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www.CardPlayer.com Vol. 34/No. 6 March 10, 2021 Q&A: Mark Newhouse Reflects On The Highs And Lows Of His Career Online Poker Officially Launches In Michigan Stud Eight-Or-Better: Adjusting To Exposed Cards JONATHAN LITTLE BUILDS ON LUCRATIVE POKER CAREER WITH SUCCESSFUL COACHING BUSINESS GET FREE TRAINING COURSE AT /CP25 PLAYER_35_5B_Cover.indd 1 2/18/21 10:23 AM PLAYER_05_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 2 2/2/21 10:24 AM PLAYER_05_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 3 2/2/21 10:24 AM Masthead - Card Player Vol. 34/No. 6 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 2/18/21 10:23 AM PLAYER_05_AmericasCardroom_FP.indd 3 2/2/21 10:23 AM Table of Contents - Card Player Vol. 34/No. 6 24 16 20 Features Strategies, Analysis Also In this Issue 24 & Commentary 4 Jonathan Little Builds On Lucrative 28 About Us Poker Career With Successful Coaching How To Feel Good About Losing 36 Business With Top Set Tournament Schedules By Steve Schult By Jonathan Little 38 29 Poker Leaderboards The Inside Straight Seven Card Stud Eight-or-Better: 8 Adjusting To Exposed Cards By Kevin Haney Poker News Recap Tournament 12 31 Hand Matchups The Kid In The Home Game Player Of The Year Update 31 By Nathan Gamble By Erik Fast Andrei Kriazhev vs. Charles Chattha 16 32 33 Behavior At The Table: Personal Hygiene Mark Newhouse Sounds Off On The By Greg Raymer Rayan Chamas vs. Dan Shak Back-To-Back Scores He’d Rather Not 34 Think About 34 By Julio Rodriguez Cory Nordstrand’s Passion For Poker Rayan Chamas vs. Charles Chattha By Linda Johnson vs. Dan Shak 20 35 Head Games: Cash Game Preflop Hand Ranges And Post-Flop Decisions Rayan Chamas vs. Jack Hardcastle By Craig Tapscott 6 CARDPLAYER.COM VOLUME 34 / ISSUE 6 006_TOC.indd 6 2/18/21 10:15 AM PLAYER_06_bestbet_FP.indd 3 2/16/21 1:48 PM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT the INSIDE STRAIGHT News, Reviews, and Interviews From Around the Poker World 2003 WSOP CHAMPION CHRIS MONEYMAKER SIGNS DEAL WITH AMERICAS CARDROOM By Steve Schult to Moneymaker’s previous sponsor, which is only operational in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. is gives Moneymaker the fl exibility to play online poker from the comfort of his Mississippi home. Aside from his main event vic- tory, which put him on the map, Moneymaker has earned an additional $1.4 million on the felt, bringing his total career tournament earnings to $3.9 million. Moneymaker scored a sponsorship deal with PokerStars after he qualifi ed for the 2003 WSOP main event on the site in an $86 satellite. He parlayed hris Moneymaker and Poker Hall of Famer said that he was that into a main event victory, a $2.5 PokerStars parted ways likely going to “play a little less poker million score, and a lucrative sponsor- at the end of 2020, end- in the immediate future and explore ship with the site. ing a 17-year relationship other endeavors.” After a fl urry of other signings, Cbetween the 2003 World Series of e search for another gig didn’t PokerStars has since steadily dropped Poker main event champion and one of last long, as he signed with the second most of their sponsored pros, includ- the world’s largest poker sites. poker site of his career just over a ing fellow Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Moneymaker wasn’t a free agent month after parting with the fi rst. In Negreanu in 2019. for long, however. Less than fi ve a press release, Moneymaker said that With Moneymaker’s signing, weeks after splitting with PokerStars, he wasn’t qualifi ed to do much else both Negreanu and Moneymaker Moneymaker found a new sponsor. besides play poker. have found new sponsorship homes Americas Cardroom announced in “I’m 45 years old. I’ve got three kids. as Negreanu signed a deal with early February that they had signed I can’t not work,” said Moneymaker in GGPoker just fi ve months after his the former Tennessee accountant to be a statement. “But I’m not qualifi ed for departure from PokerStars. a team pro for the site. e American- anything anymore. I couldn’t do your Moneymaker joins a roster that is facing online site called it the “big- taxes as good as H&R Block could do full of poker’s newer faces, including gest online poker news of 2021” in a them. My only qualifi cation in life is, vloggers Jeff “Boski” Sluzinski and Twitter post announcing the signing. ‘Do you want fries with that?’” Ryan DePaulo, as well as streamers In a video response to his split with Americas Cardroom is available to Jon Pardy, Drew Gonzalez, and Ebony PokerStars at the end of 2020, the poker players in 43 states, compared Kenney. 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 6 008_News.indd 8 2/18/21 10:16 AM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT Online Poker Launches In Michigan By Steve Schult Online poker launched in Michigan on Friday, Jan. 29 after state regulators approved a gaming license for the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians. e tribe, which runs Odawa Casino in Petoskey, partnered with PokerStars to operate online poker in the state. With the Michigan Gaming Control Board officially granting an online license, PokerStars opened its Michigan platform at 11 a.m., according to a report from e Detroit News. Along with the tribe, the board awarded licenses to Detroit’s Greektown Casino, which partnered with Penn Gaming’s Barstool Sportsbook & Casino to offer online for online operators to join shared player pools, it opens gambling, as well as Fox Bet, PokerStars’ sports betting a very real possibility for Stars to combine its player pools platform, which also launched with the license given to the in all three states. at law has not gone into effect yet, Odawa Indians. however, and would also need an agreement from the other Michigan’s online gambling market had launched a states involved before it is launched. week earlier, but the operators who received licenses did Pennsylvania regulators were reportedly awaiting a not have an online poker platform or a partner with one, ruling on the Wire Act before allowing operators from its reserving the initial launch for other online casino games state to join shared player pools. Some media outlets have and sports betting. reported that Michigan regulators are already in talks with PokerStars is the only operator in Michigan so far. the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement and could BetMGM Poker, which has an obvious partnership with see a compact between the states by the end of 2021. the MGM Detroit, could be the second to launch. Just an hour after its rollout, there were no-limit hold’em PokerStars now has operations in New Jersey, Michigan, cash games running at the 1₡-2₡, 25₡-50₡, and 50₡-$1 and Pennsylvania. With the recent ruling on the Wire Act, stakes. Tables were available all the way up to $25-$50. which allowed for most forms of interstate online gam- ere were also several tournaments scheduled for the first bling, and Gov. Whitmer signing a bill that would allow day of operation, with buy-ins ranging from $3 to $30. m Slew Of States File Sports Betting Legislation By Steve Schult n the first few weeks of the tery to oversee the industry.