What do you do, & why?

[MC]

[ x ] feels stupid
[ x ] has realised he flat called
[ x ] wishes Tikay would tell us hero's reasoning
[  ] needed an empty box for effect

[Laxie]

Flat calling also tells the rest of the table you have a damn good hand here and they'd better have a monster if they want to tangle.

[mondatoo]

Level?

Could just be the greatest lol

[tikay]

My apologies Tony, I thought because of the only one person has it comment, we must be passing. I'm much happier if we're calling. I can't really think of an additional reason beyond the fact that this is the only way we get chips out of the players still to act if they have worse hands, if they are ahead of us the chips are going in anyway.

Well done, correct, we are smoothing.

But not, even remotely, for the reasons you suggest.

[tikay]

Does he flat in the hope of encouraging a push from one of the other stacks that he has covered?

No, wrong reason.

But he DID get a push, from behind, from the guy with 295k.

[Bongo]

To pass if someone shoves? 

[tikay]

Level?

Nope.

[Jon MW]

Is he a mime artist?

[tikay]

Flat calling also tells the rest of the table you have a damn good hand here and they'd better have a monster if they want to tangle.

Someone DID decide to "tangle"......

[DaveShoelace]

Did he flat because he, for some strange reason based on reads on his table, actually wanted the short stack to double or triple up if someone squeezed behind him?

[tikay]

To pass if someone shoves? 

No, that was NOT really why he smoothed. Expand upon it, please. For example, WHY would he Raise to Isolate, given all the facts you have?

[Hairydude]

did he flat call to encourage more players into the hand- given that he wants to go on and win the whole tourney- i.e top heavy structure. he's hoping for a reshove in essence as JJ 5 handed is a super strong hand and with a virtual treble though puts him on course to get there by knocking out not one but 2 players?

[tikay]

Did he flat because he, for some strange reason based on reads on his table, actually wanted the short stack to double or triple up if someone squeezed behind him?

No Barry, it has nothing to do with reads", "tells", or chip stack/prize pool dynamics. Nothing at all.

It is, to the player involved, a standard play in this spot, because, he reasons that, at this stage of a Main Event Final........

[DaveShoelace]

Did he call because the guy to his immediate left was telling a long joke he had already heard, but he did not have the heart to tell him he had heard it and it wasn't that funny anyway, so instead he called the bet in the hopes that it would give this jabber mouth a decision to make and thus, distract him from telling the joke?

[MC]

Did he call because the guy to his immediate left was telling a long joke he had already heard, but he did not have the heart to tell him he had heard it and it wasn't that funny anyway, so instead he called the bet in the hopes that it would give this jabber mouth a decision to make and thus, distract him from telling the joke?

lol...