According to the 2006 WSOP winner, Jamie Gold, he wants to be known as the best bluffer in the game of poker. But if his last tournament is any clue, his wish may not be granted ever.

The location is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Vegas Bellagio Hotel in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is just barely holding on. The seat 4 player has just raised his wager to $300, a tiny increase with only one player calling his play. “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 thought 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 finally folded, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

At this point 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 chance they would make that call. Jamie’s plan was to make a substantial move on the flop, as long as no ace showed up. The second part of his plan 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 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 most likely had an ace, but you have to look after it in case he hits his set on the upcoming card.

A 2 of hearts came out on the turn, and Jamie decided to fold to what he thought was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 showed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 outplayed Gold by bluffing with a better hand, he forced an impressive poker play and kept the bluff going to the end of the poker tournament.

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