Incredible poker incidents: 10 shocking events

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Incredible poker incidents 10 shocking events
Leave a Comment / Poker / By Kane Poker is an
unpredictable game in which half of the success
depends not on the player, but on fortune.
Perhaps there is something magical in this game
that is beyond the control of the simple
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• human mind.
• One way or another, in the entire history of
  poker, there have been many interesting cases
  that are dif?cult to believe or count as a
  coincidence.
• The most incredible event happened in 2007 at the
  World Series of Poker (you can take part in
  satellites in most poker rooms, for example,
  here). For the ?rst time a blind man took part in
  the championship Hal Lubarski and, despite the
  complete lack of vision, he received prize
  money, taking 197th place.
• By playing poker you can win a whole city. This
  is how the incident that occurred in 1998 in the
  city of Estancia can be characterized. It turned
  out that in the state of New Mexico there is a
  law that gives the right to candidates who
  received the same number of votes in an election,
  to determine the winner by playing any game. One
  of the candidates, James Farrington, offered to
  play poker. Having defeated his opponent, he
  became mayor.
• Poker money can be used in other ways to become
  president. When Richard Milhouse Nixon was in
  the Navy, he won about 7,000 in poker, then
  spent it to start a campaign.
• In 1994, the American Alex Hemstrey managed to
  assemble a piano ?ush two times in a row. This
  event shocked many players, since the probability
  of this accident is so small that it is more
  likely that a monkey seated at the piano will
  play an excerpt from the Moonlight Sonata.
• Paul Tsimbler played 74 hours and 20 minutes in
  2009 against 183 professional poker players.
  Thus, he set a new time record. But the special
  signi?cance of this event is given by the fact
  that each of the volunteers who became opponents
  of Zimbler donated 10 pounds to a fund that
  sponsors terminally ill children.
• The infamous player Ilari Sahamis is known not
  only for his antics, but also for his craving for
  alcohol. According to the poker player himself,
  because of his incontinence and alcohol, he lost
  about 3 million in one session.
• Championship in Vancouver, which was held in
  2009, literally went beyond reason. The game was
  played between humans and bots. The bots turned
  out to be quite serious opponents, and even
  defeated two well-known poker players. In the
  end, however, people won.
• The longest running poker championship took place
  in 1949. Nick Dandalos and Johnny Moss met at
  the table. The episode lasted ?ve months, with
  breaks only for sleep. As a result, Johnny
  emptied his opponents pockets by as much as 4
  million.
• Popular player Johnny Moss performed a real
  miracle. He won the WSOP without winning the
  event.
• In 1937, an attempt was made to introduce a ?fth
  suit into the playing deck of poker, but the
  idea was not crowned with success, because
  because of this, many refused to acquire new
  cards.

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