#84: The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King

Your correspondent discusses Michael Craig's poker-boom-era classic "The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King." He follows up on how he finished in the tournament discussed in the last episode, then reviews a double-board PLO bomb pot he played that left him feeling frustrated with himself.

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0:20 "The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King"

12:32 A correction regarding a hand in the last episode (double-board PLO bomb pot with 8733)

14:03 $1200 LAPC tournament, Day 2
14:41 AKo all-in preflop (big blind = 15,000)
15:41 JJ all-in preflop (big blind = 30,000)
16:10 Q4hh on T84A4 (big blind = 60,000)
18:46 Jx9c on JT6ccx3x5x (big blind = 60,000)
21:58 AQo all-in preflop (big blind = 100,000)

23:21 $25 double-board PLO bomb pot hand: KQJ4 (no spades) on KT9ssx3x4x and J52ssxJxQsss

Sources used in the Garfield/Cleveland story:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/502301891
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-doctors-killed-president-garfield/
https://lib.arizona.edu/hsl/materials/collections/secret-illness/cleveland
https://www.npr.org/2011/07/06/137621988/a-yacht-a-mustache-how-a-president-hid-his-tumor

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