Sat next to PA for several hours in WPT Barcelona and we chatted for a bit then I watched him induce+soul read old nit. Here's an excerpt from The Around the World in 90 Days Blog:

"With 15 minutes left in the 400/800 level the table takes a turn for the worse. The vacant chair in position two has a seat card thrown down in front of it, and I look up to see its new occupant, Patrik Antonious. At least I have position. He is wearing a T-shirt instead of his normal partially unbuttoned dark shirt.

A couple hands after Patrik sits down a player open limps in MP1. It folds to me on the button with A-Ko and I raise it to 3,200. It folds back to him and he shoves for about 11K total. I call and flop an Ace to beat his 7-7. Wow, I just won a flip.

The table is pretty quiet and many of the players don’t seem to speak English. I like having someone to chat with, so I decide to see if Patrik is up for it.

“Hey Patrik, did you play the Tilt 25K heads up thing yesterday?”

“Ah yes.”

“How’d you go?”

“I got into the top 8. I played really bad though. I can’t believe I got through the first three though, I was playing so bad. I’m still mad at myself about it.”

“Damn. Who’d you play in the last round?”

“Andy Bloch. I played this one guy, he was so bad, calling raises with stuff like J-5o and Q-5o out of the big blind, and was just crushing for a while. I played Aeron73 first, he played really well, he was the toughest. I was lucky to get past him.”

“Cool man. Yeah. I wonder if they’ll have that tournament again.”

“I hope so, it was good value. They should have it every week.”

“Heh, Stars tried that with 10K buy-in. Didn’t go so well. Probably every time the FTOPS comes around.”

“I hope so.”

He seems like a pretty cool guy. Patrik has come to the table with about 60,000 and he quickly goes about the business of chipping up and beating up the table. Since I’m two on his right I mostly have the option of getting involved or staying out of his way, and the vast majority of my hands are a very clear decision about one or the other. Overall we play just about zero heads-up pots with each other for quite some time at the table.

While chatting a hand goes down on the other side of the table. One guy goes all-in and the guy on his left who is a 50ish Asian guy calls. The Asian guy looks really familiar. Perhaps I’ve played with him in Melbourne? No, I don’t think so. I can’t figure out, why does he look so familiar (this isn’t a race joke)? Everyone else folds around and the all in player tables his K-Qo. The Asian guy peels over one Ace… then pauses…five seconds go by…then tables another A. What the ****? The A-A holds and the Asian guy starts stacking up his chips. I decide to find out what his problem is. I turn to him and say confrontationally “Hey man, what’s up with the slow roll!?”

He doesn’t respond, or so much as acknowledge me.

“He doesn’t speak English” says the man on my right. “I wish he lost though, I can’t stand that slow-rolling stuff.”

“The **** is his problem?”

Nothing happens with me for a while, but I do witness Patrik play a sick hand with the old Asian guy. Up to this point, the Asian Guy has been a major nit, not open raising much at all, and the only thing I’d really see him do was call one shove with A-A and another with T-T. The hand goes down as follows:

Asian guy: ~55K. Patrik: ~100K. Blinds 600/1,200 with 100 ante.

Pre-flop: Folds to Asian guy on the CO, Asian guy raises to 3,200, two folds, Patrik calls in the BB.

Flop: Js-Td-4d

Patrik thinks it over for a while, then leads 6,000. The old guy thinks briefly then calls.

Turn: 6d

Patrik now thinks for quite a while before making any movement. After much thought, he counts out some chips, then fires in 12,000. The Asian guy goes into the tank for quite some time, counts down his stack, then shoves. Patrik only takes a few seconds before he calls, then tables Qs-Jd. Whoa. The Asian guy tables his cards and shows Ad-Qc. How the **** do you induce old nits into that ****?!

River: Th

“Holy ****, sick call dude” I blurt. Patrik stacks up the massive pot while a crowd gathers to look at the hand."

He was less chatty after I clocked him later on. At the time I thought he tanked for bout 6 minutes. I talked to a guy who was on the table today and he thought it was more like 7-8.

wtf, live poker is so lame.

good story tho.

haha yeah i cant believe i read this whole thing...about as long as it took him to make the decision

Does not compute imo

Good story about your touch with god, how blessed do you feel now?

wtfmate

cool story
thanks for posting

Oops, mistyped the position thing. This is what happens when you throw it all together at 4am after playing all day.

Cool story, link to full blog?

good story

i liked the part with the asians

I wonder what was going through the mind of the Asian guy's head when all the Americans were yelling at him. If you think about it, slowrolling is a big **** you because it's generally accepted as so. So, if you slowroll someone here, they get pissed because it's common knowledge you only do that to someone you hate. At least that's true in America. It might be different in the Asian community where that type of thing might be accepted as it's not coined as a big **** you and more done to create harmless drama. Here the Asian guy makes a move that should be "respected" but instead gets yelled at by a bunch of white Americans. He must have thought he was being hated on because he was Asian and won a pot from an American in a genius fashion that showed Asian superiority. Lol.

I had to reread what OP wrote like 3 times to find the part where PA berated him, before i realised that it was a quote and he was talking about himself......

Ye, I thought Bond was playing 25k HU and PA berated him on the first read. I even looked up the bracket to be sure.

4 times for me. Was about to berate OP for lying in thread title when really it was unintentional false advertising. Nice report though, OP.

yeah terribly misleading title. makes it look like you were fishing for views. YOU GOT ME.

I must read every pa thread :/ could not avoid this one, either, but it was definetely a nice story, although not fanboyish enough

"PA tells me I played so bad"
or
"PA tells me 'You played so bad'"

...would both imply that PA bashed Bond. Instead, the title correctly implies that PA was talking about himself.

LDO

Kos13, it doesnt hurt to make it crystal clear since there are so many people who cant write/read for ****.

FYT imo. if you want to avoid misunderstandings.

Your powers of perception are amazing.

Good story, B+

i also do not think the old asian was trying to be a dick. bond next time you are in macau go play some baccarat. those dudes slowroll every hand. it pissed me off for awhile then i realized thats just how they do it. for the drama, as the other poster said.

good read

thank you

LOL guys. Highstakes guys like Patrik knows not to tap the glass!

Slow rolling is so awesome. Everyone's attention is on you. You are the most important person in the room.

Everyone is just dying to see what your cards are. You hold all the power, and they can all wait until you decide they are ready to know. You are the ring master, the magician, the MC.

You are holding court as the KING and they are all your loyal subjects. Your opponent is like a convicted child rapist and everyone in the court is on the edge of their seats awaiting the deliciously awful sentence you are about to hand down.

The look of desperation on your opponents face as he awaits his fate is like the exquisite pleasure of enjoying a good meal and KNOWING that a cute, big-eyed baby cow had to die horribly so you could have your veal.

It is about the anticipation. Does he have it? Doesn't he? We dont know! We so very, very much want to know! Please show us. Please!?!

It is all about the "show". If you turn over the cards immediately, people will look at them, nod, and then move on with the rest of their lives. But if you slow roll, they will have an experience they will treasure the rest of their lives. They will have a story to tell their grandchildren.

Your name is douchingly fitting

Good read and unintentional misdirection =)