When the family comes to watch you play poker, you might not expect them to get involved, especially on TV. During the 2009 World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational, however, one daughter got excited enough to shout out some advice to her poker pro dad.
In this hand were Scott Clemens and Freddy Deeb, the dad in question. Freddy made a min raise with:
He was probably expecting to take the pot or see a call and a flop, but he had to take stock instead when Scott raised him all in.
Scott was holding:
and had Freddy know that he would have beat him into the pot with a call. However, as Mike Sexton pointed out during the commentary, you just hate to call a move like this and see AJ, AQ or AK.
Freddy, in reaction to the raise, looked over at Scott and asked, “Are you okay?”
“I’m good,” was the reply.
Deeb’s daughter took this moment to shout out the advice; “Be smart, dad!”
Deeb thought and thought, and finally announced that he makes one good lay down a game, and this was it. He folded the hand and shipped the pot over to Scott, who was happy to take it.
