It potentially was. If he shoves preflop and gets McKeehen to fold, who knows what could have happened after. Poker is full of surprises, and we hear stories all the time about a player spinning their small stack up and going on to win the tournament.
Exactly. Need to be 3 betting from the sb there w/ QJos ( if you chose to play). The opener will 4 bet with his premiums and you can easily let it go and save all those chips. ICM basics, I’m sure he’s learned his lesson.
@@commonsenseapproach101 You can't argue with success. Maybe one or two championships come because of good luck, but you can't be a horrible player and have seventeen.
@JazzYachtrocker NOT true. You CANNOT win a tournament without getting lucky at least twice. Doesn't matter who you are, there will ALWAYS be a hand where you get it in good and have to hold, and a hand where you get it in bad and suck out.
Yes, he could have went all in pre, with A4 and possibly got the fold. But he was extremely lucky to win a lot of preflop races. And to have the Ks hold up.
He would’ve got the fold from J-3 McKeehen has the chips to lean on everyone every hand and w 800k invested he folds to a 3bet shove of just about 4m more that could’ve cut his stack in half and double upped one of (if not) the strongest player at the table. He def won his share of races you’re right I feel like you’re gonna have to have st least 3 or 4 lucky spots,win a lot flips and have the deck hit you to win the Main
No, the QJ hand and that final hand were both really big blunders. He should have folded the QJ hand preflop, and he should have shoved with the A4. Very unlikely McKeehan would have called his all in.
He didnt play small ball w/ JQ and A4. He shouldve folded on the turn or river w/ JQ and shoved pre w/ A4. He couldve call w/ A4 if he had more than 40bb and played sb post flop. as great a player as he is, JQ and A4 were played suboptimal.
Sometimes when it’s your time it’s your time! McKeehan played like a beast and ran like god. The poker gods work in weird and funny ways. Thanks for the video!
Great video, thanks! I have a wish though, if you could please turn the music down a smidge during big hands so we can clearly hear the table talk. Otherwise great video 👍
i've played a fair bit of "small ball" - especially back 10-15 years ago. Comes with the risk of letting your opponents catch up and takes solid live reading skills (which dnegs has in spades.) but its a profitable strategy if you can avoid making errors that cost you big. Some errors are ok, and if playing small ball, those errors cost you, small. When hands gain momentum, and the opponent ends up with the better showdown value, it feels like you've made a mistake, which is not wrong, but not right either.
I wouldn't call that a mistake. It was a calculated risk that almost paid off. I'm not sure I would take a flop against a guy running as hot as Joe was, but I'm not half the player Daniel is so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
It is generally not correct to make statements about counting other people's money. I believe that only Daniel can say how much he lost or how much he earned. Good video. I hope that the author will draw conclusions for himself and in the future there will be only high-quality content with a correct description, and this will not only increase views, but will also inspire respect for the author. All the best and prosperity!
Its a great compilation of Daniel's play in this event, but you don't point out the mistake, was it in JQ v KK? Or in the final hand? And if the final hand its hardly an $8m mistake as winning the pot with a pre-flop shove still has Daniel as one of the short stacks.
Thanks for watching. You may have missed it, but I did point out the mistake. In the video I talk about how his decision to not shove preflop with A4 was the mistake that led to his elimination. If he shoves preflop, I strongly believe McKeehen would have folded.
These tournaments are basically an expensive version of "all in or fold". Sure, they nibble for awhile, and then go all in. To win such a tournament, you don't have to be a good poker player. You simply need to sun run. It is very rare to see anyone bluffing to cause someone with stronger cards to fold.
Getting super lucky right before the bubble usually is a must bc you’ll have people who will fire 5-10x buy ins and the bubble will be full of min stacks. Getting lucky goes wo saying but if you can get past that bubble with a good stack you can really start to see the field fall fast bc and level off. As long as you have 5x I think you are doing fine but people usually get satisfied with bubble pop so play all the way down to best start hands and don’t just punt bc 5x goes to 35x goes to 100x and then your arrested for public intoxication with zero regret!
I consider myself an amateur and I would have pushed all-in with any A as the short stack. So I'm not second guessing Danny, Its just that's what I would have done. McKeehen probably would have called anyway and the results would have been the same. However, if Danny pushed all-in preflop, perhaps McKeehen would have folded because it wasn't an amateur pushing all-in preflop.
I would have mucked the A4o. You’re dominated by almost every other ace, unless the flop comes 2,3,5 rainbow or 4,4 x you likely won’t have the best hand. Jamming pre might have been the way to go but it’s so easy to be dominated there. If you get to the flop yes you hit your ace but you could easily be shoving into a bigger ace. If the other player has just diamonds the still are about 36% to win. KT would just have flopped 2 pair so you’re dead in that scenario. All in all I obviously wasn’t there so my opinion doesn’t matter but I would have mocked the A4 and waited for a better spot.
I don't agree he should have pushed pre flop. Joe was dominating the table woth his chip stack. When that happens your a4 vs him looks to be strong. You don't call on pre flop woth a 4. A4 is a strong hand 5 handed especially when blinds are high. I play to win and push odds. Theres a lot of players who will grind there stacks down and play tight for me I don't do that. I go for it.
A4 is an all-in or fold at that point and he would be the first to admit it. It did not matter who he was playing in the hand, being short stack, he could not pass too many opportunity to go in.
I agree that as a shortstack Daniel had to make a decision preflop all in or fold based of his feeling about Joe's hand strenght. But when he called he had no other choice when A hit the board. Someone said before that was only the end QJ hand was the one which decided the outcome, even if Daniel won this one still he would have little chance against chip leader.
Dan thought he was the Man with winning Aces , but cards are cards he took the chance , I think he didn’t take enough time to think things out . Oh well there will be other games . Great entertainment 👍👍👍👍🍺🍺🍺
With the Ace of diamonds in his hand, he blocks many of the flushes his opponent can have. If he didn't have the Ace of diamonds I think he would probably just call.
If he doubles up there, he would have a little over 30 big blinds. And given that he was the best player remaining in the field, he would have been in great contention to win.
He got his money in good 56% played the hand perfect. His reading ability is world class so going with his read even with the qj v kk is the right play because on the long run his reads are usually correct. Mcheon just had the perfect flop vs his opponents over and over.@RoyalFlushMediaCompany
So he lost a flip and that is a mistake? Sure, A4o could shove preflop and win, but on the other hand, that would not have confirmed him the first place, not even nearly. To get there he needs to double up sooner or later. I bet his strategy was to play a lot of pots and use the skill edge he has, of course we can argue if he should have changed it when stack is so shallow already, but calling this 8 million dollar mistake is obviously hyperbolic to the extreme.
If skill had anything to do with it Daniel would of won. Both his pocket cards were higher than Mckennon pocket cards, the flop, the turn, the river were all by chance or luck
A4 off is NOT a goo preflop all in with that many in the table still, he has at least 9 hands to get some better, but if he is going to go with it, ALWAY go all in with the Ace, never limp it being low(he wasn't THAT low yet), I would of dumped it in that position.
It’s tough too say about Daniel’s pre flop play because although A-4 is ahead of button raises in most cases daniel would be a coin flip if they got it all in with other ranges the button would be raising with but let’s take it for what it is in this situation although a small favorite in most situations Daniel had enough of a chip stack too apply pressure back to the big stack I think it might actually be a shove it’s close but a shove is the superior play
I appreciate your detailed breakdown of the hand - always good to learn from different perspectives. You pointed out a key factor - "applying pressure to the big stack". McKeehen wants to maintain his chip lead going into the FT. Therefore he does not want to take high variance spots like this one. Great point!
A4 is a pure shove pre. To try and play postflop with that hand, out of position and short stack against a guy who who will put pressure on you is ridiculous
Commentators are usually pretty knowledgeable, but in this case I have to disagree. It was bad luck and not a mistake - at least, not THAT one; the QJ hand was more the mistake - that did Daniel in, because I think the chip leader calls him even if he does move pre-flop.
No, I spent a week researching and writing the script myself. I used a voiceover artist to narrate the story. What do you think? Does any the script or voiceover need improvement?
I don't even have 1/1000th the talent that Dnegs has for reading people...but WHY did he have to play so many hands when he was up...Too bad he didn't pick better spots(Easy for me to say).
I think he was getting frustrated with McKeehan. He felt like McKeehan was running over the table and decided to take a stand. But luck just wasn't on his side that day.
DNEG lost his stack because he refuses to fold when beaten......sure he made some amazing folds and calls, but I am 1000% certain that he would have had many more bracelets and wins if he folded when losing the hand
Lol, what a ridiculous premise for a video. Its not an 8 Million dollar mistake if there are still 10 other players. He was even extremely below the average stack being at 17.5 millio and Daniel having a stack of about 8 million. (Assuming he goes all in pre flop and Gets the fold) 15:06 But even if, number one got 7.6 million - 0.5 Million Daniël got is 7.1 million at best.
@@RoyalFlushMediaCompany don't feel sorry, either say yes you are right that's a good point I agree. Or say no I disagree I stand by my title. Props on you for listening to a critique and responding to people. And adjusting the title. Better title.
IMO I don’t think my title was click bait but putting myself in the shoes of my viewers, I can understand how it might seem that way. It’s never my intention to use click bait to get people to watch my videos. My goal is to share my passion for poker and make high quality content for people to enjoy.
Negranu totally messed up not shoving preflop a 4 doesnt play strong post flop. Very very bad play. He would have picked up the million pre flop and lived to fight another day. I wonder what would have happened if he won that hand at the end how far he would have made it?
Yeah it looks like he just ran into a guy that was running super hot. It really stinks, but poker still has luck (or randomness) involved at the end of the day.
Dude is negative 100s of millions of dollars when it comes to actually PLAYING poker in his career... If it wasn't for his sponsorships (PokerStars) and his new sponsorship to (GG) he would be broke lol
