Kuso, There is so much that goes into playing a hand. Your read, your investment and sometimes just your dumb luck.

I am sure he had a read. Maybe the actor looked at his chips every time he had a big hand or maybe he checked raised. There is no telling. Then as the hand got deeper pot odds took over and Ted ended up with just dumb luck.

Don't try to get in someones head on how they play a certian hand but look at how they play many hands.

If Ted had lost then you would have thought he was a tool but the poker god smiled on him and he took it down with his ducks. Even though we want to get our chips in the middle when we have the best of it we can't forget that in the end we are all gamblers at heart.

Anyone can get hot. With a tell in a limit game being a bad player or a good player with a obvious tell doesn't get you in as much trouble as it would in a NL game. I am sure you have seen a player get hot and play just about any 2 cards and suck out time and time again. So that could explain how he got so deep in the field.

Ted knowing he had the best hand with his ducks even at the show down is something that I have seen the great ones do. Doyle talks about playing hands like 56 and expecting them to win. I play the same hand and hope I hit something. When Doyle, Ivey and Daniel N play these types of hands or worst and they play them almost knowing they are going to hit and take down a big pot.

How? What makes them special? It's not playing 10's of 1000's of hands because we have all played that many hands. It's a 6th sense they have something that makes playing the right cards and getting in with the best hand equalizes. I play like Phil Hellmouth. I try to play the best hands and get my money in with the best of it. If it wasn't for luck I would never lose. Blah! If it wasn't for a hole somewhere in my game be it a tell, lack of guts or just not enough skill I would not lose as much. But even the best lose. The thing about them is they only remember the hands they won.

Steering back on course. Ted and Tells! I have picked up tells on players and have been the only player at the table to pick them up. So there is a chance Ted was the only player to see the tell and be able to exploit it. I mean even if you have a tell on someone you have to have something to call it down.