why would he slowroll if ole was essentially going to be eliminated after the hand? yes, he had a few chips left (less than a big blind i think), but its not like he would have been left with a decent stack and would be liable to go on tilt and spew his chips off. obviously a slowroll is extremely effed up in any case, but i could understand it more if ole would have had a stack left and would now be on mega tilt and begin to play wildly. but slowrolling a guy when hes (effectively) all in and heading to the rail after showdown just doesnt make sense to me.
he acted like he had a legitmate decision and even after the hand didnt seem to gloat or anything. but if the guy is playing a $100k SHR then hes clearly not some random fish and would obviously undesrstand that jacks full on that board is the nuts and thus theres no reason for tanking.
so confusing to me. is there bad blood between him and ole? do they play cash games together regularly? what the hell is the point is tanking and slowrolling there? ...or is he just a giant effing nit and actually considered that ole could have queens full or even quad sevens and thus was leaning toward a fold? such a baffling hand. i know ole is a 20 something year old millionaire poker genius, but hes gonna be a sad panda and on mega life tilt for quite awhile after that one.
for those that missed it:
blinds were 12k/24k/3k and sammartino was the button. ole was in the BB and started the hand with 1,868,000 and had sammartino covered by just 26k. folded to sammartino who raised to 55k, sb folded, ole 3bet to 185k, sammartino called. flop comes
Q7J and ole bets 180k. sammartino calls. turn comes
7 and ole bets 382k with sammartino calling again. river is the
4 for a final board of
Q7J74 ...ole tanks for 30 seconds or so and shoves for 1.1 million. sammartino hems and haws, looks super pained, flashes his hand in front of ole's face to get a reaction, tanks more, looks like he wants to jump off a cliff, and finally sighs and plops in a call. ole slams down
AA and clearly thinks he has it won, until sammartino sheepishly turns over....
JJ ....WHAT