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How the hell did Williamson make it past day 1? Let's see, she reraises an EP raiser with KJs, then takes forever to lay them down when the guy with aces goes all in. Then she raises one player with AJo, and when Raymer comes over the top of her for 1.3 million with Kings she makes the call rather quickly as if she expected Raymer to flip up AT or a couple of sevens. Then later on the dude who made her lay down KJs makes a standard raise with QQ, then she raises all in with A7o and spikes an ace on the flop.

It was some of the worst play I've seen so far in the ME.

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I'm convinced that the laydown against the Aces had her convinced that she was bluffed out and she wouldn't let go of that thought later. Based on some of the hands we've seen in other players' confrontations (amateur vs. pro), her conclusions may not have been that far off.

The thought process against FossilMan with the AJ vs KK hand, as she worked her way through it to her horrible conclusion, was the neon sign for this thought process to me.

I'm not surprised by a lot of her play- I may be incorrectly reading her, but could she have come in with the assumption that the pros would try to steamroll over the amateur woman?

If there's something I've learned eventually, from the WPT-era of poker television, it is not to jump too far on the "player sucks!" bandwagon. We may not have seen a lot of her good plays.

Unless you think that she must have had the world's biggest horseshoe shoved up her yahoo, and she was the only one (did you miss Fossilman's suckout earlier in the shows?), don't assume much from what you see on TV.


I will say that, from what I've seen of her play so far, I wouldn't fear her (except for her loose unpredictability) at the table. However, she did manage to build up the chips that let her survive some of those horrible decisions tthat we're seeing now. I'd find it hard to believe that all of those chips resulted from sheer luck, because the odds are against it.