No joke. I was getting pretty excited there. Thought he might double up.

I missed the preflop action, but I think AC had AJ (the flop was AJ3).

ah it wasnt that bad, if he has a hand like 88 - TT like i think, there wasnt much else he could do besides play it really weak and fold to a turn bet. with his chip stack i'd prob play it the same.

i'm with you and that one... cunningham was my pick once there were around 60 or so left. i jusy feel he has the endurance to take this until 9am if these guys dont want to and begin to get a little jumpy and impatient. and yea he's always had that nervous twitch

You'd check in the dark?

Like Phil said...I'd peg you for a mid-pp hoping to hit hard.

no, not that part- but id prob check raise. he gains so much info by doing that with AC's chip stack there its ridiculous.

Holy crap what a bluff

are they serious with the trip aces for AC?

wow there is no freakin way i put him on a hand anything like that- i thought he was purely making a move.

Wow!

That was one SICK bluff.... nh.

Of course Cunningham didn't have an Ace - he would have instacalled.

he said he had TT with T hearts.

i really coulndt beleive when they said they thought he had Trip aces with a high Heart kicker tho.

Yeah, this whole showing uncalled hands thing is getting rediculous.

Entertaining for us, but geeze.

It's not bad for Cunningham, but it's bad for the others. He'll do more with the information that he gains than they will with the information he gives out.

There is a time and a place to show your hands, and when you are at the Final Table of the WSOP with $12 million up for grabs - with players who are better than you are - that's not the time to be showing your hands, IMO.

Jamie Gold also talks way too much. I actually think he's pretty easy to read. I've been waiting for him to surprise me, but he hasn't yet.

That hand when he raised and AC reraised all in was the only surprise for me... I didn't think he was weak there, and AC obviously did (or else he had a monster and didn't care). Yes, those mid-pair hands make sense... just saying - I thought he was strong.

i just read a hand update there on cardplayer and saw that hand...jesus christ that is one huge gutsy bluff there... with the board pairing and three to the flush... with a raise and a reaise over the top all in.. that is just sick..

Yeah, Gold is talking WAY too much. I wish Cunningham was a little bit stronger right now, because I think an all in would get Gold to fold his hand.

Edit: Damn, he folded. I think he had a pair and a straight draw. Alan had something like J9.... Big laydown.

Looking forward to seeing that on on tv for sure.

i was hoping AC had the 57 nuts and slowrolled the hell out of him.

Jesus. I'm out. Maybe some kind person will put it up for download soon. In segments. I need sleep....

And here's the lovely Jennifer Harmon. :D

i thought she was quite lovely during her earlier years when she had longer hair. i'm not a fan of women with short hair..

whoa jennifer harmon is hot?

wow gold just played that hand basically perfect. time to go to bed.

blinds are 200l/400k cunningham only has around 12 - 13 times the BB....gotta make it happen soon

My father taught me to be nice to the ladies.

You'll understand when you're older. :p

allen is out:(

i want to see jamie gold dethroned! somebody please..

And it's headsup, Jaime and Paul.

And the commentators are starting to lay into Paul's passiveness.

Have to say the honesty thing with Jamie was VERY smart at the end. My guess is that the two big HU pots (last one and the one other one where he was goading for a call) he had it and was using the honesty thing to try to get a call.

Out of the last three Gold deserved it. The other two looked lost where he had total control.

Does the Bodog.net hat mean that PokerStars are going to break their streak of WSOP champions???

i wasnt watching the cast, but from what you guys told me this guy jamie gold was a real annoying piece of work. from what his mother was shouting from the stands and all. nonetheless as lucky as this guy got throughout, he still had to have played some great poker.

i really wanted allen to take it.. but 3.2 mil for being fourth place in anything is outstanding... congrats to all

I wasn't watching either, only read about it through various blogs and the like. For those who watched, is Gold as bad, as lucky, and as much of a jerk as some are saying?

wouldnt have minded seeing mark petrillo take a cool 12 mill... fuck it, have him finished 10th and be a millionaire... then again i dont think he would have minded any sort of cash... hope to see you there again next year TP

Well, the bought Hachem last year (he didn't qualify through Stars), so who's to say they won't buy Gold this year? Depends on what Gold signed with Bodog, if anything.

Likewise.

But 10th would be pretty painful. Bubbling the Final Table of the Main Event..... ugh! Don't get me wrong, I'd still take it, but 9th would be SO MUCH better.

Thanks ESPN
 

Most have been an interesting morning in Bristol or wherever ...

Guy in charge of the web cast:
Wow! We had an unbelievable number of people tune in last night! Our logs show tens of thousands of poker fans were watching for hours world wide at $25 a pop!

Guy in charge of the payment process:
:eek: Uh … uh … uh ....

Awesome!(r)

...until the following year when they sell 10x what they did this year because of the awesome(r) coverage,the *free*-per-view, and word of mouth.

Quint raises a good point - the coverage was excellent! The coverage last night, WITHOUT the hole cams, was far superior to some "polished" coverage of other events in the past. Kudos to ESPN for that!

IMO, they should have aired it free - on ESPN2 or something (or at the VERY least, as a webcast) this year. When people saw how good the live coverage was, I think they'd be much more inclined to pay for it next year.

Had I not seen was I saw last night, I wouldn't have known what I was missing. It was pretty good stuff, I must say. Very well done.

I don't think it's beyond comprehension that ESPN leaked the bug intentionally so that they could evaluate how well it may do in the future for PPV or webcast (while still making some PPV $ from the suckas to cover production costs). I don't think they'd they do it on one of their many 'free' channels as it may cut into their advertising dollars for the normal broadcast.

yes
 

I agree totaly with this and because I saw it for free i will most likley get it next year.

I wouldn't pay $29.95 (in part because of the logistics of watching it ALL FREAKIN NIGHT), but something like $15 would certainly entice me.

well
 

If I had the 2 days off or whatever I would pay the $30, I just really really enjoyed watching it, when I had to go to bed and then work in the morning I was really bummed out. It was fun trying to figure out what they were doing in each hand.

But $15 sounds nicer to me also :)

He basically owned the entire final table. There's really not much that you could say negatively about the way he played throughout the last days of the tournament.

Oh yeah, and I TOLD you you should've taken some of Mike The Mouth's action! :D