PATRIK ANTONIUS HALL of FAME NOMINEE TALKS LEGENDARY HIGH-STAKES CAREER “Probably 40 Days Where I Won Or Lost More Than a Million”
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www.CardPlayer.com Vol. 34/No. 14 June 30, 2021 PATRIK ANTONIUS HALL OF FAME NOMINEE TALKS LEGENDARY HIGH-STAKES CAREER “Probably 40 Days Where I Won Or Lost More Than A Million” Twitch Streamer Seven Card Stud Psychological Vanessa Kade Discusses Eight-Or-Better: Warfare: Get Your $1.5 Million Score Starting Hands Head In The Game PLAYER_34_14B_Cover.indd 1 6/10/21 10:41 AM PLAYER_14_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 2 6/7/21 8:30 PM PLAYER_14_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 3 6/7/21 8:30 PM Masthead - Card Player Vol. 34/No. 14 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 6/10/21 11:13 AM PLAYER_13_ACR_FP.indd 3 5/25/21 9:40 AM Table of Contents - Card Player Vol. 34/No. 14 18 24 14 Feature Strategies, Analysis Also In this Issue 18 & Commentary 4 Patrik Antonius: Hall Of Fame Nominee 28 About Us Talks About Legendary High-Stakes Seven Card Stud Eight-or-Better: 36 Career Starting Hands Tournament Schedules By Julio Rodriguez By Kevin Haney 24 38 30 Poker Leaderboards Vanessa Kade Achieved A Dream $1.5 Seven Rules For Becoming Million Tournament Victory A Professional Poker Player By Erik Fast By Evan Jarvis Tournament 31 Hand Matchups The Inside Straight Discipline 29 By Jonathan Little 8 Upeshka De Silva vs. James Carroll Poker News Recap 31 32 Contracts and Poker: 12 Matas Cimbolas vs. Ka Kwan Lau Player Of The Year Update Chips and Cash By Erik Fast By Scott J. Burnham 33 14 33 Balakrishna Patur vs. James Carroll Psychological Warfare: Here. We. Go? 34 Get Your Head In The Game By Gavin Griffin Balakrishna Patur vs. Matas Cimbolas By Craig Tapscott 6 CARDPLAYER.COM VOLUME 34 / ISSUE 14 006_TOC.indd 6 6/10/21 9:40 AM PLAYER_14_bestbet_FP.indd 3 6/7/21 8:19 PM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT the INSIDE STRAIGHT News, Reviews, and Interviews From Around the Poker World NBA LEGEND TONY PARKER BECOMES THE FIRST KNOWN PARTICIPANT IN 2021 WSOP MAIN EVENT By Steve Schult Former NBA superstar Tony Parker pick of the Spurs in 2001 and played a 12-year NBA veteran who spent a is the fi rst player confi rmed to be play- with the organization through the end good chunk of his career in a Warriors ing in the 2021 World Series of Poker of the 2018 season. He played with the uniform. In December 2019, Warriors main event. Charlotte Hornets for the 2018-2019 shooting guard Klay Thompson said According to a report from Yahoo! season before retiring. Parker was an that he got “killed” in team poker Sports, the four-time NBA champion NBA All-Star selection six times and games and that the roster was filled won a charity poker event run by was the NBA Finals MVP in 2007. with card sharks. the PM group in January. By taking While there is no offi cial record NBA Hall of Famer Paul Pierce has down the charity tournament, the of Parker playing poker at any com- been a part of the high-stakes poker former point guard earned a seat in the petitive level, he and then-wife Eva world for quite some time as well. $10,000 buy-in event this fall. Longoria held a charity poker tourna- Pierce held the chip lead on day 2 of “He is very excited to play the main ment during the summer of 2008, and the 2013 WSOP $10,000 pot-limit event for the fi rst time,” said WSOP the NBA is full of poker enthusiasts. Omaha championship and fell just a Director Gregory Chochon. “Because Golden State Warriors minority few spots shy of a cash in the 2014 of his career, he never had the time owner Chamath Palihapitiya is well- main event. He recently lost his job as to participate but he is ready for the known for dipping his toes into high- a basketball analyst for ESPN after he challenge. We always promote poker stakes cash games and is good friends posted raunchy videos on social media as a sport, so Tony’s qualifi cation is with 15-time WSOP bracelet winner from a poker home game. great news!” Phil Hellmuth. Palihapitiya has three e 2021 WSOP will be held Parker played nearly two decades in cashes in WSOP events and was even this fall from Sept. 30 through Nov. the NBA, almost entirely with the San gifted Hellmuth’s 13th bracelet. 23. e main event will run Nov. 4 Antonio Spurs. He was a fi rst-round Hellmuth also coached David Lee, through Nov. 17. 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 14 008_News.indd 8 6/10/21 9:56 AM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT CONNECTICUT LEGALIZES ONLINE POKER AND SPORTS BETTING By Steve Schult Barring interference from the federal government, Since the legislation deals with an existing gaming online poker and sports betting is coming to Connecticut. compact between a tribal entity and a state government, it At the end of May, the Senate passed a bill that would is subject to the approval of the Department of the Interior. allow the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot Tribes to Once approved, Connecticut will become the seventh offer both online gambling, including poker, and sports state to legalize online poker. It joins Nevada, New Jersey, betting, and allow for the Connecticut Lottery to offer Delaware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. sports betting as well. It becomes the third state in New England to legalize e legislation passed through the upper chamber of sports betting, joining Rhode Island and New Hampshire. the legislature by an overwhelming 28-6 vote after a brief Betting on in-state collegiate athletic events, however, will debate on the bill. e vote came less than a week after not be permitted. the House passed the same bill by a 122-21 score. e bill does, however, put a 10-year pause on the Gov. Ned Lamont signed the legislation into law a few progression of the proposed casino in East Windsor, days later. It was Lamont who brought the two tribes, which would be owned by both tribes to compete which own the two Las Vegas-style casinos in the state, with MGM Springfield. Despite the legislation, the two to the negotiating table earlier in the year, agreeing to an tribes had already previously agreed to put the project on online gambling deal in March. hold. e legislation updates the existing gaming compact Online gambling revenue will be taxed at a rate of 18% between the state and the tribes. e tribes will be allowed for the first five years and 20% in the years following. Sports to offer online gambling within the state while adding both betting will have a 13.75% tax on revenue. Early estimates an online and retail sportsbook to its offerings. from the Office of Fiscal Analysis have this legislation gen- In exchange for the online expansion of their casino erating a combined $27.9 million in new tax revenue. business, the lottery will also have the rights to offer both A timeline for the launch of the new market has not online and retail sports betting. been laid out yet. m MASSACHUSETTS CASINOS LIKELY WON’T REOPEN POKER ROOMS UNTIL 2022 By Steve Schult e Massachusetts Gaming Commission voted 4-0 to remove remaining COVID-19-induced restrictions at the end of May.