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HEADLINE:
The Mother of all Poker
Games
Body:
Latest Bluff magazine describes the Andy Beal phenomenon
The popular poker
magazine, Bluff carries an interesting report on what was probably
one of the most expensive poker games of all time in its current
issue.
In what is considered the largest head-to-head poker game ever,
self-made billionaire banker Andy Beal matched $20 million against
a rotating cast made up of the best high-stakes poker players
in the world, including Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, Todd Brunson,
and Ted Forrest.
Throughout last (February) month, Beal played many of the world’s
best poker players in head-to-head games of Texas hold’em,
for stakes of $30,000-$60,000 and $50,000-$100,000 at Wynn Las
Vegas, the magazine reports.
Average pot size per hand was over $300,000 with the largest
pot at $1.9 million. To play in a game of such astronomical stakes,
twenty of the world’s best poker players had to combine
bankrolls. They played three series of matches in February where
each side started with at least $10 million on the table, with
millions more in reserve. Wins and losses ran as high as $10 million
in a single day, and one session featured two $8 million swings.
Claiming the game as the latest (and largest) installment of
the richest poker game of all time, Bluff says that it started
in 2001 when Beal, the publicity-shy owner of one of the most
profitable banks in Texas, whose other hobbies have included theoretical
mathematics and astrophysics, became interested in poker.
On six occasions between 2001 and 2004, he played “heads
up” – one-on-one – against members of the group
of high-stakes pros who took turns opposing him.
Although the professionals won in most of those matches, Beal
developed into a world-class high-stakes heads-up hold‘em
player, who once won $5.5 million in five days and on another
occasion won $12 million in one day!
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