This is completely off topic, but I'm watching the WSOP ME final table right now on PPV and I highly recommend shelling out the 25 bucks if you have the spare money. This is very enjoyable. I would've posted it elsewhere, but this is the only forum I visit regularly and if I enter General, my soul will die.

I went to order it when I got home from work last night but was already shut dut. Bastards. I was really pissed when I checked cardplayer and realized that they weren't doing their live feed this year. Totally missed out on it. Atleast I got to bed early enough to get to the gym this morning though.

i watched from 5 handed to one left. really wasn't worth it at parts. a lot of the play was really really weak post flop.

jamie really deserved it...although having so many chips and weak players (besides cunningham who lost with TT vs golds KJs) post flop, he just bullied bullied bullied, and caught some draws.

there was a ridiculous lay down made 3 handed that you'll all see that just makes me sick. supposedly the guy who made it plays $2k nl, and i'm just in disbelief at that.

- Jordan

what was it...I went to bet at 5 handed.

duder had 78s, 3 way flop, he's 2nd in chips, so if he busts and other guy busts he still gets 2ndp lace money. Gold had a ridiculous lead, so not gambling to get a stack and win at this point is just stupid.

flop came T56 with 2 spades, so he had a fd + oesd and he checked first to act, 3rd in chips with AT bet 1.5m, gold pushed with 34o and it came back to 78s, he cried a bit and FOLDED, AT called, jamie turned the straight, river brought the spade.

regardless of the results though, this hand was played so bad. a lot of the play i saw was just pour from the last 2/3 players...really just never gave themselves a chance to get chips. the 78s is an obvious great chance to gamble in a huge pot when you have a huge draw to get around the 25m mark and give yourself atleast a chance to win the tournament.

he really shoulda lead at that pot and gladly gambled for his stack.

- Jordan

it actually made a column on ESPN:

Posted 6:08 ET: Gold eliminates Binger.

Jamie Gold's rampage continues. Latest victim: Michael Binger, the Stanford physics grad. In a huge hand that had a major what-of at the end, Gold open-limped. Paul Wasicka completed the small blind. Binger raised $1.5 million. Gold called the raise, as did Wasicka. The flop came 6s-10c-5s. Binger made it $3.5 million to go. Gold moved all in for about $64 million. Wasicka thought and thought and thought, and folded. Binger called off the rest of his stack, about $10 million, and turns over Ah-10h for top pair/top kicker. Gold, it turns out, moved in on a draw, holding 3c-4s for a straight draw and backdoor flush draw, needing a seven or a deuce to end it. The turn? A seven, naturally. Gold was so exhilarated that he ran to bathroom and some guy in the hallway was saying Go, Jamie! Go, Jamie!"

Binger was eliminated in third place, good for $4,123,310. But here's the twist to the story:

All that deliberating Wasicka was doing? He had 7-8 of spades. The queen of spades on the river would've completed his flush and tripled him up. What's more, he would've had almost half the chips in play and put Gold in a spot he hasn't seen for a week  near-even. As it was, Wasicka guaranteed himself second-place money, but began heads-up play down about $75 million-$15 million.



Although, one thing that's misleading about this - if Wasicka calls, Binger probably doesn't. With an all-in and a call in front of him, Binger's gotta think that his TPTK isn't much good.

In Wasicka's defense though, he had to be thinking about the $2 million difference between second and third. Taking a hard look at the decision it's clear that it's worth risking that to have a really good shot at getting $6 million more by winning the whole thing. But in the heat of the moment, I don't blame him for thinking, "I could do a lot with the $2 million I'm likely to get just by folding here..."

Wasicka seemed to know what to do, I think it was a serious mistep, as he had played rather well. Guess when 1st has so many chips, you stop playing to win, but instead to cash higher.

I really wasn't that happy with how he played. granted i couldn't see all his cards at all. I saw one sweet bluff he pulled that took a lot of advanced thought to pull..but standard stuff, like cbetting, leading more, he wasn't doing this..and it really hurt.

just my thoughts.

- Jordan

Cunningham played well, but he couldn't get anything going. It's a shame he was outkicked early on with his trips. Also, Paul pulled off a pretty wreckless bluff against Cunningham that I think was just mindless, even though it worked.

I liked the way Jamie played. I thought he proved to be a solid player, although I would've personally picked off every one of his bluffs. He was a tell machine.

Richard Lee was horrible and played horribly and that's all I have to say about him.

Binger got a lot of criticism for his call with A9 early on, but I don't mind it. He put the short stacked button on a steal attempt and though he might catch him with something like A4. Turns out he was wrong, but kudos for going for it.

I refuse to believe that Paul actually had the 78s in that spot. It's virtually impossible for that to be the case.