595:"I never watched the hand originally. After watching the full in-edited hand, really don't see how this is angling ever. Crazy this was a thing. Obviously a shitty spot, and people should always keep big chips out - but fwiw this happens regularly in cash games for various reasons and it usually isn't angling. Many people instinctively keep their big chips somewhere safe - which often isn't clearly visible to the entire table. You should always ask someone for a count before moving them all-in if you're not 100% sure more or less how much they have. Lesson learned the hard way for this guy"
227:. Poker etiquette and rules in casinos require that larger denomination chips have to be in plain view. This influenced Torelli's isolated opponent in the hand, Daniel Wolf, who ended up losing $ 10,000 more than he believed was at stake. Following the hand, Torelli stated that he used his opponent's surprise at the discovery of the high-value chips as a "read" to determine that his opponent's hand was mediocre. Later, Torelli posted a video on YouTube faulting his opponent for not knowing his chip stack size. A year after the hand took place, professional poker player
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614:"Most people I speak to about it don't think @AlecTorelli intentionally hid his chips in the infamous hand. Looking at the footage, it's not even close whether it was intentional. The amount of hate from the hand is wildly disproportionate and stupid"
576:"Still boggles my mind that somehow people have been tricked and convinced that Alec Torelli was shooting an angle trying to play a massive pot with ACE QUEEN. Truly shameful to pin him as an angle shooter for that silliness. Absurd"
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released a video questioning the ethics of the hand, provoking a backlash on social media. Torelli responded on his YouTube channel and in an interview on the “Nick
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