Ironically, I was setting up a new 42 inch plasma in my kids bedroom tonight and a re-run of the WSOP was on one of the HDTV channels of ESPN2.
Gus had Ten-Ten, Tuan Lam had Q-Q. I missed the first part of it, but I believe it was about 4 raises preflop(might be wrong about this). Gus raised, Tuan raised, Gus raised to about 180k, and Tuan Lam put him all in for almost 800k more. In this spot there is virtually no way pocket tens are any good. Gus was agonizing over the hand ( I knew he wasn't folding
), and said something like I guess I call. Of course in true Gus style he spikes a ten.
Just one of many hands that prove my point. Really good players can get away from hands like ten-ten, and jack-jack when faced with all in re-raises and their tournament life.
If Gus Folded he would have still had something like 800k left, enough chips to work with and survive.
Just another bad play (in my opinion) which got rewarded by the luck factor.
Jason
