FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver is not any stranger to seeing a longshot are available, and that’s precisely what he discovered himself rooting for on day 6 of the $10,000 World Series of Poker primary occasion.
The 45-year-old political forecaster, statistician, and journalist had already outlasted almost 10,000 different gamers in probably the most prestigious match of the 12 months, and had a stable stack with simply ten tables remaining when catastrophe struck.
“Thought I was going to go from 2,500,000 to 11,000,000 in two hands, maybe having to fade some flush outs,” Silver wrote on Twitter. “Instead busto.”
Silver was seated on the PokerGO featured desk when he regarded down at pocket sixes. Henry Chan raised to 250,000 with the blinds at 60,000-120,000, and Silver made the decision. WPT commentator Tony Dunst additionally referred to as from the large blind, and the three gamers noticed a flop of seven
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Dunst and Chan checked, and Silver wager 330,000 together with his center set. Dunst folded, and Chan raised to 1,400,000. Given the draw-heavy board, Silver opted to maneuver in then and there, solely to be proven the dangerous information with a snap name.
Chan had pocket sevens for a greater set, leaving Silver drawing to only one out within the deck. According to the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator, Silver had only a 4 p.c likelihood of coming from behind.
Silver tried to make use of his “one time,” looking forward to a one-outer suckout, however this time the chances held true because the vendor accomplished the board with the Q
and three
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Silver completed 87th total for $92,600.
You can watch the hand under, courtesy of PokerGO.
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NateSilver538</a> who goes set under set against Henry Chan to be eliminated from the 2023 <a href="https://twitter.com/WSOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">WSOP Main Event.– Watch Live Here: https://t.co/dGLv7f1yTF pic.twitter.com/yQWAYTSrMF
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) July 13, 2023
Despite the cooler, Silver stated he nonetheless had enjoyable. It was his sixth money on the collection this summer season, which included deep runs within the $10,000 secret bounty occasion and the $1,500 Monster Stack.
His finest end got here within the 2021 $10,000 restrict maintain’em championship, the place he took second for $151,842. The Michigan native now has simply shy of $800,000 in profession match earnings.
Silver was knowledgeable poker participant for just a few years previous to his work as a baseball analyst. The longtime poker fanatic maintained his place as editor-in-chief at FiveThiryEight till May of this 12 months.
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