According to the 2006 World Series of Poker champ, Jamie Gold, he wants to be celebrated as the all time best bluffer in the game of poker. But if his last poker tournament is any indication, his wish may not come true ever.

The site is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Las Vegas Bellagio Hotel and Casino in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is hanging on in the tournament for dear life. The seat 4 player has just raised his bet to $300, a pretty small increase with only one player taking the bait. “I put him as being weak,” Jamie said, “I was thinking about raising, but instead I just called with a 10-3 of hearts to see what would happen.”

Jamie was thinking that Brad Booth would make a move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold was thinking that Booth had a passable hand, but he was in a good position to make a move taking into account the quantity of dead money in the pot. Dicken folded, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

Now there was over $4000 in the pot, so Jamie went ahead and made it another $4000. His thought was, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no way they would make that call. Jamie’s plan was to make a huge move on the flop, as long as no ace came up. The second part of his plan was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

On the flop there was an ace of ace-6-5, two clubs. The player in seat 4 checked and Jamie bet $2000. Jamie’s primary thought was to make him think that he had clubs. Seat 4 threw out a $10,000 chip, but didn’t say anything thus converting his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 definitely had an ace, but you have to defend it in case he hits his set on the upcoming card.

A 2 of hearts was dealt on the turn, and Jamie went ahead and folded to what he was thinking was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 showed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 outplayed Gold by bluffing with a superb hand, he created a great poker play and took the bluff all the way to the end of the Texas Holdem’ tournament.

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