Bonehead Move of the Century

Degen · #1 05-11-2005, 03:15 AM

This was a MTT, but I'd rather post it for y'all. Please flame the crap out of me.

$220 Buy-In MTT @ Commerce Casino (LA) tonite.

450+ Players
85k+ Prize Pool
~35k for 1st
Top 27 paid.

7 tables left (~63 players) with blinds at 200/400 and 50 ante. I have ~2.5k and Villian has around the same.

I am MP1, its folded to me and I look down at A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

I push.

Villain is a tight passive older asian guy. He has a thick accent and announces 'count' when it is folded to him. I'm rocking the iPod full blast, nodding my head to some Jack Johnson and I think he says 'call'. I look at him, he looks up at me as if to say (i thought) 'wuddya got?'...i flip over my hand. The dealer flips out on me and tells me he didn't call yet.

He looks at his hand, thinks for a minute and says 'i call'

He turns over 8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Andre

ilya · #2 05-11-2005, 03:26 AM

Where was Gavin Griffin when you needed him.

Degen · #3 05-11-2005, 03:27 AM

who?

Mr_J · #4 05-11-2005, 03:28 AM

"thinks for a minute"

Literally???

Degen · #5 05-11-2005, 03:33 AM

ya it was weird...probably more like 45 seconds. He was very tight. I'm pretty certain he would have folded his BB.

Andre

LeVoodoo · #6 05-11-2005, 03:45 AM

That probably killed your appetite for banana pancakes.

Blarg · #7 05-11-2005, 03:48 AM

A lot of players put their headphones on so it looks like they are listening to music, so that they don't have to talk to people and can just concentrate on the game. Sounds like you got it backwards big time.

I do that too sometimes, but it does cut back on the information you pick up.

Degen · #8 05-11-2005, 03:48 AM

haha no i still love jack...but now i understand why Daniel Negreanu always asks people 'you call?' 'you're all in?' etc...no matter how damned obvious what they said was.

Andre

Degen · #9 05-11-2005, 03:50 AM

makes me play tight, and i am affected by the things people say, its my biggest downfall in live poker, and probably why i do so well online.

I just can't blind steal from people that i've been talking to, or who have made a comment about my steals in the past etc. Probably same reason i turn chat off on PP when it gets late tourneys.

Andre

ilya · #10 05-11-2005, 03:51 AM

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who?

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At the final table of the 2004 3K PL WSOP event, Gavin Griffin re-raised SomeFirstName Lee's raise with A8s. Lee had 88 but Griffin caught an Ace to eliminate Lee and set himself up for his victory.