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The wildest hands in live poker, explained. Miracle rivers, monster folds and table drama. Hold'em only.

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Would you call?

$2/$5 live. Hero has pocket tens. Faces a check-raise, then a river jam.

call or fold here? real answer drops with the clip

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In 2021, Ali Imsirovic was named poker's Player of the Year. Two years later, he admitted multi-accounting, a form of online poker cheating, and said $320,000 had been seized from him.

Imsirovic rose fast. He won the Poker Masters in 2018, then spent the next years collecting big wins in the most expensive tournaments in the world.

In April 2022, other high-stakes players said he had been banned by the online site GGPoker. The accusations included multi-accounting, ghosting and real-time assistance.

In plain words: multi-accounting means entering the same tournament under several names, so you get extra chances to win. Ghosting means someone secretly makes decisions for another player. Real-time assistance means software that tells you the best move while you play.

He stayed silent for more than a year, and was barred from PokerGO's tournaments.

In June 2023 he posted a 30-minute video. He admitted multi-accounting, confirmed the GGPoker ban and said the site seized $320,000. He also admitted going back to it briefly after he had been caught.

"I have multi-accounted a bunch, so I have no interest in denying that. It happened. I regret it, but it happened," he said.

But he firmly denied using real-time assistance or ghosting, and rejected other accusations against him. Much of the poker world reacted badly, feeling he spent more time on what he didn't do than on what he did.

That is the strange power of a partial confession. Admitting one thing can make your other denials sound more believable. It can also make people wonder what else you haven't admitted.

When someone admits part of what they're accused of, do you trust their denials more, or less?

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Kenny turns the nut flush. 95% to win, heads-up for the title.

Shri has exactly two cards left in the deck.

The nuts on the turn is a lead, not a result. Anyone else ever lose with the nuts?

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Jamie Gold won $12 million at the World Series of Poker. Before he could collect it all, a court froze half.

In 2006, the World Series of Poker Main Event was the biggest it had ever been: 8,773 players. Gold, a former Hollywood talent agent, outlasted them all and won $12 million.

Within weeks, TV producer Crispin Leyser sued him. Leyser said Gold had promised him half the winnings in return for recruiting celebrities to wear a poker site's logo at the tournament.

His evidence was a voicemail. On the final day of the tournament, according to Card Player, Gold left a message promising Leyser "your half".

Gold had already withdrawn $6 million. A court froze the other $6 million, which sat in the Rio casino's vault while lawyers argued. In December 2006, the judge indicated Leyser would likely win his claim.

In February 2007 they settled. The terms were never disclosed. Their joint statement said: "Jamie always intended on sharing his winnings with Crispin."

Gold later called it a misunderstanding that should never have reached court.

This is one of poker's oldest problems. Players constantly make side deals: splitting winnings, swapping percentages, backing each other. Most are handshakes or text messages. They feel friendly when you make them. They feel very different once one side is suddenly holding $12 million.

The fix is boring and it works: if a promise could ever be worth real money, write down exactly what it means before anyone wins.

Have you ever made a casual promise that would look completely different if it were suddenly worth millions?

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@PokerNews @GGPoker no huds at all is a big change for the grinders. you're back to taking your own notes, and honestly tagging the regs you see most by how often they 3bet and how big they bluff gets you most of what the stats were giving you anyway

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@PokerNews three years without a cash and then he wins the main for 104k, love that

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@GGPoker top pair into a flopped set, you're just paying them off

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@PokerNews pass the sugar never gets old

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@WPT not drawing dead is all you need lol

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@pokerheadrush the little stabs when they check to you twice add up way more than one hero bluff a month

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@PokerNews @eastyyy22 @888poker back to back would be mad

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@wazzo11 big river bluffs only really work when your range can actually have the nuts there. if you're capped by the river, overbetting just tells good players you're bluffing, so i'd go smaller or just give up

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@JonathanLittle @WynnPoker honestly the hardest part at low stakes is stopping yourself bluffing people who never fold

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@Monkeynutspoker queen high in an 83k pot, cold

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@PokerNews @RGPokerSeries @RunGoodEvents @RunGoodGear @ChampionsClubTX schumacher with the lead going into day 2, should be a fun one

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@888poker 379 runners and conan comes out on top, well deserved

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@flopfiles52 set under set is about as bad as it gets, you're drawing to one card and it's roughly 4% by the river. thing is nobody folds a set there so these pots just go in every time

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@flopfiles52 flopping a set and losing a 7m pot, oof

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@flopfiles52 the table talk before this one lol