A valuable lesson

The names have been changed to protect the innocent...well, I'll just leave them out altogether. The lesson is this: ALWAYS ALLOW THE CARDS TO SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

1 table tourney, with rebuys. Level before rebuys end, this hand comes up.

Player A has 66, and raises pre-flop. Amounts are unnecessary at this point. All fold to BB, who makes the call.

Flop comes: Q-6-4 rainbow.

Player A checks, BB shoves all in for his last 3K or so (again, the details are sketchy, and this is not about making the right or wrong play). Player A makes the call.

Player A has trip 6's, and the BB holds Q-4 for 2 pair.

Turn is a brick (it was beleived to be a 2). The river brings a 4.

Prior to the river, a player not involved in the hand, allegedly says "he needs the case 4, since I folded one). When the 4 spikes on the end, the table erupts, and the pot is pushed to the player in the BB.

The power of suggestion took the hand away from its rightful winner, as even Player A beleived he had been beaten by a 1-outer.

No one is at fault for their actions during the hand. Idle chatter at a table is quite common, and really, at its heart, is harmless. The suggestion that was made, though, was enough to get all eyes trained on the board looking for that single 4 left in the deck, beleiving that was the one card that would in the hand.

Step back, and READ THE BOARD, AND THE CARDS IN PLAY. In the long run, it will prevent you from feeling sick the next day when your buddy explains to you that YOU should have scooped that monster pot, instead of being crippled as the rebuy period was about to end.

Good luck, good cards, and good VISION!
~M