Comment Re:Weirder Than That (Score 1) 66
The problem isn't that she made a wrong decision. In poker you make errors in calculation all the time. Yes, her past history of play shows miscalcuations but this mistake was more along the lines of forgetting what math is completely.
It would be like in pro basketball game... It's the 4th quarter and it's tie game with only 20 seconds left. A player steals the ball and runs all the way down the court and dunks the ball while ignoring his entire team and the entire stadium screaming to stop. He just scored on the wrong basket losing the game. Now, you may have watched tons of kids play baseball and seen something like that happen in games but that's not something that happens in pro sports. Yes, players blow games all the times making stupid plays but something like that is just on a whole other level of unlikely.
For people familiar with high level poker that's akin to what they saw. It would simply way way way more likely somebody playing at that high level/stakes would be cheating than to make that level of mistake. To an expert of the game it looks like a six sigma probability event. Sure, never 0 but suspect as all hell.