WSOP Chip Leader Jamie Gold Bio & Video after Win
video after winning title:
http://www.cardplayer.com/multimedia/videos/id/19890
see August 8th, half way down the page. I would think he is one of the few players who actually bought in to the tournament for the full $10k
http://www.poker.com/blog/index.htm
Seems the poker gods are on his side but you never know what will happen... stay tuned.
http://www.cardplayer.com/multimedia/videos/id/19890
see August 8th, half way down the page. I would think he is one of the few players who actually bought in to the tournament for the full $10k
http://www.poker.com/blog/index.htm
Seems the poker gods are on his side but you never know what will happen... stay tuned.
Comments
stp
Fame is an issue I have thought about. I think it takes a certain type of person to really want to be famous and bothered by people all the time.
Good for Jamie.
As soon as I read this, I wondered why wouldn't Paul call with so many outs. He had up to 15 outs, including the high end of an OESD and a 9s or 4s giving him the nut straight flush. He had the pot odds and +EV to call with just about any card combination that the other players may have. As it turned out, Paul did have the best chance among the three of winning and tripling up.
cards win  %win lose %lose tie %tie   EV
8s 7s 487 53.93  416 46.07  0 0.00 0.539
4d 3h 154 17.05  749 82.95  0 0.00 0.171
Ad Th 262 29.01  641 70.99  0 0.00 0.290
Had Paul made the correct call, he would have tripled up to 37 million and would be practically even against Jamie for the $12 million championship.... Does anybody disagree with my analysis?
Paul checks
Michael bets 1.2M
Jamie: "I'm all-in"
Paul:
"That's sick"
"This is sick"
"Can I show them?" (motioning to the crowd - presumably someone says no)
"God...are you kidding me?"
Jamie (playing his mind-games): "If we all got a hand, let's do it, let's do it all three. Let's get it over with right now."
Paul: "This is sick." (to Michael): "How much did you bet?"
Jamie (interrupting): "Doesn't matter, I'm all in" ... (a bit of chatter I couldn't make out exactly) ... "You're getting good odds"
Paul : "This is disgusting"
Paul then folds and Michael calls.
The commentators felt that Paul was not willing to gamble on a draw, even a good one, given the difference in prize money between 3rd and second place. I'm not so sure the money was the factor, but Paul did want to win that bracelet.
Here's my take:
I feel that perhaps Paul thought that Michael had a big hand like KK, and given Jamie's quick push all-in, perhaps Jamie had AsTs or maybe just 2 bigger spades like AsJs. If this were really the case, it would have been closer to an even money proposition (really close if Gold has AsTs, but if Gold has AsJs the KK would be a 40% favourite to Paul's 33% to 27% for Jamie) and given that Gold had knocked out so many players (some on very lucky draws), Paul was not willing to risk his tournament life on what might have been only an open-ended straight draw (obviously if Jamie had 2 higher spades, Paul's flush would be beaten unless the 9s or 4s hit).
Just my thoughts based on the players' interactions and Paul's play. Paul was trying to avoid playing "all in" poker and wanted to see more cards, even at a cost, but not at the potentially ultimate cost. I'm sure he would have called Michael's 1.2M with no hesitation but the all-in really scared him -- and Jamie definitely knew that Paul would have trouble calling an all-in with any drawing hand.
Comments?
Mike