Nothing Is More Degenerate Than Adding Jokers To The Deck To Make Playing Heads Up For $400,000 More Exciting
Poker News - As soon as Adams and Chidwick were heads-up, Adams looked at Chidwick. “Are you thinking, what I’m thinking?” Chidwick asked Adams and Adams smiled. The floor was called over, and they asked if they were allowed to add two jokers to the deck. The floor checked with the tournament director, and in the meanwhile, they would continue playing heads-up. When the floor and tournament director returned, the tournament clock was paused, and two jokers were added to the deck.
This seemed the perfect opportunity to look at the numbers, and a deal was agreed upon. Chidwick had a big chip lead so was guaranteed $423,822 while Adams would take $350,978. $21,530 and the trophy would be left to play for.
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I love this. Timothy Adams and Stephen Chidwick were heads up in a $50k tournament with over $400,000 for first place. But they weren’t content to just sit there and battle it out heads up, so they did the only rational thing- added jokers to the deck.
It’s a degenerate’s dream. When you can’t just get a rush from entering a $50,000 tournament, and you can’t get a rush from having $400,000+ for first place. They took one glance at each other and were like “yep, let’s kick this thing up a notch”. It’s like addrenaline junkies who start off by riding motorcycles, and then 5 years later they’re jumping out of planes without parachutes. I guess I just described Travis Pastrana, but this is basically the same thing. You know you’ve made it in the poker world when you have so much money you need to add wild cards to the deck just to get out of bed in the morning. And it worked out perfectly:
And then, in the final hand of the night, Chidwick shoved and got snap-called by Adams who held the joker in his hand with a queen. Chidwick had ace-jack and was behind by a lot. The board ran out seven-queen-four-ace-six for Adams to be crowned as the winner with a set of queens thanks to the joker!
Getting dealt a Queen and a Joker and flopping a queen to win the entire tournament, it doesn’t get much better than that. That’s why you bring them into the fold. I would love if they started running full tournaments using Jokers. I don’t see why not. They put them in a deck of cards for a reason, right? It would make every hand that much more electric, especially if one came down on the flop and everyone has a piece of it and can make it whatever card they want. Just awesome.
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