Tivo'd the PPT last night and watched Don Barton throw his chipstack away after being the chip leader the majority night . He made some questionable calls, but as the commentaors were stating he opened up his game a little. Then he donked those final two hands, calling a 12k raise (4x's the bb) with
after initially limping in with it against the LAG Toto Leonidas who happened to wake up with a hand (cowboys)
. Then he compounds that error when the flop hits 10/7 spades 3 diamonds, and he goes all in. Bad time for a bluff. Then the next hand he calls Leonidas on the very next hand when Leonidas raises it a little more than 2x's the blind with A/9 unsuited and Barton calls with Q /7 unsuited. Flop hits 7h/As/8h and Barton goes all in again. Leonidas busts him again, and now he's out, but it gets better.
It appears that D. Barton was drunk, which may explain his play that night. Watch him as he gets up and (1:08 mark if u tivo'd it) and walks over to the counter. He's walking on his toes and has to place his hand on the counter top to balance himself. From listening to his speech (slurred) I believe he drank his tournament away. Maybe I'm wrong and he was just tired, but he had to have some reason to play those final hands the way he did.
Now onto Hans Lund, ( or is it John Goodman) first he is a monster, the mitts on him, you can barely see the cards in his hand. Then the acting he did prior to going all in was worth an Acedemy Award, getting a mint out of his shirt before going all in, priceless. As for Hoyt Corkins hitting a set of Jacks against his rockest, it was a tough beat. I believe he (H. Lund) said " beggers" then when the final card hits, he states" give the begger the pot, he's begging for a jack." Then when he shakes his hand, he says to Hoyt, "not very appropriate for a professional." I believe H. Lund thought H. Corkins was pleading for a jack, whn H. Corkins stated " I see a jack" as the dealer is flopping the cards. Either way tough beat, but as they say that's poker.
Finally Steve Brecher, can he handle the pressure of a final table? Now I don't doubt that he may be a better player than I am but I've watched him during the last two PPT's throw his chips away with poor cards. During the last show he went all in with Q/J and he was in the middle of the pack and lost, this time he raises in the small blind with J/9 off suit, H. Corkins puts him all in with A/3 (o/s) and he calls. Now he hadn't played a hand that was televised, but to go all in with that hand was foolish. I know that H. Corkins could have went all in with any hand, but to call with J/9 (suited H) was foolish. He should have went all in in the begining and put the pressure on H. Corkins, instead of calling the all in. JMHO.
10/5/07
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