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Brian Altman Joins Elite Club of Three Time Wpt Champions www.CardPlayer.com Vol. 34/No. 19 September 8, 2021 BRIAN ALTMAN JOINS ELITE CLUB OF THREETIME WPT CHAMPIONS Boston Poker Pro Stays Red Hot On Live Tournament Circuit WSOP Online Poker Strategy Head Games: Dealing Series Awards Revisited With With Downswings And 33 Bracelets Jonathan Tamayo Bad Beats PLAYER_34_19B_Cover.indd 1 8/19/21 11:23 AM PLAYER_19_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 2 8/16/21 9:06 PM PLAYER_19_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 3 8/16/21 9:06 PM THE Masthead - Card Player Vol. 34/No. 19 PUBLISHERS Barry Shulman | Jeff Shulman Editorial Corporate Office CHIEF MEDIA OFFICER 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 8/19/21 11:09 AM PLAYER_17_Coushatta_FP.indd 3 7/19/21 3:58 PM Table to contents 14 8 27 Feature Strategy Poker Hand Matchups 14 24 26 Brian Altman Joins Elite Club Of Head Games: Dealing With Cary Katz vs. Daniel Negreanu Three-Time WPT Champions Downswings And Bad Beats 31 By Erik Fast By Craig Tapscott Sam Soverel vs. Cary Katz 27 36 Shifts In Poker Strategy News Cary Katz vs. Sam Soverel With Jonathan Tamayo 8 By Steve Schult 38 High-Stakes Galfond Challenge Resumes 30 Sam Soverel vs. Cary Katz With New Format After Tanking Dispute Know How To Check For Value By Steve Schult By Jonathan Little Also In This Issue 10 31 News From The Gambling World 4 Deuce To Seven Triple Draw Lowball: By Card Player News Team Leading The Turn Part 1 About Us By Kevin Haney 40 Tournaments Tournament Schedules 18 Analysis & Commentary 42 Player Of The Year Update Poker Leaderboard By Erik Fast 34 Poker During And Post Pandemic: ICM 20 By Steve Zolotow Tournament Results By Morgan Young 35 Being Patient Isn’t Just About Folding 22 By Greg Raymer First Segment Of 2021 WSOP Online Awards 33 Gold Bracelets 37 By Erik Fast Jumping Off The Stratosphere By Nathan Gamble Cover image © World Poker Tour 6 CARDPLAYER.COM VOLUME 34 / ISSUE 19 006_TOC.indd 6 8/19/21 12:19 PM PLAYER_19_ACR_FP.indd 3 8/16/21 9:05 PM News High-Stakes Galfond Challenge Resumes With New Format Aer Tanking Dispute By Steve Schult e latest match in the “Galfond “Phil Galfond and I have had a e debate shifted to what should Challenge” series was forced to very civil match,” tweeted Adams. be allowed for the remainder of the switch formats after a dispute over “but we are paused due to an argu- match. excessive tanking arose between the ment. We need help via Twitter “e entire original purpose of two participants. consensus. I am down $48,000 with the match was fun for players and High-stakes legend Phil Galfond, 15.5 hours remaining. Galfond is viewers via likely streaming,” wrote the architect of several recent heads- changing his strategy, as expected, Adams in a text message to Galfond, up matches, was in the midst of but he is also using the clock to max- referencing the first plan to stream battling fellow poker pro Brandon imum advantage, taking full time the match on PokerGO. “Clock Adams for 40 hours of live $100- for every decision on every street.” milking, which would go on for the $200 heads-up pot-limit Omaha e match featured a 15-sec- entire match if accepted, because when Adams raised concerns over ond time bank for preflop decisions it is always in one player’s benefit, Galfond’s use of the time bank. and 30-second clocks for post-flop would obviously make the match Of the seven heads-up matches actions. ere were also eight 60-sec- unwatchable and completely unin- Galfond has scheduled, the show- ond extensions allowed per day. teresting, so the concept was always down with Adams was the only one Galfond argued that these time absurd.” taking place on the live felt, the rest banks were put in place “so there Several other top poker pros were going to take place online. was no ambiguity about end-game weighed in on the situation, includ- In addition to keeping any scenarios” like the one they were ing Dan Smith, Max Silver, Isaac amount won in the actual match, encountering. He also said that Haxton, and Mike McDonald. e there was also a side bet, with Adams Adams had been using all of his initial reaction from most was to just getting 4:1 on his $100,000 wager. If time banks when it fit into his own convert the time remaining to a set he managed to win, he would collect strategy. number of hands, but Galfond felt $400,000 from Galfond. “He took the full 15 seconds that this was unfair to him. In the middle of their match, preflop for essentially every deci- e Maryland native and online however, Adams tweeted that the sion since the start of the match,” poker site owner said that he two were arguing over whether it responded Galfond. “For the last would’ve also expected Adams to was ethical for Galfond to use all two days, when he was planning to play slower down the stretch if he of his time bank before making a check or [bet] the river in position, held a lead. He said that he wouldn’t decision and essentially run out the he would stand up and stretch for have protested to that strategy, and clock. the full 30 seconds before checking.” thus felt he was getting freerolled. 8 CARDPLAYER.COM VOLUME 34 / ISSUE 19 008_News.indd 8 8/19/21 11:12 AM News Eventually, Galfond did relent the match quickly resembled tourna- in his previous online matches. He and agree to play a set number ment poker and was no longer fun mounted an epic €900,000 come- of hands determined by Silver and for either participant. back against ‘Venividi1993,’ defeated Haxton. e two arbitrators settled ey agreed to forego the rest of Ioannis ‘ActionFreak’ Kontonatsios on 338 hands remaining in the chal- the live match and start a 10,000- and forced Chance Kornuth into a lenge, which resumed shortly there- hand challenge online. e side bet concession in his third match. after. is still on the table for the winner of Between the side bets and the Over the next 102 hands, Adams the online portion, but was scrapped money won, Galfond is up roughly cut into the lead and was only down for the shortened live match. $1.4 million thus far. All of his $16,500. At the end of the session, Before starting the latest chal- matches have been heads-up pot- however, both players agreed that lenge, Galfond was a perfect 3-0 limit Omaha. m Galfond Challenge Progress And Results Opponent Stakes Game Sidebet Hands Result Bill Perkins $100-$200 PLO $800K:$200K 50,000 Hands TBD 40 Hours Brandon Adams $100-$200 PLO $400K:$100K Galfond Up ($16,500 profit) (Now 10,000 Hands) Chance Kornuth $100-$200 PLO $1M:$250K 35,000 Hands Galfond Wins ($726,500 profit) Dan Cates €100-€200 PLO TBD 7,500 Hands TBD Ioannis Kontonatsios €150-€300 PLO €150K:€150K 15,000 Hands Galfond Wins (€114,765 profit) ‘VeniVidi1993’ €100-€200 PLO €200K:€100K 25,000 Hands Galfond Wins (€1,472 profit) Luke Schwartz €1,000-€2,000 8-Game TBD TBD TBD FOLLOW US ON TWITTER CardPlayerMedia CARDPLAYER.COM 9 008_News.indd 9 8/19/21 11:12 AM News NEWS FROM THE GAMBLING WORLD FEDERAL GOVERNMENT APPROVES NEW FLORIDA GAMING COMPACT By Steve Schult e Seminole Tribe is set to become the hub for sports bet- Seminole Hard Rock ting in the Sunshine State this fall after the U.S.
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