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Published and printed in the United States. 6 CARDPLAYER.COM FOLLOW US ON TWITTER CardPlayerMedia 006_MastheadB.indd 6 11/23/20 1:35 PM PLAYER_26_bestbet_FP.indd 3 11/23/20 1:56 PM Table of Contents - Card Player Vol. 33/No. 26 18 14 22 Features Strategies, Analysis Also In this Issue 16 & Commentary 6 Gambling Ballot Initiatives Earn 26 About Us Clean Sweep On Election Day Where Does Your Profit Come From? 36 By Steve Schult By Jonathan Little Tournament Schedules 18 27 38 Palm Beach Kennel Club Kicks Off Deuce-To-Seven Triple Draw Lowball: Poker Leaderboards 2021 With Card Player Poker Tour Multi-Way Flop Situations Tournament Series By Kevin Haney By Card Player News Team Tournament 22 29 Even Celebrities Take Shots At The Poker How Chris Brewer Went From Hand Matchups Table $5 Home Games To $500,000 Pots 28 By Houston Curtis In Just Eight Years Andrei Boghean vs. Artur Martirosian By Erik Fast 32 vs. David Laka Ten Reminders For Poker Players In The 31 New Year The Inside Straight By Linda Johnson Benjamin Rolle vs. Eelis Pärssinen 10 33 32 Poker News Recap Gamble 105: When The Rubber Meets Andrei Boghean vs. Benjamin Rolle 14 The Road 33 By Nathan Gamble Player Of The Year Update João Vieira vs. Benjamin Rolle By Erik Fast 8 CARDPLAYER.COM VOLUME 33 / ISSUE 26 008_TOC.indd 8 11/25/20 9:02 AM PLAYER_22_ACR_FP.indd 3 9/29/20 9:49 AM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT the INSIDE STRAIGHT News, Reviews, and Interviews From Around the Poker World HYBRID LIVE AND ONLINE $10,000 WSOP ‘MAIN EVENT’ TO BE HELD IN DECEMBER By Erik Fast Just 49 days before the new event. press release from the WSOP. “Each year, the World Series of Poker “ ere must be a World Champion ‘bracket’ will pay out prize money to announced that there will indeed be in 2020,” said WSOP Executive tournament entrants independently. a $10,000 WSOP main event world Director Ty Stewart. “Poker’s history e fi nal table will be a world’s fi rst, champion decided in 2020. is too important. It’s a unique format as an ultimate heads-up duel for the Despite the doubt created by a for the main event, but this is a unique World Championship, where $1 mil- global pandemic, the WSOP sent out year. We want to keep players’ health lion in prize money will be on the line a press release on Friday, Nov. 13, and safety top of mind and still deliver courtesy of Caesars Entertainment, revealing that the biggest and richest a great televised showcase for the game Inc. and GGPoker. e Main Event poker tournament in the world would we love.” will be held consistent to the tradi- take place for the 51st consecutive “Due to travel restrictions, and tional ‘freeze-out’ standards of the year, albeit with some major adjust- out of an abundance of caution for Main Event, off ering only single entry, ments. player safety, this year’s format will be as well as the longest levels and deep- e event will once again feature a unique, where early round play will est stacks ever off ered on the online $10,000 buy-in, with no-limit hold’em begin online with one entry on WSOP. platform.” as the game. While those basic facts com or GGPoker.com, before shift- ere will essentially be both a remain the same, quite a lot will be ing to a live setting for fi nal table US-facing and international main diff erent for this edition of the main action on two continents,” said the event which will be run online and 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 VOLUME 33 / ISSUE 26 010_News.indd 10 11/25/20 9:03 AM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT play down to a final table. e two Casino on Tuesday, Dec. 15. high-profile poker tournaments in final tables will then play out live at “All in-person tournaments, hosting an online version of their the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino domestic and international, will be events during the spring and summer in Las Vegas and the King’s Casino subject to special COVID rules and months. e WSOP Online awarded Rozvadov, with the two champions of procedures, the details of which will 85 gold bracelets from the start of those events meeting in a final heads- be published at a later date and will July through early September, with up showdown for the ultimate title require players to undergo a required events spread across two separate and an added $1 million prize. health screening prior to live participa- online poker platforms. A total of e ‘Domestic Tournament’ kicks tion,” the WSOP noted in their release. 283,983 entries were made throughout off on Sunday, Dec. 13, and will be e final heads-up showdown the series, with $174.5 million in prize available to all players within the bor- between the domestic and interna- money awarded along the way. ders or Nevada and New Jersey. e tional winners will take place at the e last-minute announcement final table is expected to be set the Rio on Dec. 30, with the champion- of the new hybrid main event drew following day. e last nine players ship gold bracelet and the $1 million the criticism of many in the poker standing will reconvene on Monday, in added prize money on the line. community, including Bulgarian pro Dec. 28 to play to a winner. ESPN is e WSOP was set to award a Stoyan Madanzhiev, who won the set to air coverage of the event, featur- record number of gold bracelets $5,000 buy-in WSOP Online main ing commentary from Lon McEachern this year, with 101 events originally event for $3.9 million. Madanzhiev and Norman Chad. planned to run from late May through feels he is the rightful 2020 title holder e ‘International Tournament’ the middle of July, but was indefinitely and stated that had he known he will feature three starting flights on put on hold along with the rest of wasn’t playing in the “actual” main Nov. 29, and Dec. 5 and 6. e final the live poker scene during the early event, he probably wouldn’t have both- table is scheduled to be set on Dec. months of the pandemic. ered re-entering after busting his first 7, with the live final table at King’s e series joined a number of other bullet. m Online Sportsbooks Yet To Pay Out Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Election Bets By Card Player News Team ree weeks after Election Day, President Donald Trump still has yet to concede to former Vice President Joe Biden.