According to the 2006 WSOP winner, Jamie Gold, he would be happy to be recognized as the greatest bluffer in the poker world. But if his last poker tournament is any indication, his wish may not be granted at all.

The site 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 tiny 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 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 superb position to make a move considering the quantity of dead money in the pot. Dicken ended up folding, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

At this point there was more than $4000 in the pot, so Jamie raised the wager by $4000. His thought was, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no possibility they would make that call. Jamie’s plan was to make a considerable move on the flop, as long as no ace came up. The second part of his strategy was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

Coming 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 first thought was to make him think that he had clubs. Seat 4 tossed 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 following card.

A 2 of hearts was dealt on the turn, and Jamie quickly folded to what he thought was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 showed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 tricked Gold by bluffing with a superb hand, he created a magnificent poker play and kept the bluff going to the end of the poker tournament.

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