He’s not coaching this year after spending last season as a senior defensive analyst with the NFL’s New York Giants.Īn NCAA notice of allegations issued to Tennessee last month accuses Pruitt of having a direct hand in a scheme that funneled $60,000 in impermissible benefits to recruits or their families or rostered athletes. Tennessee fired Pruitt for cause, while the program was under NCAA investigation, in January 2021 after a 3-7 season. Pruitt’s Tennessee teams never finished in the Top 25, but his top-25 finish in his WSOP Circuit debut was no fluke, Pearlman said, and he should be taken seriously if tries his luck at another event. He did not reach the nine-player final table. Still, Pruitt was among 27 players advancing to Day 2. The hand's outcome made Pearlman the table's chip leader and dented Pruitt’s stack. I thought he played good poker, but that hand, I stuck with my read, and my read was correct.” He was a tough opponent,” said Pearlman, who placed eighth. The players revealed their cards to show Pearlman’s winning hand. “A very smart play on his part,” Pearlman said. So, Pearlman checked, hoping to lure a big-bet bluff from Pruitt that Pearlman would call, increasing the pot. Pearlman believed he held the winning hand, but a bet could cause Pruitt to fold. Pruitt needed an Ace or a King on the river, the final community card. Pearlman stuck to his read of Pruitt having Ace-King, placing Pearlman in the lead. “I think once I checked (after the flop and the turn), he sensed weakness,” Pearlman said, “and he hoped that if I had a (small) pocket pair, that by making a 100,000 chip bet, that I would (fold).” Pearlman checked, and Pruitt bet 100,000 hoping to claim the pot. Each checked, meaning neither placed a bet.
The flop of 9-9-5 helped neither Pearlman nor Pruitt. “… Once he reached for calling chips and then changed his mind and reached for more chips to raise, that was suspicious to me.” “If I thought he had a better hand than 10s, I would have folded,” Pearlman said. Pearlman knew that if his read was correct, odds favored him to win the hand. That left Pearlman as the only other player left in the hand. The player who had raised to 23,000 folded. “He reaches for chips to call and then changes his mind and raises to 103,000,” Pearlman told me, while consulting his notes of the hand. Pearlman, who was the small blind, called the raise, and the betting circled back to Pruitt. Seated to the left of the big blind, Pruitt had the first move after the deal. How Jeremy Pruitt played Ace-KingĪbout 20 minutes past midnight on Friday morning, the blinds were 8,000/4,000, and Pruitt was dealt an Ace-King, a hand known as "Big Slick."įive community cards would come – three on the flop, one on the turn and one on the river. He seemed like a good guy.”Īnd he conducted himself with class, even after losing a big hand. “He wasn’t super talkative, but he was very friendly, pretty courteous. “He had a pretty relaxed demeanor,” McEwen said. OPINION: John Calipari-Mark Stoops spat makes me wonder if Tennessee is a basketball school | Toppmeyer TOPPMEYER: Tennessee football hopes NCAA is merciful. Pruitt kept to himself and let his chips do the talking.ĬOMMENTARY: 'Gumpfellas' could bring Tennessee football cheating scandal to cinema McEwen, a Tennessee Titans fan who doesn’t closely follow college football, learned from a friend during a break that Pruitt was playing, but the table talk didn’t trend toward football. A couple of players who ran deep in the tournament told me they didn’t know who Pruitt was, and they were unaware he played in the event until I contacted them. Pruitt’s participation didn’t cause a stir.
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All Pruitt needed was the $1,100 buy-in, plus a players rewards card. A useful mantra in poker, too.Įntering his first WSOP Circuit event was easy enough. He particularly liked the maxim stating: If at first the game – or the breaks – go against you, don’t let up … put on more steam. Robert Neyland’s maxims that form the Tennessee football canon. But I never bought the bumpkin persona Pruitt sometimes displayed as UT's coach, and I'm not surprised he managed his cards better than he developed quarterbacks. When he exited, the guru had become “Gump” or “Cornbread” in the lexicon of some Vols fans. Pruitt arrived at Tennessee as a defensive guru. Relaxed, friendly demeanor at the poker table with aggressive bets
Pruitt had Ace-King off the deal but didn’t catch a pair. His chip count took a hit about a half-hour before stopping time on Day 1, when Pearlman bested Pruitt with pocket 10s to win a big pot. Pruitt finished the two-day, 415-entry event in 23rd place for $2,964 in prize money.
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