POTD #58 Who the F**k is Sam Greenwood?

The asterixes are the letters you think they are

POTD is primarily a strategy newsletter, but it’s also an archival project. I have a very good memory, but the longer I’ve lived and filled up my brain with more garbage, I am experiencing lapses in memory. Last week, I asked Stephen Chidick for some help to see if we could recreate the action of a hand we played and Pokernews reported on in Prague 2019— we failed (so far). Fortunately, I’ve played so many hands on live streams that I can dig through old streams or YouTube to find notable hands I’ve played.

When I search my name on YouTube for POTD research and/or vanity, one video regularly pops up.¹ The video only has 360 views and it is from a relatively small-stakes tournament, but the title is a memorable one: “Who the F**K is Sam Greenwood?”. In Tuesday’s POTD, I wrote about a hand Fabiano Kowalski played on stream where he overbet the river on a paired board. I searched through my mental archive of hands that I had played which shared a theme with POTD #57, and I thought of the “Who the F**K is Sam Greenwood?” hand: a hand where I overbet the river on a paired board. In yesterday’s post I discussed that playing quads is harder than it looks; however, I can tell you it’s still easier than playing six high, which I am going to write about today.

Online Carribean Party Poker Party Main Event Day 1A
Level 15 (30k/60k/7.5k) (SB/BB/Ante) Starting Stack 1,000,000. Registration closed at the start of level 14.

Conor O’Driscoll completes the SB covering me, I check 6♣️5♦️ off 1.5M in the BB

Flop (180k) J♥️7♠️4♣️: He checks, I bet 60k, he calls
Turn (300k) 9♦️: He checks, I check
River (300k) 4♠️: He checks I bet 480k, he calls with A♦️7♣️