According to the 2006 WSOP bracelet winner, Jamie Gold, he would be happy to be remembered as the top bluffer in the poker world. But if his last tournament is any indication, his wish may not come true any time soon.

The setting is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Sin City Bellagio Hotel 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 raise 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 some kind of move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold had the idea 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 ended up folding, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

Now there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie went ahead and made it another $4000. He was thinking, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no chance they would make that call. Jamie’s strategy was to make a sizeable move on the flop, as long as no ace was dealt. The second part of his strategy was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

Out of 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 tossed out a $10,000 chip, but didn’t say anything thus changing his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 in all likelihood had an ace, but you have to look after it in case he hits his set on the following card.

A 2 of hearts appeared on the turn, and Jamie quickly folded to what he was thinking was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 laid down a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 tricked Gold by bluffing with a superb hand, he made an excellent poker play and continued with the bluff all the way through to the finish.

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