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From his point of view, he had an open ended straight flush draw, which is a fantastic hand to semi bluff on as it gives you two ways to win. One, your initial bet forces a weak hand to fold (which is what was should have happened here) or two, one of your many outs hits on if you get called by a decent hand.I've only played poker with friends and usually suck pretty bad. Explain to me like I'm a challenged poker player why her calling the all in was so "wrong" but him going all in when he didn't have crap to begin with was the "right" call? Maybe understanding this will make me not such a crappy poker player.
Garrett had an open ended straight flush draw. He could have won the hand with any club, jack, or six. That's 15 outs (he wouldn't know that Robi had one of those). As it turned out, he could also have won with any seven or eight . . . meaning he had 21 total outs.I've only played poker with friends and usually suck pretty bad. Explain to me like I'm a challenged poker player why her calling the all in was so "wrong" but him going all in when he didn't have crap to begin with was the "right" call? Maybe understanding this will make me not such a crappy poker player.
That's what I think happened. She was an amateur player on a big live stream and screwed up. Either by misreading her hand or just making a huge mistake. Had a brain freeze.
It's difficult to claim she misread her hand for a variety of reasons that have already been covered. And we need to stop with the idea that she was in over her head so she called an all-in with jack high. People who get in "over their head' play the exact opposite way. And nobody calls there with jack high. Not your dumb uncle, the local card player who plays any two cards, not the drunkard... nobody. So while we can't prove she cheated, unless she has some crazy Mike Postle (another player who we couldn't prove cheated... but did) god-like ability to read hands, something was up. And we haven't even gotten into the crazy similarities between her style of writing and that of the thief who stole her chips. Seems likely she wrote tweets for him in the aftermath. Lot's of funny business in play.
My take is that the guy who was complaining was the main draw for the stream and could have gotten her blackballed. In the moment she probably felt like an idiot and made a rash decision to give him the money.
They had thousands of hands of Mike Postle and statistically what he did was like hitting the Powerball. Probability showed he cheated in some way. They didn't have the gun he used to do it but the numbers showed he was doing something.
I would too. But Rip Chavez decided to get the girl he was having an affair with into his high stakes game, front her the money, and then...???
While I largely agree with this and lean towards her cheating for the reasons already mentioned in this thread, as it so happens I did see a crazy call in the wild at a low stakes casino game recently. A late middle-aged woman hero called a big bet on the river with an unimproved Q8 that beat almost nothing, but did in fact beat the busted straight straight draw the guy had. She was a strange player in that she had a mix of decent and bizarre plays. It wasn't on the level of call being talked about here, but I can't imagine her beating more than 20% of his range so it was still crazy to witness.
I don't know the specific hand you're talking about, but I'm guessing it didn't involve a large all-in that closed the action. That makes a world of difference.
