[G-Diddy20]

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well he's a better tournament player than i probably will ever be and i make that call instantly so maybe im the retard...

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No, it's Kirk.

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Say Carlos had AA or KK or AK. He reraises for 1/3 of Kirk's stack, Kirk calls. Carlos puts Kirk squarely on QQ, JJ, TT, 99. The flop comes Q J 9. Carlos is done with the hand on that flop. That's what Kirk is thinking, how the hell did that flop not scare the crap out of Carlos given the preflop action? QQ (or KT) is the only hand that it makes any sense to bet into me there, and he's right, it is. Then he decided, to hell with it, I can't possibly fold this, but I don't think he had a clue what Carlos had, and actually thought there was a real chance that he was way behind.

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This has to be a level.

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LOL @ you. Are you so used to rapid fire instacalls that you see on TV that you can't comprehend that someone may think through a hand that, if they lose, knocks them out of a tournament that they feel pretty good about getting to one or two? A swing of roughly $3.5M? You armchair poker players who see everyone's cards on your screen and know what the best play is all the time are a laugh.

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Thinking through the decision is fine, but it took him like 2 minutes TV time to make the decision, and who knows if maybe longer actual time. I just think that as Mike said "Vince, if he's got 3 queens he's got them", you can't play JJ there and expect to fold on that flop. I mean it's not like their playing 200 BB stacks here. Its the late stages in a tournament with 30 BB or so. You can't escape sets over sets in this particualar dynamic. I may have taken like 5-10 seconds to double check board and then called, and I think any other experienced player would have done the same.

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