Spooky!?!?!
Rich, You must comment... your recollection of last Sunday is probably better than mine!
Steve Main... Kevin Saul... come to think of it I"ve never seen them both in the same room together?
Holy hero call batman!!! Is it possible we"ve been underestimating stevie v.03 all this time? Can it be that rather than playing poker like the off-spring of a glamour model and a village idiot he was actually just playing on a level beyond our own abilities?
Suddenly it all makes sense.
Let"s look at the evidence:
With the blinds at 100/200 Stevie v.03 makes it 600 to go from the small blind after Tim Tim Nice But Dim had limped from middle position.
Big Blind folds, Tim TNBD makes the call.
On a flop of 9-9-5 Stevie v.03 bets 1,200 which Tim TNBD calls quickly.
The Turn brings the Jack of clubs putting two clubs on the board
Both players check
River card is the Ten of hearts
Stevie check, T TNBD makes it 1,200
Stevie tanks for a couple of minutes as this is for his tournament life, decides he wants to go and watch the darts anyway (this game was played last Sunday night) and calls showing 2-2.
T TNBD says nice call and mucks (he actually had 6-7 off-suit)
This only difference between this hand and the hand in the OP, is Stevie v.03"s justification for making the call. I think his exact words were; "Well, I did want to go and watch the darts and I thought I was winning anyway with two pair."
Stevie wasn"t and has never been able to grasp that the pair of nines on the board was also available for Tim too and that had Tim had a pair higher than 2"s he would have been losing. Stevie just sees that he has "two pair" and will bet his kidneys with it.
We went to great lengths to try and explain that when the board pairs, the bottom rung of the poker ladder becomes 1 pair rather than just a high card with no pair and he said he understood, but in fairness we still don"t feel like he did. He was watching the darts soon after.
