What A Horrible Final Table!!

afish · #1 10-10-2007, 09:10 AM

How do any of you know how good the final table players were before 2003? The play might have been as bad or worse, but w/o hole card cams, there's no way to know.

pipedreamz · #2 10-10-2007, 09:15 AM

did someone say something to end the praying?

jogsxyz · #3 10-10-2007, 11:53 AM

The strategy of the game has completely changed in the last five years. Now everyone knows the final table is just a SnG. Overplay preflop and you might get lucky. Play small ball and the pros are a huge favorite. All in trumps small ball. Just maybe no limit isn't the best structure for determining the best hold'em player.

FireStorm · #4 10-10-2007, 11:54 AM

Agree that the showing of 1 hand heads up is idiotic.

StuckaRack · #5 10-10-2007, 09:22 PM

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You did'nt miss much. As I recall from the PPV Lam just kept folding to Yangs bets and raises. I dont think there was one significant hand HU other than the last one.

At least they seem to have edited down the time Yang took.
He was very very slow and deliberate, He would stare, cap his cards, take more time then finally act. ESPN seems to have speeded up his play.

IAmJackStraus · #6 10-10-2007, 10:24 PM

There were 2 significent hands. A few hands before Lam doubled up from about 10k to 25k. That was really it.