Chris Moneymaker was on the button in a heads-up pot against Kevin Rabichow in the cutoff on a board of .
Rabichow checked on the turn and Moneymaker bet 8,000. Rabichow called. Rabichow checked again on the river and Moneymaker put him to the test by putting out a stack of blue chips to put Rabichow all in for his final 18,000 or so. The poker coach folded.
Moneymaker eliminated a player in a flush versus flush cooler but has taken a hit since then as his green 25,000 chip was missing from his stack.
The PokerStars Players NLH Hold’em Championship (PSPC) is underway, and one man in attendance here in the Bahamas is 41-year-old Jared “BeamDoctorPoker” Halter, who won a Platinum Pass on PokerStars Michigan.
“I won a PSPC Platinum Pass on Wednesday, November 9,” Halter told PokerNews. “I had just returned from Vegas that morning on a red eye flight and slept for four hours on a friend’s couch before I drove home for two hours. To be honest, I was very fortunate to win because I had a very rough 72 hours. Some things happened in Vegas that caused me to have anxiety attacks for the first time in my life and I ended up only sleeping about five hours total in the previous 48.”
He continued: “I was exhausted and when the MTT started, I said to myself, it will take a miracle for me to win. Funny enough, I mis-clicked two different times early in the tourney and called three-bets with hands like 85o (I did not win those hands). I streamed the tourney, and only single tabled it, because of how tired and ungrounded I felt from the previous time. During the stream, I talked about how exhausted I was and how there was almost zero chance I win. Of course, as we know, the universe had a different plan.”
Halter grew up in York, Pennsylvania and was a multisport athlete who played soccer in college. He has a PhD in education and sociology from Clemson University where he studied social inequality and wrote his dissertation on the American Dream. He also had a Masters in Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs from Syracuse University. Bachelors in Sport Management from Slippery Rock University (located in PA).
Jared “BeamDoctorPoker” Halter
In addition to playing poker, Halter is a faculty member in the Intergroup Relations and Justice program at Central Michigan University. It’s there that he eteacsh intergroup dialogue classes on race, class, and gender.
“Before I became a faculty member I worked in student activities and leadership development. I have lived and worked in PA, MD, NJ, NY, SC, NE, and now MI,” he explained. As for poker, he learned to play the game while in undergrad, thought it wasn’t your typical no-limit holld’em.
“We played a lot of variations like acey-duecy and baseball. It wasn’t until I had to put my dog of 15 years, Zephyr, down that I started to play a lot of poker. Legal poker had just opened in Michigan, and I began to play micro cash games. I then started to study on sites like RedChip Poker and Learn Pro Poker and watched twitch streamers like Kevin Martin, DavidKayePoker, Naigo, and AccidentalGrenade. These streamers inspired me to want to stream on Twitch and I switched tournaments in June 2021. Six months later at the end of 2021, I began to work with SchwibbsPoker as my poker coach for MTTs and study using GTO Wizard and BBZ Poker.”
“The competition and intensity of competing against some of the world’s best,” he said when asked what he’s most excited about. “High-pressure situations are so much fun, I look forward to the challenge of channeling focus and calm to make the best decisions possible. The other thing I look forward to is getting to spend the week with my sister, Sarah, and best friend Rhi at a resort we would not be able to afford to stay at without the Platinum Pass. It will be a great week no matter what happens with the PSPC.”
2019 PCA champ Chino Rheem found himself in a tricky situation in a three-way pot against Adrian Vinuela and Mike Meskin on a board of .
Vinuela and Meskin both checked on the river and Rheem bet 5,500. Vinuela called and Meskin check-raised to 15,000, sending Rheem into a deep tank and extended monologue with several cameras hovering overhead.
"He's never f***ing bluffing here," Rheem groaned. "What can I beat that you check-raise for value? I can't beat anything but one single hand. Well, a couple hands ... He limps under the gun... Nine-ten suited, maybe. Tens I think he'd raise, nines I think he'd raise."
Rheem landed on a call while Vinuela got out of the way.
"Give me the money!" Meskin said before tabling for just a pair of tens, which was no good against the of Rheem for sevens full of nines.
"I thought for sure I was losing when you said, 'Give me the money,'" laughed Rheem.
Also at the table is television star David Costabile. The Breaking Bad and Suits star sits slightly above starting stack with a stack of around 65,000.
There was 53,000 in the pot heading to the turn. Sirzat Hissou was in middle position against Brandon Lulov in the cutoff.
The board read and Hissou checked. Lulov moved all in for 34,500. Hissou went deep into the tank for almost five minutes before the clock was called. Hissou had 30-seconds to make his decision. The tournament director counted him down to zero which made his hand dead and sent the pot to Lulov.
Timothy Adams raised to 1,200 on the button and Paul Amsellem defended from the big blind. The flop fell and Amsellem checked to Adams who continued with a large size of 3,500. Amsellem called and the hit the turn.
Amsellem checked again and Adams tossed in a bet of 8,500. Amsellem wasted little time before sending his cards to the muck and Adams raked in the pot.
From winning $500,000 playing against the likes of Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan to rubbing shoulders with fellow Platinum Pass winners at the PokerStars Players NL Hold'em Championship, it's been an incredible journey for Twitch chess sensation Alexandra Botez.
"I'm just gonna try and do my best, try to learn and pay attention while I'm at the table," she said. "I'm going to be vlogging and creating content while I'm there because after all, that's my job!
"But if I do my job well and I enjoy the experience. That's all I can ask for."
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river and Moneymaker put him to the test by putting out a stack of blue chips to put Rabichow all in for his final 18,000 or so. The poker coach folded.
. Waigel continued for 4,000 and Hrabec called.
was the turn and Waigel bet 6,500. Hrabec called again.
and Waigel put Hrabec all in for 18,000 effective. Hrabec quickly folded as the chips went to Waigel.
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of Rheem for sevens full of nines. 
