Quote Originally Posted by kingkowboys View Post
What a lucky SOB. The A3s and KQo hands were so bad. The reason these hands are all bad is because he ended up risking huge portions or all of his stack each time. It's not as bad if he folds to the 5bet! Clearly this guy has QQ+ and you are a major dog. This is the epitome of a donk getting lucky. There is no way any of this was done based on reads because similar situations happened multiple times. I'm just glad he didn't win the whole thing. Now he'll drift off into the sunset and we never have to watch this crap again.
LOL listen to this guy. Obviously Sylvia was and is a really solid player. You have to understand how strong his play looked, and factor in things like FE and and his A3 suited vs potential calling hands. Likely Sylvia folds out al Ax hands that aren't AK and possibly AQ. Additionally he folds out pairs that aren't JJ+. So against a narrow calling range of JJ+AQs+AK this is a decent play. He obviously ran into the top of villains range and was still only a 70-30 dog. With the massive amount of FE he had vs villains range, this was and is a perfectly fine line. There was a lot of money on the line moving forward, and just because he took a high variance line that he eventually sucked out with, it doesn't necessarily reflect poorly on his game or game plan. If he had won that hand and proceeded to punt it off, then we might have a real discussion; but this guy proceeded to navigate a huge field and get HU vs a very good player. It is not as though he luckboxed his way through the mtt like Jamie Gold or Chris Moneymaker. Sylvia actually played against much tougher competition and took 2nd. Is he one of the best in the world? No, but he was and is better than 95% of the players in the field and he happened to get lucky in a few pivotal spots. That is the case for almost every top pro that goes deep in a large field... you have to get lucky and win a few flips and occasionally a few 70-30s and 80-20s.