I'm pulling for Andy Black - a true sportsman

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Date / Time: 2005-07-15 02:31:00
Title: Tex Barch Doubles Up Through Andrew Black
Log: Hand 41 - Andrew Black has the button in seat 2, Matusow raises to $260,000, Lazar calls, Black calls, Barch reraises to $1,000,000, and everyone folds to Black, who thinks long and hard. After a few minutes, Black reraises all in. Now the million-dollar pressure cooker is in full force on Tex Barch, who counts out his chips as he considers the call. Andrew Black looks relaxed as he takes a drink from his water bottle, and then watches Barch count his chips. Barch takes a good look at Black, who was looking down and shuffling his chips. When Black looks up, their eyes meet for a moment, and Black smiles at the surprise. About ten seconds later, Barch makes the call.


Andrew Black shows Kh-Js, while Barch has pocket jacks (Jh-Jc). This is the biggest pot of the tournament, and whoever wins this pot will be our chip leader. If Black wins, he'll take a commanding position headed to tomorrow's final table. If Barch wins, he'll put himself in great position as well.


The crowd is yelling for their favorites when Mike Matusow stands up and light-heartedly says, "Keep it down! I'm trying to concentrate!"


The flop comes Ah-4d-3c, and Barch is still in the lead with the jacks. Black needs to catch a king or a runner-runner straight to eliminate Barch. The turn card is the Qs, and the crowd lets out a huge reaction to the paint on the board. Black has picked up some more outs, and he can win with a ten or a king (7 outs).


The crowd goes quiet, with random exclamations from the crowd asking for specific cards. The river card is the 3h, and most of the crowd applauds as Tex Barch doubles up in chips.


After the hand, Andrew Black stands up, smiles, and waves to the crowd, as if to say, "That's alright. Let's play poker."

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I'm pulling for Black, too. Seems like a class act.

[Jordan Olsommer]

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I still like what I've read and seen of Black though. Just didn't care for his play in this particular hand.

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KJo? Clearly it was an homage to Bill Fillmaff.

[72off]

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I really don't get how that's such a great act. Doesn't that screw the other players? More important the shorter stacks. Don't they all get screwed by missing hands?

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Seems to be what some of the guys at his table thought. Sounded like they were giving it to him for stalling.

I think the criticism of Black is a little over the top. Bing Wang (the MIA guy) was the shortstack (or at least one of the shortstacks), so I guess Black thought it was a little cruel to blind the guy off with this kind of money at stake. According to the Cardplayer timestamps, the whole incident took about 15 minutes (from when the reported the guy missing, to when he showed up), and the Bing Wang was the next guy out anyway, I believe.

And any amount of time he stalled still pales in comparison to HDOG.

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Ah - but he's a buddhist and it's also a zero karma game - I bet he was just hoovering it up from Mike and Shawn

Andy has an explanation for that hand here - http://www.antesup.com/wsop/wsopnews.php. Hes quite honest about it.

[Andy B]

I'm pulling for Andy Black because he has a cool name.

[Mason Hellmuth]

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I'm pulling for Andy Black because he has a cool name.

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Excellent criteria.

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