She thought she had J3.
She feels men are always trying to run her over & she's dying make big calls.
She was embarrassed she actually had J4 & told nonsensical fibs in an attempt to cover up an innocent mistake.
If she had turned over J3, Garrett would have said 'nice hand'.
If you rewatch the video someone asks her if she has pocket 3s. She says no. He then asks her if she has a 3. She says no again but seems to be flustered and still answering the first question.
She also stresses she has a pure bluff catcher. Every one of us would consider J3 exactly to be a "pure bluff catcher". None of us would consider J4 to be anything remotely close to a "pure bluff catcher".
@MattGlantz
She says she doesn’t have a 3 before she tables her hand and makes no indication of mistake after she tables. There may be a point where she thought she had a 3, but it was well before the calloff. Cheat or no cheat, can we at least finally put this one to rest?
@bgddy49
If you rewatch the video someone asks her if she has pocket 3s. She says no. He then asks her if she has a 3. She says no again but seems to be flustered and still answering the first question.
@MattGlantz
Youve gotta watch some of the hands she played on other stream and threw time chips in on. Check out Doug's video.
If you're still convinced after that then I'll leave you to your opinion.
@MattGlantz
Interesting. I don't know how to make up my mind about what happened, but the only thing I'm off the charts confident on is that she didn't misread her hand as j3 based on all the changing stories and events that occurred.
If you rewatch the video someone asks her if she has pocket 3s. She says no. He then asks her if she has a 3. She says no again but seems to be flustered and still answering the first question.
@MattGlantz
Later throughout the stream she repeatedly refers to the hand as the "Jack 4 hand" a handful of times... can you account for why she refers to her exact hand as "jack 4"?
@MattGlantz
Seems like a leading theory to me. She didn’t realize how serious the situation was so could have still been in “poker” mode where lying is part of the game. Not “defend my credibility” mode, which obv came when pulled off table. If so, what a tragic series of misunderstandings.
@JenShahade
Agree.
Every single poker player has lied about their hands at the table in the beginning of their poker career. Not out of malice, but out of embarrassment. For people to say in this case its some sort of evidence towards cheating is naive imo.
@MattGlantz
makes sense and I agree -- I think you and Daniel had similar takes
the very smart people who think it's cheating more or less say "well I would never do this, unless.." and indeed they wouldn't
they also wouldn't play J4 or J3 in the first place
@MattGlantz
People are saying that she denied she had a 3 when asked about it, but is it a rule in high-stakes poker hands that you're supposed to tell the truth when another player asks you what your hole cards are?
@MattGlantz
Plausible, but giving her this answer gives her an easy out. Yes, emotional people say and do all sorts of nonsensical things under big stress
@MattGlantz
Can we also mention the fact her husband is filthy rich why in the hell would she cheat for money in a industry she’s super passionate about? Also, vibrating chair?! Inches from other players? That’s the device she would chose? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@MattGlantz
There’s some weird stuff like her rechecking her hand and not seeming shocked to realize it’s J4, but I’ve thought all along this is the most likely explanation and she just got completely flustered and embarrassed about it after
@garybasin
@The_Hish
@ikepoker
I still think the most likely scenario is she brain farted under all the pressure (it happens) and just had J3 in her head even after checking and made a hero call with what she thought was bottom pair — and after the fact she’s trying to rationalize her huge blunder