No - just saw the highlight this morning on ESPN. Just looking at the highlight you posted and the one from ESPN today, the guys that lost those hands just had bad luck. If you look at their hands, I don't think their bets were wrong.
I don't like Hesps check raise shove with A10 suited at all, he didn't have to lose that much on the hand and I think most good players would have lost MUCH less. In fact, I probably would have folded the A10 pre flop. I realize that's tight but if you think about it, he's likely behind most early position raisers and IIRC, Blumstein raised under the gun which is typically a tight range of cards for most people to open with; KQ suited is about the only hand I would expect A10 to be ahead of in that situation.
More importantly, he had a huge stack and given his lack of experience, he needed that big stack to scare others and absorb his inevitable errors. He and Blumstein could punish the short stacks mercilessly as long as Hesp avoided the only person who could damage his stack. Unfortuntely he didn't and thats exactly what happened. Kudos to Hesp though, he grinded his short stack to a 4th place finish which is about where I think he would have finished had he preserved his big stack.
Given the litany of errors I saw Hesp make, which he had to have made all throughout the tourney, it makes his run all the more miraculous. He's the poster boy for the phrase "fish on a heater" but I love him!
