How dare the fast food giant do such a thing!
The inherent humour in the clip was made even more memorable when discussion the video with Martin Harvey during the H.O.R.S.E. tournament in the Joe Hachem Deepstack Series at Crown Casino. Of course it helped that Martin had basically given up on the tournament and was betting dark (before the next card had come out) on multiple streets on some hands.
One particularly memorable hand in the Omaha hi-lo round went as follows:
I raise in easrly position with A235 or something along those lines, Martin re-raises blind, a third player calls, I cap and both players call. Being the short stack, I like the J22 flop, and put the rest of my meagre stack into the pot. Martin obliges and raises, which is called by the third player. The turn brings the remaining 2 and another bet & call. The river brings a T, and again a bet & call. Martin still has yet to look at his hand, when the third player in the hand announces 'I have a straight!' which brings some curious looks ... and as he turns his cards over, he says 'I flopped it', revealing AKQT. Yes, this was the 6th or 7th level of play. Yes, this was a $550 buy-in tournament. Yes, the player still had no idea that he had to use two, and only two of his hole cards and that he in fact had 222AK. Of course the embarassing part was that yes, Martin has been betting every street with 9-high & had been called down, and so the rather sizable side pot was shipped the way of Mr 'I've flopped a straight', while I took the main pot.
Martin unfortunately busted out soon afterwards, while I managed to find one of the few ways to lose the entire pot in Stud hi-lo to Lee Nelson to be eliminated a few levels later ... love this game!
