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Message: [QUOTE="Jack Daniels, post: 437775, member: 1954"] However, it should be noted, and Norman Chad clarified this in the later episode, that the tournament director notified Lon and Chad that it was in fact okay for the players to make statements like Jamie was doing as long as the hand was only heads up. While telling your opponent what your hand is would normally be considered bad ettiquette and unethical, house rules still win out. Just like in the National Heads Up tournament where the players are allowed to expose their cards to get a read on their opponent. And let's be realistic, Jamie wasn't always telling the truth either. He was lying and bluffing to get people to do things. So the case about telling a guy from his card room in CA may have, in fact, been a ploy to get the guy to call (then feign disappointment afterward to hold that I told you so image for back home). We don't know how Jamie plays back home, and Jamie's statements may have been exactly what this guy needed to hear to make the call. While I agree with a lot of what was said about Jamie, I most agree with MrSnake. This was two hours of TV (minus commercials, so about 85 - 90 minutes of broadcast play time) pushed from the perspective of the producers that are not there to paint a realistic picture. They're there to produce a show that makes ratings. So yes, Jamie got a lot of great starting hands, he flopped a bunch of great hands, and he sucked out some too. But don't let luck diminish the fact that he did play solid poker (from what we were shown). He also pulled off some great bluffs, talked his opponents into calling when they shouldn't have, and played great big stack poker (which is not simple just because you have a lot of chips). He was very lucky, but he is far from being a donk. [/QUOTE]

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