The Boob Tube

Did I miss this discussion already? About the WSOP Circuit: Lake Tahoe episode where Tommy Reed folded his turned set of 10s? I haven't seen anyone else mention it, though I found a few threads about it on the 2+2 forums.

The action went as such - David "The Dragon" Pham raised preflop with QQ, Reed calls, and another player calls with 67d. Flop comes AJ7 with 2 diamonds and a spade; and it gets checked around. Turn comes the Ten of Spades. Pham checks, Reed checks, and 3rd guy puts out a relatively small bet. Pham calls. Reed takes his time... it looks like he's just trying to figure out how much to raise... but then he folds!!!

The river is a blank, Pham calls another small bet, shows his Queens, and pats himself on the back for making a good call. It shows Reed whispering to Phil Ivey (seated next to him), "I just screwed up... I threw away 3 Tens." Ivey says, "What? You didn't have 3 Tens!" The guy next to Ivey hears him and throws in a comment of disbelief as well.

Did he really think he was beat? Pocket Aces, Jacks, or a KQ... but to fold on the Turn for such a small bet? At least throw out a raise to "see where you're at." Some of the posts on 2+2 say the hand was faked... that ESPN spliced in some footage of the Pocket Tens to make it look good. When a player says he folded something, it's probably only the truth 10% of the time, if that. Heck, when I tell someone I threw away a winner, I'll exaggerate on my kicker a bit. Someone postulated that he probably had a weak Ace, with which he would have won the pot, but that's an easy enough laydown to make. But why would he go and say he had 3 Tens???

I hate to call the guy an idiot... he did make a WSOP final table and score almost $100K. I know I've overplayed sets and busted out early because of it. But seriously, if he really did have the Pocket Tens, wouldn't it have been at least worth a call?

I found more boobs on the tube, and not necessarily the kind you want to look at, when I flipped over to Celebrity Poker Showdown, with Reality TV stars: Bachelor Andrew Firestone, Amazing Race midget Charla, Apprentice Bitch Omarosa, Survivor Jonny Fairplay, and Real World's Trishelle (who was the only one worth looking at, and she was definitely showing some nice boobage). Talk about BAD play... Charla folded the nut straight. Jonny called all the way down with middle pair. Omarosa caught her flush on the river when Andrew hit his set and she thought she lost until it was announced.

At that point, Fairplay was already in the Loser's lounge with Trishelle, berating everyone else's play, even though his was arguably the worst. When Omarosa said she was glad she didn't have to go back to the Lounge with Jonny, he said, "Hey, who made Omarosa the good guy? Oh wait... I did!" That got a good chuckle out of me. But without shots of Trishelle's cleavage every other minute, or Fairplay's constant wisecracks at the table, I really couldn't stand to watch the rest of the episode to even see who won. Besides, there's a lot better bad TV out there to watch.