How You Are Eliminated: What Does It Say?

[Dan Mezick]

I think it says alot about the maturity of your tournament game.

Others might assert it says absolutely nothing.

But I think the hand you go broke with in a tournament tells more about the depth and breadth of your overall tournament game than just about any other hand in that event.

I heard Phil Ivey once in a WPT post-elimination interview say that he keeps careful records of every hand he goes broke with in tournament play. If that is true, Phil assigns a lot of meaning to these specific hands.