$1.7 Million Dollar Pot

[Acesover8s]

From latest issue of cardplayer:

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Jennifer Harman: Age “thirty something,” this diminutive 5-foot-2-inch lady is anything but demure at the poker table. To many, Jennifer is considered not only the best female poker player on the planet, but one of the best players, period. With two world championships to her credit, the only woman to do so, Harman was one of the last two pro players at the World Poker Tour’s final table in Aruba in 2002, and recently won a historic cash game pot (that is, nontournament) at a major casino of $1.7 million.



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Anybody know the details of this? Just curious.

[Easy E]

I'm guessing it was that $30,000/60,000 game that went down recently in Vegas with that millionaire/billionaire.

[Bill Murphy]

Yes, I'm sure it was. They also played NL.

Note how they don't mention that she was part of a 4-5 member "corporation" that played the fish, and that during one her shifts she dumped 5 million. Some guy posted on RGP that she "sucked" because of that loss.

Just typical poker writer gibberish & hysteria, that's all.

[Zele]

There used to be a blog by a Bellagio dealer talking about that game (assuming it was the notorious $30K-$60K "big game.") I think the Bellagio made the dealer shut it down, for obvious reasons. Basically, this billionaire banker wanted to learn poker by playing against the best in the world, and so headed to the Bellagio and kept raising the stakes until the only opponent he could find was a pool of nine or ten very-high-limit pros who pooled their bank. This wasn't really a moral hazard (and in fact he was aware of the arrangement) since the game he wanted was a series of heads-up freezeouts. I guess he held up for several months, but the "corporation" ended up about $30M to the good. When you annualize that number, even when divided by ten and discounted for risk, it's not a bad win rate.

[scrub]

She did an appearance on the "Ellen Degeneris[sp?] Show" this fall, apparently very soon after winning the pot. She was pretty fuzzy about the details, but it sounded like the game from the blog. She said she flopped a straight, that was about it.

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