Posted by Dr Fro 9:46 AM

Phil Helmuth writes about a duece-to-seven game:

After playing all night long, the following hand came up against Freddy Deeb,
who was now playing me heads up. Freddy opened for $3,200 and I looked at
2-3-6-7. At this point, I decided that I would make my move before I looked
at the last card, in order to confuse Freddy's read of me. If my last card
was a 4 or a 5, I would have one of the best possible hands, and I didn't
want to give off too much strength. So, I simply decided to move all in for
the $25,000 I had lying in front of me. Freddy decided to call and it was my
turn to act, so I quickly looked back at the last card, and it was a 9.
Yippee! A pat 9 is a very strong hand in deuce-to-seven. I rapped pat (I
didn't draw a card), and then Freddy studied for a minute before drawing one
card. I knew that I was at least a 2-to-1 favorite over any draw that Freddy
had, so I was feeling pretty good at this point. Freddy asked, "Do you want
to make a save?" This means, let's split some of the money in the pot at the
appropriate odds, but I decided that if he beat this hand, I would take my
$105,000 loss and go get some sleep. Freddy took a long time to look at his
last card, which was 100 percent appropriate. I would have taken a long time
myself to "sweat out" a $50,000 card. Freddy made an 8 to break me, and I
stared in disbelief at his hand before realizing that it was over; I was
done playing. I had lost $105,000! Finally, I thought, "Oh well, there will
be another better day coming soon!" Freddy said, "Phil, you really played
that hand well." I never did tell Freddy that I had raised my last $22,000
in the dark.

Am I missing something? Why would anybody not look at one of their own cards with that much money at stake? These aren't the actions of a professional, they are the actions of a degenerate taking unecessary risks. And he writes about it?

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