WSOP FINAL TABLE 2007

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so....... I watched pretty much every hand of the final table... Phil Gordon and this other guy were doing the commentary... he's a nice guy.... knows alot about poker. He's a decent player... has a WPT title to his credit (which therefore allowed him to write books) .... he knows allot more then this Norman Chad ninny who does the ESPN productions -- he's never played a hand in his life and is just a Don Rickles wannabe with his bad jokes.

Phil had lots of pro's on doing commentary, etc. Hellmuth, Ferguson, the whole lot... all the "Good Old Boys Club" - the whole bunch who always pick the pro and never have anything positive to say about the amateur players. Always criticizing the play of the amateurs and predicting doom and their undoing. I'm telling you, you could have $74,999,999 chips and Phil Ivey could be sitting there with a $1 white chip, and these self-effacing terds would start saying how you are about to blow it and still pick Phil Ivey to outplay you.

This Yang guy - an amateur with like 2 years of playing experience won it. You should have heard them ripping into him. He's doing this wrong. He's doing that wrong. Oh he's raising too much. Oh he's raising too little. Oh he doesn't know what he's doing. This will come back to haunt him. Yada yada yada. In the meantime, he started with like 6th stack out of 9. Took down like 6 of the first 10 hands with pure aggression while the "pro's" just sat there shell-shocked. Within 45 minutes he had the chip lead. He took down like 11 of the first 20 pots. By the time they were down to 6 players (less then 3 hours in) he had over half the chips in play. You would think they would have something nice to say about him? Nay Nay.

So he wins the thing. Now, here's the kicker. I watched Moneymaker final table online. He was a walking luckbox. Continuously made wrong decisions and got bailed out. Did they hammer him? NOPE. Raymer... did they hammer him and death root him? NOPE (he played well). Hachem? No death rooting there even though he was luckier then a pile of [censored]. Jamie Gold? NOPE.... they let him slide. He was the luckbox extraordinaire. He kept getting his money in with the worst of it and just got hit in the face by the deck for 4 straight days. Every wrong decision paid off.

Now, they get this poor shlump ... fat Chinese guy.... who they have PREDETERMINED is not the type of person that they think will be a good champion (defined as: how much 'sex appeal' can this person have for the next 12 months and how much $$$ bling can this dude put in THEIR pockets?) Once they decide that he ain't the type, all they can do is criticize his play .... NOW HERE'S THE KICKER..... I WATCHED EVERY HAND OF THE FINAL TABLE. FACT OF THE MATTER IS: WHEN HE GOT HIS MONEY IN, HE ALMOST ALWAYS HAD THE BEST HAND. In fact, by the time they got down to 3 people, the other 2 goons who were still there were only there because he had them BOTH all in with the best hand and they sucked out on him.


THEY COULD CRITICIZE HIS STYLE ALL THEY FREAKING WANT... THE LOUTS... here's an example... just one of many.
They were rooting so hard for their pro boy Lee Watkinson. Yang raised preflop, Lee Watkinson pushes all in. After thinking about it for 2 days, Yang calls. He has A9. Lee Watkinson, the good ole boys pick had A4. YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD THEM CARVING THIS GUY A NEW [censored] FOR WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS A "BAD CALL" !! Fact of the matter is, he had the best hand.

he did everything right ... he sensed that the pro's were playing too tight early and didn't want to mix it up... he confused them with unusually large and varied bets....and when he got a big stack, we used it like the sword of Damoclese and intimidated everyone with it -- if it was someone who they liked, they would have been jabbering about what a great job he is doing.

This guy will get NO CREDIT for winning this thing. The "pro's" will now use this guy as a reason why there should be some sort of change to the WSOP final table plot. Maybe a higher buy-in. Exclusion of some people. Or maybe, as I predict, the development of a new event ... a "pro only" event .. or an event for people who have already won bracelets -- all designed to keep this type of person, (WHO DOESN'T FIT THEIR PREDETERMINED PICTURE OF A CHAMPION, whose picture they don't think belongs on the wall with Doyle Buckteeth Brunson), out of it.... MARK MY WORDS.