The thought was sobering enough for Cates to call it an afternoon, and he suggested we have dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. I’ve lost maybe a million, a million point two over the past few days to Gus. Cates said, “Gus has been sort of crushing me at P.L.O.” When asked what the phrase “sort of crushing” might mean in the context of high-stakes online poker, Cates shook his head and said: “I don’t know. Cates typed, “Not right now.” Hansen’s avatar disappeared. His avatar is a cartoonish rendering of his face.) Cates muttered, “There he is.” In the chat box in the lower-left-hand corner of the screen, Hansen asked Cates if he would like to play some Pot Limit Omaha (P.L.O.), a form of poker known for its wild swings and even wilder betting patterns. (Hansen is one of the most recognized players in the world. At one of the empty tables tiled across the top of the screen, Gus (The Great Dane) Hansen’s personalized Full Tilt Poker avatar appeared. His apology was interrupted by a beeping. I would be playing bigger, but it’s been a rough week.” He turned to me and said: “Sorry if these stakes are boring. Cates had just won more than $30,000, but his attention had already shifted over to Table 3, where he had been dealt a monster hand. Cates chuckled and said, almost seductively, “That’s right, spew monkey, spew all those chips over here.” At the second table, Cates’s opponent called the value bet and showed the worst of it. The reputedly solid player was, indeed, bluffing. He muttered a profanity before turning his attention back to the first two tables.īoth plays worked. At a fifth, his mouse slipped, causing him to accidentally fold. He put out a value bet that was precisely calibrated to resemble a bluff.
At a second table, Cates had just made his flush. With no pair, no draw and no hope of winning a showdown of hands, Cates again raised the pot.
Cates consulted the stat readout and deduced that the kid’s erratic betting over the past 200 hands was a product of emotional fragility. A reputedly solid player under the gun had just bet, and Cates needed to figure out if he was bluffing. Daniel (jungleman12) Cates, a 21-year-old self-made multimillionaire, lapsed economics/computer-science major and one-day Bubble Trouble champion of the world, was mildly annoyed.
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