High Stakes Poker thread (11/19 - 500K buyin pt 3 - Spoilers on alert)

[shaniac]

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Saying Sammy and Jamie are soft playing each other is dumb. Sammy took almost $200,000 off Jamie in the AA vs. KK hand. Then, Sammy called a huge overbet with QQ which could have busted Jamie. These two guys have been playing some of the biggest pots of the season against each other.

Sammy simply messed up the river in the AA hand.

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Dynasty, perhaps you missed all the times Sammy asks his opponent if they want to split or chop the pot, like in the QQ vs T7 hand after a ton of money went in (the worst is that Gabe condones the idea--"anything on HSP!"). Since when is it legal or normal to take money out of a pot? Wtf is Sammy doing? It's just the grossest display of poker imaginable, and the influence of these Jamie/Sammy antics is becoming increasingly noticeable throughout live poker now and has begun to make this once-simple game quite unpleasant, weird and annoying.

Sammy's whole M.O. seems to be to softplay and do as little actual gambling as possible. I think all he cares about is schmoozing and how cool he looks in front of the camera. And he might look cool, but the way he plays poker is pathetic. And Jamie Gold is the Antichrist of poker etiquette.