I disagree on this point. Gman quits the game after that call regardless of which cards fall on the river. He was done with that game the moment she tabled her hand. It's written all over his face even before he cards run out. He knew what just happened.
Seriously??? You think he's walking away from a table where a fish donks off $135k calling with J4o (even though she was technically ahead)? No way. If he had chopped or won it all, he's staying right there dreaming of getting into more pots with her. Although I think he's going to be more careful trying to bluff her in the future.
No question Gman is a great player. He has an uncanny sense to know where he is in the hand and (usually) picks great spots to put is opponent to the test. There were two spots in the previous session where he did just that that I think lead to Robbi making the J4o call.
First was against Robbi where she floated on the turn and spiked an A on the river, 3-outer. Gman bets pot on the paired board on the river and she calls light. (time 2:25) Listen to the commentator - he's saying that Gman is excited that she called knowing that she'll chase light and in the long run he'll make bank. Exactly, he's not leaving that table, he's gonna sit there all night and stack her again and again with plays like that.
Second, Gman goes all in for $296k into a pot of $87k with K high against Andy with pocket Ks. Even the announcers are like WTF was his plan on the turn? But then they sing his praises for knowing how to apply max pressure when Andy folds.
* Not saying this is the case as I believe Garrett to be 1000% legit, but you could easily look at that hand with a bias that Garrett cheats and be convinced that he knew Andy's exact hand and how to apply max pressure to win. There are plenty of hands like that were Postle did just that ( after looking into his crotch of course ), where the announcers said very similar things about how great he was. Again, NOT suggesting for a second that Garrett ever cheated, just pointing out how depending on your bias, you can look at a hand completely differently.
So given just these two hands, there was recent context for the J4o hand. Robbie is an inexperienced player who was running a bit lucky chasing ( and hitting against Gman ) and she knows that Garrett will bluff/semi-bluff the turn or bet pot on the river with 3rd pair. I think that is where her comment of "You let me do this to you before" comes from. Still her call, even with the context of the hands above, is completely reckless and no poker player with any good sense would ever make that call. But that is the problem playing against noobs, they don't know odds and when to fold ( even when holding the winner ).
My take on this whole thing is that Robbi is an inexperienced player, having a bit of beginner's luck successfully calling Garret light in the previous session, and knowing he is known to blast off all-in on the river with nothing, and not giving a shit about money, decided to make one of the worse calls in poker history, only to win.
From Garret's point of view, that bet should have worked. It worked against a seasoned, thinking player like Andy with a super strong hand. But now this is the second time Robbi called him light and won, against what some could argue, questionable bets by Garrett. "How is this noob beating me?? She must be cheating cause these plays usually work against everyone else."
It sucks when noobs have more guts and money than sense, and suck out on you multiple times, but it happens. It's not cheating, it's poker.
