Thoughts From The WSOP Final Table

I finished-up watching the final table and had a few comments and thoughts. First off I did listen to the audio broadcast on Sunday on and off most of the day. Like everyone else I think its a crying shame that they only devote two hours of coverage to the final table. This table deserved at least 3-4 hours. They left one segment for heads-up play as it was already edited before heads-up started on Monday. Two hands out of the 100 plus heads-up battle. If you only saw the telecast you would have thought Eastgate was ahead the whole way. What actually happened was that Demidov took the lead early and then gave it back.

One other major, major etiquette thing and just downright bad thing was was when Scott Montgomery was eliminated in 5th place. Dennis Phillips piped up and said that he folded a 6. That's not the issue. The problem was when after the hand he flipped over the muck pile and fished out his 6 to show it. First off never do that shit. Secondly, and most important, he exposed the mucked hands of the two other players that were not in the pot. I would think that Mr. Phillips has played long enough to know better.

I must say that other than that one thing the players acted with the utmost amount of class in front of the cameras. We can give Chino a pass on swearing at the ESPN cameras in his bustout interview (which they didn't air). It was just a horrid question. I think that Peter Eastgate will represent poker very well. Its about time some real class was shown at the table, well played sir! Maybe Hellmuth can learn a lesson or to. Them idiots from Northern Europe can sure play!