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Hold’em with Holloway, Vol. 63: What Would Happen to a Chip Stack If a November Niner Died?

A little more than a week ago, an interesting situation took place in the 2016 Aussie Millions Event #1: $1,150 No-Limit Hold’em when Katrina Sheary played one of the Day 1 flights and made it through to the end of the day with 38,500 in chips. Heavily pregnant, she went home, and the next day she went into labor a month earlier than expected (she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy).

Unable to play the following day, her husband Peter Sheary (who had not played the event) stepped in to take her place, which was permitted by Crown officials under the following rule in their rulebook:

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