Bluffing is always risky, especially in poker. In this particular hand we saw how one player was trying to play on his table image, which is fairly common and usually works fairly well. But he was playing with five of the toughest No Limit Holdem players at the time.
It was during season three of NBC's hit poker show, Poker After Dark, with players like Phil Hellmuth, Shawn Sheikhan, Mike Matusow, and Gavin Smith in what they were calling Hecklers' Week. They also had Jean-Robert Bellande, the self-styled bad boy of poker, and only man to actually punch Phil Hellmuth, Sam Grizzle.
In this hand Sam, who had played fairly tight up to this point and ridiculed other players for playing loose, decided it was time to shake things up a little bit and raised it pre-flop to $1,300 while holding:
... Robert called holding fish hooks:
... and it was time for the flop. The flop hit:
... This flop would've missed Robert completely if he wasn't already holding a bigger wired pair. The board was more suited to Sam's hand, but he showed weakness by checking. All Robert had to do is put out a strong bet to win the pot, and he did, putting out $1,000 in cash. To Sam's chagrin, he had no choice but to fold, saying goodbye to the $1,300 he had risked on a bluff.
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