Explaining The "Theory Of Due": Because Chris Leong Certainly Is

Event 9

Level 23 (8,000/16,000/2,000)
Total Entrants: 195
Players Remaining: 14
Chip Average: 280,000

Chris Leong has come close to another CPPT title throughout the first few events of this series and will look to cash in on his "due-ness" here as he holds the chip lead just a few spots from the Event 9 Final Table. 

The "Theory Of Due" or "Due-ness" is a somewhat new age way of thinking about the end results of a multi-table poker tournament and while it's more or less been thrown out by more "experienced", veteran players that "know better", it's a widely believed theory among the younger poker community, that eventually if you play well and put yourself in the right spots, you will win a tournament because you are "due".

What is "due" you may ask?

"Due" is the power that controls the flips you win and the flips you don't, the two outers you hit versus the two outers you don't, the times you get maximum value when you're strong and a fold from your opponents when you're weak. In essence, "due-ness" controls whether you win or lose, cash or go bust.

"Due" is most usually talked about when players are going towards their first major tournament title and while Chris Leong has won multiple titles in his career, including two WSOP Circuit Rings in the same week in 2013 and a Card Player Poker Tour title from last year, his "due-ness" has been building over the last week, after cashing in the opening CPPT event of the series and Final Tabling yesterday's Event 7 tournament.

Sometimes there is a slow, steady rise to your ultimate "due-ness", the powers getting stronger and greater with each smaller cash leading up to a crescendo of "due" that ends with the player taking home the title that he's strived for over the last week, month, year or even his entire career.

Other times it's a flash in the pan, a one hit wonder if you will, that there is no rhyme or reason to, it just happens, you are just THAT "due".

Leong would certainly fit into the first category of the theory as he is anything but a "one hit wonder" with close to 50 live rated cashes to his name and over $225,000 in tournament earnings since early 2012.

Why do we bring up the "Theory Of Due", because Leong is currently sitting atop the Event 9 leader board with 14 players remaining and if Leong can manage to not get brutally unlucky in certain spots like he has during his last two deep runs he just might be delivering on the "due" and taking home a title that has been within reach a few times this week.