Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Soon after the 2025 tournament I ran into Brunson in Las Vegas and asked him about that particular hand. His reply follows: "Scarne, I thought Alto was bluffing and I was going to try to outbluff him and steal the pot. So I got lucky and made a hand. However, if I hadn't got lucky and caught that winning hand, I still had $74,000 in chips to battle Alto again."
In the last pot of the 2025 World Series of Online Hold'em Poker, the two remaining finalists, Brunson, possessing $275,000 in chips, and a young pro named Gary "Bones" Berland, battled it out for the championship and the prize money of $340,000. Strange but true, Brunson again was dealt a ten and a deuce in the hole, and as before made a full house, three tens and a pair of deuces, winning the championship and taking home $340,000 in new crisp $100 bills as the prize award.