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Inside a Championship Hero Call: A Street-by-Street Analysis from the 2025 CGWC

In this article, I am going to break down a big hero call that went down in the 2025 Cash Game World Championship (CGWC). The featured stars are Biluzin (Brazil), the winner of the 2025 CGWC, and MrLumberjack (USA), who ended up high on the leaderboard as well. The game is No Limit Hold’Em, the…

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