This weeks airingof the main event on ESPN took the field from 27 to 18, only 2 tables with 9 more to be eliminated to get to the final table. It looks like the final table will not be live on pay per view. I missedseeing when it was and wish I could this year.
Last nights airing showed how misplaced bravado can cost you. There has always been this feeling below the surface that you aren't a man or you give something away if you double check your cards through the hand. Phil Ivey gave up a 2+ nillion chip pot because of this. He had pocket 8's, one of them a spade. 4 spades wound up hitting the board, the ace on the river. It was checked down which made the other guy show first, A-9, neither a spade. Ivey mucked what would have been a winning flush.
If you have a stone face like Ivey, double checking your cards won't hurt you. I would venture to say it never does. Your reaction to the cards as they come is a bigger tell because people read the board for pairs first.
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