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Is Joe Mckeehen Poker's Best Modern Wsop Main Event www.CardPlayer.com Vol. 34/No. 11 May 19, 2021 Poker Strategy: Calling Down With Marginal Made Hands ESPN Out, CBS Sports In As New Broadcast Home For WSOP High Stakes Poker: Doyle Brunson vs. Eli Elezra Revisited IS JOE MCKEEHEN POKER’S BEST MODERN WSOP MAIN EVENT CHAMPION? “I’M PLAYING TO MAKE A LIVING, NOT TRYING TO BE FAMOUS,” SAYS 29-YEAR-OLD TOURNAMENT CRUSHER PLAYER_34_11_Cover.indd 1 4/29/21 9:40 AM PLAYER_10_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 2 4/13/21 11:09 AM PLAYER_10_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 3 4/13/21 11:09 AM Masthead - Card Player Vol. 34/No. 11 PUBLISHERS Barry Shulman | Jeff Shulman Editorial Corporate Office EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Julio Rodriguez 6940 O’Bannon Drive TOURNAMENT CONTENT MANAGER Erik Fast Las Vegas, Nevada 89117 ONLINE CONTENT MANAGER Steve Schult (702) 871-1720 Art [email protected] ART DIRECTOR Wendy McIntosh Subscriptions/Renewals 1-866-LVPOKER Website And Internet Services (1-866-587-6537) CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER Jaran Hardman PO Box 434 DATA COORDINATOR Morgan Young Congers, NY 10920-0434 Sales [email protected] ADVERTISING MANAGER Mary Hurbi Advertising Information NATIONAL SALES MANAGER Barbara Rogers [email protected] LAS VEGAS AND COLORADO SALES REPRESENTATIVE (702) 856-2206 Rich Korbin Distribution Information cardplayer Media LLC [email protected] CHAIRMAN AND CEO Barry Shulman PRESIDENT AND COO Jeff Shulman Results GENERAL COUNSEL Allyn Jaffrey Shulman [email protected] VP INTL. 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Calling Down With Marginal Made Hands 36 By Erik Fast By Jonathan Little Tournament Schedules 27 38 The Inside Straight Badugi: Making Moves Poker Leaderboards 8 By Kevin Haney 29 Poker News Recap Tournament 12 Why You Should Never Give Leonardo DiCaprio Access To Your Bankroll Player Of The Year Update Hand Matchups By Houston Curtis By Erik Fast 27 14 31 Pablo Brito vs. Christoph Vogelsang The ‘Probability And Statistics’ Of Bad Head Games: Withstanding The Variance 29 Bankroll Management Of Tournament Poker By Nathan Gamble ‘a_new_hope13’ vs. Teun Mulder By Craig Tapscott 31 18 33 It Pays To Know The Rules ‘a_new_hope13’ vs. Christoph Vogelsang Shifts In Poker Strategy With By Greg Raymer 33 David Paredes: Doyle Brunson ‘a_new_hope13’ vs. Pablo Brito vs. Eli Elezra Revisited 34 By Steve Schult Contracts and Poker: Show Me Yours By Scott J. Burnham McKeehen Cover and TOC photo © WPT David Parede © WPT 6 CARDPLAYER.COM VOLUME 34 / ISSUE 11 006_TOC.indd 6 4/29/21 9:29 AM PLAYER_11_bestbet_FP.indd 3 4/27/21 12:01 PM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT the INSIDE STRAIGHT News, Reviews, and Interviews From Around the Poker World CBS SPORTS ANNOUNCED AS THE NEW TELEVISION HOME OF THE WORLD SERIES OF POKER By Erik Fast e world’s largest poker series will no longer be broad- and richest event in competitive tournament poker featur- cast on ‘the worldwide leader in sports.’ ing the best players in the world,” said Dan Weinberg, CBS e World Series of Poker announced that CBS Sports will Sports Executive Vice President of Programming “This deal be its new television partner for the immediate future. e fits perfectly in our strategy to combine best-in-class events multi-year agreement reached between the network and with our CBS Sports brand.” PokerGO begins with this year’s 2021 WSOP. More information about the broadcast schedule is CBS will replace ESPN as the official television expected after the WSOP’s full schedule is announced. broadcasting partner for the series, bringing an end to 19 The press release did not include any information about consecutive years of the WSOP main event broadcast over how this move to CBS might impact the commentary team the ESPN airwaves. CBS is set to air 15 hours of WSOP main for the WSOP moving forward, however Lon McEachern event coverage and 36 additional hours from 18 different assured fans that the usual duo of himself and Norman gold bracelet events this year. WSOP coverage is also Chad would return. expected to be available on ViacomCBS’s Paramount+ “Regarding the WSOP on CBS Sports, as far as I know, streaming platform. the announcer team is intact,” McEachern wrote on “CBS Sports has long been a pioneer in covering a broad Twitter. range of championship sports,” said WSOP Executive McEachern has been covering the WSOP since 2002, Director Ty Stewart. “We couldn’t be more excited to see when he worked alongside Gabe Kaplan. Chad replaced increased television coverage of the WSOP in the coming Kaplan the following year for Chris Moneymaker’s historic years and benefit from their growing media platforms.” main event win, coverage of which helped to spark the CBS Sports was the first TV network to show poker boom. In 2011, Kara Scott was added as a sideline the WSOP main event, with its CBS Sports Spectacular pro- reporter. gram off ering coverage during the 1970s. It also worked with Chad was sidelined for last year’s broadcast, still PokerGo in recent years, broadcasting some of their exclu- recovering from the effects of contracting coronavirus. sive events such as the Super High Roller Bowl, the Poker He was replaced by Jamie Kerstetter and Jeff Platt. The Masters, and select bracelet events from the 2019 WSOP. four hours of coverage, which aired on Sunday, Feb. 28, “Following our past success with PokerGO, we are focused on the hybrid live and online main event won by excited to expand our relationship with the highest-profi le Argentina’s Damian Salas for a total of $2,550,969. m Sign Up For Card Player’s Free Poker School. Review Hundreds of Articles and Videos On Winning Poker Strategy. www.CardPlayerPokerSchool.com 8 CARDPLAYER.COM VOLUME 34 / ISSUE 11 008_News.indd 8 4/29/21 9:31 AM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT KHLOE KARDASHIAN GETS A POKER LESSON FROM 15-TIME BRACELET WINNER PHIL HELLMUTH By Card Player News Team Poker legend and 15-time World emceed several high-pro- Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil file charity poker events. Hellmuth gave some poker knowledge As recently as 2018, to a pair of Hollywood celebrities Hellmuth hosted the City recently. of Hope charity tourna- e Poker Hall of Famer tweeted ment in Los Angeles. photos of himself with stars of Keeping e $5,000 buy-in fea- Up With e Kardashians, Khloe tured nearly the entire Kardashian and Scott Disick, at a Kardashian family, as poker table with the caption “poker well as Los Angeles Laker lesson.” Kyle Kuzma, fighter Tito Hellmuth is no stranger to playing Ortiz, and actors Kevin Pollak and Hellmuth is fresh off a victory over poker with celebrities. He is playfully David Arquette. He’s also played with Daniel Negreanu in their high-stakes criticized by some of his high-stakes several Silicon Valley CEOs, as well heads-up match on PokerGO’s High peers for his name-dropping habits. as various members of the Golden Stakes Duel. Dating back to his three- In fact, just a few hours after his tweet State Warriors NBA organization. His match sweep of Antonio Esfandiari, featuring some of the Kardashian fam- book Play Poker Like The Pros even Hellmuth is on a four-match winning ily, Hellmuth posted a photo with includes a review from Academy streak in heads-up battles. famous music producer Benny Blanco. Award winner and Rounders star Matt e 56-year-old will have to play In the tweet, Hellmuth said Blanco’s Damon, who said, “Hellmuth gave Negreanu at least twice more with brother plays in his online home game. me the best poker lesson I’ve ever doubled stakes each time before the m © Phil Hellmuth e Wisconsin native has also received.” challenge is complete. NEW LAS VEGAS STRIP CASINO TO OPEN JUNE 24 By Steve Schult A brand-new casino on the Las Vegas Strip will be unveiled this summer as Resorts World Las Vegas has announced that it will officially open its doors to the public on June 24. It is one of the biggest casino projects in the history of the Strip.
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