The Importance of Paying attention at the table !

As told by T.J.Cloutier… Once T.J. was playing Pot-Limit Hold’em down in Shreveport. They’d been playing for quite a few hours and there was a lot of money on the table. T.J. had a good hand and caught the stone nuts on the turn. So he bet $2,000 from his $5,000 left. One of his opponents was Wayne Edmunds. That guy had a habit of putting his head down after he called a bet, paying no interest to what was going on at the table. As T.J. was making his bet, the dealer grabbed his cards and threw them in the muck. Edmunds continued sitting with his head down and of course didn’t see it. So Cloutier just put his hands on the table as if he was protecting his cards. There came the River and T.J. bet his last $3,000. Wayne thought for a second and folded. “Everybody at the table except Wayne saw what had happened, but nobody said a thing,” says T.J. Well, we know that good players can sometimes win with a bad hand. But genius ones are able to do it even without any hand.