TP's 2 minutes of fame - 2006 WSOP...

[Talking Poker]

These clips are from the poker documentary, . It's honestly the best poker film I've seen yet, really capturing the excitement (and disappointment) surrounding the WSOP. You can "buy" your very own copy for 1500 points in the .

If you'd like to go back in time and relive the whole experience from my point of view, check out my . It's long, but there is lots of good stuff in there. There is also a thread that has the - that's right, I was THE short stack entering Day 2. Woot.

Anyhoo, here is the entire Chapter 9 from the DVD (there are a few shots of me early, and then my big scene is about 5 minutes into it):


For those who want to skip straight to the big hand, here it is... I raised (to 15k, I believe) preflop from UTG with AK and Fabrice immediately moved all in (for about 100k more) from the SB. We were down to 11 players, and while I had him covered (I had another 150k or so behind), I was in prettyu good shape and his raise represented a lot of my stack. I was all but certain that it was a race situation - After he asked if I had TT, I put him on exactly JJ, as you will see. I then asked him if he'd push in with AQ, since that's the only hand I'd want to see him turn over if I called, and I decided he didn't by his reaction. I opted to fold and not gamble for so much of my stack, really hoping I was right and Fabrice wouldn't show me AK... Sure enough, he had JJ.


In hindsight, I'm still not sure if this is a spot where I should have gone for it or not. I was playing great poker and felt I had an edge over the remaining field, so I chose to wait for a better spot... Meh. No regrets. Well, not about that hand, anyway. Conversely, from later in the tourney still haunts me. Oh, what could have been.........

[Talking Poker]

Now don't everybody all comment at once...

Jerks!

[jimmym]

Great Vid.

It really does capture the moment, the point you work out his hand after telling him you would have thrown 10-10 makes him really uncomfortable.
You get a sight of him sinking back into his chair, I guess he was thinking its all over for him at that stage.
It was great to see you talking to him and reading him so Right.
As for folding I suppose in the circumstances you were spot on, I bet in that position you would be happy to see J-J if you held them against A-K , I think you will find it hard to find anyone who will critise your play under the circumstances and the stage of the tournament.

Seeing you at the live tables you act so calm and knowledgable I cant believe you dont play so many tournaments Live and be out there making a Name and a run at Fame.

Theres so many televised tournaments over here in the UK and they love inviting The US and Canadian players mostly because they do what you did and read the game so well.
But are not afraid to throw away hands.

Again Great Vids.

[Reel Deal]

I love that in the voice over he says, "I must show nothing" but at the table he then says, "two tens?" Not exactly showing nothing. Nice read TP.

[de-coder]

Nice. I'm surprised that he flipped his cards, particularly since you called out his hand. If someone nailed my cards I'd never confirm they were right.

I'm not sure I could lay this down in this spot, although I can't say I disagree with the move either.

[Talking Poker]

He wanted to see my hand. When I said, "I can't call" and started to muck my hand, he said, "I'll show if you show." I REALLY wanted to see his hand, and I had no problem showing the table that I was capable of laying down AKs there, so I obliged.

[Reel Deal]

After you say, "you have two jacks though, right?" what was his reaction? I ask because a few seconds after you kind of shot him a look like, 'don't bull shit me.'