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www.CardPlayer.com Vol. 34/No. 16 July 28, 2021 Phil Hellmuth Sweeps Daniel Negreanu On PokerGO's High Stakes Duel Brian Altman Earns His Third World Poker Tour Title Ben Scrogins Wins CPPT bestbet Jacksonville Main Event JOAO VIEIRA CLIMBS TO THE TOP OF ONLINE POKER’S ALL-TIME MONEY LIST Former Portuguese Basketball Pro Ready To Dominate The Live Arena PLAYER_34_16B_Cover.indd 1 7/8/21 12:11 PM PLAYER_16_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 2 7/7/21 9:05 PM PLAYER_16_GlobalPoker_DT.indd 3 7/7/21 9:05 PM Masthead - Card Player Vol. 34/No. 16 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 7/7/21 7:52 AM PLAYER_11_TurningStone_FP.indd 3 4/27/21 12:01 PM Table of Contents - Card Player Vol. 34/No. 16 22 26 18 PokerGO © Features 20 Also In this Issue 22 Tournament Results 4 By Card Player News Team Joao Vieira Climbs To The Top Of Online About Us Poker’s All-Time Money List 36 By Steve Schult Strategies, Analysis Tournament Schedules 26 & Commentary 38 Phil Hellmuth Sweeps Daniel Negreanu Poker Leaderboards In Three Straight Matches To Win High 28 Stakes Duel II Always Look Both Ways By Steve Schult By Jonathan Little Tournament 29 Hand Matchups The Inside Straight Badugi: Donking The River By Kevin Haney 29 8 30 Vanessa Kade vs. Ivan Zufic Poker News Recap Returning To Live Poker After The 31 12 Pandemic: Part 1 David Peters vs. Dan Shak Head Games: Knowing Your Strengths By Steve Zolotow 33 And Identifying Weakness At The Table 32 By Craig Tapscott Ivan Zufic vs. David Peters Vanessa Kade’s Heater By Gavin Griffin 34 David Peters vs. Ivan Zufic Tournaments 33 16 Contracts and Poker: The Social Contract By Scott J. Burnham Player Of The Year Update By Erik Fast 18 Hometown Hero Ben Scrogins Wins CPPT bestbet Jacksonville Main Event By Erik Fast Cover image © Winamax 6 CARDPLAYER.COM VOLUME 34 / ISSUE 16 006_TOC.indd 6 7/8/21 11:20 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 PHIL IVEY DEFEATS PATRIK ANTONIUS TO WIN WORLD POKER TOUR ONLINE HEADS-UP CHAMPIONSHIP By Erik Fast Year Anthony Zinno. His next opponent was anoth- er POY winner in 2019 cham- pion Stephen Chidwick. Ivey won two straight rounds to move into the semifi nals against Canadian online phenom Christopher Kruk. e two traded wins, setting up a rubber match for a seat in the fi nals. Kruk tried to run a big bluff only to run into a fl ush, earning $100,000 for his semifi nal showing. Antonius drew one of several non- professional poker players in the fi eld for his fi rst match. Gakuto “GACKT” Oshiro, a Japanese musician and actor, e inaugural $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour was able to get one win, but failed to move on to Heads-Up Championship invitational featured 32 players, the round of 16. ere Antonius was met by three- ranging from top poker pros to online infl uencers and time WSOP bracelet winner and high-stakes heads-up content creators. In the end, it came down to an old- specialist Doug Polk. Polk was coming off of arguably the school showdown for the title between two living legends most hyped match of the fi rst round against Tom Dwan, of the game: Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius. but was swept by Antonius in two straight matches. e pair have competed at the highest stakes games e quarterfi nal matchup pitted Antonius against Stefan in the world, from nosebleed stakes online to the largest ‘Stefan11222’ Burakov, a high-stakes player from Russia televised cash games ever. ey have also both won tens who made a deep run in the 2020 WSOP Online $10,000 of millions playing tournaments, with more than $42 mil- buy-in heads-up bracelet event. After dispatching him, lion in combined cashes between them. Antonius faced off against Canadian high roller and brace- After all was said and done, it was Ivey who emerged let winner Sam Greenwood. Once again, Antonius won victorious with the title and the top prize of $400,000. two straight, making the fi nals and sending Greenwood to e 44-year-old WPT champion and 10-time World Series the virtual rail with a $100,000 consolation prize. of Poker bracelet winner now has more than $31 million Other notable pros in the fi eld included Dan Smith, in lifetime tournament earnings to his name. Jean Robert Bellande, Timothy Adams, Brad Owen, Ivey faced four professional poker players on his way Daniel Dvoress, Andrew Lichtenberger, Darren Elias, to the title, starting with tournament specialist and Nick Petrangelo, Nick Schulman, Olivier Busquet, recent WSOP bracelet winner Manig Loeser in the Linus ‘LLinusLLove’ Loeliger, and Wiktor ‘Limitless’ round of 32. Ivey defeated Loeser, splitting the fi rst two Malinowski. rounds and winning the deciding third round to set up e fi nals featured a best-of-fi ve format, meaning the a sweet 16 match against 2015 Card Player Player of the champion would have to win three matches to earn the 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 16 008_News.indd 8 7/8/21 11:23 AM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT title and the top prize of $400,000. e first match saw and Antonius made the call. e turn brought the Ap to Ivey jump out to an early lead, making trip sevens on the give Antonius top two pair. Ivey bet and Antonius called. river to win the first pot of consequence against Antonius’ e 2p completed the board and Ivey moved all-in. flopped pair of queens. Not long after that the chips got Antonius called with his aces and sixes, only to find he had in preflop with Ivey holding pocket nines to Antonius’ Ao run into a straight. 8n. Neither player improved and Ivey took a 1-0 lead. Ivey took a commanding lead, leaving Antonius with e second match saw Ivey take another big lead, this less than nine big blinds. He managed to double up twice time by picking off a bluff with trips. Antonius later tried to get back to a playable stack, but was unable to keep up to run a multi-street bluff with an unimproved king high, the rally. He eventually called off the last of his chips with but Ivey sniffed it out again with pocket jacks to take a Qm Jm. Ivey held An 10o, and the board ran out 9m 5o 3o 2-0 lead. 3p 3m to give him the final pot of the tournament. e third round saw Antonius take a slight lead early Final Results on. In the key hand of the round, he raised from the 1 – Phil Ivey -- $400,00 button with Am 6m. Ivey defended his big blind with 4m 2 – Patrik Antonius -- $200,000 3p and the flop came down 6n 5n 2m. Ivey checked, and T3 – Sam Greenwood -- $100,000 Antonius bet with top pair, top kicker. Ivey check-raised T3 – Christopher Kruk -- $100,000 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DECLINES TO APPEAL LATEST WIRE ACT RULING, MAKES INTERSTATE ONLINE POKER LEGAL By Steve Schult Interstate online poker is officially legal as the saga sur- rounding the Wire Act appears to finally be over.