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Published and printed in the United States. 4 CARDPLAYER.COM FOLLOW US ON TWITTER CardPlayerMedia 004_MastheadB.indd 4 3/29/21 4:49 PM PLAYER_09_ACR.indd 3 3/30/21 1:45 PM Table of Contents - Card Player Vol. 34/No. 9 20 14 24 Features Strategies, Analysis Also In this Issue 14 & Commentary 4 Twitch Streamer Vanessa Kade Has 28 About Us Last Laugh, Wins Sunday Million Playing Out Of Position With A Marginal 36 For $1.5M Score Made Hand Tournament Schedules By Card Player News Team By Jonathan Little 20 38 29 Poker Leaderboards MJ Gonzales: Daniel Negreanu’s Coach Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Lowball: Seeks Out Heads-Up Action Of His Own Dealing With Nines After The First Draw By Steve Schult By Kevin Haney Tournament 24 31 Ankush Mandavia Discusses His Hand Matchups Take Some Time To Recognize Your Run Triumphant Return To The Live 28 Good Tournament Scene By Nathan Gamble Florian Loehnert vs. Michael Addamo By Erik Fast 32 31 The Chris Moneymaker Story Continues Michael Addamo vs. Florian Loehnert The Inside Straight By Gavin Griffin 33 8 33 Florian Loehnert vs. Michael Addamo Poker News Recap How To Survive A Soul-Crushing Cold 35 12 Deck Christoph Vogelsang By Houston Curtis vs. Michael Addamo Player Of The Year Update By Erik Fast 16 Head Games: Position And Having The Lead In Tournament Play By Craig Tapscott 6 CARDPLAYER.COM VOLUME 34 / ISSUE 9 006_TOC.indd 6 3/31/21 9:09 AM www.CardPlayer.com Vol. 33/No. 23 November 4, 2020 www.CardPlayer.com New Jersey Sets Record For Online Michael Addamo Wins Gaming Revenue Vol. 33/No. WPT World Online July 15, 2020 15 Championships $100K Life Variance And High Roller What To Do During A Pandemic Jonathan Little: Stop Raising With Top Pair Making The Best Deal Kevin Haney: Having A Scoop Advantage In Stud Eight-Or-Better HIGH-STAKES POKER PRO KAHLE BURNS TRAVELS THE WORLD LOOKING FOR ACTIONFARID JATTIN’S BREAKOUT 31-Year-Old High Roller Nears TheCOLOMBIAN Top Of PRO,YEAR NOW WITH MOREON THAN PAUSE $5.6 MILLION IN LIFETIME Australia’s All-Time Money ListWINNINGS, HAD RACKED UP MORE THAN $1.2 MILLION IN 2020 PLAYER_33_23_Cover.indd 1 PLAYER_33_15_Cover.indd 1 10/14/20 9:07 PM SUBSCRIBE NOW6/24/20 3:45 PM 26 Issues For $39.95 www.cardplayer.com/link/subscribe 1-866-587-6537 CP_Sub_23_FP3.indd 3 3/30/21 1:46 PM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT the INSIDE STRAIGHT News, Reviews, and Interviews From Around the Poker World RIO ALL-SUITE HOTEL & CASINO TO BE REBRANDED INTO HYATT HOTEL By Steve Schult e home of the World Series of Poker will soon become a Hyatt-branded hotel. Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced in late March that it had entered into a franchise agreement with Dreamscape Companies LLC, the owner of the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, according to report from a local Fox affiliate. e new operator will renovate the former Caesars Entertainment property, which opened in 1990, and turn it into multiple Hyatt hotel towers. e announcement did not give a timeline for the renovation and it is not clear whether the property will still operate a gaming fl oor when the renovation is completed. “We are thrilled that Dreamscape will help us bring multiple Hyatt full-service brands to Las Vegas, starting with a Hyatt Regency hotel, which we believe will Rio Convention Center for another few years until the deliver on the Hyatt Regency brand promise of creating company finds a new destination for the world’s largest meaningful connections in modern spaces designed for poker series. sharing, socializing, and collaborating,” said Hyatt’s ere have been rumors of the WSOP moving away Vice President of real estate and development Kimo from the Rio for quite some time. Most of the speculation Bertram in a statement. surrounding the possible move away from its home since In September 2019, Caesars announced that it 2005 had it going to the recently finished Caesars Forum had sold the property for $516 million to Dreamscape, Conference Center. a group controlled by New York-based real estate group e $300 million, 550,000-square foot building is Imperial Companies. As part of the agreement, Caesars one of the few buildings owned by Caesars capable of agreed to continue to run the casino and pay $45 million housing the series. It has 300,000 square feet of meeting in rent for two years, with an option for a $7 million rent space and is located on the Las Vegas Strip behind the payment in the third year. Linq. By comparison, the Rio’s convention center is e deal was fi nalized in December 2019, which 160,000 square feet. leaves between nine and 21 months left before Caesars When Caesars sold the property, Seth Palansky, completely severs ties with the property. former Vice President of Corporate Communications for Given that there was no timeline on the rebranding the WSOP, told Card Player that the series would be held and renovation process, a likely scenario is one where at the Rio in 2020 and that “people should feel confident it doesn’t happen until Caesars no longer operates the that the 2021 WSOP will be at the Rio as well.” facility and it could be transformed solely into a near- e 2020 WSOP was hosted online due to the Strip hotel. pandemic and there has been no announcement about at would allow Caesars to run the WSOP at the the status of the 2021 series yet. 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 9 008_News.indd 8 3/31/21 9:12 AM THE INSIDE STRAIGHT ENROLLMENT SPIKES AT LAS VEGAS DEALER SCHOOLS By Steve Schult e more people that are comfortable being inside a casino, the quicker the brick-and-mortar casino industry will recover to pre-pandemic levels. at seems to be the case, at least on one side of the table, as there is an increased number of applicants to dealer schools in Las Vegas. According to a report from a local Fox affiliate, a handful of dealer schools have actually hit the maximum number of students they are allowed to accept. David Noll, owner of CEG Dealer School, told local reporters that he had to limit enrollment to the course on capacity, which was up from the 25% that was allowed several occasions. He also said that many of the applicants when the market reopened last summer. Governors in New were considered “back of house” employees that were look- Jersey and Pennsylvania have made similar decisions within ing to transition to a different sector of the casino industry. the last few weeks. ose positions include employees of nightclubs or live at number was raised to 50% in March and several performances, which still don’t have a concrete timetable as major media outlets have reported that the city has seen a to when things will go back to normal.