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'High Stakes Poker' was back last night on PokerGO, but in a departure from the past few episodes, it featured a mostly new crew of players.

Gone were the likes of Tom Dwan and Jason Koon, who were at the center of much of the prior action, and in their places were Phil Ivey and Doug Polk, making a rare appearance outside his favored online battleground. A few holdovers like Phil Hellmuth and Jake Daniels were back, though.

Action started off at $200/$400 and pretty much without a straddle the entire time.

Here's how stacks looked early on:

Hellmuth Bluffed Off of Kings

Hellmuth opened the action with a limp from early position holding . He opted not to spring the trap preflop, though, just calling when James Bord popped it to $2,000 a couple of seats over in the cutoff with .

Everyone else folded, and the flop came . Bord continued with a decent-sized bet of $3,000 and Hellmuth stuck around for the turn. Hellmuth checked again and Bord barreled big with $15,000, more than the $11K pot.

'I'm just gonna bluff it off now,' he declared.

'This kinda doesn't feel fair,' Hellmuth griped. 'Man. I almost stuck the whole hundred [thousand] in before the flop.'

'I wish you did.'

'I don't have anything at all,' Hellmuth said, flashing the kings and mucking.

'Good fold,' Bord said, casually tossing in his rags, much to the delight of the rest of the players.

'Good play Bordy,' Hellmuth allowed.

Bluffing into a Straight Flush

Hellmuth limped in late position with , Brandon Steven made it $2,100 in the small blind with , and Bord called with in the big.

Hellmuth let them go heads up to . Steven bet $3,000 and Bord called. Steven nailed the on the turn and bet again with $5,000. Bord responded with a sizable raise to $17,000. Steven stuck around with a slowplay but Bord didn't put any more money in on the river, so Steven cursed and showed his nutted hand with a smile to win the $45K pot.

'Didn't have another barrel in ya, huh?' he asked.

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'I had value,' Bord replied.

Old-Fashioned Three-Barrel from Dwan

Steven opened to $1,100 early with and faced a three-bet to $4,000 from Dwan, who had recently sat with what looked like $100K, on the button with .

He peeled and they went to a flop of . Dwan flicked in a $5,000 chip and they continued to the . Steven check-called another barrel of $14,000, and the river bricked off with the . Dwan had $62K left, a bit over the pot, but he opted for a smaller bet of $30,000.

Steven snapped it off and Dwan could only shake his head and show his bricked combo draw, with Steven winning a pot worth $107,000, the biggest of the session thus far.

Aces Cracked?

John Andress took Phil Ivey's seat and hadn't been down long before he looked at the dream: on the button. Bord already had opened to $1,100 with , so Andress made it $3,500.

They went heads up to . Andress bet small with $2,500 and Bord check-raised to $10,000. Andress peeled and the turn was a . Bord fired a pot-sized bet of $30,000 and Andress continued to the river, which brought the .

Andress had only about $57K left with almost $90K in the pot, and he snap-called it off when Bord shoved. Bord knew immediately something had gone wrong.

'A cooler then?' he asked as he tossed his sevens in. 'Yeah.'

Ship the $203,200 pot to Andress for the dreamiest start possible.

Massive Cooler

Hellmuth opened in the hijack to $1,100 with the , Bord called on the button with , and Polk tagged along out of the big blind with .

The flop arrived to give Polk and Hellmuth straights. But it was Bord putting in money with $2,000 after they checked to him. Polk made it $7,000 and Hellmuth moved all in, splashing a pile of $5,000 chips casually in there.

'How much is that?' Polk said with a smile. 'I'm almost certainly calling but let's just see how much it is first.

'This is insane. It's just such a monster raise. Phil, whaddya got over there?'

It was $97,200 and Polk winced as he continued thinking.

'Phil, I'm considering making a very big laydown here,' Polk said. 'Very, very big laydown.'

'I mean, I could easily have...' Hellmuth trailed off.

'What could you easily have?' Polk asked skeptically. 'You just bet a lot into very, very little.'

'I could have a set.'

'Could you have a set? I don't think you could have a set here. Come on Phil, you're better than that.'

'I could have the blockers, the tens.'

'God, now you're busting out blockers. If I fold this and I'm wrong, oh my f****** lord.'

'I mean I think I'm either dead — and I think I'm dead a lot, given this — or like, you just have a ton of equity against me. This is gonna look so dumb if this is...this is completely absurd. He has to get through him then he has to get through me. Nah, this is just a fold.'

He tossed his hand in, much to the shock of some of the other players. Steven in particular wondered how he could let it go.

'If he's got queen-ten, he's got queen-ten. Pay the man and let's go on to the next hand.'

Commentator Gabe Kaplan called it the greatest laydown in the history of the show.

Relive the hand here:

Stacks to End the Episode

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The online poker boom continues and some live elements of the game are also returning. For fans, that includes huge online tournament series options as well as a favorite televised poker show returning.

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November’s Chip Chatter once again takes a look at some of the news from the poker world. From Polk-Negreanu to High Stakes Poker to the World Poker Tour, there have been plenty of card-crushing headlines. Here’s a look at some of those.

Checking in on the Negreanu-Polk showdown

For those who may not know, the high-stakes matchup between Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu is underway. The action kicked off Nov. 11 with 200 hands of live play streamed on PokerGO.

While Polk may have the upper hand online, Negreanu came out on top in that first round. However, after moving online to WSOP.com, Doug Polk took command and led the series up $101,793.

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The two were expected to battle again on Monday as well. Poker fans can find complete coverage at the USPokerNegreanu-Polk Central landing page. Readers will find:

• regular updates
• complete information on the matchup
• streams to watch the action
• PokerGO videos with preview and coverage of the live play
• links and more

‘High Stakes Poker’ returning to PokerGO

Speaking of PokerGO, it looks like the poker streaming service is bringing back an old favorite. High Stakes Poker is set to return to the platform in December.

The show has been filming in the PokerGO Studio at Aria in Las Vegas recently. High stakes pro Tom Dwan spilled the beans about the return on Twitter.

High stakes poker coming back guys. Hope I run as good as last time pic.twitter.com/m8auOjG2ic

— Tom Dwan (@TomDwan) October 27, 2020

Some of those participating in the action included Phil Hellmuth, Ben Lamb, Phil Ivey, Jean-Robert Bellande, Bryn Kenney, and others.

For those who don’t remember, High Stakes Poker was one of the first televised cash games. The show debuted in 2006 on GSN (Game Show Network) and ran until 2011.

The series featured AJ Benza and Gabe Kaplan calling the action with Kara Scott later stepping in for Benza. Norm Macdonald replaced Kaplan in the show’s final season and original episodes are available on PokerGO.

Fans loved the action and seeing some of the biggest names in the game like those including Doyle Brunson, Antonio Esfandiari, Mike Matusow, and others.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars exchanged hands in a single night. Viewers loved seeing how these card sharks played their hands for such big sums.

The banter among players also stood out and brought viewers back to check out the action.

The show was filmed at the Palms Casino, Golden Nugget Casino, and South Point Casino. Fans are in luck with the high stakes returning after being off the air for almost a decade. New poker episodes debut on PokerGO on Dec. 16 at 8 pm ET.

Author pitches in at PokerStars to offers tips on improving those bad beat tales

Bad beats – everybody has one. But not everyone wants to hear others’ tales of Aces cracked or sad runner-runner whatever cards.

The crew at the PokerStars blog recently decided to offer some advice on improving those tales of poker depression.

The site invited best-selling author and poker player Matthew Dicks to explain how to tell a good bad beat story. He advises players how to make that next bad beat less painful and more entertaining for others to hear.

Dicks offers some differing ideas on shifting the focus of a story about math and probabilities to more player-specific revelations.

“I used to think that player across the table was an idiot, but it turns out that I was the idiot,” he offers as an example.

Some humor and suspense also help. It’s a fun read and may have players rethinking those dull no limit narrative accounts.

Eagle Cup brings big Sunday winners at Global Poker

Players outside states offering legal online poker may want to check out sweepstakes poker options. Global Poker is the biggest of those and continues to offer players massive tournament series.

The Eagle Cup is currently underway and runs through Nov. 22 with an overall 1.2 million Sweeps Coin guarantee. This virtual currency can be exchanged for real cash prizes and gift certificates.

The series features Low, Medium, and High events with 104 Sweeps Coin tournaments. Winners also win a trophy, Global swag, and qualify for the Tournament of Champions on Nov. 22.

That event awards a $5,000 package to play a live event representing Global Poker. A look at Sunday’s action shows what players are in store for at this site.

Event 17-M: SC 110 NLHE Deepstack featured a SC 25,000 guarantee. The tournament attracted 354 entries and cracked the guarantee with a SC 34,300 prize pool. Connecticut player “Fatbeast” came out on top, winning SC 6,565.

In the SC 218 High version of the tournament featured a SC 55,000 guarantee. The tournament topped that with a SC 70,200 prize pool with 351 entries.

New Jersey’s “LuckboxLuke” took the title for SC 13,436 with another Garden State grinder taking second. “Cmefly80” earned runner-up for SC 10,004. Plenty of Eagle Cup action remains on tap.

ClubWPT series gives players opportunity at live televised final table in Las Vegas

Players at theWorld Poker Tour’s ClubWPT sweepstakes poker site now have some extra incentive to get in the game. Last week the site unveiled the $200,000 ClubWPT TV Challenge.

The event allows players to go from online grinder to televised poker star. The challenge starts this month and will play down to six finalists. Those players will then compete for a $50,000 first-place prize at HyperX EsportsArena in Las Vegas.

ClubWPT will host monthly finals through April featuring limited fields of 500 players. Qualifiers run all month, giving subscribers numerous opportunities to advance. The Las Vegas final table will be broadcast across multiple WPT platforms.

“The World Poker Tour is pleased to give six players the opportunity of a lifetime to play at a WPT final table,” WPT Vice President of Online Services Jeremy Clemons said. “ClubWPT continues to expand its prize pools for our loyal players and the $50,000 first-place prize marks the largest in ClubWPT history.”

All final table players are guaranteed at least $10,000 and also receive a $3,000 Vegas travel package. The HyperX has been the home of WPT televised final tables since 2018-19 with seven champions crowned in the venue.

The new challenge highlights the tour’s continued transition to online poker. That has numerous events in partnership with partypoker over the last year. The tour recently announced the WPT Montreal is heading online this year.

“WPT’s online pivot continues heading into 2021 and this new initiative on ClubWPT will allow us to offer the same quality WPT experience online, similar to what players have come to expect from a live WPT event,” company CEO Adam Pliska said.

Wire Act decision may be further delayed

A federal appeals court heard arguments in the Wire Act case in June. That issue may be delayed further with the recent death of the presiding judge in the case.

The case may have a major impact on online casino gaming as the Department of Justice has argued the law applies to more than just sports betting. The gaming industry is hoping a decision further clarifies the issue.

A negative ruling for the industry would put interstate compacts in doubt. WSOP.com currently runs the only shared liquidity market in Nevada and New Jersey with 888poker in Delaware.

World record tournament for GGPoker

Guinness World Records recently awarded GGPoker with a noteworthy accomplishment.

The site was awarded the record for “largest prize pool for an online poker tournament.”

GG’s World Series of Poker Online $5,000 Main Event produced a prize pool of $27,559,500 on Sept. 6. Guinness official adjudicator Michael Empric gave GG rep Daniel Negreanu the good news.

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