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Message: [QUOTE="DS3, post: 5957771, member: 407846"] No I do not believe it was because he had won enough already - it could have been the opposite, that he knew he had not won enough to lead the amateurs. Remember, all the amateurs faced a table of pros such as Negreanu who would constantly pick on them and try to bully them off pots. The pros played with their own money and thought the $100,000 provided to the amateurs was an easy score- so they were hyper aggressive. The amateurs all had experience and knew better so they nitted it up and stuck with premium hands. With Fishman I think it was simply the case of weighing the odds of AA getting busted and thinking 'this is not yet the time to risk it all' and he was right as the trip 6s hit the board. The other thing to bear in mind is they played 150 hands. So going all-in on the 20th hand (for example) does not make the best sense. Here's the opposite end of that scale. Final table of a European WPT event in Venice (link attached below). One player Rocco Palumbo has aces with three in the pot and he is last to act. The flop is dealt and the first player makes a large raise (bluff) the second player then re-raises (top pair) Rocco reviews the situation (you can literally watch him quickly think it through) then folds. The commentators (Helmuth and Van Patton) are stunned but then they are watching cards up. Then one comments well, he must have thought two pairs or trips. In the next clip the final table has shrunk to two and Palumbo now has the chip lead. He misreads a hand...but...he won the title which the clip does not reveal. The play starts at minute 9.11 [MEDIA=youtube]gaAHrbTlF9I[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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