USPC on ESPN thread

[JoeBlazer55]

does devon miller post on here? whats his screen name?

also, i've seen lionel ritchie lookalike at the trop the past two times i've been there playin 2/5 nl. a few regulars were makin comments about how bad he is.

[Hollywade]

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Karate' Mike Santoro's laying down AK to Jordan's K10 wasnt as bad as his bragging about "this is a professional laydown ladies and gentlmen" as he flipped his cards over

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Does anyone besides me absolutely hate the idea of doing this? It seems to me that the point of showing a "huge laydown" like this is to gain respect from the table or show how good you are. Why do this? I can't imagine why I would want the people I'm playing with to think I'm world class. I would rather show I'm good by stacking people then by making big folds.

Also, when your huge fold turns out to be a huge mistake, you look like a complete tool. This is especially true if you make a speech to go along with folding instead of just shutting your mouth and mucking the cards. In this case, you look like a huge tool on national TV.

"You just gave your hand away. Your set of queens is good." Haha. Nice.

[stephenNUTS]

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does devon miller post on here? whats his screen name?

also, i've seen lionel ritchie lookalike at the trop the past two times i've been there playin 2/5 nl. a few regulars were makin comments about how bad he is.

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His name is Augustine Menendez'.He is an A/C regular,and pretty decent/quiet guy,but is just another "nut peddling" ABC poker player.I think he played 3 hands at the F/T all day,even with a decent stack.The one creative hand they showed on T.V.,was where he "squeezed out of the BB"(i think??) with A9o,as well as one with AA's,and his final KK bustout hand to Jordan.

~stephen

[JoeBlazer55]

Hey Steve, I was at the Trop today and ur boy Augustine sat down at my table. 1/2 nl. Opened for $100 preflop and showed a 6 after everyone folded.

[stephenNUTS]

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Hey Steve, I was at the Trop today and ur boy Augustine sat down at my table. 1/2 nl. Opened for $100 preflop and showed a 6 after everyone folded.

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He was playing 1/2 and opened for 50x the BB to a $100?
I guess the other card was also a six(LOL),but hey, he did win $3 though!!
Pretty scary

~stephen

[quirkasaurus]

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All of this Gold bashing is ridiculous. He completely manipulated Cunningham at the final table with his talk and play, his KJs call of Binger was ballsy, as was the 43 hand he had. Wasicka's fold of the straight/flush draw to get heads up was the biggest wus move of the tournament. For that play his name should be "Wusicka" from now on. All these guys thought they were so much better than Gold(Wusicka commented he could beat him with 1/10th of a stack, they all let their egos get in their way and Gold rolled all of them like school girls.


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i totally agree. once they hit the final 3 tables, jamie
almost NEVER made a bad decision while all the players
sitting around the table kept talking about what a donk
he was.

it's worth pointing out that at one point, Jamie had 31M
and Lee had 21M and was climbing. soon thereafter, Jamie
had the pocket AA vs Cunningham and Lee ( pocket 88, 77
respectively ) and finally Lee donked off the rest of his
stack going all in with JJ after Jamie re-raised him with
QQ.

jamie was the only one on fire -- cunningham played great
until wasicka bluffed him off his 10's ( but who wouldn't
lay those down with that board ?? )

i thought jamie gold was in the zone. especially when he
pushed prahlad off his pocket 7's with his banter. gold
had prahlad's head virtually spinning until he went all
tilt-a-ramic.

ok -- so jamie looked bad with his agreement to give away
half his earnings -- and has played terribly since the ME.

just don't take away credit from what was an awesome
performance at that ME.