One more thing

Squeaky placed 2nd, 2nd and LAST in the three tournaments. Normally, that's a career outing for the mousy one. However, upon closer inspection, his night hinged on one key hand that doomed him to a second place finish in Tournament 1.

Doc was down to his last few chips, about $1,000 and the blinds were gonan eat him up within a few hands. Squeaky was in the pot, when Doc - the last person to act, went all in. Due to Squeaky's call, and the folded blinds, there was $2,000 in the pot, and it would cost Squeaky $500 to call.

For those of you bad at math, and we here at the MPT love all of you, that's $500 to win $2,000 or 4-1 pot odds. Squeaky was the big stack at this time, and had been playing very well. With such a low stack, Doc was probably going to make that move with any moderate hand.

What, you say, are Squeaky's odds? Let's say Doc has AA and Squeaky has 27o. The odds (according to the internet, which we all know is always correct), are about 4.5-1. Given the fact that Doc is going to play a wider range of hands, the odds are almost certainly better than that. Hell, even if Doc had an overpair to Squeaky's under pair, it's still 4-1. So basically, Squeaky gave away his money in that hand. As the chip leader, with the ability to eliminate the competition, he ran screaming into the woods to his doom.

Squeaky, next time, make that play against me too, would you? I need the help.