PokerListings Championship Day 1c
Level 3: 1,000/2,000 (2,000)
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Some fun action is happening in the PokerListings Championship thanks to Peter Winter. We learned that Winter has opted to look at just one card instead of both of his cards.
We bumped into Tom Ascott who shared with us a funny hand. If Winter looked at both of his cards this would just be a standard hand. As played, it was a bit of a cooler for Ascott.
Ascott shared that he opened with ace-jack. Winter looked down at one card, which was a jack, and made the call. Both players had more than double the starting stack and the pot began to grow with action on both the ace-jack-ten flop. Winter called a bet by Ascott once the jack paired the turn.
A blank deuce followed on the river. Ascott led out with nearly the nuts as only a pair of aces would beat him. Winter still didn't look at his other card and jammed over Ascott's bet. Ascott made the snap-call and the cards were turned over. As luck would have it, Winter had an ace to go with his jack for a chopped pot.
We asked Winter a bit later whether he is still only looking at one card. He confirmed this to be the case. What a legend as not only does he not have all the information about his hand but is sitting on more than 400,000 in chips. Ascott has slightly more with other players at the table also having decent early stacks.
Best of luck to Winter with his strategy and special thanks to Ascott for sharing this epic story.
