Jamie Gold - Putting Things in Perspective

[Blizzardbaum]

I agree with all of this. Also, the issue with the top-top thing wasn't that he was talking about the strength of his hand while his cards were live. As you point out, there was only one other player in the hand and he was already all in. The issue with that hand was that conversation (aired by ESPN) immediately following the guy's bustout strongly or explicitly suggested the two players were colluding and had an arrangement to softplay each other. Gold actually said that he wouldn't have called with his hand if he knew he was AHEAD because they were buddies from LA and he didn't want to send the guy home.