Poker After Dark - Gentlemen Battle

  There is much made of aggressive poker players these days, with young fellows thinking that the right way to behave is to push and mock and ridicule. Even some of the older players like to talk smack, as they say, such as Poker Brat Phil Hellmuth. He and a host of other champs were playing in the Battle of the Bracelets week on Poker After Dark.  Chris Ferguson (five bracelets) had already been eliminated, but Layne Flack (five bracelets), Doyle Brunson (ten bracelets) and two players very unlike Phil, Erik Seidel (eight bracelets), and T.J. Cloutier (six bracelets) were still in the game.  These two gentlemen players got tangled in a very interesting hand. Erik raised it up to $1,800 pre flop with: ... and TJ woke up with a monster. He saw: ... in his hand and had to re-raise it, so he made it $3,900 all day. Erik called the difference and it was on to the flop. The flop hit: ... and TJ bet out $6,000. Erik sat and thought, going into the tank, and tried to figure out TJ's hand. He put him on a big ace and knew, with TJ's tight style of play, that a big raise would push him off even top pair. Erik moved all in, TJ called. The turn was: ... and now Erik needed a Jack, nine or eight to win. When: ... hit TJ was about to double up through Erik, who later confided to the director's cut cameras that he made a bad play.