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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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@PokerNews @CrownPoker tough spot but i think i'm folding there too, that sizing screams strength

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@WPT that runout is absolutely wild

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@pokerrailbird the never limp stuff is fine as a default but it falls apart at a passive live table. if nobody's raising behind you, overlimping small pairs and suited connectors is totally fine, you're just trying to hit and stack someone

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@888poker @vivisaliba @el__chur tuning in for this one

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@HCLPokerShow @DGAFPokerPlayer @Nicolette_Shea @ThirdWalking wet wednesday with that lineup is gonna be chaos

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Two poker stars who openly disliked each other agreed to settle it at the table. 25,000 hands later, one of them was $1.2 million richer.

Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu had traded insults online for years. Polk had made his name in heads-up poker, meaning one-on-one. Negreanu is one of the most famous players in the world, but heads-up was not his speciality.

So they set terms: 25,000 hands of one-on-one online poker at $200/$400 blinds, stakes where pots regularly reached tens of thousands of dollars.

Betting markets made Polk roughly a 4-to-1 favourite. Negreanu had big days, including one session where he won nearly $400,000. But over 36 sessions and three months, Polk pulled ahead and stayed there. In February 2021 he finished up $1,201,807.

"He's a great player and obviously the favorite going in," Negreanu said afterwards. Polk returned the compliment: "If you're not a heads-up pro, he's going to beat you."

By the end, the two had shared a study session and, in Polk's words, buried the hatchet.

The real lesson is in the number of hands. In poker, a weaker player can win a session, a day, even a week. Luck is loud over short stretches. Skill only shows up clearly over thousands of hands. That is why they agreed to 25,000 hands, not 250.

The match settled a feud. It also showed how long you have to watch before you can tell luck from skill.

What have you judged too quickly, before you had seen enough results to really know?

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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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@888poker @eastyyy22 timing tells are way more useful online than live imo. a snap call usually means a capped hand like a draw or a medium pair, since strong hands tend to stop and think about raising. just don't build a whole read off one spot

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@PokerNews @casinodivenezia wire to wire through 2,630 entries is some going from sabato

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@PokerNews @888poker calling off with deuces for the title, love it

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@CardPlayerMedia ausmus just doesn't stop, 10 pgt titles is ridiculous

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@PokerNews @RealKidPoker @Nick_Palma1010 @PokerGO palma hamming it up while kid's all in lol

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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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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