It's good for poker, I suppose, but seriously...

[Michael Davis]

How do you know this was a dumb call without a chip count?

Grinning Buddha's post is lacking in key details, but the fact that a short stack had the K6s is quite important.

-Michael

[GrinningBuddha]

You're sitting with about $10k and someone before you raises to about 3k. How many of you would push in with K6s? Ugh.

It just sounds like there's a lot of undisciplined players there this year. Someone made the comment that most of these people got here by playing good poker and beating out a lot of other players in satellites and supers. I think he overestimates the skill level of a lot of them.

[AviD]

pokenum -h qh qs - kc 6d
Holdem Hi: 1712304 enumerated boards
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
Qs Qh 1224567 71.52 483043 28.21 4694 0.27 0.717
Kc 6d 483043 28.21 1224567 71.52 4694 0.27 0.283

[Eihli]

It's not the fact that QQ lost to K6, it's the fact that K6 called an all-in. Of course it may not have been that bad of a call since we don't know the blinds or stacks.

[gonzo787]

I hopefully ESPN will broadcast plenty of these hands. Nothing better than teaching fish bad habits. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[eric5148]

[ QUOTE ]
The beats that are flying around at this year's World Series are fairly unbelievable

[/ QUOTE ]

As if there were no bad beats in the WSOP before this year?

There are more bad beats simply because there are more players, and more hands being played.

I can't understand how anyone could doubt whether this is good for poker. It reminds me of when people were saying Tiger Woods winning the Masters in 1997 might not be good for golf.