Jamie Gold Bluff Analysis
I’m not the biggest Jamie Gold fan in the world, but I did enjoy this play from him, reraising a bet from what seemed like a not so strong hand, restealing if you will. Nice to hear him discuss his insight. He is not as big of a donk as I have labeled him, though I would like to see how the WSOP would have gone his year if he hadn’t flopped the nuts every single hand mostly.
Restealing is a powerful move, once again banking on the idea that most hands can not withstand a large reraise, and when it looks like someone is raising simply because others are limping, you couldn’t ask for a better time to pop it.
Ok, fine, Jamie’s not the worst.
“Ok, fine, Jamie’s not the worst.”
HAH, finally!
I win I win
I take it back. I watched his last year’s WSOP tv time again last night. Dude sucks.
But you were still right: a little.
i will be ok with that.
I am not denying that he was catching major cards.
But there are also a lot of hands we didn’t see. So who knows about the WSOP. I wasn’t there.
I am basing it off of what I have observed.
I meant the return year, the year after he won, when he was calling raise and reraises preflop with J 9 off and calling bets down with nothing until he made a pair on the river (the best hand) and then got bluffed out at the only point he had a hand. He couldn’t have played worse for his repeat performance.
The year before, yeah, it was too hard to tell how he was playing because he couldn’t not flop the nuts.
Oh yes he did play horrible that year but I don’t really blame him?
The guy came in and beat the highest field in a WSOP main event ever.
I would think the next year I would be very disinterested. It takes some time before poker players get into their rhythm after winning a big tournament.
But yeah he played like an absolute donkey that year.
As he did when he first started playing on High Stakes Poker. The money wasn’t a big deal to him. You could see it in his play.
And then the real pros started making him the object of their derision.
And all of a sudden you see a glint in his eye and he starts playing decent to pretty damn good.
I think some times it is just motivation that dictates the line of “donkey” or “genius”.
I seem to be the only person who sees the genius aspect of his play. Most people dismiss him as a luck box donkey and forget about him.
I disagree with that mentality.
I am going to make you a Jamie Gold t-shirt