More evidence (as if any were needed)

I haven't been watching the World Poker Tour this season. I'm feeling like I've been neglectful, so today I started with episode 1, the Bellagio Cup. Just a few hands in, I spotted this horrendous incident.



As Vince Van Patten calls the action, "Gabriel Thaler looking down at a four-deuce, won't play that mess." Thaler folds.

That mess? THAT MESS???

And these are your supposed expert commentators? They seem not to know that Deuce-Four can take down pocket kings in its sleep.

Never mind the ensuing action. Just look at the final board and what won:



Thaler's Deuce-Four for the straight was way good. Even better, there was no betting on the flop, so he would have made the nuts on the turn for free. But this allegedly great player threw it away. And the commentators apparently didn't even notice that he folded what would have been the winner. If they were more attentive, they might have said something like, "You know, Thaler's hand would have taken that pot, and nobody would have ever suspected what a monster he was holding until it was too late."

But no.

*sigh*

It's so hard to convince people to change their already-made-up minds, no matter how much evidence you put in front of them.