Be honest: if they found his body in a Bourbon Street alley two hours after the tournament, wouldn't you think he'd done it to himself? After all, we saw him doing at the table, so how much would it have taken to plant the last real knife? From evil chip maven to pity-wracked shell in what, four hands? No, it would have been ruled as self-inflicted, and VH1 would have run a half-hour tribute to the twenty hours' worth of things he's said on their retrospective shows. Sheesh. See if he comes back for another season. His heart has been broken, not to mention his spine and his brain right down the middle.One quick statement before we get to the players: the Phil-In is getting better. He was even making fun of his own obsession with contestant picking. Two, three more seasons and he may even cross over to full-scale watchable. Maybe professional poker players just have an exceptionally-long loosening-up time...?
Still kind of weird to see them playing with $50,000 in fake chips, though.
Keegan: Had some funny reactions when he had to fold, which was often, so he had a lot of funny reactions. Really, really needed to master the art of slow play. He could have kept stealing the blinds if he'd wanted to using the same tactic, but every time he pulled that trick, it was at a time when he'd just gotten something and should have been surgically extracting chips through the eardrums.
Ida: Oh, thank you, Jason. Thank you for breaking through her poker face. And then I'd like to thank everyone for taking her chips and sending her to the Loser's Lounge, where she was free to be human for the rest of the show. There were times I thought scientists in Las Vegas had completed a poker-playing robot, dressed it as a single mother, and sent it on a trial run. Once she started laughing, she was a lot easier to have fun with. Of course, once she started laughing, she was pretty much already gone...
Michael: Karma waits for no chip bully. It also does horrible things to people who got through based on miracle draws at their preliminary table. Wasn't that beautiful to watch? Didn't that hurt lots, but in that really nice way that says 'I'm just an empathy pain for someone who has none: never mind me...' Weren't you half-expecting him to grab a bottle off an audience battle, break it in half, and stab himself in the neck? See what you get when you wear a suit to a poker game? That'll teach him!
Robin: Or maybe this was the wind-up clockwork continuation bet machine. Got a good line in about the peak of her acting career, but otherwise seemed too intent on creating a poker career, and that's really Ida's job to go after. Relax, willya?
Jason: I've been thinking it over carefully, and I've come up with the only explanation that works.
They let him bring his CB lucky vest.
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