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Bad beat hotline

By Jay Lovinger
ESPN Poker Club

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Previous WSOP Moment Last night, while suffering through & uh, playing in another disappointing Second Chance tournament (a $225 buy-in NLHE event, which is held every evening at 11 p.m. during the WSOP), I came up with a million-dollar idea, which I'm trusting that none of you will steal: A bad-beat hotline. The notion came, unbidden, thanks to one of those hands that turns poker players into atheists. It was early in the second level (the blinds were $25-50), and a short stack in early posi ...

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