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How I Won $700,000 In a High Stakes Poker Tournament!

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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
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