on the river. What was Addamo thinking, that he suddenly got AA on the river but was drawing for flush before? And why would Klein 4 bet bluff so high leaving him no chips to bluff with if gets called. My plays probably look dumber on TV but still.....

Number 1 player in the world currently!

I'm not sure about this play from Klein and the river call from Addamo. Depending on how bluffy Klein is, Addamo could reasonably call the 4-bet with all pocket pairs 8's or higher. So with Klein going all in on the river, he is only really putting pressure on Q's, whereas all other pairs would snap call, including K's and A's. Addamo knows that going all on the river against his range is a bad idea with all Ax hands; so him having Q's there is the worst hand to call with. But he is getting almost 5:1 odds, which could make calling profitable.

I was 1000% sure he would do the opposite..:-)

Tragic 4b pre with AJ unlucky situation he got into.

woooooow.. still havent seen him to take the wrong choise & the way hes complicatin the lines & then has to take " marginal !?! " desicion s at the end , is amazin

Klein likes to donkey shove a bit. This goes back to watching him on High Stakes poker 10+ years ago. He is honestly out of his element in these high rollers.

Most superb button clicking by Klein.

A-mf-DAMMO! 😮‍💨

WTF is Klein doing here? Is it a Bluff on the River? But what does he represent and what does he want to fold? Cant be a value bet Right? What should addamo Call with? 66, KJ?

value?bluff?

foxen been hitting the iron

??? easy call . I call it also

I don't want to spoil anything for anyone so I'll just say I guessed his decision wrong. Wp.

Can anyone explain to me why is it so easy for him to call flop and turn getting 4:1 but then so hard for him to call river getting the same odds, with the board bricking twice?

There’s not many things that bother me about Schulman but when he says “he’s going to pay it off” when that player who makes the call has the winning hand is very annoying. It’s not a payoff when the chips are coming back to you.

Nobody wants to accept it, but I think this guy is just better than everyone else in the High Roller scene. I been saying it for years, that all these guys and gals are nits and a aggressive and knowledgeable player could, and would exploit them.

I think ultimately he had to call and he knew it. He just didnt see bill bluffing in that spot. There are 16 combos of AK. and only 6 combos of JJ 1010. 6 AA. So even if you only count the AK bluffs he has more bluffs than value already.

I think even if Addamo makes the right call is a really bad one in the long term. You are literally hoping to find AK AK suited spades or A10 AJ that doesn't bet for value but for bluff or something like 66/55/44/33/22 that is going crazy preflop tribetting to take down the pot without showdown but is close to 0 for these 5 last hands. There are more likely AA/KK and sometimes JJ 1010 but with this two last hands and giving the positions of 1st and second in chips i think flatting is also very reasonable to pot control and keep the pot small. And i think that the 8 on the river changes nothing cause Bill with AA and KK prob do the exact same thing and is more likely to find AA KK given the triple barrell and the fact he 4bet preflop. Clearly to my point of view here AJ is a bluff to make fold exactly what Addamo has but i think too that Bill wasn't bet to bluff but for value.

This call doesn't seem that hard. he is beating nothing in the value range, there is rarely a 4bet bluff hand that doesn't connect with the board hard only AK and AQ. you loose to all AA KK JJ like 15 combos and win against AQ and AK 22 combos....its hard to fold when the pot is that big and the river bet isn't even half pot. Just auto call and save some time extension chips

same happened to me villain tables cowboys

Against any other player on the table is a fold. Against Bill it's a call

Quit this year Addamo. It is never getting sweeter than this.

Definitely bad editing here...spoiled the whole video, had to skip at the end, so the channel loses out on the duration views

Balls of steel 👍