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After cashing out for the biggest poker
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tournament win of my life, $62,000 dollars
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it's time to put it all on the line and
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raise the stakes. I'm buying in for
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$25,000, my largest buy-in ever, for my
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shot at a $10 million prize pool and a
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whopping $1.9 million for first place. The
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best poker players in the world are all
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here, all ready to battle. The Triton
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series here in Korea has drawn all the top
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talent and lifting that final trophy is
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the ultimate prize. Just a few hours
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earlier, I fell short of the grand prize,
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busting out in 22nd place, but that wasn't
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enough. Only the final nine remaining
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players make the final table. The
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oppurtunity is there. The payouts are
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massive, but so is the pressure. $25,000
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is a lot of money to risk. I've sold no
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action this entire series, and I'm having
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second thoughts. Um, are you in the 25K?
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Uh, I've just decided not to enter it
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unless I, you know, feel better later. I
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don't know. Okay. You don't feel great?
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No, I feel good. But okay, you just want
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to feel like feel it. Mhm. Okay. Okay. Two
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more events. Yep. I'm thinking if I'm
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going to do this one or not, bro. I should
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. Yeah, definitely. At some point, making
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a final table would be sick, right? So, at
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some point, I just got to do that. As I
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watch the final table from a distance, I
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can't help but imagine myself still at my
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seat, battling for millions of dollars one
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last time before I fly back home to Texas.
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I'm on the fence, so I recruit the
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assistance of my good buddy Rampage to
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help make my $25,000 decision. What's up
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you guys? Wolf Gang and Rampage here
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coming off of our really deep run here at
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the first uh event here in Triton. Maybe I
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do fire the 25K, but we're going to play
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Croc. And if you guys don't know how Croc
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works, basically like you touch the mouth
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and one of the teeth is really bad and
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then it closes. And if I'm the one who
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loses and closes the mouth, I'm going to
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go and play the 25K, even though I had no
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intention on doing it. I'm rooting to win.
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Let's go. Let's get you in there. We're
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entering a tournament. Let's go. I head
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over to the registration table to exchange
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$25,000 from my player account for a seat
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in the tourney. The tournament has been
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running all day and only 161 out of the
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391 entrances are left. Average stack is
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436K and I'm sitting with 200K for just 20
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big blinds. As I approach my table, I
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immediately see that it's not going to be
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easy. On my left is Alex Foxin and Ebony
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Kenny. A little bit further is Dan Smith
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and straight across from me is the one and
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only Patrick Antonius. I'm nervous but
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excited. If I can make it off this table,
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I know I can win the whole thing. My table
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might be tough, but nothing's tougher than
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picking up the Cowboys for our very first
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hand in the biggest poker tournament of my
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life. Well, pocket aces would be better,
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but back in Texas, the Cowboys are number
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one. The blinds have gone up to 6K, 12k,
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12K. I only have around 12 big blinds in
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my stack, and I open it up to 24K from the
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lowjack. I immediately get three bet by
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John Noel Thorell from the cutoff, and he
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makes it 80K to go. If you don't know who
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Thor is, he's number one on the France
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all-time money list and has over
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$20 million in total live earnings. Even
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though he has over 20 times more earnings
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than me, my hand has to play itself here.
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I jam my 12 big blind stack in the middle
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and he puts in the call. Like two working
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girls, the cards are on their backs. And
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we see we're in an interesting spot here.
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Kings versus threes. 81% chance to double
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up here. Step one is get it in good.
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Step two is hold. The dealer puts out the
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flop 885 with two diamonds. The turn comes
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the four of diamonds and the river seals
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his fate. The seven of spades peels off
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and just like that we win a 318k pot which
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inches us just a little bit closer to
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being average sack in the tournament. Even
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though we just won a crucial hand, there's
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still a sense of urgency as the blind
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levels continue to go up fast. We're now
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at the 15k big blind level and with 318K
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in our stack, I have 21 big blinds to play
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with. Real quickly, 64% of you guys that
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future. Just a few more hands go by before
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we pick up our next big premium holding
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ace queen offcut. The action surprisingly
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folds around to me in the small blind.
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Usually the button or cutoff would have
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put in a raise by now when it folds to
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them, but actions on me in the small blind
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. And before I decide what to do, I look
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over at my opponent in the big blind,
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Alex Foxin. He's the fifth best player in
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the world according to the GPI ranking.
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He has the 10th most amount of money in
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the United States all time with over
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$45 million in total live earnings.
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Definitely not someone to mess around
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with. Even though we share the same first
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name, our skill levels couldn't be further
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apart. It's important against good players
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to have a balanced strategy. Ace queen
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offsuit from the surface seems like a 100%
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candidate to put in a raise. But by
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limping in for 15K, it keeps us balanced
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and it might incentivize Alex to put in a
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raise here, thinking he has a massive edge
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on us and wants to play a bigger pot.
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That's exactly what happens. He now
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raises it up to 38K, putting the pressure
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back over to me. Because I balanced in ace
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queen offsuit, this is a perfect time to
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jam my entire stack in. I have him covered
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. He only has around 16 big blinds. So if
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he calls it off here with pocket sevens,
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I'm happy to get it in against a great
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great player in a flip situation. But when
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I come in for the jam, he snap folds. And
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we made another 23k in the process by
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limping in instead of raising. And just
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like that, we find ourself in another
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level jump up to the 20k big blind level
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with 310k in my stack. I have around 16
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big blinds. But crucial information, we
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just found out that 63 players will make
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the money. There's 110 players left and if
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I hit that money bubble, we'll make
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$415,000. We find ourselves in another
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hand versus a super pro when Dan Smith
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raises the cutoff up to 40k. you guys
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probably have heard of Dan Smith because
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he's third alltime in the US money list
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with over 59 million in total live
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earnings. Coupled with the fact he's
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number 54 on the global poker index
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ranking, this guy is someone to fear.
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Stats aside, he's actually a very nice
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guy and we share a common love of skiing.
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But I'm going to try to take some chips
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from him here when I put in the 40 from
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the big blind. Let's take it to the
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streets. The flop comes 107 deuces all
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hearts. And with 110k in the middle, I
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start with a check. I expect Dan to go for
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a very small bet here on this monotone
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board. And that's exactly what he does
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when he fires out for 20k. Actions back
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over to me. I have ace high. I have the
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three of hearts in my hand. And both are a
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good enough reason on their own to put in
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the call. Ace high is going to be beating
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a lot of his jack high king high holdings.
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And when I put in the call, the turnout
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comes the jack of diamonds, which isn't
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exactly the best card in the deck. I'm
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interested to see what he does when I
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check it over to Dan. He might go for a
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bet here, or he might check behind. And
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luckily for me, we're going to see five
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cards when he checks behind, which brings
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in another heart on the river. We now have
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the flush when the four of hearts peels
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off. I think the best play is to check it