Can you get away from bottom two pair?
Can the highest profile author in poker right now get away from a flopped monster blind vs blind? Maria Konnikova joins the Chip Race Boys.
You've bought her book, now watch Maria Konnikova review a big poker hand she played recently.
Our friends at the Unibet sponsored Chip Race podcast David Lappin and Dara O'Kearney are joined by poker author Maria Konnikova to discuss a cash game hand she played on Poker Night in America. In the hand she flops bottom two pair against the top two pair of her opponent. Can she avoid going broke?
The three discuss the merits of limping 100% of your range in the small blind, hands which can get you into trouble when deep, how to protect our range, how to play two pair against a wide range and much more.
Exclusive €10,000 Rake Race
A new month lies ahead which means a new exclusive €10,000 rake race for our members at Unibet.
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 July to win one of the following prizes:
| Place | Prize | Place | Prize | Place | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | €1,300 | 5 | €500 | 11-15 | €150 |
| 2 | €1,000 | 6 | €400 | 16-30 | €100 |
| 3 | €800 | 7 | €300 | 31-75 | €50 |
| 4 | €600 | 8-10 | €200 | - | - |
Only 712 StrategyPoints for €50
We have just released the results for June on our dedicated Rake Race page and from them you can get an idea of what it takes to win a prize.
This time, the winner generated 60,160 StrategyPoints to win the €1,300 top prize, which will take a lot of beating, that's around €15,040 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 712 StrategyPoints—that's around €178 in rake for the month. That works out to around 28% rakeback on top of the usual benefits and bonuses at Unibet.
All of the other results are there for you to do your own calculations, you get roughly 4 StrategyPoints for every €1 raked.
This promotion is not available for Unibet players from Sweden, due to local gambling regulations.
