POKER INFO - PROILE - Greg Raymer

[Soupjonz]

Raymer has really earned my respect over time...but did you see his performance at the PPT at Foxwoods? Man, he made some really bad reads. Maybe he did what he did because it was a freeroll and just wanted to gamble. But I was shocked at the last hand he played (his Q8 vs. QQ). Why he didn't put his opponent on a big pocket pair is a little confusing. If I was in that spot, I probably would have put the guy on AA or KK! You could argue with me on this and say "oh, it's so much easier with the pocket cams to say that." But preflop his opponent made it very apparent he was STRONG. It could be sensed in his preflop limp-raise and his body language. On defense of Greg, when the flop came (Qh Xh Xh) he KNEW his opponent didn't have the flush, and he was right in that respect. However, even with a three flush on the board, it's pretty hard to move somone off when they have AA or KK...or in his opponents case, the set of Queens. Raymer made a ballsy play representing the flush in this situation and it busted him out. Sorry Greg, you could have just avoided that situation all together by NOT PLAYING Q8!