Raymer and BIG STACK poker...

[IHateCats]

So many of these posts dwell on those hands where Greg got lucky at last years final table which makes me assume that they only watched the ESPN episodes and didn't follow it via Gutshot or Stars. The ESPN version of that final table was pathetic, they only showed 1/10th of the hands, it didn't show the climatic showdown between Raymer and Arieh and you didn't get any impression of how relentlessly aggressive he was about bullying the short stacks that showed weakness, about the only guy he steered clear of reraising was Harrington for obvious reasons and his being on Arieh's immediate left for most of the session was terrible luck for Josh. It pretty much was textbook final table big stack play, much more so than Moneymaker's 2003 performance.