Card Player Poker Tour Returns to Bestbet Jacksonville This Summer the 11-Event Series Will Run June 17-28, Featuring a $2,500 Buy-In Cppt Main Event
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CARD PLAYER POKER TOUR RETURNS TO BESTBET JACKSONVILLE THIS SUMMER THE 11-EVENT SERIES WILL RUN JUNE 17-28, FEATURING A $2,500 BUY-IN CPPT MAIN EVENT PLAYER_34_12_Cover.indd 1 5/11/21 12:09 PM PLAYER_12_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 2 5/11/21 11:46 AM PLAYER_12_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 3 5/11/21 11:46 AM Masthead - Card Player Vol. 34/No. 12 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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Published and printed in the United States. 4 CARDPLAYER.COM FOLLOW US ON TWITTER CardPlayerMedia 004_MastheadB.indd 4 5/11/21 11:43 AM PLAYER_12_AmericasCardroom_FP.indd 3 5/11/21 11:45 AM Table of Contents - Card Player Vol. 34/No. 12 26 15 24 Feature Strategies, Analysis Also In this Issue 26 & Commentary 4 Card Player Poker Tour Returns To 30 About Us bestbet Jacksonville This Summer Do Not Make This Preflop Mistake 36 By Erik Fast By Jonathan Little Tournament Schedules 31 38 The Inside Straight Badugi: Snowing And Snow Defense Poker Leaderboards 8 By Kevin Haney Poker News Recap 33 Tournament 12 Be Careful With Assumptions (Another Player Of The Year Update Lesson Learned From Golf) Hand Matchups By Erik Fast By Greg Raymer 18 15 34 Conor Beresford Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Financial Incentives vs. Mikita Badziakouski Sets Record For Largest Ever World By Gavin Griffin 31 Poker Tour Main Event Field 35 Mikita Badziakouski By Erik Fast One-Way Ticket To Nowhere vs. Conor Beresford 16 By Nathan Gamble 33 Head Games: The Good, The Bad, And The Joao Vieira vs. Michael Addamo Ugly Of The Live Tournament Circuit vs. Wiktor Malinowski By Craig Tapscott 35 20 Joao Vieira vs. Michael Addamo Q&A: Sung Joo Hyun Talks About His Breakout Year On The Tournament Circuit By Erik Fast 24 Poker Stories Podcast: Benny Glaser By Card Player News Team 6 CARDPLAYER.COM VOLUME 34 / ISSUE 12 006_TOC.indd 6 5/13/21 8:56 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 POKER PROS DAN SMITH AND MJ GONZALES KICK OFF $500-$1,000 HEADS-UP MATCH By Steve Schult e last several months have brought Smith won $32,000 during their first poker fans an abundance of high-stakes meeting on May 2 before Gonzales got heads-up battles, and it looks like the the upper hand the following day, book- trend will continue through the summer. ing a $72,000 win. Doug Polk defeated Daniel Negreanu With stakes equivalent to the infa- for seven-figures when their 25,000-hand mous “Rail Heaven” games on Full Tilt match was completed at the start of Poker and skill edges presumably some- February, and Negreanu immediately what slim, the two pros could easily moved on to battle 15-time World Series see swings worth a couple small hous- of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth in es. Gonzales said he was stuck about a series of high-stakes heads-up sit-n- $280,000 in their first session before goes on PokerGO. Meanwhile, poker ultimately ending the day down just legend Phil Galfond defeated Chance $32,000. Kornuth in his latest match of the He tweeted a photo of his starting “Galfond Challenge” in late January. stack before their second session, which Negreanu’s coach and founder of was about $1 million in Aria chips. Hybrid Poker, MJ Gonzales, just started a Several months ago, while his stu- high-stakes match of his own against fel- dent was battling it out on the virtual against nosebleed-stakes Polish online pro low high roller Dan Smith. Smith is cur- felt against Polk, Gonzales hopped on Wiktor Malinowski. He also got action rently fifth on poker’s all-time money list Twitter and was seeking out high-stakes from Isaac Haxton, but the details of that with $37.06 million in career tournament heads-up matches of his own. The only match still need to be worked out. earnings. caveat was that it had to be in a live poker Both players have been featured on e two are playing heads-up $500- setting. the cover of Card Player Magazine in $1,000 no-limit hold’em in Ivey’s Room Aside from his match with Smith, recent issues. Smith made the cover in at Aria Resort & Casino, and through Gonzales booked a $1 million freeze- January, while Gonzales was showcased m two sessions, Gonzales is up $42,000. out at $1,000-$2,000 no-limit hold’em in April. © MJ Gonzales 8 CARDPLAYER.COM VOLUME 34 / ISSUE 12 008_News.indd 8 5/13/21 9:32 AM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT NEW GAMING COMPACT TO BRING SPORTS BETTING, POSSIBLY ONLINE POKER TO FLORIDA By Steve Schult Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Seminole Tribe of compact is passed. Florida have agreed to a new gaming compact that will gener- e Seminole Tribe will also ate at least $2.5 billion for the state government over the next get to expand its live casino five years, bring sports betting to the state, and allow for online offerings as part of the deal. poker further down the road. e compact allows casinos e new agreement will allow the tribe, which owns and in Florida to spread Class III operates the only seven Las Vegas-style casinos in the state, games like craps and roulette. to act as the hub for the state’s sports betting operations. e Previously, the Seminoles were Seminoles will not only be allowed to operate both retail and only allowed to spread house- online sports betting in the Sunshine State, but would also backed card games like black- receive a piece of the revenue generated from licensed pari- jack, and allow for slot machine mutuel facilities that choose to open a sportsbook. gambling. Under the pending agreement, pari-mutuels would operate In return, the pari-mutuel facilities will be officially permit- under a contract with the tribe that would give the Seminoles ted to spread the “designated player” card games it had been 40% of the sports betting revenue generated from those facili- operating for the last several years. ese games were a point of ties. contention during the negotiations of a new gaming compact. Of that 40%, the tribe would give the state 10% and keep A few years ago, the Seminoles threatened to stop mak- the other 30%. It would also pay the state 13.75% on any rev- ing payments to the state over these games. ey argued that enue generated from its own sportsbooks. e Seminole Tribe the previous compact was breached when the state allowed will need to partner with at least three pari-mutuel facilities pari-mutuels to spread those games. e previous agreement, during the first three months of the new sports betting market which was created in 2010, gave exclusivity to the tribe to offer or their payment to the state would be increased by 2%. non-poker card games. In 2016, a federal judge agreed with the For the first five years of what will likely be a 30-year rev- tribe and ruled that it did violate the deal in place at the time. enue sharing agreement, the Seminoles will pay the state $500 e new compact could be the starting point of a massive million annually.