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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6479469, member: 397965"] Bart Hansson has posted a video now, where he explain both his thoughts on the hand in real time and his thoughts now, that he had time to think it over and go through the footage. In short he first thought, cheating was very likely, but now he no longer think so. Instead he think, Robbi is just so new to the game, she did not understand, she was making a long term unprofitable call against Garretts range. The problem with this idea is, that while she is not a great poker player (from what I have seen), she is not that new either. She did for instance play the WSOP main event this year and cashed. However there is another possible explanation, which you already hinted at earlier. When people play on streams, they do it partly for publicity and brand building. So maybe she just wanted the fame, that would come from making a huge hero call against a famous player like Garrett. It would be an expensive way to buy that fame, but this is at least possible. Fame can have long term EV for a poker player, since it allow them to get invited to private high stakes games, that are often much softer than the public ones. Or get invited to other streams. Or maybe she is just a rich attention seeking person. Offering to play naked could point that way. The reason, I think, this is at least a somewhat likely explanation, is a prior hand, where she called Garrett on the turn with a flushdraw drawing dead to his boat, and then tanked on the river with J high, when he overbet. Some like Doug Polk has pointed to this hand as suspicious, but the theory dont add up. If she had information, there is no reason, why she would only have it on the river. In the controversial hand she made her move on the turn. And if you know, you are behind on the turn, then you are obviously also behind on the river, when you failed to improve. Furthermore it does not take a ton of time to beep somebodys vibrator or whatever, so there is no need for the tank. Much more likely she was actually considering to either call or raise the river with her J high, but then decided against it saying "you can have this one". And then when the next situation came up, where she was facing an overbet from Garrett with J high, she decided to go for it for the sake of fame and publicity. What she had not anticipated is, that Garrett and most other pros including those at the table would see her actions as a sign of cheating. And obviously when asked about her play, she could not say "I just wanted to make a wild call on stream for the sake of fame". So instead she ended up making conflicting and inconsistent explanations, which further increased Garretts suspicion. If this is in fact, what happened, the whole situation is rather tragic. And Garrett obviously need to issue a public apology and pay her money back. [/QUOTE]

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