The Amazing Paul Darden
 

the other day i was watching paul darden do some amazing things at lucky chances wpt event. now he wasn't amazing in the way he played, but there were more subtle and much more impresive things he was doing that i feel others might have missed when watching.

just so everyone can be situated, here is what the final table looked like:
http://www.visitthesaint.com/Media/table.JPG

darden is in seat 1, folled by chris bigler, vince burgio, hellmuth, esfandiari, tommy garza.

now, before play even starts at the final table, darden is doing things i could only dream to.
http://www.visitthesaint.com/Media/intro.JPG
here we see what will be many shots from darden's hole cam, but something is different. not only his darden now sitting in the 3 seat, he's also in camouflage.

now he moves back to his own seat to play a few hands (or not as the case maybe. from now until the table is three handed, darden will only be shown playing three hands, even though his lead steadily increases.)
http://www.visitthesaint.com/Media/1st.JPG

http://www.visitthesaint.com/Media/2nd.JPG

http://www.visitthesaint.com/Media/3rd.JPG

http://www.visitthesaint.com/Media/4th.JPG

now, in an interesting call of an allin, darden sheds his protective shell and returns to let his true self show.
http://www.visitthesaint.com/Media/5th.JPG

after losing that hand, darden returns to his alternate table image for one last hand, before finishing the rest of the tournament in his true style.
http://www.visitthesaint.com/Media/6th.JPG

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the first season editing was terrible, get over it.

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Paul Darden is black.

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At least they don't fake hands like WSOP.

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At least they don't fake hands hands like WSOP.

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Hmm...

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At least they don't fake hands like WSOP.

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WSOP fakes hands? Explain please.

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The answer is pretty simply. The "Holecard cam" is on Chris Bigler while the main camera is on Darden.

As to the WSOP thing, there's been like 3 seperate instances pointed out where hands were faked.

One that definitely was spliced up badly was the Hellmuth/Tony D hand in 2003WSOP. Board had two jacks and a king on the turn, and Hellmuth had 77. Tony D had JT. Tony made a sizeable bet, Hellmuth raised, and Tony D folded. Except when the camera is on Tony D, he's not holding chips, but when it gets to his hole-card cam you can clearly see him holding a stack of chips in his right hand.

It's all on Paul Phillip's page in greater explanation.

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As to the WSOP thing, there's been like 3 seperate instances pointed out where hands were faked.

One that definitely was spliced up badly was the Hellmuth/Tony D hand in 2003WSOP. Board had two jacks and a king on the turn, and Hellmuth had 77. Tony D had JT. Tony made a sizeable bet, Hellmuth raised, and Tony D folded. Except when the camera is on Tony D, he's not holding chips, but when it gets to his hole-card cam you can clearly see him holding a stack of chips in his right hand.

It's all on Paul Phillip's page in greater explanation.

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Yeah, you beat me to it, but - http://www.improving.org/paulp/poker...uth/index.html

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The answer is pretty simply. The "Holecard cam" is on Chris Bigler while the main camera is on Darden.

As to the WSOP thing, there's been like 3 seperate instances pointed out where hands were faked.

One that definitely was spliced up badly was the Hellmuth/Tony D hand in 2003WSOP. Board had two jacks and a king on the turn, and Hellmuth had 77. Tony D had JT. Tony made a sizeable bet, Hellmuth raised, and Tony D folded. Except when the camera is on Tony D, he's not holding chips, but when it gets to his hole-card cam you can clearly see him holding a stack of chips in his right hand.

It's all on Paul Phillip's page in greater explanation.

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I always thought it was kinda fishy... But just forgot about it. It's actually sad really. ESPN is suppose to be THE channel for sports reporting, and even though some don't consider Poker a sport (it's a mental sport where physical tells are important though), the fact that they make-up things is somewhat shocking. I already knew they edited different moments together to make it look more compelling - which is bad, but just making it up... Makes me wonder what to believe...

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Paul Darden is black.

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Ever seen the palms of a black person's hands? Lots of them have white palms or a very light brownish color.

Edit: now that I look again, you can see the back of the thumbs in some pics and they are white as a ghost!