lex-man wrote:If that's true how does he get the woman to preform so well at Poker do you think all that's all a set up?
The card trick is definitely 100% a variation of the 'Out of This World' card trick.
As for the poker game it's really hard to know how she came 2nd as it edited down so much and they don't display the chip counts.
She doubled up early on when she called an all-in with flush and gutshot draws, but the 'pro' had basically the best hand she could have hoped for so it was a bit lucky that her draws were so far ahead. I guess Derren would have taught her about counting how many outs she has and so when she calls the all-in she knows that even if she is behind then there are lots of cards she can hit to win the hand.
We don't see then next two people get knocked out but they were knocked out by the other pros, not the old lady. After her early double up she could afford to play tight and survive a bit longer.
The 2nd hand we see her play is calling an all-in 3-handed with K9s v T7o. We don't know how many chips anyone had so it's hard to know how good of a call it was but when you're 3-handed K9s isn't a bad hand and pros are going to be shoving quite a wide range of hands there.
The 3rd and final hand we see her play is heads up with AQo v 99. Again we can't see how many chips they both have but as it was a SNG that started with 40BB and lasted 90 minutes I assume they were both fairly short and so neither as going to fold that hand. The fact that an ace hit on the flop made it look better for the lady but they could both just as easily gone all-in pre-flop and then the lady would actually be slightly behind.
At the end of the day someone who doesn't know much about poker is very hard to play against. In pretty much every tournament I play there will be someone who is an awful player but they somehow have the most chips. I guess the secret to her doing well in a six person SNG is the combination of the pros thinking she is a donk and trying to bluff her a lot, and Derren secretly teaching her about the game. All of the hand reading stuff is a load of rubbish in this case and pros aren't going to be giving off obvious reads anyway.