Can you fold Aces Full in the Main Event?

The biggest nightmare for any player is busting out of the WSOP Main Event on Day 1 with Aces, even worse when it makes a full house.

It was one of the most memorable hands ever from Day 1 of the World Series of Poker Main Event feature table. Vanessa Selbst turns Aces Full of Sevens against Gaelle Baumann, who has just made Quads. 

To say it's a cooler is an understatement, but is there any room to get away from it?

Our friends at the Unibet sponsored Chip Race podcast David Lappin and Dara O'Kearney are joined by Daiva Byrne to discuss this classic hand. They boil it down to Baumann only having two possible hands, one we beat, one we don't, so it's a much more debatable decision than it looks. 

Still time for our €10k Rake Race

Once again this month we have a new exclusive €10,000 rake race for our members at Unibet, the sponsor of The Chip Race.

This is one of the easiest races to guarantee a payout because it is played exclusively among PokerStrategy.com players, so the field is small. You can win as much as €1,300 but merely finishing in the top 75 will guarantee you at least €50.

All you need is a PokerStrategy.com tracked Unibet account in February to win one of the prizes in the table below.

Less than 650 SPs for €50

We have just released the results for January in our forum and from them you can get an idea of what it takes to win a prize.

Our winner generated 38,539.9 StrategyPoints to win the €1,300 top prize, which will take a lot of beating, that’s around €9,635 in rake. Obviously that is a lot for anyone. 

More interesting perhaps for you small stakes grinders is that to win the smallest prize of €50 only required 645.3 StrategyPoints - that’s around €161 in rake for the month. That works out to around 31% rakeback on top of the usual benefits and bonuses at Unibet.

To get a €100 prize required as little as 1,880 StrategyPoints, which is around €470 in rake.

All of the results are there in our forum for you to do your own calculations, you get roughly 4 StrategyPoints for every €1 raked. The important thing is getting an extra prize on your monthly grind is much easier than it looks.

Important information for HexaPro players

Please note that if you play a lot of HexaPro games the rake is not assigned in a consistent way. HexaPro has a theoretical rake of 6.853% but the actual amount assigned to a player varies based on the multiplier and result.

We take the rake figures given to us by Unibet but this may be lower or higher than expected based on your results and could be different to what your StrategyPoints suggest.

We appreciate this is not ideal and are working with Unibet to find a more consistent solution to this soon in 2020.

This promotion is not available for Unibet players from Sweden, due to local gambling regulations.