Join Date: Aug 2011
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This hand actually just came up, none of us were familiar with the game in question, but a bunch of people were claiming that Arieh played like a donkey simply based on his "wow I did it" reaction and apology.
Those other half claim he was playing more or less standard and the apology was more about getting incredibly lucky to get the stone cold nuts in the event Yockey did indeed have a legit hand and wasn't just hoping Arieh would pair up on draw a K. They think were that it's reasonable for Arieh to believe he could have been patting something like 9 high once you account for stack sizes and fact it's 4 handed.
Sorry to hijack the thread but thought it better to post here than create a new one.
Can someone who knows this game well weigh in on this if his play was standard or not?