One of 4 things happened:
1) I misread my hand and thought I had QJ.
2) Noel whispered "I have them" in my ear at the start and told me to fold post-flop so I'd look like a hero.
3) I'm absolutely terrible at poker and got scared on such a big final table and suffered from brain freeze and panicked and folded and was just lucky he had me beat.
4) I used a combination of history, table dynamics, logic and various reads to decipher that I couldn't possibly ever be ahead and decided to check/fold.
I'm gonna go for #1.
DD.
Sick misread
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