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Published and printed in the United States. 6 CARDPLAYER.COM FOLLOW US ON TWITTER CardPlayerMedia 006_MastheadA.indd 6 7/8/20 5:51 PM PLAYER_13_bestbet_FP.indd 3 5/27/20 10:00 AM Table of Contents - Card Player Vol. 33/No. 16 20 16 18 Features Strategies, Analysis Also In this Issue 20 & Commentary 4 World Series of Poker To Award 85 Online 26 About Us Bracelets in 2020 The 2020 #wouldbeWSOP 34 By Card Player News Team By Melissa Burr Tournament Schedules 29 38 The Inside Straight Preparing For The World Series of Poker - Poker Leaderboards 10 Online Edition By Greg Raymer Poker News Recap Tournament 13 30 True Tales From A Hollywood Poker Player Of The Year Update Hand Matchups Hustler: Side Betting With Poker Pros, 27 14 Con Men, And Movie Stars Michael Addamo vs. Justin Bonomo Hand History Rewind: Peter Eastgate By Houston Curtis vs. David Peters Wins 2008 World Series of Poker 33 Main Event 29 Playing 9-2 In The $10,000 Caribbean By Card Player News Team Poker Party Main Event Michael Addamo vs. Justin Bonomo 16 By Jonathan Little 31 Poker Stories Podcast with Jesse Martin Justin Bonomo vs. Michael Addamo By Card Player News Team 36 18 Justin Bonomo vs. Michael Addamo Table Talk: High-Stakes Poker Pro Dan Smith: “The Bigger The Money, The More Prestige” By Steve Schult 8 CARDPLAYER.COM FOLLOW US ON TWITTER CardPlayerMedia 008_TOC.indd 8 7/8/20 5:52 PM PLAYER_16_ACR_FP.indd 3 7/7/20 4:18 PM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT the INSIDE STRAIGHT News, Reviews, and Interviews From Around the Poker World NEW JERSEY GOV. BANS SMOKING AND DRINKING IN ATLANTIC CITY CASINOS By Steve Schult Atlantic City’s largest and most profi table casino is stay- ing closed after New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced right before the July 4 holiday that he was postponing the resumption of indoor dining. Murphy also banned smoking and drinking inside Atlantic City’s casinos until he feels it is safe to resume. Prior, Murphy announced that Atlantic City’s nine casi- nos could reopen on July 2, the same day that indoor dining was scheduled to resume. e properties were to only be allowed to operate at 25 percent capacity and adhere to several health and safety guidelines that included social distancing measures, enhanced sanitization measures, and mandatory masks for both players and staff . With the move to ban food, drinks and smoking inside gambling establishments, the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa “Our guests expect a special decided to keep its doors shut until offi cials decide that it is safe to resume those services. experience when they come to our “Our guests expect a special experience when they property and if we cannot provide come to our property and if we cannot provide that level of hospitality, we feel it best that we remain closed until that level of hospitality, we feel it such time that the governor lets us know it is safe to off er food and beverage,” MGM Resorts, the parent company of best that we remain closed.” Borgata, said in a press release. “ e health and safety of our employees and guests are at the center of all that we do, and we regret that, at this time, we are unable to welcome back the thousands of employees who are anxious to return saw a record-high number of new cases last week. to work. We look forward to a time when it is safe to wel- Murphy ordered Atlantic City casinos to temporarily come everyone back.” shutter on March 16. It is one of the few states that has yet At the time of writing, Borgata is the only New Jersey to reopen its gaming market. casino to react to the news. e eight other casinos in While the brick-and-mortar establishments have been Atlantic City are expected to open when eligible. closed for more than three months, online casinos have Murphy’s decision came in response to coronavirus carried the revenue burden for the state. In May, online infection rates spiking in some states that had already casinos set all-time highs in recorded revenue. In April, begun reopening their local economies. Texas Gov. Greg Garden State online gaming operators saw records in online Abbott recently “paused” the state’s reopening process as it poker revenue. m Sign Up For Card Player’s Free Poker School. Review Hundreds of Articles and Videos On Winning Poker Strategy. www.CardPlayerPokerSchool.com 10 CARDPLAYER.COM FOLLOW US ON TWITTER CardPlayerMedia 010_News.indd 10 7/7/20 4:08 PM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT LAS VEGAS CASINO EMPLOYEE DIES FROM COVID-19, CULINARY UNION SUES By Steve Schult “According to the lawsuit, since March 1, 2020, at least nineteen A Las Vegas casino worker has passed away after testing Joint Board members and positive for COVID-19. According to the local CBS affiliate, an employee of a Caesars Entertainment casino passed away in dependents have died from the late June after having tested positive for the virus. disease.” It is still unknown which property the employee worked at or what that person’s job entailed in the casino. “Sadly, we can confirm that one of our colleagues has Signature at the MGM Grand, Sadelle’s Café at Bellagio and passed away after testing positive for COVID-19. We are Guy Fieri’s Las Vegas Kitchen and Bar at e LINQ. e heartbroken by this development and are expressing our deep- lawsuit alleges that companies did not properly warn workers, est sympathies to their family and friends,” said the company disinfect the work area or force a quarantine for employees in a statement. “While we have not been able to determine after it discovered that there was a staff member in the kitchen how the employee contracted the virus, once the employee who had contracted the virus. informed us about testing positive, the company implemented “Nothing is more important to us than the safety of every- its protocols to determine who had been in close proximity one inside of our properties,” MGM Resorts said in a state- with this individual at the direction of the Southern Nevada ment regarding the pending litigation. “We have worked to Health District.” train our managers in our incident response protocols and we e statement went on to say that those employees who work very closely with the health department officials in their were found to be in close quarters with this person were placed efforts to contact trace. e nation is in the midst of a public on paid leave and began to self-isolate.