News: Poker player forfeits chip lead for birth of his son – pokerstrategy.com

One poker pro gave up a big stack last week because something much more important was happening.

While poker players are notoriously late for a lot of things, the start of Day 2 with a chip lead is not one of them. It would take something very special for them to forfeit the stack entirely.

That is exactly what Nick Yunis did on Day 2 of the $1,100 Triple Stack event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Florida. He bagged 509,000 chips which was the 11th biggest stack in an event with a $136,570.

His reasoning was very good, however, the birth of his new son:

This is not the first time this has happened. Jason Koon famously forfeited in the $250,000 Super High Roller (and got a refund) when his wife went into labour.

Yunis told PokerNews that he had a backer in this particular event who had no issue with forfeiting his stack. It no doubt helped that he won the $1,100 Deep Stack event in this series earlier this month for $34,005.

What was your reason for forfeiting a big stack on Day 2? Let us know in the comments:

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO.

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