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The KJ call was just chip-spewing...what on earth is an otherwise solid-seeming player doing making these plays -- just showing off?? If that's what qualifies as good late tournament play, then i am very very far off from ever going far in a large MTT.

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It wasn't a call with KJ, it was a raise to put Tex all-in. Huge difference. You think Black was showing off? He was the chip leader, and the play had reached a kind of bubble with a dozen or so left. Black understood very well that the remaining players were concerned about

1) making the guaranteed million from the top ten
2) cracking the final table at the main event.

He could have figured Barch to be making a move to steal a nice multi-way pot in which only Matusow showed any strength. If Barch holds QQ-AA / AK, he calls, but with JJ there's still a chance to lay it down, and he lays down AQ and worse. Factoring folding equity, it's probably a marginal play, but it's clearly one that Black made by employing a read on Tex -- and one that Black made in the context of the bubble. Just didn't work out.