He didn't mention his frequent announcing of his hand while in multi-way pots, which is also cheating.
These things, they're relatively low-level cheating moves, not nearly of the magnitude of swapping in higher-denomination chips (acquired at later stages in other tourneys) or dumping of chips to compadres (some people think that means having members of a team feed a leader, but actually, more intelligently done, it's to balance stacks, because chip values increase as they vary from zero).
But fighting cheating is like fighting fascism: you can never start too early, or do it too much. You don't want to end up with slacker creep, with a slow erosion of the rules.
Watching Gold on TV, he struck me very much, by his language and table-talk and such, as a live one on a truly great rush. I've seen it before, and it's effect on people, and how they can just become alive with confidence and play, not just lucky, but actually good. If, even by luck alone, all your decisions turn out right, it becomes easier to make good decisions, because all your fears evaporate, because...all your decisions turn out right.  |