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:
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.
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.)
now, in an interesting call of an allin, darden sheds his protective shell and returns to let his true self show.
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.
