The brand new season of PokerGO’s No Gamble No Future continued this week with an attention-grabbing hand involving Ryan Feldman, Nikhil ‘Airball’ Arcot, and Alan Keating. Though, maybe it wasn’t so attention-grabbing to Feldman.
The sport featured blinds of $200-$400 with a $400 large blind ante and a minimal buy-in of $30,000. Feldman, who runs the Hustler On line casino Stay stream, was on the button dealing with an $800 straddle from Airball, a $1,600 restraddle from Keating, and one other $3,200 restraddle from Matt Hanks earlier than wanting down at A
Okay.
With about $215,000 in entrance of him, he raised to $8,000 solely to see Arcot transfer all in for his final $58,000 with 4 4
. Keating then referred to as instantly with Okay
Q, having began the hand with over $1 million.
Feldman thought it over for a bit earlier than jamming his remaining $223,000 in with A Okay. Keating didn’t prefer it, however ultimately referred to as to construct two pots totaling $507,000. Arcot may declare $178,000 of that if his pocket fours held up.
“Let’s go, I’m the very best on the planet,” Arcot stated upon seeing his opponents’ playing cards, glad to see he was a slight favourite towards the overcards.
In response to the Card Participant Poker Odds Calculator, Arcot was within the driver’s seat with greater than a 42% probability to win his share of the pot. Feldman held a 36% probability to take down the entire pot with Keating at virtually 21%.
Nevertheless, Feldman was an enormous favourite to win the larger facet pot of $329,000, holding a 74% to 25% benefit over Keating.
Making the maths much more difficult, the gamers agreed to run it twice. The primary board ran out 9
5 5 2 6, that means that Arcot locked up half of his facet pot together with his pair of fours, whereas Feldman’s ace excessive was good for half of the larger facet pot.
The second runout proved to be far more dramatic. A flop of Okay 8 2 moved Feldman solidly forward with prime pair, prime kicker, giving him a 70% probability to scoop.
However the 4 then spiked on the flip, giving Arcot a set and much more purpose to proceed celebrating. Feldman may nonetheless make an honest revenue on the hand by holding for the facet pot, however the Q hit the river, giving Keating a miracle two pair.
As a substitute of successful six figures, Feldman ended up dropping cash on the hand, with he and Keating having to pay Arcot for his triple up.
“How do I’m going towards these two fingers and lose cash?” he stated after counting out his stack.
The sport additionally featured Jean-Robert Bellande, Humboldt Mike, and Phil Hellmuth earlier than he determined to stop in the course of the session.
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*Picture by PokerGO – Antonio Abrego
