[barryg1]

I talked to Tuan about some of the hands. He said he had a real good feel for everyone and he was 95% sure Howard had King Queen on the kings full hand. He said he wanted to fold and he would have folded if the camera hadn't seen his cards. He was thinking, "If I fold Kings full here amd I'm wrong, I'll be known as a big TV donkey, worse than when they said I was a luckbox for winning the WPT events."

He also knew Howard couldn't stand a reraise when he bluffed him off of two tens.

I asked Tuan why he didn't make a continuation bet with his AQ when three sevens flopped. He said they didn't show two hands where Erick didn't reraise him preflop with Jacks and with Kings and he felt Erick was always slowplaying against him. He sensed that Erick almost reraised before the flop, which may have been true, even though Tuan had the best hand.

Erick had been playing pretty snugly and Tuan thought his reads were good enough that he would not be bluffed very often. He almost paid off the river, but he decided Erick wasn't going to bluff him that hand ... and at that point he was right.

He also said Howard really held the deck and had Aces other times that weren't shown.

Also, Gus would have called Daniel with the A8 if Daniel hadn't let him see one card. Gus correctly deduced that Daniel would never let him turn over a card that paired that board, so that both cards had to be the same or Daniel would have to be bluffing. Gus make a great on-the-spot decision that Daniel wasn't bluffing.

In all fairness to Daniel, even though it probably cost him the pot, he was going out of his way to show that showing one card made the broadcast more interesting.

Barry